Let me introduce to you a fantastic and easy variation of the Lava Lamp Experiment. It needs only 4 ingredients that you would likely have at home right now (or just 3 if you don’t have any food colouring!). We added a cool light underneath our potion to make it a Light Up Lava Lamp – with great effect. Read on to see how we did it, watch the video too.
Ordinary Things You Should Look at Under a Microscope Looking at everyday and ordinary things under a microscope can change the way you look at the world around you. If you hdon’t know where to start, or want some new ideas of what to look at, check out these short video tutorials below.
Read on to find out how you can make this Spooky Glowing Fluorescent Slime using a yellow highlighter pen and our slime kit! We made amazing spooky glowing fluorescent slime in time for Hallowe’en and we want you to be able to make it too. Read how easily we did it and watch the video too…..
Make amazing glowing fluorescent liquid at home using the insides of a yellow highlighter pen! This is so easy to do! Extracting the fluorescent liquid from a highlighter pen to make glowing fluorescent liquid is so easy, you should try it for an spooky themed science experiment.
Halloween is just around the corner so how about some easy Halloween Science you can do at home?! These glowing Orbeez are fab for Halloween Science or, to be honest, at any time of year! They are so easy to make at home using the ink from highlighter pens. A safe and easy experiment that the children loved especially at this spooky time of year. Read on for the method and video tutorial.
Our five favourite easy science experiments you must try! Here at Sciencedipity we love science (of course!), so we have compiled our five favourite easy science experiments you should try. They are very easy to do, packed full to the brim with science, because of their easily accessible components there’s every reason to have a go!
We’ve had so much fun making this amazing colour-changing thermochromic slime using thermochromic dyes. This is a slime that changes colour at just 31oC …..and the best part is that you can now make your own colour changing slime using our Thermo Slime Kit! Read on & watch the video too…..
Gummy Bear Osmosis Experiment This is an ideal activity for the GROWTH theme of British Science Week 2022. Gummy Bear Osmosis experiment is a fun demonstration to help explain the tricky subject of osmosis, as well as being a great way to teach experimental design. It’s also an experiment you can eat when you’re finished! Read on to find out why the Gummy Bear Osmosis Experiment is so good at teaching osmosis (obviously!), but also experimental design, mass, weight & volume as well as embedding maths.
Owl Pellet Dissection Before you carry out an owl pellet dissection, its important to have some background knowledge of what an owl pellet is. Here we also explain how to clean your boney finds!
A PDF workbook to download for free! The “Super-easy 6” In this easy science experiments free download we’ve put together 6 of our favourite activities. We’ve chosen these 6 because they are so easy to do and produce very colourful results, they are really cool too. Called The Super-Easy 6, they provide good starter activities at home to get you & your family into science with ease. To download the Super-Easy 6 click on the button below! I want this free PDF! I’d love to know how you get on, so please share your experiments, with photos if possible, on
For our online science workshop – Spinners – you will also need the spinners template which you can download here. Make sure you print it off onto A4 paper ready for the session, along with the other items you need: scissors and paper clips.
Make a gravity defying Balancing Skeleton! You’ll need: the template (see below) & something to use as 2 weights to alter the centre of gravity so that it balances in this vertical position, we use either pennies or bluetack or play dough. So, are you ready to make a gravity defying Skeleton? Lets go……
If you’re looking for fun and easy science experiments, look no further! We have loads of easy science guides for you, including this one – Magic Milk Science Experiment, a swirling, colourful science experiment that you can do right now with things from your kitchen!
Make fizzy ice cubes and rainbows of colours in our latest science experiment! You need very little equipment for this ice-cool fizzy experiment ideal for toddlers – baking soda, ice cube tray, water, colouring & vinegar. This is a practical and fun way to observe colour mixing, chemical reactions and change of state.
There’s a problem with the Coke & Mentos experiment that few people know about and we want to share it with you! Check you’ve got the right ingredients, follow our tips, and then there’s one more thing that you should consider…….
Here is a science flextangle template for you to download for free to make at home. These geometric toys are great fun to make and play with. A flextangle is usually made of paper, which has been folded in a specific way to make a movable, or flexible, toy. Read on for the download with instructions.
We’ve discovered a world exclusive secret ingredient to make perfect strong and stretchy clear slime, that you can pull really thin without it breaking. Here’s our recipe which uses clear PVA glue, a borax activator and the secret ingredient! Read on to see how we did it, there’s a video to watch too, plus, of course…..find out the secret ingredient!!
We’ve discovered a world exclusive secret ingredient to make perfect strong, stretchy, crackle slime every time. Here’s our recipe which uses white PVA glue, colouring, a borax activator and the secret ingredient! Read on to see how we did it, there’s a video to watch too, plus, of course…..find out the secret ingredient!!
