Mind blowing experiments to delight and educate young scientists! Erupt a color changing volcano. Mix up magic ooze with a mind of its own. Play with sand that never gets wet. Mix safe chemicals and watch colors change before your eyes. You'll amaze yourself and your friends as you explore the science behind thes truly remarkable reactions. Ages 4+
REVIEW
The Science of Ripping Off Parents Here's a quick primer for parents looking to buy science kits for the early grade school set (i.e., K - 3rd). Every science kit, including this one, basically tells youto mix vinegar with baking soda and "Voila!" you made a volcano. Nevermind that in later years some kid will go hiking in the crater of Mt. St. Helen's during an eruption thinking it is just harmless cooking products. Use safe chemicals to make scientific changing colors? You guessed it -- food dye. All these kits basically include a set of plastic test tubes and instructions telling you to open your kitchen cupboards. Back in the Middle Ages people who sold this kind of hokum for the price it now commands were called alchemists. They eventually went out of business. Buy the kid a Suzukie violin or a football helmet instead.
Grow your own friendly germs and fuzzy molds. Mix up a batch of coagulating fake blood. Even make a stinky intestine. learn the science behind unmentionable bodily functions while doing some truly NASTY Experiments. Ages 8+
REVIEW
Fun for all This toy keeps kids occupied for hours. What did doesn't like to learn about gross things. Depending on the age they will need a little adult supervision.
Whip your bath into a frothy fizzing sea of color and fragrance. Make colorful, fragrant bath gels, bath fizzers, spa lotion, bath balm, a face mask, and shampoo. Mix colors and fragrances to creat your own product line with secret and exclusive mixtures. Explore the science of gels, fragrance and fizzers. Ages 9+
REVIEW
Good Clean Fun Spa Science is probably more of a recipe than a science experiment, but is still alot of fun. Girls mix fragrances and bases into fun bath prodcuts. Some fizz and release bubbles (carbon dioxide-hense the science part). My 10 yr old dughter enjoys mixing things and creating new blends of ingredients, so this kit was right up her alley. Alot of fun for all girls. It may transfer into an interest in science, but science is not the main focus of the kit.
You will love setting up your own Glow in the Dark Fun Lab. Create a light wand, make your own glow stick, and even generate a human-powered light. Ages 6+
REVIEW
Scientific Explorer's Glow in the Dark Fun Lab Science Kit The Scientific Explorer's Glow in the Dark Fun Lab Science Kit was a birthday gift for my 7 year oldgranddaughter. She loves anything to do with color and Science.
Cast real smoke from your fingertips, make a wizard wand, and whip up color-changing potions in your test tube laboratory. Also included are laminated cards with magic tricks to baffle all your friends, an instruction booklet with 11 activities, lab equipment, and mysterious wizard powders that will mix together to mystify you!
REVIEW
Great idea, poorly executed Well, cool, make a magic wand! What could be better for a school age child into fantasy books? But oh no, the ends of the wand do NOT FIT the tube, so the wand cannot be made- SO, massive disappointment for the excited child, complete annoyance for the parent! How hard would it be for the maker of this product to include pieces that actually fit together? The wand consists of 2 stoppers and a plastic tube, this is not rocket science!
The perfect science introduction for younger kids! Setup your own color mixing laboratory and turn your favorite colors in to brilliant soft crystals. Capture a rainbow in a test tube and become a color mixing detective. Ages 4+
REVIEW
Thanks for the Reviews Thanks to everyone's reviews, I didn't buy this. I bought the "totally Funky Science" kit. But, I did add some these project ideas from this kit. My 12yr old did the "Totally Funky Science" kit with my 5 and yr old and all three of them loved it.
Some of the materials in my kit were cheap of course. But, my kids had fun, learned and I think that is money well spent. I have wasted my money on worse things. Afterwards, I googled some science experiments, got some supplies, bought some experiment idea books and now have the kids do science experiments regularly.
The kit got us started and excited about science. =)
Who knew science could taste so good? With this kit, you'll whip up cupcakes, cookies, candy, and more all in the name of science! Learn what makes cakes rise, candy crystallize, and more real chemistry happen in the kitchen. Tasty Science is packed with ingredients, recipes, activity cards, a test tube laboratory, and lots more to explore the science of taste.?
REVIEW
Good fun with a little help! My 8 year old son got this for christmas and we had a lot of fun with it! It definitely requires some adult supervision especially for the baking and the rock candy. My son had the most fun making the fizzy drinks and learning how to make soda. Although the recipe for the soda doesn't taste that great it was a lot of fun to make and he did learn all about acids and bases. The other great part of this was that these recipes are easy to recreate even if you run out of the supplies that come with the kit. The big test tubes were also fun.
The Ultimate Spa and Perfume Kit includes everything you need for a complete spa experience and lots of fun things for you to make! Using natural ingredients, you'll create bath oils, oatmeal soap, foaming baths, bath balms and more. Learn about aromatherapy as you blend five different kinds of perfume. Enough stuff for up to eight people, so it's perfect for spa parties, sleepovers and rainy days.
REVIEW
Plenty of fun here! This kit includes natural ingredients for making your own spa products. Along the way, you will learn what some of the different ingredients are, and what they're used for, as well as a bit of aromatherapy.
Included in the kit are the following items:
3 essential fragrance oils (coconut, strawberry, & vanilla), oats, citric acid, sea salt, baking soda, bentonite clay, a wooden spatula, a plastic pipette, an eye mask, 7 empty plastic storage jars and bottles for the "products" you create, and an instruction booklet. The kit includes instructions and some of the products needed to create: a bentonite clay mask, a french vanilla bentonite clay facial, perfumes, an island goddess foot soak, caribbean fizz sugar cubes (for the bath), café vanilla frappe pre glazing bath or shower wash, surfing oahu scrub, a sweet honey mask, a natural oats yogurt mask, a strawberry-honey clay mask, a chocolate clay facial, a banana oatmeal honey mask, a natural blemish treatment, a caribbean island spa treatment, a blueberry honey face mask, and a whipped apple pie body scrub.
The use of a stove or microwave is required for some of the activities.
When making some of the products, you will need to supplement with some items from your home, such as water, flowers, honey, ground coffee, yogurt, strawberries, cocoa, milk, bananas, tomatoes, lemon or lime juice, blueberries, whipping cream, apple juice, and measuring cups/spoons/bowls, and towels and washcloths.
Lots of fun for any girl who enjoys bath products, cooking, etc!
Pamper your dog will make your furry friend feel fabulous. You'll have their teeth and coat gleaming with special doggie brushes and make-it-yourself toothpaste and shampoo. Cook up a healthy doggie cupcake and create a customized dog tag! Become your dog's psychologist and learn their personality! A kid's best friend deserves the best. This kit includes: cupcake mix sprinkles brush colored pens ingredients for making toothpaste and shampoo materials to make a playful dog tag doggie profile for display laminated cards instruction booklet including great tricks and exercise activities
With the Erupting, Sparkling, Fizzing Fun Kit you can do all kinds of crazy experiments. Make a glitter wand, catch a wave in a tube, and even erupt lava! Ages 6+
REVIEW
5 year old Scientists!!! Great toy! I bought this for my 5 year old and he absolutely loves it! He started asking about science one day and that's what triggered me buying this. It has a couple test tubes and uses glitter and vegetable oil (make sure you have more oil on hand)with small color tablets. With these three things mixed with water, you can make things erupt, wave and glitter. It really opened his "out-of-the-box" thinking cap and he started asking other questions about the mixing products! It was a great learning experience!!
