Smoke Bombs

Smoke bombs are the easiest and safest do-it-yourself firework project. You only need two inexpensive, non-toxic ingredients and it only takes minutes to make. Watch and learn how you can cook up a smoke bomb at home.

You can easily make a smoke bomb using inexpensive materials to produce safe smoke.

Colored smoke is easy to make and requires few ingredients. Here's a list of some colored smoke formulations to try.

Adding common metal salts to your smoke bomb recipe will produce colored fire.

A classic smoke bomb is easy to make and safe to use, but you can make the project even safer if you don't heat the ingredients. Here's what you do.

Once you have a smoke bomb, here's how you light it.

Kick the traditional smoke bomb recipe up a notch to make a firework fountain that shoots purple flames with lots of smoke. This is a fun and easy homemade firework project.

You can make a smoke ring cannon that shoots smoke rings in the air or even in water. A smoke ring cannon is a simple science project that uses easy-to-find household materials to illustrate fluid vortex formation in a fun way.

There's more than one way to make a smoke bomb. Here's a collection of recipes, so you can make a device using the materials you have on hand.

Here are two ways to produce violet smoke for a colorful chemistry demonstration.