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Kids Science Experiments and Science Projects are full of fun, easy and exciting hands-on experiments that will help you answer a lot of questions asked by your children.  These simple, safe and easy to follow science experiments and science projects can be achieved with everyday materials and recycled items found around your house. Help make learning fun and easy by trying some of these science experiments with your kids.

Remember to always have fun with your science experiments and don’t worry if your experiments don’t come out as you would expect – some of the greatest scientific discoveries have been made by mistake.  Science is all around us in our daily living and the more you experiment with science and observe; the more fascinated you will become in finding answers.

Scientists learn about the world we live in by carrying out all sorts of scientific experiments or investigations.  Scientists are very organized and very careful people.  When they work on an experiment or a project, they write down what they used, what they did and what happened.  It is a good idea for you to keep a notebook throughout your science experiments and/or science projects.  This is so you can write about the experiments you are doing step-by-step, what your observations were and remember how you came to discover the results from your investigations. 

Write your experiments under these headings:

Your Aim - Why do you want to do the experiment?  What hypothesis are you going to test?  Reason for your experiment; you want to find out why A is good but B is not so good?

Your Method - What are you goiing to do or test?  Make labels and/or diagrams to help keep your method in order.

Your Result - As you carry out your experiments be sure to observe things happening and record measurements.  Sometimes it is a good idea to record your results in a table or chart.

Work safely and remember to always wash your hands after completing your experiments! Have a look at the Laboratory Rules in the Mixing and Separating section for your laboratory guidance.

Have a go at these hands-on kids science experiments and projects in a classroom, as an after school activity group or in your own home.

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You will need some of the following items for these Experiments and Projects:

Baking soda Baking tray Balloon Bells of Big Ben Big jar with lid Bowls Carbonated Soda Water Card board Chocolate Cling film (plastic wrap) Coins Copper coins Corn flour Crayons Eggs (cooked and uncooked) Elastic band (rubber band) Empty pots (yogurt) Felt tip pens Flat-sided jar Food coloring Freezer Glass jars

Hole punch Honey Ice cubes Kettle Leftover foods Lemon juice Liquid Dish- washing Soap Magnets Marbles Masking tape Matchbox cover Matchsticks Milk jars Mirrors Modelling clay Mug Newspaper Notebook Oil Orange

Paint brushes Paper Paper-clips Paper towel Paper towel tube Pencil Pepper Ping-pong balls Plastic bag Plastic bottles (short) Plastic bottles (tall) Plastic comb Plastic cups Plastic pen Plate Postcard (index card) Pot holder

Raisins Rice Rose leaves Ruler Salt Sand Saucepan Scissors Shiny spoon Shoe box Silver foil Sink Straws String Sugar Tape Tea-light candles Test tubes Thermometer Ticking watch Tissue paper Torches Water White flowers (carnation/daisies) Wooden spoons Woollen jumper Woollen sock Vinegar Yogurt pots

Complete List of Experiments

A clown that will not lie down Back to front Bells of big ben Bending light in the dark Bending pencil Bending water Blow me out Bobbing raisins Bouncing spotlight Bubbles round Charged or not charged Charging up a lightbulb Chocolate leaves Color breakdown Coloured crystals Coloured flowers Density experiment Diver in a bottle Dropping orange Drying clothes Electricity types Electromagnets Feeling the vibration Fishing for treasures Flipping clown Floating playdough Floators ink exercise Freeze oil & water Freezingwater Fresh Water Greenpenny Growaplant Growingmold Hosepiperainbow Hydrogen Bubbles

Insulators Invisible Force - Moving Cars Jet engine balloon Killer straw Lift a friend Lifting ice cubes Magic coin Magic egg Make a long distance call Make needle magnets Making a lavalamp Making a rainbow on a sunny day Making a rainbow spinner Making a volcanoes Making a volcano Marsh mallow face Mirror drawing Musical pipes Paper plunge Pointing north Pushing and pulling Rainbows in a darkroom Resisting balloons Ringing ears Rising coin Rising tissue paper Run away pepper

Science sites Seeing the vibration Shiny coins Shiny spoons Shoe box surprise Sinking orange Slippery ice Sloppy slime Sound catcher Sound through a tube Speedboat matchsticks Spinning ball Spinning bucket Spinning egg Steaming up Stuck on you Sucked in Suspended paperclip Swimming fish Swirled milk Testing the pull Three layer float Vinegar oil pour Wake up taste buds Watch sound travel Wriggle worm

Information and Resource Links:

US Government Childrens Science Education
Yahoo Science Education Section
DMOZ Science Directory
DMOZ Childrens Science
Education Games and Fun
Cool science for curious kids