You’ll feel like a magician! Mix chemicals together and watch them change color, get hot and cold, and burst their container! Light paper on fire without burning it up and make goop that acts like both a solid and a liquid. You’ll go from fire to ice and mix chemicals that shoot fountains high into the air! See the experiments list below
- Candles in a Jar -- In our un-birthday party we will make dozens of candles drown themselves in the interest of science.
- Hydrogen Powered Rockets –- Turn water into rocket fuel and then use a combination of that fuel and water to make your rocket go as far as possible.
- Freezing Stuff with Dry Ice -- See what would happen to the plants if we had a sudden Ice Age!
- Elephant Toothpaste -- What do elephants use to keep their tusks clean? Why, a giant tube of elephant toothpaste, and some fire!
- Launch Film Cans with CO2 -- Make a big mess while shooting geysers of foamy stuff and plastic cups all over the lab.
- Bang, Boom, Pop! -- Make all kinds of explosions using caps, party poppers, and other chemicals.
- Flash Paper -- Dissolve ping pong balls and use the resulting goop to make fast, medium, or slow flash paper.
- Thermal Conductivity with Dry Ice -- If you had to camp overnight on a frozen lake, what could you put under your sleeping bag to keep from freezing?
- Shrinky Squirmy Plastic -- Put perfectly innocent cheeseburger trays and drink cups in the oven and watch them wiggle and squirm.
- Liquified Nitrogen -- Dip all sorts of things like oranges, leaves, balloons, water, and rubber balls in liquid nitrogen to freeze them almost instantly and then see what happens when you drop them on the table
- Hot, Cold, and Fizzy -- Mix chemicals together and watch them change color, feel them change temperature, smell them getting nasty, and hear the bag pop!
- Making Slushies -- Discover a way to make ice cubes 20 degrees colder than they want to be so you can freeze orange juice with them.
- Ice Sculptures -- Use color and salt to create unique sculptures out of ice.
- GAK -- Yes, there is nothing like gooey, slimy, and stretchy stuff! Mix glue and soap, and end up with rubber.
- Blowing Your Top -- Use dry ice, baking soda plus vinegar, and then Alka-Seltzer to discover which one will blast the top off of a film can the highest.
- Dry Ice -- Make fog, bubbling potions, and screaming pieces of metal with this versatile material.
- Exploding Film Cans -- A little spark plus some breath spray creates a loud bang, and away it goes!
- Soda & Mentos -- Drop some Mentos candies in a 2-liter bottle of soda and see if it can squirt 25 feet high.