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Brain

Hollow masks

Baffle your brain with the famous 'hollow mask illusion', and experiment with how it works by making your own.

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Brain

Memory masters

Investigate how your memory works, and learn a cunning trick to help memorise lots of things.

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Chemistry

Cakes in a cup

Investigate the chemistry of cakes by making microwave mug cakes and seeing what happens when you leave out key ingredients from

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Chemistry

Making butter

Make butter from cream.

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a young girl with curly red hair has her hands up in delighted surprise as she looks at a balloon self-inflating
Chemistry

Fizzy cubes

Make a self-inflating balloon and experiment to find out which household liquids react with bicarbonate of soda.

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one young boy is pouring a purple liquid into a pink liquid while another boy looks on
Chemistry

Colour changing cabbage juice

Make a beautiful colour changing liquid from cabbage juice, and explore the science of indicator solutions.

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a small fruit juice bottle is being propelled out of a glass jar by a white jet of liquid as a young boy looks on
Chemistry

Fizzy bottle rockets

Make self-propelled rockets out of juice bottles, and learn how a chemical reaction which produces gas can be used to propel a

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Chemistry

Playing with play dough

Learn about mixtures, solutions and chemical reactions while making home-made play dough.

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a small boy holds a small piece of cardboard shaped like a boat
Chemistry

Soap powered boats

Make soap powered boats and learn how soap affects the way water molecules hold onto each other.

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a young boy and his mother sitting at a table with a teacandle in the middle
Chemistry

Candle chemistry

Experiment with the chemistry of candles and make a flame jump through the air.

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