Wet Experiments

Fizzy Acids - what happens when you carbonate water

Discover what happens when you make water fizzy, why it then tastes so tangy and why this could cause problems for shellfish.

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Pumping Straw - a centrifugal pump

Make a pump out of a straw and a skewer and soak all your friends.

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Bubbles that sink - Antibubbles

Make fascinating bubbles which rather than floating on water actually sink.

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Silver from soot

Convert normal soot into a beautiful silvery substance using just a candle, some water and a mug...

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Drop Magnifier

Make the cheapest microscope in the world, using a piece of plastic and some water. And find out what it has to do with sneezing on your TV screen!

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Rebounding Drop

An experiment you can carry out using a cup of tea and a little milk

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Steam Powered Can Crusher

How to use the power of the atmosphere to crush your drinks cans for you...

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Fizzes from peroxide

Use the power of catalysis to create oxygen and relight a piece of wood, and we give the same reaction a more explosive twist.

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Water Rockets

Launch lemonade bottle rockets and see what happened when we tried launching a camera on the top of ours.

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Going loopy for bubbles

We discover a surprising feature of bubbles using only bubble mix, wool and a coat hanger!

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Getting water from a candle

Extract water from a candle using nothing more complex than a pint glass.

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Flour Volcano

Build a model of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet, using some flour and a balloon.

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Psychedelic Milk

Make beautiful moving psychedelic patterns in a bowl of milk with just some food colouring and washing up liquid.

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Crystals on a piece of wool

Make some strange crystals on a piece of string with things you would find at home.

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How you could drink your own urine safely?

If you were trapped on a desert island with nothing to drink what would you do? We show you how to purify various unappetising liquids...

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