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Kids Try This At Home: As everyone knows, science is more fun if you get to do something! So explore the archive, print out your favourites, and try them at home.

One of the best paper airplane designs! Also, design your own.	Build a telegraph so you can transmit secret messages.	See what a tornado's vortex looks like.	Create your own Audrey.
Build your own "helicopter".	Investigate how red blood cells are able to move through tiny capillaries.	Separate pen ink into its component colours.	Make your own yogurt with this overnight project.
A flying device with circular wings.	Crystals aren't alive, but they can grow. Try growing some.	Make a hand using cardboard, elastics, and string which simulates a robotic hand.	Find out how Newton’s third law helps take us to the Moon and beyond.
A newspaper dome that you can fit inside.	Grow some crystals using materials almost everyone has at home.	See what it would be like to build a real robot from a kit.	How strong can you make your cantilever?
Make a giant tower using only spaghetti and marshmallows.	These crystals have a different shape than the Salt & Vinegar ones.	Use simple household materials to simulate lava flow.	This eggs-selent and easy experiment demonstrates Newton’s first law.
See how much weight you can get your toothpick bridge to hold.	Learn HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and make your own web page.	Use simple household materials to launch a rocket (a film canister) sky high.	Make miniature lightning bolts.
Cook up a storm with this chemical pie!	Try making your own low-tech dome out of gumdrops.	You can build a stereoscope from a cardboard box and some pieces of mirror.

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