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How To Make Your Own Wave Tank
Learn how to make your own nontoxic wave tank using water, mineral oil, and food coloring.
How To Make a Lava Lamp - Nontoxic Version
Learn how to make your own non-toxic lava lamp or lava lite.
How To Make a Lava Lamp - Realistic Version
Make a realistic lava lamp or lava light. This version is for chemists or experienced hobbyists.
How To Make Copper and Brass Cleaner
Use these instructions to make your own copper, brass and bronze cleaner.
How To Bend Water with Static Electricity
Use static electricity to bend a stream of flowing water. This is an easy science activity that illustrates how opposite electrical charges attract each other.
How To Make a Rainbow in a Glass Density Demonstration
Make a rainbow in a glass using colored sugar solutions with different densities. It's easy and safe enough to drink.
How To Make Electroactive Slime
This is the recipe for an electroactive, flowing slime.
How To Build a Baking Soda Volcano
The chemical volcano is a classic sciece project. Baking soda and vinegar combine to produce carbon dioxide bubbly lava, which you can color to resemble a real volcanic eruption. See how to make your own baking soda volcano.
How To Make a Fizzy Bath Bomb
These are fun and easy instructions for making scented fizzy bath bombs. Keep them for yourself or give them as gifts.
How To Do Paper Chromatography With Leaves
Learn how to separate plant pigments using paper chromatography.
How To Perform the Smoking Fingers Trick
Make your fingers smoke when you rub them together and glow in the dark. All you need is a matchbox and a way to burn the striker portion.
How To Grow Orange Potassium Dichromate Crystals
Do you want crystals that are naturally bright and colorful? Grow orange crystals of potassium dichromate.
How To Grow Copper Acetate Monohydrate Crystals
Grow your own blue-green monoclinic crystals of copper acetate monohydrate.
How To Grow Purple Chromium Alum Crystals
Learn how to grow purple chromium alum crystals and how to grow clear crystals over a core of colored crystals.
How To Grow a Charcoal Crystal Garden
How to Grow a Charcoal Crystal Garden - Classic science project using charcoal briquettes and bluing.
How To Grow a Borax Crystal Snowflake
Grow your own sparkling clear or colored borax crystal snowflakes.
How To Perform the Nitrogen Triiodide Chemistry Demonstration
Learn how to perform the nitrogen triiodide chemistry demonstration, a spectacular touch-sensitive decomposition that produces a cloud of purple smoke.
How To Make Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Make liquid nitrogen ice cream as a cool cryogenics or phase change demonstration or for a quick and tasty treat.
How To Grow Tin Crystals
Grow crystals of tin metal using this simple displacement reaction.
How To Make a Geode of Blue Copper Sulfate Crystals
Grow beautiful translucent blue crystals of copper sulfate pentahydrate inside an egg shell to make your own geode.
How To Grow a Big Alum Crystal
Instructions for growing a big alum crystal.
How To Grow Red Potassium Ferricyanide Crystals
These are easy instructions for growing red potassium ferricyanide crystals.
How To Grow Silver Crystals
Learn how to grow silver crystals using silver nitrate and copper wire or mercury.
How To Create an Endothermic Chemical Reaction (Safe)
Instructions for a safe and easy endothermic chemical reaction demonstration.
How To Make Your Own Christmas Tree or Floral Preservative
Make your own Christmas tree or cut flower preservative.