SNACK-SIZED SCIENCE
22 science experiments your kid can eat.
$3. Instant access. Works tonight.
- Rainbow milk fireworks you can drink
- Ice cream in a bag in 10 minutes
- Rock candy crystals on a stick
Here's one of them, free.
Rainbow Milk Fireworks
What you need
- Whole milk
- 4 colors of food coloring
- Dish soap
- A cotton swab
- A shallow plate
- Pour milk into a shallow plate until the bottom is just covered. Whole milk works best.
- Drop four colors around the plate, spaced apart. Do not stir.
- Dip one cotton swab in dish soap and touch it to the center of a color. Hold it there, then try a new spot.
The scienceThis is surface tension, and soap is what breaks it. Water molecules pull on each other hard enough to act like a skin across the surface. Soap has one end that loves water and one that hates it, so it wedges into that skin and the tension releases unevenly, yanking the whole surface outward and dragging the color with it. Your kid has already seen this: it is why greasy dishes finally let go the second the soap hits, before you have scrubbed anything.
All 22, in the order you'll want them.
- Rainbow Milk Fireworks
- Edible Slime (Marshmallow Fluff)
- Dancing Raisins Soda
- Color-Changing Lemonade
- Candy Chromatography
- Magic Growing Gummy Worms
- Rock Candy Crystals
- Ice Cream in a Bag
- Exploding Chocolate Volcano
- Density Tower Smoothie
- Gummy Bear Osmosis
- DIY Fruit Battery
- Invisible Ink Messages
- Homemade Butter in a Jar
- Spherification Caviar
- DIY Fermented Soda Pop
- Bread in a Bag
- pH Rainbow Juice
- Dry Ice Ice Cream
- Solar Oven S'mores
- Centrifuge Salad Spinner
- Edible DNA Double Helix
Pantry supplies only. No kit. No trip to the store.
What you get
- 22 experiments, every one edible
- Tiered for ages 4-7, 8-10 and 11-14
- Time, mess and difficulty on every card
- The real science behind each one, in plain English
Sorted into ages 4-7, 8-10 and 11-14, so you hand over the right one first try.
Questions
Pantry supplies only. No kit. No trip to the store.