This monthly fixation focuses on the curiosity-driven side of learning by exploring a new science experiment each month. It’s designed to turn everyday spaces into small discovery labs—perfect for classrooms, families, or solo learners. Each month hi...
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Kitchen Chemistry ⚗️
Kitchen Chemistry ⚗️
Kitchen Chemistry transforms your kitchen into a mini science lab where everyday ingredients become the tools of discovery. Each month, you’ll explore a new hands-on experiment that reveals the chemistry behind common items like baking soda, vinegar...
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Create a clay or dough “volcano” and pour in baking soda with coloured vinegar. Learn about acid–base reactions.
Fizzy Volcano Preschool Science Lab
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Add food colouring to milk and touch with dish soap. Watch the colours swirl, showing surface tension.
Magic Milk Science Experiment
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Grow sugar crystals on a stick in a saturated sugar solution. Observe crystallisation and saturation.
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Write with lemon juice or baking soda water on paper, heat gently to reveal the message. Discover oxidation and heat-sensitive compounds.
Invisible ink recipe
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Shake cream in a sealed jar until it turns to butter. Learn about emulsions and physical changes.
How to Make Homemade Butter Recipe
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Mix cornstarch with water or melt marshmallows and sugar to make edible “slime.” Study non-Newtonian fluids.
Marshmallow Slime
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Combine flavoured syrup with baking soda and citric acid to make fizzy soda. Explore gas release and COâ‚‚.
Easy, 4-Ingredient Naturally Carbonated Strawberry Soda
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Boil red cabbage to make a natural pH indicator. Test household liquids for acidity/alkalinity. See colour changes from pH shifts.
Red Cabbage Indicator
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Mix yeast, sugar, and warm water in a bottle, place a balloon over the neck. Watch it inflate from fermentation producing COâ‚‚.
Science of Bread: Yeast-air Balloons Activity
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Make colourful playdough with flour, salt, water, oil, and cream of tartar. Learn about mixing, bonding, and preservation.
Homemade Play Dough
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Combine cream, sugar, and vanilla in a small bag, place it inside a larger bag with ice and salt, shake until frozen. Understand freezing point depression.
Best Ice Cream In A Bag Recipe
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Test how fast candy canes dissolve in hot water, cold water, and vinegar. Compare temperature, solubility, and acidity effects.
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