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Ultimate Colored Smoke Bomb
Make a smoke bomb that billows clouds of brightly colored smoke. This project is easy and safe enough to at home. Adult supervision is required.

Gold and Silver Pennies
Take copper colored pennies and turn then silver, then make them gold. This is an easy chemistry project that uses common laboratory chemicals.

Black Snakes or Glow Worms
You can make black snake or glow worm fireworks yourself, safely and easily.

Chalk Chromatography
You can use chalk and alcohol to perfom chromatography to separate the pigments in food colorings or inks. After you've finished making your chromatogram, you'll have colored chalk.

How to Remove Fluoride from Drinking Water
Learn how to remove fluoride from drinking water.

Perfume Recipe
Perfume is a classic gift, but it's even better if it is a scent that you made yourself, especially if you package it in a beautiful bottle. Perfume you make yourself is free from synthetic chemicals and is fully customized to your personal taste. Here's how to make your own perfume.

Marbled Paper Project
It's super-easy to make elegant marbled paper, which you can use for a variety of projects including gift wrap. What you may not know is you can scent your paper while you marble it.

Stink Bomb Recipes
Stink bombs smell terrible, but they are also fun. Here are instructions for how to use everyday materials to make your own stink bombs.

Gifts Science Geeks Can Make
Your command of chemistry gives you a certain edge in the gift-making department. Use your skills to make some cool presents, to keep for yourself or give to others.

Invisible Inks
Make your own invisible ink so you can write and reveal secret messages.

Fried Green Egg
Red cabbage juice contains a natural pH indicator that changes color from purple to green under basic (alkaline) conditions. You can use this reaction to make a fried green egg.

Storm Glass Instructions
Use your knowledge of chemistry to make a storm glass to help you predict the weather.

Magic Colored Milk Science Project
If you add food coloring to milk, not a whole lot happens, but it only takes one simple ingredient to turn the milk into a spinning color wheel. Here is what you do.

Sharpie Pen Tie Dye
You can create a pattern resembling tie-dye using colored Sharpie pens and rubbing alcohol. It's a fun and educational project that is great for kids.

Make Biodiesel - Instructions for Making Biodiesel from Vegetable Oil
As the price of diesel continues to climb, you may wish to consider making your own diesel from cooking or vegetable oil, called biodiesel. It's easy and could save you money.

Fruit Battery
If you have fruit, a couple of nails, and wire then you can generate electricity to turn on a light bulb. Learn how to make a fruit battery. It's fun, safe, and easy.

Benzoic Acid Snow Globe
Snow made from water crystals melts at room temperature, but snow made from benzoic acid crystals will still be decorating your snow globe when the weather warms up. Here's how to make a snow globe by precipitating benzoic acid to make the 'snow'.

Cut Flower Preservative Recipes
It's easy and economical to make your own cut flower preservative. Adding floral preservative will help keep your flowers beautiful much longer than if you simply filled a vase with water.

Absinthe Chemistry
Learn how to make absinthe, and about the liqueur's history and chemistry.