Get your lab coats ready! Leigh-Ann Allaire Perrault brings us simple and safe science experiments you and the kids can do with ingredients in your cupboard.
Milk rainbow
Ingredients:
- Plate
- Milk
- Food colouring
- Dish soap
- Q-tips
Method:
Pour milk onto a dinner plate to cover the surface.
Drop food colouring into the centre of the milk.
Dip a q-tip into dish soap and then touch the tip into the centre of the food colour and watch the magic happen!
Bubble worms
Ingredients:
- Empty plastic water bottles
- Scissors
- A face cloth
- Elastic bands
- A dish
- Spoon
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup dish soap
Method:
Carefully cut the bottom off of the water bottle with scissors.
Using an elastic band, secure a face cloth over the cut opening of the bottle.
Gently mix the water and dish soap in a dish with a spoon.
Dip the face cloth end of the bottle into the soapy mixture, and blow on the mouth of the bottle to create long, lively bubble worms.
Slime
Ingredients:
- 4oz white school glue
- 1 tsp Borax
- 1 1/2 cups of water
- Food colouring
- Two mixing bowl
- Tupperware container
- Spoon
Method:
In a small bowl, start by stirring a tsp. of Borax into 1 cup of lukewarm water and put it off to the side for now.
Next, in a separate mixing bowl, combine 1/2 of water with 4 oz of white school glue.
Add a few drops of food colouring and mix thoroughly with a spoon.
Now, add the water and Borax mixture to the larger bowl of glue, water and food colouring.
It will immediately start to appear clumpy, and you can mix with either a spoon or use your hands.
Drain off any excess water and then need the slime until it has a consistent texture.
The play slime is not edible and can be store in a Tupperware container for about a week.
Courtesy Leigh-Ann Allaire Perrault