Backyard Science
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14:00
How to stop your newly-designed bike track being swept away in a storm; how to walk on eggshells without cracking them; making a musical instrument that will really annoy any adults within earshot.
15:00How to pin down a thief by analysing the dye in ink; make a film out of spinning cardboard; construct a rocket with an old film canister; find the secret to an old paper clip trick.
14:00Make your very own mould farm with kitchen leftovers; find out why some dinosaurs had rocks in their guts; see why a wet sock will cool you down much quicker than a dry one; a card trick to amaze your friends.
14:00Make your own meteor shower; stick pencils through a water bag without spilling a drop; find out why it's so hard to keep holding your arms up, and why sometimes they rise up of their own accord.
14:00Create your own fizzy bath bombs; discover how to keep your snowballs freezing cold; find out how to float a bunch of heavy marbles; build a jet-powered racing car, and challenge your local strongman with the power of salt.
13:00Make your own instruments for a rock band rave; goin' fishing with the power of a magnet; learn the trick to threading a needle; and find out how to balance a fork, a cork and ti-ny toothpick on the edge of a glass.
14:00Find out how to make your sled slide faster and further; fold some floating waterlilies and watch while their petals open; make your own marshmal-low catapult and scare your friends with a screeching cup.
13:00Become a brilliant optical illusionist; find out how to double your money; create crazy kitchen art using a pendulum, and use gravity to bring the biggest nuts to the top of the snack jar.
14:00Construct a super clubhouse for your caterpillars; find out why two eyes are always better than one; grate up potatoes and discover why they're chock full of energy-giving starch; and design your own groovy T-shirt.
November 2018
13:00
13:00Make your own detergent powered racing boat; discover why dog sleds travel faster over freezing ice; find out why your pupils open and close when it's dark or light, and make a tissue suck water up a flower stem.
19:00Build a simple spy telephone; blow a coin into a cup; construct a chemical powered racing craft; whip up a widget to find wax in your friend's ears, and discover why salt stops sidewalks from becoming so slippery!
13:00Construct a clever water-powered clock, make a balloon spin like a top, find out how a spoon and string can sound like a chiming bell and make an ap-plause machine from an old box and waxed thread.
13:00Concoct your own ice cream in a plastic bag, make a paperclip look like it's floating in mid air, teach your brain to perform amazing new tricks and make a megaphone that'll have your friends jumping to your every command.
13:00Build a super two-level camping shelter, concoct a face full of pus-filled boils, make your morning breakfast cereal jump up and dance, put to-gether a plastic replacement lung, and make a silver spoon stick on your nose.
13:00Blast a Stuntman across your backyard, turn flour into sugar with a wave of your wand, poke a flimsy straw into a tough old potato and show how your friends can become a slithering snake.
13:00How to make a bubble in a bubble, create a revolting-looking fake wound, whip up a whirlpool in a bottle, whip off a tablecloth without breaking a dish, and meet the fastest ice cube melter in the West!
October 2018 26:00
26:00No Bunsen burners or laboratories here, this is science for everybody, anywhere. Wherever the kids want to take it; in the garden, in the kitchen or in the shed, this is science BY kids FOR kids!
31:00No Bunsen burners or laboratories here, this is science for everybody, anywhere. Wherever the kids want to take it; in the garden, in the kitchen or in the shed, this is science BY kids FOR kids!
29:00No Bunsen burners or laboratories here, this is science for everybody, anywhere. Wherever the kids want to take it; in the garden, in the kitchen or in the shed, this is science BY kids FOR kids!
29:00No Bunsen burners or laboratories here, this is science for everybody, anywhere. Wherever the kids want to take it; in the garden, in the kitchen or in the shed, this is science BY kids FOR kids!