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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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a faintly blue coloured dough ball on a bright green chopping board

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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two young girls leaning over a table looking at an unpeeled egg floating in a glass jar

Chemistry

Eggsperiments

Make an uncooked egg bounce.

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a woman and two toung girls laughing and doing a science experiment with felt tip pens, kitchen paper and water

Chemistry

Colour quest

Discover the hidden colours in ink.

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three young girls at a kitchen table building a sculpture out of wooden skewers, pieces of carrot and marshmallows

Physics

Balancing sculptures

Make amazing balancing structures and explore the science of stability.

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two eggs with faces drawn on them

Physics

Homemade parachutes

Make a homemade parachute to transport an egg safely to the ground, and explore what it means to do a fair test.

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Small boy looking amazed at a science experiment while a photographer is capturing the moment in the background

Physics

Musical coat hangers

Try out an amazing trick with a coat hanger and some string, and think about the science of sound.

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two small children and a woman in a red dress are building a tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows

Physics

Spaghetti towers

Become engineers for the day, by building structures out of spaghetti and marshmallows, and investigating the properties of

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