How many of these items do you already have? We’ve tried to keep it simple for you by making the majority of the items things most people have within reach (both physically and budget-wise).

You do not need to do ALL the experiments – just pick the ones you want to do! Look over the experiments and note which items are needed, and off you go!

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Materials

• aluminum foil
• ball, 12″ in diameter (a beach ball works well)
• balloons (4)
• black paper (like construction paper) or cardboard
• bowl
• cardboard
• CD case, old and empty (the clear, plastic kind)
• CDs (old ones, about 4)
• chalk
• clay
• flashlight
• glass jar (like a clean, empty jam jar)
• glitter or confetti
• golf ball or ping pong ball
• index cards (any size)
• magnet (any size, but the stronger you have the better it will work to detect meteorites)
• magnifying lenses, handheld (2)
• marble, shooter-size (big)
• marbles, 3 regular-size
• measuring tape (the longest one you have)
• metal ball (like a ball bearing) or a magnetic marble
• paper
• pencil
• pennies (10)
• peppercorns or similar size (3)
• protractor
• regular copy paper (any size)
• rocks (about ten the size of a quarter)
• sand or white sugar (1 tsp)
• sand paper
• saran wrap (or cut open a plastic shopping bag so it lays flat)
• scissors
• skewer or chopstick
• small bouncy balls (2 or 3)
• soda bottles, 2L clear plastic
• steel washer with a 3/8″ hole
• string
• tape
• tennis ball and/or basketball
• thumbtack
• vice grips or hacksaw
• wire coat hanger
• yardsticks or meter sticks (2)