Five excellent science experiments
Explore the fun of science in your own home with some amazing experiments from The Let's Go Club. You and your little one can recreate these simple colourful experiments using common household items. Perfect for budding scientists!
1. How to make a DIY lava lamp
Make this awesome fizzy lava lamp using bicarbonate of soda, sunflower oil, food colouring and water in a jar. Put a torch behind it to watch those bubbles dance. Kids will be fascinated by watching the bubbles move up and down, and it can help little ones to calm down, too.
2. How to make colour changing magic
Take a coffee filter paper and draw on the bottom of it with a pen, using different colours. Then pour some water in the bottom of a pot and put the filter paper in. While you wait the colours will separate, with exciting results!
3. How to make a DIY rainbow rain cloud
Create this rainbow rain cloud out of shaving foam, water and food colouring! Your child will love watching the multicoloured raindrops fall.
4. How to make slime
Whip up some robo slime out of cornflour, water, food colouring and glitter. Kids love to play with slime and it feels great between their fingers.Â
5. How to make squirty chalk
°Õ³ó¾±²õÌýsquirty chalk is great for creating colourful, fizzy pictures! Use the first bottle to draw the picture and the second to make it fizz. Drawing or writing on a large scale outdoors is a great way for little ones to practise mark-making.