HowTos Index
How To Make Slime
This is a recipe for homemade slime.
How To Grow Sugar Crystals - Make Your Own Rock Candy
These are step by step instructions for growing your own sugar crystals or rock candy.
How To Make a Mentos & Diet Soda Chemical Volcano Eruption
Add mentos candies to diet soda to create an amazing chemical eruption.
How To Build a Baking Soda Volcano
How to make your own baking soda volcano.
How To Create an Endothermic Chemical Reaction (Safe)
Instructions for a safe and easy endothermic chemical reaction demonstration.
How To Make Your Own Snow Globe
Make your own snow globe using common household materials.
How To Mix Your Own Tattoo Ink
These are instructions for preparing your own tattoo ink.
How To Grow a Borax Snowflake
Grow your own sparkling clear or colored borax snowflakes.
How To Make Fake Snow
You can make fake snow using a common polymer. The fake snow is non-toxic, feels cool to the touch, and looks similar to the real thing.
How To Make Hollow Pennies
This is an easy chemistry project that uses common materials. You take a post-1982 penny, score the copper surface to expose the zinc interior, react the zinc with acid, and are left with a hollow copper penny.
How To Turn Water into Wine or Blood
Turn a clear liquid into a red liquid, then back to clear again. This demonstration is commonly called turning water into wine or blood, and can be used to demonstrate acid-base indicators.
How To Make Glow in the Dark Slime
Learn how to make slime that glows in the dark. This is an easy and fun project that is suitable for kids.
How To Make a Yeast & Hydrogen Peroxide Volcano
Here's how to make a safe and easy chemical volcano using two common, inexpensive household ingredients.
How To Perform the Mohs Test
The Mohs test is one way to determine the hardness of a rock or mineral. You can use the Mohs hardness to help identify an unknown specimen. Here's how you can do the test yourself.
How To Perform the Dancing Gummi Bear Demonstration
Place a Gummi Bear candy into a test tube containing potassium chlorate and watch it dance amidst purple flames. This stunning demonstration is an example of a strongly product-favored reaction, plus it's a lot of fun.
How To Perform the Instant Fire Chemistry Demonstration
Learn how to perform the instant fire chemistry demonstration in which potassium chlorate and sugar are reacted to produce an incredible purple flame and a lot of smoke.
How To Do Chromatography with Candy and Coffee Filters
Analyze the dyes used in candies with paper chromatography using a coffee filter, colored candies, and a salt solution.
How To Bend Water with Static Electricity
Use static electricity to bend a stream of flowing water. This is an easy science activity that illustrates how opposite electrical charges attract each other.
How To Make a Rainbow in a Glass Density Demonstration
Make a rainbow in a glass using colored sugar solutions with different densities. It's easy and safe enough to drink.
How To Grow Orange Potassium Dichromate Crystals
Do you want crystals that are naturally bright and colorful? Grow orange crystals of potassium dichromate.
How To Grow Copper Acetate Monohydrate Crystals
Grow your own blue-green monoclinic crystals of copper acetate monohydrate.
How To Grow Calcium Copper Acetate Hexahydrate Crystals
Grow blue tetragonal crystals of calcium copper acetate hexahydrate.
How To Smoking Fingers Trick
Make your fingers smoke when you rub them together and glow in the dark. All you need is a matchbox and a way to burn the striker portion.
How To Do the White Smoke Chemistry Demonstration
Learn how to perform the white smoke chemistry demonstration, in which a cloud of ammonium chloride crystals are produced from reacting ammonia and hydrochloric acid.
How To Grow a Cup of Quick Crystal Needles
Grow a cupful of epsom salt crystal needles in your refrigerator. It's quick, easy, and safe.