20 Science Experiments For Kids – Zero Mom Effort Required
Looking for fun yet simple science experiments for kids? Here are 20 that require few ingredients and next to zero effort
Let’s chat about science experiments for kids.
If you are looking for the very best, most simple and fun science experiments for kids, guess what? You have come to the right place!
Here you will find 20 of the simplest science experiments for kids with instructions that are easy for kids to follow on their own.
These science experiments also require little to zero assistance by moms (unless of course you personally feel that your child requires that extra supervision – read the instructions and I’ll leave that to your best judgement!)
The great things about these science experiments for kids is that they won’t leave your house looking like a disaster zone or your kids looking frazzled like this:
THE 20 SIMPLE KIDS EXPERIMENTS YOU WILL FIND IN THIS POST:
EXPERIMENT 1 – > Let’s Cook Ice-cream In The Oven!
EXPERIMENT 2 – > Let’s Make Raisins Dance In Water!
EXPERIMENT 3 – > Let’s Make An Ocean In A Bottle!
EXPERIMENT 4 – > Let’s Make Some Green Slime!
EXPERIMENT 5 – > Let’s Watch Steel Rust!
EXPERIMENT 6 – > Let’s Make Some Play Dough!
EXPERIMENT 7 – > Let’s Make An Egg Float!
EXPERIMENT 8 – > Let’s Make An Eggshell Go Soft!
EXPERIMENT 9 – > Let’s Make Milk Turn Plastic!
EXPERIMENT 10 – > Let’s Clean Dirty Coins!
EXPERIMENT 11 – > Let’s Turn Gas Into Liquid!
EXPERIMENT 12 – > Let’s Magically Pick Up An Ice Cube!
EXPERIMENT 13 – > Let’s Write A Secret Message!
EXPERIMENT 14 – > Let’s Magically Melt An Ice Cube!
EXPERIMENT 15 – > Let’s Make Some Static!
EXPERIMENT 16 – > Let’s Make Some Music!
EXPERIMENT 17 – > Let’s Make A Salty Picture!
EXPERIMENT 18 – > Let’s Make Some Quick Ice-Cream!
EXPERIMENT 19 – > Let’s Make Some Sandpaper!
EXPERIMENT 20 – > Let’s Move Something Without Touching It!
Without further ado, here are 20 super simple science experiments for kids:
SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS FOR KIDS
EXPERIMENT #1 – Let’s Cook Ice-cream In The Oven!
What You Will Need:
- 3 Large Eggs
- Sugar
- Big cookie
- Ice-cream
- Tray
- Foil
- Squeeze Bottle
The Steps To Take
1 – Have an adult turn on your oven to 500 F or 260 C degrees.
2 – In a bowl beat 3 egg whites with ½ cup sugar until they have stiff peaks.
3 – Place a layer of foil on the baking tray.
4 – Next place your big cookie on your baking tray and add a scoop of ice-cream on top.
5 – Paint the egg-white mixture all over the ice-cream.
6 – Cook in oven for five minutes and remove when egg-white is slightly brown. Your ice-cream should still be frozen!
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EXPERIMENT #2 – Let’s Make Raisins Dance In Water!
What You Will Need:
- 10 Raisins or Sultanas
- 1 Liter Soda Water
- Plastic container
The Steps To Take
1 – Pour soda water into a plastic container.
2 – Gently add the raisins to the water, one at a time.
3 – Watch what the raisins do over and over again – float to the surface and dive back down again.
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EXPERIMENT #3 – Let’s Make An Ocean In A Bottle!
What You Will Need:
- Large long bottle
- Water
- Cooking oil
- Blue food colouring
The Steps To Take
1 – Fill your bottle 1/3 full with water..
2 – Add blue food colouring to the water and mix.
3 – Fill the rest of the bottle with cooking oil.
4 – Screw on the lid.
5 – Now tip your bottle side to side and watch your ocean waves come to life
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EXPERIMENT #4 – Let’s Make Some Green Slime!
What You Will Need:
- White PVA glue
- Borax Powder
- Green Food Colouring
- Some Water
- 2 Glass Mixing Bowls
The Steps To Take
1 – In a bowl, mix together ½ cup of glue with ½ cup of cold water and a few drops of green food colouring.
2 – In a separate container, pour in ½ cup of hot water. Next stir in and dissolve one to five tablespoons of borax powder
Note: more borax = thicker slime. Less borax = thinner slime.
3 – Pour the borax solution into the glue mixture. Keep stirring and you will see the slime slowly forming.
4 – Pour out any extra water (that the slime didn’t absorb) and knead the slime with your fingers.
5 – Store slime in an airtight container.
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EXPERIMENT #5 – Let’s Watch Steel Rust!
What You Will Need:
- Steel Wool
- Glass Jar
- Vinegar
- Bleach
The Steps To Take
1 – Place the steel wool (the kind your parents might use to scrub pots and pans) into a jar and cover it with water.
2 – Pour in a quick splash of vinegar and a splash of bleach.
3 – Go and do something fun for a few hours and then come back and see how the steel wool has gone rusty!
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EXPERIMENT #6 – Let’s Make Some Play Dough!
What You Will Need:
- Plain Flour
- Cream Of Tartar
- Salt
- Vegetable Oil
- Food Colouring
- Water
- Glycerine
The Steps To Take
1 – In a bowl, mix together 2 cups of plain flour, with ½ cup of salt, 2 tablespoons of cream of tartar and 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
2 – Next add a few drops of food coloring to 1 ½ cups of boiling water.
3 – Add this boiling water mixture to the dry ingredients.
4 -Allow this dough to cool down and then knead until smooth. Add more flour if too sticky.
5 – Store playdough in an airtight container.
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EXPERIMENT #7 – Let’s Make An Egg Float!
What You Will Need:
- 4 glasses of water
- Fresh egg
- Sugar
- Salt
- Flour
The Steps To Take
1 – Fill each glass ¾ full with water.
2 – Stir one teaspoon of sugar into glass 1 until dissolves.
3 – Stir one teaspoon of salt into glass 2 until dissolves.
4 – Stir one teaspoon of flour into glass 3 until dissolves.
5 – Keep glass 4 plain.
6 – Check to see which glass the egg will float in!
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EXPERIMENT #8 – Let’s Make An Eggshell Go Soft!
What You Will Need:
- 1 glass
- 1 egg
- Vinegar
- Salt
- Flour
The Steps To Take
1 – Place the egg gently into the glass.
2 – Pour vinegar into the glass until the egg is completely covered.
3 – Wait 3-4 days before removing the egg from the glass. How soft does the eggshell feel?
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EXPERIMENT #9 – Let’s Make Milk Turn Plastic!
What You Will Need:
- 1 glass full-cream milk
- Vinegar
- Salt
- Flour
The Steps To Take
1 – Microwave the milk for one minute.
2 – Slowly add a teaspoon of vinegar at a time into the warm milk while stirring.
3 – Once the mixture isn’t too warm, slowly pour the milk onto your hand (over a bowl). Did you feel the “plastic”?
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EXPERIMENT #10 – Let’s Clean Dirty Coins!
What You Will Need:
- 1 glass of cola
- Dirty coins
The Steps To Take
1 – Fill a glass with cola and drop some dirty coins into it.
2 – Check the coins in two day. How do they look different now?
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EXPERIMENT #11 – Let’s Turn Gas Into Liquid!
What You Will Need:
- Glass jar with lid
- Salt
- Ice cubes
- Tissue
The Steps To Take
1 – Fill a jar with ice cubes.
2 – Add two tablespoons of salt inside.
3 – Close the lid and shake the jar.
4 – Slowly watch the water droplets appear on the outside of the jar.
5 – You can wrap the tissue around the jar. See how wet it gets.
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EXPERIMENT #12 – Let’s Magically Pick Up An Ice Cube!
What You Will Need:
- Glass of water
- Salt
- Ice cube
- Piece of string
The Steps To Take
1 – Place an ice cube in a glass of water.
2 – Place a string across the floating ice cube.
3 – Sprinkle some salt onto the string where the ice cube floats.
4 – Wait one minute and try to lift the ice cube out of the glass by holding both corners of the string.
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EXPERIMENT #13 – Let’s Write A Secret Message!
What You Will Need:
- Lemon Juice
- Sheet of writing paper
- Cotton bud
- Iron
The Steps To Take
1 – Using a cotton bud dipped in lemon juice, write a message on the piece of paper.
2 – Wait a few minutes for the message to dry and disappear.
3 – With help, iron over the dry paper. Can you see your secret message?
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EXPERIMENT #14 – Let’s Magically Melt An Ice Cube!
What You Will Need:
- Salt
- Ice cubes
- Two bowls
The Steps To Take
1 – Place an ice cube in each bowl.
2 – Sprinkle one teaspoon of salt onto one icecube.
3- Now watch the ice cube melt. Which one melted quicker?
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EXPERIMENT #15 – Let’s Make Some Static!
What You Will Need:
- Balloon
- Woolly Jumper
- Paper
- Running Tap
The Steps To Take
1 – Tear your sheet of paper into tiny squares.
2 – Next rub your balloon on your jumper.
3 – Place the balloon against the wall. What happens now?
4 – Place the balloon under running water. What happens now?
5 – Place the balloon over the little pieces of paper. What happens now?
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EXPERIMENT #16 – Let’s Make Some Music!
What You Will Need:
- 5 Glasses
- Water
- Fork
The Steps To Take
1 – Put the glasses in a row.
2 – Add water to the glass.
3 – Fill first bottle ¼ full with water.
4 – Fill second bottle ½ full with water.
5 – Fill third bottle ¾ full with water.
6 – Fill fourth bottle to the top with water.
7 – Keep fifth bottle empty.
8 – Now use the fork to tap the glasses and make some music. What’s the difference in sound between the glasses?
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EXPERIMENT #17 – Let’s Make A Salty Puffy Picture!
What You Will Need:
- Salt
- Flour
- Water
- Food Colouring
- Paper
- Paintbrush
- Squeeze Bottle(s)
The Steps To Take
1 – Mix EQUAL PARTS of salt, flour and water together with a few drops of food colouring to make a paint mixture.
2 – If you want to paint with more than one color, add the food coloring after you have separated the paint mixture into different bowls.
3 – Add this paint to the squeeze bottle(s).
4 – Use the squeeze bottle to paint an amazing puffy picture.
5 – Allow a one day for the picture to dry. What sort of impact did adding salt to the final paint texture make?
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EXPERIMENT #18 – Let’s Make Some Quick Ice-Cream!
What You Will Need:
- Full Cream Milk
- Sugar
- Vanilla Essence
- Small Zip-Lock Bag
- Large Zip-Lock Bag
- Crushed Ice
- Salt
The Steps To Take
1 – Mix ½ cup milk, 1 tablespoon sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla essence together in the small zip-lock bag, seal and shake it.
2 – Mix 2 cups crushed ice together with 5 tablespoons of salt in the bigger zip-lock bag.
3 – Empty the little bag into the larger zip-lock bag and squeeze them together for 10 minutes.
4 – Enjoy your ice-cream!
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EXPERIMENT #19 – Let’s Make Some Sandpaper!
What You Will Need:
- Thick paper
- Sand
- Glue
- Paintbrush
The Steps To Take
1 – Lightly paint your paper with glue.
2 – Cover your sheet of paper with sand.
3 – Leave the glue to dry. Once done, you have made real sandpaper you can use to sand things down with.
4 – Empty the little bag into the larger zip-lock bag and squeeze them together for 10 minutes.
5 – Enjoy your ice-cream!
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EXPERIMENT #20 – Let’s Move Something Without Touching It!
What You Will Need:
- Large Tub or Bowl Of Water
- Small soap
- Plastic bread-bag tie
- Dishwashing liquid
The Steps To Take
1 – Put your plastic bread-bag tie into the bowl or tub filled with water. This is your little boat you will be moving.
2 – Gently add a few drops of dishwashing liquid into the V shape of your bread-bag tie.
3 – Watch your little boat glide across the water.
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