At home activities

Build and test vortex cannons out of household materials.

Balloons, bottles and an exciting reaction – blow up a balloon without using a single breath!

Create lightning art through the powers of gravity and surface tension.

Create an electric current with currency!

Discover how some of our foods and drinks are produced.

Get up to speed with inertia by making this simple accelerometer!

Grab a friend and make your own liquid fireworks with this simple and safe alternative.

What starts out as a cascade of well-mixed granular materials sorts itself into alternating layers of salt and sand.

Make a portable cloud in a bottle: Now you see it, now you don’t!

Put de-shelled eggs in different fluids and watch them swell and shrink.

Watch tiny blue, green, and white moulds grow on leftover food.

Discover the secret colours in a black marker!

Build, test and improve paper airplanes.

How can you help stop salt from destroying farmland? Learn about salinity and water tables in this simple desktop experiment!

Experiment with different structures to determine which ones can handle the biggest load.

Develop a pill coating that can withstand the acidic environment found in the stomach.

Find out what determines how quickly objects fall.

Review the electrical appliances used at home.

Create mobiles to explore the application of engineering principles.

Computer science activities without a computer.

Design a bungee ride for Barbie.

Learn about properties of rotation.

Enjoyable activities, designed by teaching professionals for families to do at home with their children.

Review the electrical appliances used at home.

Once you pop, we’ll show you how to stop. Who will win in the battle between air, water and fire – and balloons?

Have you ever heard that oil and water don’t mix? Turn enemies into friends in this colourful experiment.