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Colour in Felt-Tip Pens: Science Experiment

The egg shell will become porous and rubbery after soaking in vinegar for 3-5 days. This is because the acetic acid in the vinegar dissolves part of the calcium carbonate in the shell, changing its structure. When rinsed and dried, the treated egg can be bounced like a ball. The experiment demonstrates how chemical reactions can alter physical properties.

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Colour in Felt-Tip Pens: Science Experiment

The egg shell will become porous and rubbery after soaking in vinegar for 3-5 days. This is because the acetic acid in the vinegar dissolves part of the calcium carbonate in the shell, changing its structure. When rinsed and dried, the treated egg can be bounced like a ball. The experiment demonstrates how chemical reactions can alter physical properties.

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Colour in Felt-Tip Pens

Science Experiment

Method
1. Cut 5 strips of coffee filter paper. You will need:
5 different coloured
2. Put a dot of felt-tip pen, about 4cm felt-tip pens
up from the bottom of the filter
paper. Use a new strip of filter Glass jar
paper for each of the colours. Coffee filter paper
3. Pour a small amount of water into
the jar (approximately 3cm deep).
4. Place the end with the dot on
it into the jar so that it is just
touching the water. Do not let the
coloured dot touch the water.
5. Leave for a couple of minutes and
then check. You should see colour
starting to spread up the filter paper.
6. After 10 minutes, the water will have
moved up the filter papers and left areas
of different colours along the paper.
Colour Spinners
Science Experiment

Method
1. Using the sharp pencil and sticky tack, You will need:
make 2 holes near the centre of the disc. Newton’s Disc – printed
onto card
2. Thread the string through the holes
and arrange it so that the disc String 50cm-60cm in
is half way down the string. length

3. Tie the ends of the string together. Sharp pencil

4. Hold the sting at each end, putting Sticky tack


your finger inside the loop. Loop
the disc over the string several
times to make the string twisted.
5. Pull your hands apart slightly
and the disc will spin.
6. Use a ‘yo-yo’ action of making the string
tight and slack to keep the disc spinning.
7. After an adult has demonstrated
the spinner, allow the
children to have a turn.
Red Cabbage Indicator
Science Experiment

Method
1. Chop the red cabbage into small pieces. You will need:
2. Place it in the glass bowl and Red Cabbage
cover it with boiling water. Knife
3. Leave the cabbage to soften in Boiling Water
the water until the water has
Glass Bowl
become dark purple in colour.
Sieve or coffee filter paper
4. Strain the water through
and funnel
the sieve or filter paper.
Dropper or syringe
5. Add a few drops of the cabbage
water to each of the glass jars 3 small clear jars or
and observe the changes. glasses containing a
small amount of:
1. lemon juice
2. water
3. bicarbonate of soda

The cabbage indicator should change to a pink or red colour in the lemon juice.
It should change to green or yellow in the bicarbonate of soda mixture and
remain a purple/blue colour in the water.
Lemon Juice Dropping
Science Experiment

Method
1. Pour bicarbonate of soda onto a plate, You will need:
add a drop of water at a time until Lemon juice
it forms a dough-like consistency. 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Squash it into a pancake shape.
1 tsp flour
2. Pour flour onto a plate, add a
Water
drop of water at a time until it
forms a dough-like consistency. Plastic pipette
Squash it into a pancake shape. 2 plates
3. Using the pipette, drip lemon juice onto 1 small bowl
the two types of pancakes, then watch
as the bicarbonate of soda pancake
fizzes but the flour pancake does not.
4. Talk about the different reactions the
lemon juice makes when it hits the
bicarbonate of soda and the flour.
Moulding Milk
Science Experiment

Method
Adult Demonstration You will need:
Milk
1. Heat 250ml of milk on the hob until it
is the temperature you would use for Saucepan
hot chocolate (hot but not boiling). Jug
2. Add 2 tablespoons of vinegar to the bowl. Ceramic or Pyrex bowl
3. Carefully pour the hot milk into to the Tablespoon
bowl and gently stir. The vinegar will
White vinegar
make the milk turn into curds and whey.
2 tea towels
4. Place the tea towel on the plate and
using the tablespoon, scoop out Plate
as much of the curds as you can. Spoon
Place the curds on the tea towel.
Cooker hob
5. Squeeze out the excess whey
from the tea towel. Playdough tools (optional)

Child Participation
6. Allow the curds to cool a little, then
kneed them until they feel like a dough.
7. You can model and mould the
‘dough’ into your desired shapes.
8. Leave the shapes to dry for 2-3 days
on a clean tea towel and plate.
Message on a Banana
Science Experiment

Method
1. Use the cocktail stick to mark a pattern, You will need:
draw a picture, or write a message Banana
on the banana skin. Press firmly Cocktail stick
enough to dent the skin, but not too
hard to break through the skin.
2. Wait for the message, picture,
or pattern to appear.

Message on a Banana
Science Experiment

Method
1. Use the cocktail stick to mark a pattern, You will need:
draw a picture, or write a message Banana
on the banana skin. Press firmly Cocktail stick
enough to dent the skin, but not too
hard to break through the skin.
2. Wait for the message, picture,
or pattern to appear.
Regrowing Vegetables
Science Experiment

Method
1. Carrot - Place the top cut-off end of a carrot in You will need:
a shallow bowl of water. The green leaves will Water
shoot from the top. Keep inside and place in a
Bowls
sunny spot.
Carrot
2. Celery - Cut off the bottom 8cm of the stalk
and place in a small bowl of water. After 3 or Celery
4 days it will start to grow from the centre of
Romaine lettuce
the celery. Keep inside and place in a sunny
spot. Spring onion
3. Lettuce - Cut off the bottom of the head of
lettuce and place it in a small bowl of water.
It will start to regrow in around 3 days. Keep
inside and place in a sunny spot.
4. Spring Onion - Use the white part of the onion,
with any roots still intact. Place in a glass with
water and it will start to grow. Keep inside
and place in a sunny spot.
Bouncy Egg
Science Experiment

Method
1. Place the boiled egg in the bowl. You will need:
One boiled egg
2. If you would like the finished egg
to be coloured, add a few drops of White vinegar
food colouring to the vinegar. Food colouring (optional)
3. Cover the boiled egg with vinegar Bowl
and cover the bowl with cling film.
Cling film
4. Leave for 3-5 days.
5. After 3 days, remove the egg from
the bowl and rinse the shell off the
egg under a gently running tap.

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