Blow your kids’ minds with these super easy science experiments! Each experiment listed below uses items you probably already have in your home (such as tea bags, water bottles and string). These experiments are visually stimulating, hands-on and sensory-rich, which makes them fun, engaging and perfect for teaching simple science concepts. Help your kids to explore their curiosity with these science experiments for kids…
* Important note: we recommend adult supervision for each of these experiments, particularly those that require matches or warm water.
What they’ll learn: This is a heat experiment disguised as a cool trick! Kids will learn that warmer air is less dense than cooler air, and that’s why it rises!
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What they’ll learn: Kids will learn about diffusion! You’ll demonstrate diffusion (the movement of particles) by watching Skittles create a rainbow swirl when immersed in warm water.
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What they’ll learn: Kids will learn what happens to plants when they are given water. You’ll be able to see processes like transpiration and cohesion as the water moves from the glasses up to the stem of the flowers and upwards towards the flowers.
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What they’ll learn: In this experiment, kids will see how gases can expand when their particles move at high speeds! When baking soda (a base) and vinegar (an acid) are mixed together, they create a chemical reaction that results in the formation of carbon dioxide.
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What they’ll learn: Kids will learn about the effect of salt on the freezing point of water! Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, but when you sprinkle salt on top of the ice, it lowers the freezing point, causing the ice to absorb what’s around it (in this case, the water near the ice cube).
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