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Search through our archive of experiments for science that you can do in your classroom or in your home. The below DIY experiments feature step-by-step instructions and use everyday household items.

A Featured DIY Experiment for the Home Scientist in Every Field

Alka-Seltzer Fireworks

Experiment with colorful 'fireworks' at home!

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Alka-Seltzer Fireworks Baggie Blast Bouncy Balls Bubbling Cauldron Dough Burning Money
Calculating Biodiversity Caramel Chemistry Chameleon Jelly Coin Cleaning Chemistry Colorful Chem-eggstry
Conifer Conundrum DIY Adhesive Artistamps Dough-it-yourself Play Dough Faux Fossil Fizzy Sidewalk Paint
Fruity DNA Hagfish Slime Holy Mole-y! Homemade Hand Warmer Homemade Marshmallow Peeps
Jack-Ooze-Lantern Kitchen Chemistry Kit Make Your Own Slime Milk Plastic NationalDogDay
One Ring to Rule Them All pH Tie Dye Powdery Pollinators Reptile Round Up Salt Crystal Suncatcher
Self Watering Planter Shark Skin Simulation Shrinky Dink Charms Slimy Polar Bear Smelly Lemurs
Stomach Stones Upcycled Crayons Very Best Bubbles Water Thermometer

Butterfly Feeder

Create a feeder for your yard to attract and help these colorful insects.

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Butterfly Feeder CD Greenhouse Cereal Box Solar Viewer Clean It Up Hagfish Slime
Make Your Own Sun Prints Meteor Shower Neighborhood Solar System Northern Navigation Pie Pan Bird Feeder
Powdery Pollinators Recycled Paper Seed Cookies Seed-sicle Self-Watering Planter Shark Skin Simulation
Soda Bottle Shuttle Stomper Star Light, Star Bright? Stomach Stones Volcanic Crayons Waste Audit
Windy Weather World Oceans Day

Airy Experiment

Celebrate National Paper Plane Day by testing the aerodynamics of a paper plane!

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Airy Experiment Build a Bee Box Build a Circuit Build and Play Timbales DIY Anemometer
DIY Telegraph Helmet to Helmet Inventor's Box It's A Pop Fly Learn Binary!
LED Lightsaber Northern Navigation Paper-trooper Challenge Scribble Bots Straw Oboe
Toilet Paper Test Zeer Pot

Apple Juice Wassail

Explore the science of filtration by brewing warm apple spice wassail.

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Apple Juice Wassail Blueberry Jam Churning Butter Curds and Whey Fruity DNA
Good Gravy Homemade Cotton Candy Homemade Marshmallow Peeps Ice Cream Extravaganza In a Pickle
Kitchen Scrap Garden Pawsitive Reinforcement Puzzle Pudding Slime Salt Crystal Suncatcher Simple Sun Tea
Snow Day Soda Slushy Spud Science

Balloon Jousting

Celebrate Maryland Day by playing a version of the state’s official sport!

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Balloon Jousting Balloon Kabob Barnyard Ballooning CD Landspeeder DIY Yo-yo
Juggling Making Waves Oh Buoy! Buoyancy! Paper Fireworks Pencil Power
Physics on the Playground Slippery Science Soda Bottle Shuttle Stomper Speedy Spinners The Power of Spin

Alka-Seltzer Fireworks

Experiment with colorful 'fireworks' at home!

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Alka-Seltzer Fireworks Baseball Dissection Batter Up Butterfly Feeder Candy Cane Strength Test
Dissolving Candy Canes DIY-Kazoo Fizzy Sidewalk Paint Hibernating Animals Homemade Hand Warmer
Human Sundial Jack-Ooze-Lantern Paper Fireworks Seed-sicle Simple Sun Tea
Slippery Science Snow Collage Snow Day Soda Slushy Spud Science

Achy Breaky Bones

Learn about your bones and what makes them strong.

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Achy Breaky Bones Apple Pie Dough Balloon Blaster Bubble Snakes Chromatography Roses
Climbing Critter Dough-it-yourself Play Dough Irrational Necklace Meteor Shower Pudding Slime
Self Watering Planter Sew Easy Slimy Polar Bear Straw Oboe

Very Best Bubbles

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