Science Experiments You Can Try at Home

Make a Baking Soda and Vinegar Volcano

This classic experiment creates a fun and fizzy eruption. Mix baking soda, vinegar, dish soap, and a little food coloring in a bottle. The reaction between baking soda and vinegar produces carbon dioxide gas, causing an exciting eruption.

Create a Homemade Lava Lamp

Make your own lava lamp using water, vegetable oil, food coloring, and Alka-Seltzer tablets. The oil and water don’t mix, and the Alka-Seltzer creates bubbles that float and sink, mimicking a real lava lamp.

Grow Your Own Crystal Garden

Dissolve Epsom salt in warm water, add food coloring, and let the solution sit undisturbed for a day or two. As the water evaporates, beautiful salt crystals will form.

Inflate a Balloon with Baking Soda and Vinegar

Attach a balloon filled with baking soda to a bottle containing vinegar. When the baking soda falls into the vinegar, the resulting gas inflates the balloon.

Make DIY Slime

Create slime by mixing school glue, baking soda, food coloring, and contact lens solution. The reaction between the glue and borate ions in the solution forms a stretchy, gooey slime.

Create a Rainbow in a Jar

Layer honey, dish soap, colored water, and olive oil in a jar. The different densities of the liquids create a colorful rainbow effect that’s fun to observe.

Make a DIY Lemon Battery

Insert a copper coin and a galvanized nail into a lemon, and connect them to wires and an LED light. The acid in the lemon allows electrons to flow and powers the light, creating a simple battery.

These experiments are a fun and educational way to explore scientific concepts using everyday household items.