May 2022

Materials Required: 2 tea cups Round balloon Procedure: Place two tea cups on a table, about 5 inches apart. Place the deflated balloon between the two cups and blow air into it until the sides of the balloon are touching the sides of the tea cups. Then knot the opening of the balloon, without raising […]

Materials Required: Knife Ripe banana 1¼ litre transparent bottle,with a neck about the samewidth as the banana Newspaper Match box Procedure: Ask one of your parents to use the knife to slice a 1 ½ inch cross- section from a ripe banana (skin and all). Fold a 6-inch–long, 1-inch–wide strip of newspaper until it is

Materials Required: A plate One glass A ring Water Newspaper Match box Procedure: Pour some water into the plate and place a ring in the water. Afterwards, burn the newspaper and place it in the glass. As the flames start extinguishing, turn the glass upside down in the plate. After some time, you will see

Materials Required: Large potato Small, sensitive scale,such as a postal scale ordieter’s food scale Pen and paper Procedure: Wash and dry the potato; then place it on the scale. Note the weight and write it down. Now, set the potato in a dry place and leave it there for about three weeks. After three weeks,

Materials Required: Wire clothes-hanger Coin Procedure: In one hand, hold a wire clothes- hanger by the hook. With your other hand, pull straight down on the bottom wire at the middle. Bend the wire until the hanger has stretched lengthwise and an angle has formed. Slip this newly-formed bottomangle over your index finger and allow

Materials Required: Paper 2B or 3B pencil Transparent sticky tape
 Magnifying glass Procedure: Blacken a piece of paper with a2B or 3B soft lead pencil and then rub one of your fingers on the paper vigorously to blacken it too. If necessary, rub the pencil once again on the paper because you need a thick

Materials Required: A glass Two straws Water Procedure: Take some water or any other drink of your choice in a glass. Put two straws into it. Now, hold one of the free upper ends of the straw by your mouth and suck in air from it. This suction will mean that you are drawing out

Materials Required: Small cardboard box 2 glasses Thick cotton thread strings 8 nails Epsom salt Procedure: Remove the lid of the cardboard box and place one glass each on both sides of the box. But be sure that the box is below the level of the glasses. Take four thick thread strings of cotton. Putting

Materials Required: Empty box Scissors Balloon Rubber band Ammonium chloride(available at a drug store) Aluminium foil Tweezers Candle Procedure: Cut a hole about the size of a 50-paise coin in the bottom of an empty box. (The other end is completely open.) Slice open a large balloon so that you may have a flat rubber

Materials Required: Bath tub Water Soap Procedure: The next time you take a bath, scrub yourself clean with soap, then soak in the bath tub for at least fifteen minutes, with some bubble bath, if you like! After you have stepped out of the water and dried yourself off, check your fingertips and the bottoms

Materials Required: Onion Cutting board Knife Procedure: Set a small onion on a cutting board or plate. Ask one of your parents to slice the onion in half with a sharp knife. Hold the cut onion next to your nose and take a little sniff. You will begin to shed tears. Do you know what

Materials Required: Cardboard Pencil Scissors Book Procedure: Draw a V-shaped pattern like the one shown in the illustration on a piece of smooth, stiff cardboard. Cut it out, making sure the corners are rounded. Hold a book in your left hand, with the binding pointing upward at an angle. Place the V-shape cardboard on the

Materials Required: 2.5-litre plastic jug Knife and nail Hammer Pebbles, gravel andsand (coarse and fine) Glass jar Muddy water Procedure: Cut off the bottom of a 2.5-litre plastic jug using the knife. Then, unscrew the cap and ask one of your parents to punch a few small holes in it with the tip of a

Materials Required: 2 broomsticks Rope Procedure: Ask 2 adults to stand several feet apart and give each of them a broomstick. Tie one end of a rope to one of the broomsticks. Weave the rope back and forth between the broom sticks several times. Tell the adults to try in order to pull the broomsticks

Materials Required: 10 sheets of typing paper Rubber band A book Mirror Procedure: Roll the 10 sheets of typing paper into a hollow tube. Slip a rubber band over the roll to hold it in place. Hold the paper tube against some words on the page of a book and look into the tube. Your