Activities for Kids

Your budding chemist will never be bored with these safe and easy chemistry experiments.

  • There are many interesting science experiments kids can do using kitchen ingredients.
    Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids
  • A drop of water splashing up from a small puddle.
    Simple Water Science Magic Tricks
  • Kids love to play with slime.
    18+ Slime Recipes
  • hand with slime on red background
    The Science of Slime
  • rock candy in five colors
    Make Your Own Sugar Crystals for Rock Candy
  • Colored smoke comes from vaporizing colored dyes
    Ultimate Colored Smoke Bomb
  • Mixing yeast and peroxide with detergent produces foam similar to shaving cream. It can be used to make a chemical volcano or as a kid-friendly elephant toothpaste demo.
    How to Make Elephant Toothpaste
  • Making snow using boiling water
    How to Make Instant Snow From Boiling Water
  • Fake snow
    How to Make Fake Snow That Feels Cold
  • To make slime, all you need is borax, white glue, water, and food coloring.
    How to Make Slime with Borax and White Glue
  • Modeling clay
    Modeling Clay Recipes Using Home Ingredients
  • Person making slime with hands covered standing over a wooden table.
    How to Make Slime, Classic Recipe
  • Assorted Pennies
    Chemistry Experiments With Pennies
  • Student doing science project
    Second Grade Science Fair Projects
  • Boy and rocket
    The Antacid Rocket Experiment
  • spooky science lab setting
    Mad Scientist Party Theme
  • Making electricity with citrus fruit
    How to Make a Fruit Battery
  • Child playing with slime, close up on slime and hands.
    Frequently Asked Questions About Slime
  • A mentos in a soda liter bottle
    Easy Science Projects
  • young girl pouring liquid into volcano model
    Safe Science Experiments
  • Iodine solution revealing an invisible ink message
    How to Make Your Own Invisible Ink
  • Young girl blowing up a balloon
    Bottle Balloon Blow-Up Experiment
  • The mentos and soda fountain is an easy project. You'll get all wet, but as long as you use diet cola you won't get sticky. Just drop a roll of mentos all at once into a 2-liter bottle of diet cola.
    How to Make a Mentos & Diet Soda Chemical Volcano Eruption
  • All you need is water, pepper, and a drop of detergent to perform the pepper trick.
    How to Perform the Pepper and Water Science Magic Trick
  • Lemons
    Middle School Science Experiments
  • A picture of magnetic slime
    How to Make Magnetic Slime
  • Blow out a candle by pouring a glass of what appears to be air onto the flame. This easy science trick demonstrates what happens when air is replaced with carbon dioxide.
    Candle Science Trick to Extinguish Fire with Carbon Dioxide
  • Diet Coke exploding into the air
    Does the Mentos and Soda Trick Work With Regular Coke?
  • Background created on a piece of natural ice and modified the color digitally.
    Melting Ice Science Experiment
  • water droplets
    Anti-Gravity Water Science Magic Trick
  • It's easy and fun to make eerie glowing slime.
    How to Make Glow in the Dark Slime
  • Cut flowers in a glass jar
    Cut Flower Preservative Recipes
  • Girl wearing safety goggles holding up slime from history set
    Borax-Free Slime Recipes
  • Thermochromic pigments change colors according to temperature, so if you add them to slime, it will act like a slimy mood ring.
    Make Mood Ring Color Change Slime
  • A man in a blue plaid shirt holding his hand over his nose
    Easy Stink Bomb Recipe
  • Worksheets are a good way to learn and reinforce important concepts.
    Printable Chemistry Worksheets - Chemical Names and Formulas
  • A close-up of glittery slime
    Easy To Make Glitter Slime
  • Magic Rocks Crystal Growing Kit
    Magic Rocks - Review
  • Invisible ink
    How to Reveal Invisible Ink Messages
  • There are many science projects you can do using common household materials.
    Science Projects Photo Gallery
  • Hydrogen sulfide and other sulfur compounds are responsible for the 'stink' of most stink bombs.
    Stink Bomb Recipes
  • Adding baking soda causes the volcano to erupt.
    Baking Soda Science Projects
  • Flammable gel is the basis for a simple gel candle.
    How to Make Flaming Gel
  • Slime can be edible, so it's safe to play with and also eat.
    Edible Slime Recipe
  • A man and child use metal detector on the beach
    A Kids' Guide to Making Your Own Metal Detector
  • Use a color-change pH indicator made from cabbage to turn an egg white green for St. Patrick's Day or any day you want green eggs and ham.
    Fried Green Egg Food Science Project
  • Moving gummies method with baking soda and vinegar
    Frankenworms Dancing Gummy Worms Science Experiment
  • You can make non-sticky, edible slime from two easy-to-find ingredients.
    Edible Slime Recipes
  • Woman placing petals in handmade paper.
    Recycling Old Paper Into Beautiful Handmade Paper
  • Oobleck slime
    How to Make Oobleck Slime
  • Pennies with their metallic colors changed
    Gold and Silver Pennies
  • Grade school science fair projects can be demonstrations, experiments, or inventions.
    Grade School Science Fair Project Ideas
  • 3D illustration of colorful bubbles.
    How To Make Colorful Soap Bubbles
  • Little girl making slime at home
    How Oobleck Works
  • Pour water into a shallow dish, light a match in the center of the dish and cover it with a glass. The water will be drawn into the glass.
    Match and Water in a Glass Science Magic Trick
  • Colorful polystyrene foam.creativity concepts ideas
    How to Make Floam
  • All you need is milk, food coloring, and detergent to make a wheel of color.
    Magic Colored Milk Science Project
  • Egg that has been soaked in vinegar, being held up to a light
    Egg in Vinegar: A Dental Health Activity
  • Mug full of Sharpie markers in all different colors.
    Sharpie Pen Tie Dye
  • Mentos and soda eruptions
    Mentos and Soda Project
  • Fluorescent lights contain atoms that are excited, causing them to release energy that makes coatings in the light glow.
    Fluorescent Light Science Experiment
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