Kitchen Science Experiments

Fun with filters

One of the most basic ways of cleaning water is to use a filter. If you fancy getting a little dirty then why not have a go?

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Pepper's Ghost

Confuse your friends with ghostly candles, and find out how it is related to Victorian theater and fighter aircraft

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Exploding Film Canisters

Find out how to make a mini-explosion using a film canister, and how your explosion relates to real explosives, like gunpowder.

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Melting Ice with Salt

We were asked why councils don't use seawater to melt ice on the roads, so why not find out the answer with an experiment?

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Swapping Sounds

Completely confuse your sense of direction using a couple of hose pipes and some funnels...

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How fast is a sneeze?

This time of year coughs and sneezes are a common complaint, but just how fast is a sneeze.

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Cycle Centrifuge

Use a bike and some salad dressing to find out how blood is separated and how nuclear fuel is made.

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Build your own airbrush - Applying Bernoulli

Find out how to build an airbrush to produce beautifully smooth paint finishes, and what it has to do with a car engine.

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Margarine Planets

Use a tub of ordinary margarine to model how a planet forms, and to explain why we get different types of meteorite.

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Shelless Eggs

Make a bizzare shelless raw egg in this easy experiment.

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Build your own helicopter

Build your own helicopter using just a piece of card, some tape and a few pencils.

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Lard Mountains - Isostacy

Build some mountains out of lard, and find out why mountains are like icebergs, and what it has to do with England sinking.

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Root vegetable cannon - DIY potato gun

Build yourself a root vegetable based cannon using just a biro, a hacksaw and a potato.

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Echolocation

Build your own primitive sonar with a computer and a microphone, and find out how it relates to medical ultrasound.

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Dark Flames

It sounds like something out of a horror film, but this is a lovely experiment which makes a bright orange flame seem dark, and has lead to scientists finding out the composition of stars on the other side of the universe.

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