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

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