76 Amazing Science Games and Experiments

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

Materials Required: 2 jars Water Box (2-feet high) Flexible tube (rubber or plastic) Procedure: Fill up one jar completely with water and set it on top of the box. Place the empty jar on the ground beneath the full jar. Cut a piece of rubber or plastic tube long enough to reach between the two

Material Required: One-metre longwooden stick Procedure: You stand by keeping your hands at least 60 cm away from each other. After that ask your friend to place the stick onto your hands as shown in the picture that one end of the stick slightly enters from your hand and other end should be outer from

Materials Required: A glass of water Food colour (blue) Fresh stems with leaves Procedure: Make dark-coloured water by mixing blue food colour into the water. Now, put the stems with leaves in water undisturbed for sometime. After sometime you will notice that the coloured lines are moving in the stems of the leaves. This is

Materials Required: Candle Match box Cotton cloth One coin One pencil Procedure: Take a coin and tightly cover around it a piece of cloth as shown in the illustration. Now, light the candle and heat the blunt point of a pencil by putting it on the flame of a candle. Then, place the inflamed tip

Materials Required: 2 pieces of an antacid tablets Empty plastic bottle, suchas a 6-inch-tall shampoobottle Water Big bowl Procedure: Break apart an antacid tablet into two pieces and put the pieces in the plastic bottle. Now fill up the bottle about ¼ full with water. Let the bottle rest on its side in a big

Materials Required: Newspaper Scissors 2 drinking glasses and water Dishwashing liquid Spoon Procedure: Cut two paper dolls from a newspaper. The size of the figures should be small enough to fit easily into the glasses. Now, fill up two drinking glasses with tap water. Place several drops of dishwashing liquid into one of the glasses

Materials Required: 2 identical flowerpots or planters House plant soil 20 bean seeds Water and bright window Procedure: Fill the 2 planters with house plant soil and place 10 bean seeds in each. Cover the seeds with some more soil and then water thoroughly. Label the planters ‘A’ and ‘B’ and place both near a

Materials Required: An old nylon stocking Polythene bag Procedure: Hold the toe of the nylon stocking against the wall with one hand, and with the other hand rub over it with the polythene bag. After about five or ten strokes, pull the stocking from the wall and hold it in the air. The stocking quickly

Material Required: Chair Procedure: Ask a friend to relax in a chair. He should fold his arms and stretch his feet as far forward as possible. Tell him to lean far back so that his head may face upward. Now press a fingertip onto his forehead and challenge him to get up from the chair

Materials Required: Funnel Big glass bowl Water Procedure: Set a funnel, small side up, on a counter top; then set a big glass bowl next to it. Notice how high the tip of the funnel extends. Fill up the glass bowl with water to a level just below this point. Hold the funnel between your