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Kids Projects at Home

Simple Kids Crafts is a video blog dedicated to reviving the old art of handicrafts for people of all ages. How do oil spills affect aquatic plants? A Miniature Solar Panel Fire Water Balloon Make Clouds in a Bottle Secret Messages Make a Rocket Make a Hovercraft Make an Anemometer Make a Sundial Make a Radio Make an Electroscope Make a Stethoscope Make a Telescope Make a Periscope Make a Camera Bending a stream of water with a comb Lighting a bulb without electricity Simple Motor Cotton Ball Rocks? Salt-Absorbing Art and Science Color Changing Glue Art Baking Soda Clay Oil Sun Catcher Grow a Pineapple Plant! Bead Bowls Wow, what an Air-Gun Funny Diver ! Water boils without fire Ice with Boiling Water Water that boils instantly Water boils in a Paper Pot Soap-driven Boat Pulse Moves Pin Pretty Garden—without Plants Picture made by Fire Magic Pictures Dancing Doll Smoke Goes Down The Dancing Coupl The Umbrella Dance Magic Butterfly Colorful
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The Egg and the Bottle

This experiment is probably a classic home experiment that anyone can try. It doesn’t require much at all but it’s really fascinating. The task is to cause a boiled egg to go through a narrower bottle opening without busting. Gravity alone won’t make this Humpty Dumpty fall! You’ll be manipulating air pressure within the bottle to make this work. What do you need? A boiled egg -- preferably hard. The soft boiled eggs may get messy. A glass bottle -- with an opening of diameter that is a bit smaller than that of the diameter of the egg. Lighter + Paper (depends on method used) Icy Cold Water (depends on method used) Warm Water (depends on method used) How to do it? The Heating Methods Using a lighted paper After you have your egg boiled and ready, you can strip the shell away. Light the paper and drop it inside of the bottle. Place the smaller end of the egg into the mouth of the bottle. Watch to see the egg descend into the bottle as the bottle cools. Using
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Grow a Gummy Bear

This is a neat and easy science project for younger children. All you need is a package of gummy bears, some small see-through containers, water, and a marker. The time frame for this project can vary depending on how much time your child is given for the project. The project can be done in as little as a week (7 days) or it can be stretched out over a couple of months. Here are the basics: Take the small containers and the marker. Label the containers for the number of days your child is going to do the project. (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc.) I recommend empty baby food jars with lids since the day can be written on the lid. Fill the containers about half full of water – cold or room temperature, not hot. For each day of the project, drop a single gummy bear into one jar and close the lid. I sorted my gummies by color, but this is optional.) Store containers in a cool space so that the water in the container does not get too warm and melt the gummy bear. (I stored them in
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How to Make a Wind Vane

Materials Soda Bottle (I used a 12 oz mini water bottle for mine) Bag of sand Unsharpened pencil Sharpened pencil to draw / trace arrow and tail Nail or straight pin Tape 2 straws – one thinner so the one can slide through the other (these can be found at a fast food restaurant or gas station in different sizes) Scissors Thick cardstock from which to cut the arrow and tail Paper, stickers, crayons, glitter, glue to decorate the bottle Ruler How to Make a Wind Vane 1. Get all your supplies ready and set them out beside you 2. Wash the bottle and peel off the label, setting the bottle aside to dry during the rest of the steps 3. Use the scissors to cut three inches off the thicker straw 4. Use the scissors again to cut 1 inch slits at either end of the longer straw parallel to one another 5. Create the arrow by cutting a triangle out of your cardstock with a 2 inch wide base. 6. Create the tail by cutting a 4 inch square out of your cardstock 7. Slide t
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Make Your Own Electric Motor

Make your own electric motor. Are you interested in making your own electric motor? If yes, then you have landed at the right place! Where could you find an electric motor in your home? There are electric motors in refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, hair driers and power drills and saws. This page shares useful info that you could use regarding electric motors plus a simple and fun Science experiment with which kids can easily create or make an electric motor themselves under the strict guidance of an adult.  An electric current flows into the motor through a wire. The wire inside an electric motor is wound into a coil that can turn round, or rotate. This coil of wire is placed between the two poles of a fixed magnet. When an electric current flows through the wire, it creates a magnetic field around the coil, with a north pole at one side and a south pole at the other. If the south pole of the coil is near the south pole of the fixed magnet, the two like
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How To Make A Vinegar Volcano! - Science Fair Projects

Things You Will Need In order to make your own vinegar volcano, you will need - A large sheet of card. A pair of scissors. Some tape. A small funnel. Small plastic bottles (2 Nos.) Vinegar Food coloring Bicarbonate of soda Washing liquid A large plate One pencil. A tablespoon One teaspoon. Step 1 Draw a shape as shown below on a large sheet of card. Be sure that the shape is big enough such that it fits around the bottle. Step 2 Cut the shape out from the large sheet of paper and bend it into a cone shape. Using the tape, you can make sure that the shape stays as it is. Step 3 Fill one of the bottles one-third with vinegar. You can use the funnel to fill the vinegar into the bottle. After that, add few drops of food coloring and one tablespoon of washing liquid. Step 4 Keep the second bottle on top of a plate. Into this, add around 3 tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda using the funnel. Set the cone shape on top
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Chemistry Investigatory Projects for Class 12 CBSE

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Kids Projects at Home

Simple Kids Crafts is a video blog dedicated to reviving the old art of handicrafts for people of all ages. How do oil spills affect aquatic plants? A Miniature Solar Panel Fire Water Balloon Make Clouds in a Bottle Secret Messages Make a Rocket Make a Hovercraft Make an Anemometer Make a Sundial Make a Radio Make an Electroscope Make a Stethoscope Make a Telescope Make a Periscope Make a Camera Bending a stream of water with a comb Lighting a bulb without electricity Simple Motor Cotton Ball Rocks? Salt-Absorbing Art and Science Color Changing Glue Art Baking Soda Clay Oil Sun Catcher Grow a Pineapple Plant! Bead Bowls Wow, what an Air-Gun Funny Diver ! Water boils without fire Ice with Boiling Water Water that boils instantly Water boils in a Paper Pot Soap-driven Boat Pulse Moves Pin Pretty Garden—without Plants Picture made by Fire Magic Pictures Dancing Doll Smoke Goes Down The Dancing Coupl The Umbrella Dance Magic Butterfly Colorful
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Make a Rocket

Rockets are fascinating!  They soar into the sky and help us know many secrets. Are you fascinated by rockets? If your answer is yes, you would be interested in this activity. The rockets that you can make safely will not go very far, perhaps much less then the rockets we enjoy on the Deepawali day. But then you will agree, the fun and excitement to make your own rocket has a totally different dimension.  The basic principle of rocketry is Newton's Third Law of Motion, that is, "For every action there is an equal an opposite reaction".  A big rocket uses chemicals to release an intense stream of gas out its tail end that propels it upwards.  A fuel is used in a rocket to produce this gas through some chemical reaction. The rocket fuel is sometimes liquid, and sometimes solid.  But, in all cases, a gas is ejected from the tail of the rocket. The first kind of rocket that we can make is propelled by a very safe gas - carbon dioxide.  The fuel it uses is
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