Make strange musical instruments that sound like a foghorn or a light sabre. Use the power of the sun to melt a penny in seconds and turn a rock into hot lava. Swirl together lights and colors and even paint with chemicals that glow. Turn your own voice into a laser light show, and more! See the experiments list below.
- Lasers and Mirrors -- Give yourself 1000 eyes, create the illusion of a tunnel deep into the earth, make a laser show, and instantly create 10 of anything you can draw.
- Solar Furnace -- Melt a penny in 30 seconds, create instant flames on wood, and turn a rock into hot lava!
- Smoke Rings -- Use stage fog to create smoke rings from all sorts of containers.
- Glow Painting with Pipettes -- Use the chemicals in glow sticks to create brightly glowing artwork.
- Glove Bagpipes -- A latex glove carefully placed on a tube and inflated can create the most marvelously loud foghorn sound.
- Bendable Light -- You’ll experiment with laser pens, colored flashlights, and clear plastic to see if you can make something like a light saber.
- Laser Sound Waves -- Turn your own voice into a laser light show.
- Echoes -- Create loud echoes and waves of all sorts with a slinky spring and two cups.
- Woodwinds -- Discover how to make heavenly and then totally loud and disgusting sounds with tubes, reeds, balloons, and other weird materials.
- Lights and Paints -- Experiments with combinations of lights, paints, and motion to see art in a whole new way.
- Running Colors -- Watch as water moves through colors and parts of the color outrun the others!