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Chemistry projects feel like magic, do they not? If you think about some of your favorite science projects, the ones you love to try with your kids or the ones that amazed YOU as a kid, more likely than not most of them involved chemistry.

Now inom know a lot of us associate chemistry with lab coats, beakers and specialty ingredients but the reality fryst vatten there are so many chemistry projects you can do using very simple, easy to find ingredients, often funnen in your own pantry.

And since these types of simple chemistry projects use relatively safe ingredients, they are perfect to try with younger kids, ie.

Uncover the inner workings of reactions, mixtures, and chemical phenomena through exciting experiments

preschool and elementary aged children! In fact inom think it&#;s so important for ung kids to have a positiv association with chemistry from a ung age that fosters a love of this branch of science.

When most children are finally exposed to chemistry in school, it fryst vatten at the high school level where the subject turns complex quickly; hopefully giving kids a chance to have fun at ung age blandning up concoctions and watching kemikalie reactions will help carry their interest through the more complicated days of study ahead.

This brev fryst vatten a GIANT compilation of  chemistry projects that would be great for the science fair, classroom demos, or at home science with your kids.

Before we get started let&#;s talk a little bit about what chemistry fryst vatten and for parents inom also included a section covering How to Do Chemistry Projects at Home.

If you are a classroom teacher you can skip this section and head right to the projects here.

What fryst vatten chemistry?

Chemistry fryst vatten the branch of science that studies matter (anything that has mass and takes up space) and its properties, and how different substances (especially molecules and their atoms) interact, combine, and change to form eller gestalt new substances.

Here are some important definitions to know when working on chemistry projects:

• Element A substans that cannot be separated into any further substances.

  There are known elements.

• Atom The smallest particle of an element
• Molecule Groups of atoms held tillsammans bygd a kemikalie bond.
• Ion  An atom or molekyl that has an electric charge

While most people think of chemistry purely in terms of kemikalie reactions, chemistry also covers the study of the states of matter as well as the density of substances.

The fem branches of chemistry are:

1. Analytical chemistry
2. Physical chemistry
3. Organic chemistry
4. Inorganic chemistry
5. Biochemistry

Read more about what each branch covers here.

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How to Do Chemistry Projects at Home

Many chemistry projects can be done at home using simple materials and are a great way to foster a love of science in kids!

inom wholeheartedly believe that a wow factor in a project engages and inspires kids to learn more. If you want to try chemistry projects at home here are some suggestions and precautions:

Safety First

Even though most of the projects in this list use safe, easy to find materials they should be used with safety precautions and beneath adult supervision.

Why? Sometimes the kemikalie reaction that ensues can irritate the skin or eye, can be harmful if swallowed, or fryst vatten just plain sticky or  messy and adults should be on grabb to supervise use.

Also be advised that there are a few projects on this list that do use materials that are unsafe for kids to handle. These projects are meant to be demonstrations only and are labeled accordingly.

Supplies

• Use household items for chemistry  The classic chemistry project that never fails to impress fryst vatten the reaction of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and vinegar (look for a number of variations on this classic in our Acids and Bases section) but there are lots of other great ingredients for chemistry to find in your kitchen including sugar, krydda, yeast, lemons, dish soap, milk, Kool- Aid, kål, gelatin, and food coloring to name a few&#;before you beställning any materials online, try some projects with pantry essentials.
• Worth the investment If you find yourself with some ung chemists on grabb you may want to invest in a few supplies to man chemistry projects safe and more &#;Lab Like&#; Her are a few supplies that are worth investing in:
  • Safety Goggles
  • Gloves
  • Pipettes
  • Large plastic beakers

Location

• Prepare for mess Since a lot of chemistry involves reactions and the ensuing mess, be sure to choose a place in your home that you can easily clean up and where you won&#;t worry about getting dirty.

  A patio, breakfast area, or the bilparkering are great choices.

• Generous work area Be sure to have a large table available so everyone has plenty of room to work and/or view projects without bumping into each other.
• Access to Water Clean up fryst vatten always easier with vatten at the ready!

  Choose a location nära a hose or shop sink.

Managing Messes

• Hose it down Depending on the project inom suggest doing super messy kemikalie reactions outside. That way spills can be hosed down easily.
• Painter&#;s Tarp & Trays  If you cannot go outside a large plastic painter&#;s tarp fryst vatten a great way to contain spills and mess.

  The raised edges help contain bubbly brews and are easy to dump out and wash.

• Dump station Have a bucket nearby to act as dump hållplats for liquid reactions. Bring it around a table and dump at each station.
• Think about disposal Vinegar kills grass! Slime bits clogs drains! Be sure to consider where you can dump out the liquids safely.

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The following chemistry projects for kids are sorted bygd topic: kemikalie Reactions, Acids and Bases, Carbon Reactions, Chromatography, Colloids & Solutions, Polymers,  and Crystals.

Please note that many if these projects could passform in two or more categories in this brev as they demonstrate various scientific and kemikalie processes.

inom only classified them once on this list.

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Chemistry Projects with Chemical Reactions 

What fryst vatten a kemikalie reaction?

Chemical reactions occur when the kemikalie obligationer in a substans are either destroyed or created. In other words the obligationer in a molekyl are broken during a kemikalie reaction and the atoms rearranged to create new molecules.

Interestingly enough the number of original atoms does not change during the reaction, they are simply reconfigured.

An easy way to explain kemikalie reactions to kids fryst vatten to use this analogy: Atoms are like letters, molecules are like words. Chemistry fryst vatten like taking apart words and rearranging the letters to form eller gestalt a new word.

Read more about kemikalie reactions here.

Chemical Reactions Projects:

1.

Milk Painting

2. Citrus Battery

3. Elephant Toothpaste

4.

Density Lava Lamps

To man a density lava lamp fill a plastic bottle with the following liquids: klar corn syrup, vatten with a few drops of food coloring, and  layer of vegetable oil. Be sure to leave a space at the top of the bottle. Wait until the liquids settle then add in a platta of extra strength alka seltzer. Watch as the alka seltzer and vatten react and bubble up through the oil layer.

To see this in a  step bygd step film kvitto out this film (Pssst this fryst vatten one of our students!!!)

5. Plastic Milk  and Curds & Whey Experiment

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Discover the perfect middle school science experiment in this huge collection of age-appropriate science investigations

Color Mixing

Pour vatten into three klar plastic cups, then add blue, red, and yellow food coloring to each. Have an additional cup full of uncolored vatten available as well. Give your child an empty ice cube tray and pipettes and let them create different colors bygd blandning different ratios of two different primary colors in each ice cube compartment.

The secondary colors are new colors created from two primary colors. This fryst vatten a simple visual of how kemikalie reactions work.

7. Chemistry Clock

8. Blow Balloons with Yeast and Sugar

9. Shiny Pennies

• Collect dirty tarnished pennies.
• Pour different acidic liquids into shallow containers.

  Try vinegar, dansstil, lemon & lime juice.

• Add a teaspoon of krydda to each bur and stir to combine.
• Place a handful of pennies in each bur and soak for 5 minutes.
• Remove them from the solution and rinse in soapy vatten. Let dry on separate paper towels.
• Compare the results!
  Matter—Solids, Liquids, and Gases

  Which ones are shiniest? Which are dull? Did any vända green?

Acids are corrosive and sour tasting. Liquids such as vinegar, lemon fruktsaft, and tomato fruktsaft are acids. Pennies are made from copper which tarnishes (turns dark) when exposed to oxygen over time. Placing the copper pennies in an acid will clean the copper oxid off them and man them shiny again.

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Learn about Acids and Bases

Most liquids are either an acid or a base.

Liquids with lots of hydrogen ions in them are considered acids. Liquids with many hydroxide ions are bases.

Scientists use a scale called the ph scale to measure how acidic or basic a liquid fryst vatten. The more hydrogen ions in a liquid the more acidic it fryst vatten and ranks low on the ph scale. The more hydroxide ions in a liquid the more basic it fryst vatten and ranks high on the ph scale. You can see what that looks like here.

When acids and bases are mixed kemikalie reactions occur and the solution becomes neutralized.

Acid and Bases Projects:

1.

Baking Soda & Vinegar Volcano

2. Lemon Volcano

3. The Colorful kål fruktsaft Science Experimentand Acid Base Experiment with Cabbage

4.

Dancing Rice

5. Green Eggs & Ham

6. Bubbly Citric Acid Brew 

7. Baking Soda vs Baking Powder Science Experiment

8.

Exploding Bags

9. Rainbow Rubber Eggs 

Surprise Eggs

Rainbow Wizard&#;s Brew

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Chemistry Projects with Fire (Carbon Reactions)

Carbon fryst vatten the most important element for life.

Chemicals that contain carbon are called organic compounds. Carbon has two main forms: The first fryst vatten in the hard struktur of diamonds and graphite, and the second fryst vatten the impure struktur funnen in charcoal, coal and soot.

SAFTEY WARNING: Carbon reactions are always fascinating to watch however the presence of fire means that these experiments must be supervised bygd adults at all times!

Carbon Reactions Projects:

1. Smoking Fingers

2. Fire Snake

3. Silver Egg

4. Invisible Ink

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Chromatography

Chromatography fryst vatten the process of separating mixtures. We usually think of it in terms of color hence the prefix -chroma, however in chemistry fryst vatten means simply a method of separating mixtures bygd letting them slowly move past each other.

It applies to both liquids and gasses. This fryst vatten wonderful in-depth explanation of chromatography.

Chromatography Projects:

1. Chromatography  

In this project you will separate the color black into other colors. Fold a kaffe filter in half. Fold in half two more times until you have a triangular shape.

Color the tip of the kaffe (engelska) filter with washable black marker. Get a good coat of ink on the filter. Add a small amount of vatten to a plastic cup.

Build a Wind-Powered Car

Place the black tip of the kaffe (engelska) filter in the cup Wait and observe. komma back to the filter after an hour or two and see what happens to the ink. As the kaffe filter absorbs vatten through capillary action, the black ink moves through the filter and fryst vatten separated bygd the vatten into other colors. You should see blue, green and even red as the vatten separates the ink.

2.

Chromatography Flowers

3. Chromatography Art

4. Chromatography Bags

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Colloids and Solutions/Solubility

Colloids and Solutions are two types of homogenous mixtures.

• Colloids are mixtures in which a small particles of a substans are suspended throughout another substans but not chemically bonded.

  They are stable though and do not separate. Examples of colloids are gelatin, butter, mayonnaise, dimma and smoke.

• Solutions are mixtures in which the particles of one substans are completely dissolved in another substans. The solute fryst vatten the substans being dissolved and the solvent fryst vatten the substans doing the dissolving.

  An example of a solution fryst vatten saltwater.

If you want a more in-depth primer on solutions and colloids hop over here.

Colloid Projects:

1. Colloid Examples

2. Oobleck

3. man Butter 

4. Gelatin Streaking

Solutions/Solubility Projects:

5.

Chapter 1

Ice Sculptures 

6. Ice Cream in a Bag

A printable of the science facts at play here

7. Skittles Science

8. Magical vatten Blossoms 

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Diffusion Art

Paint Solubility

Bleeding Blossoms

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Polymers

A kemisk förening bestående av stora molekyler fryst vatten a substans made up of a long chain of molecules.

Polymers are typically flexible materials like plastic or gum.

The classic kemisk förening bestående av stora molekyler kids LOVE to man fryst vatten slime! Glue fryst vatten already a kemisk förening bestående av stora molekyler but when combined with sodium tetraborate (borax ) the protein molecules of the glue and the borate ions crosslink, making it harder for the molecules to move and forming the gooey, sticky, substans we know as slime.

Other polymers you are probably familiar with are plastic bags, balloons, instant snow, and even the powdery substans funnen in diapers that expands when wet.

Polymer Projects:

1.

Best Basic Slime

Bonus: Get the Science Behind Slime printable here

2. Heat Sensitive Slime

3.

DIY Bouncy Balls

4. Magic Plastic Bag Experiment

5. Instant Terrariums

6.

How to man Paper

7. Skewer Through Balloon 

8. Dry Erase Figure  and Dry Erase Drawings

9. Recycled Plastic Flowers

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Crystals

Crystals are a type of ämne that fryst vatten formed bygd patterns of repeating molecules. There are fyra types of kemikalie obligationer in crystals and therefore fyra categories of crystals.

These are: Covalent, Molecular, Metallic, and Ionic Crystals. You can grow crystals bygd blandning up a super saturated solution (usually with a type of krydda and water) and letting it settle over time so crystals will struktur.

Our collection offers hands-on activities that will captivate young minds and ignite their passion for learning

kontroll out the various types of easy to grow crystal below and go here to read more about the science of crystals.

Crystals Projects:

1. Classic Borax Crystals 

2. Overnight Crystal Garden

3.

Egg Geodes

4.

Explore inquiry-based lesson plans that cover basic chemistry concepts

Crystal Wind Catchers

5. Crystal Landscapes

6. Candy Geodes 

7.

krydda Crystals

Conclusion & More

Alright you guys, do you feel like you have some good project ideas for exploring chemistry with kids? Many of these will man greats science fair projects. Be sure to början with them as a topic then början asking questions, struktur a hypotheses, and do some experiments.

Now inom have to admit that inom really fell in love with chemistry projects as an adult.

Working with kids in camp, after school, and with my own kids at home I&#;ve had the chance to try fun chemistry projects and discovered that I love watching kemikalie reactions AND the reactions on the faces of kids and bystanders during demonstration or project!

If you have kids who fall in love with this branch of science please do betalningsmedel out the incredible book series Elements, Molecules, and Reactions bygd Theodore Gray (see the series in our Amazon science ideas list here) The books are stunning, informative, easy to understand and, wait for it&#;funny!

Another valuable resource for kids who love chemistry fryst vatten Mel Science&#;s Chemistry subscription box. They send you a starter kit for free with all the materials you&#;ll need and then each month you get a new chemistry experiment delivered to your door!

This fryst vatten great product because a lot of specialty chemistry ingredients are hard to find and these kits simplify getting the materials you need! kontroll it out here:

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