Great Scientific Experiments You Can Do at Home With Your Children

Ferrofluid is a magnetic fluid that you can do at home. All you need is vegetable oil, printer toner and a rare earth magnet.

• Pour about 50 ml of the toner into a Masson pot and put 2 tbsp of vegetable oil.
• Mix the ingredients together.
• Take your magnet outside the Masson pot; you will see the fluid react. Spikes will form there.

For this experiment, you need 2 or 3 highlighters, a forceps, a measuring cup, tweezers and a UV lamp.

• Fill 2 to 3 glasses with about 2/3 of water.
• Grab the end of your highlighter with your pliers. Remove the bottom of the pencil.
• Grab the ink with your tweezers and drop it in one of the glasses of water for 30 minutes.
• Take the ink out of the water.
• Light your UV lamp: you will have fluorescent water!

With ziti pasta, hydrogen peroxide and yeast, you can make your own homemade rocket.

• Fill a Masson jar, which the opening is 1/8 inch , with hydrogen peroxide and pour 1/4 tsp of yeast.
• You will see your mix making bubbles.
• Do not screw the lid on the top.
• Place a ziti noodle on top and light it with a lighter.

To make your lava lamp, you need vegetable oil, water, food coloring and salt.

• Pour water into a glass.
• Pour a few drops of food coloring of your choice.
• Put some tsp of vegetable oil.
• Add some salt in your mixture for the oil to disperse (otherwise it will stay on top of your mixture).

You could also make your own lava lamp with coke.

You will need clothespins, wooden skewers, a cup of water, 2 to 3 cups of sugar and a large, narrow glass or a Masson pot.

• Hang the clothes pegs on the wooden skewers and put them over the edge of the glass.
• Boil a cup a water.
• When the water begins boiling, gradually add 2 to 3 cups of sugar until it dissolves.
• Remove the mixture from the oven and wait 20 minutes.
• Put the mix inside the glasses and add skewers. The skewers should hold through the clothespins. Make sure they do not touch the edges of the glass. Let everything cool down, again.
• In 3 to 7 days, sugar crystals will form around the skewers.

For this experiment, you need liquid dish soap and milk.

• Mix the two liquids together.
• Add food coloring to your solution.

You’ll have an art show right in front of your eyes as the colors will start moving around.

To make instant ice, you need 16.9 oz of bottled water or purified water. Your bottles must have never been opened.

• Put your bottles in the freezer for 2 hours 45 minutes.
• Take a bottle and hit it with your knuckles.

You can then poor the water and it will instantly freeze. For better results, poor the water form the water bottle into a glass of water. It will freeze the entire thing in a second.

You need two cups of wine of the same proportion and a piece of plastic that is a little bigger than the rim (base) of each cup.

• Fill one cup with wine up to the rim and the other with water, also up to the rim.
• Place the piece of plastic on one of the cups and turn it to the other cut.
• Try removing the piece of plastic slowly as the wine replaces the water.

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