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50 Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids

March 11, 2021 By Emma Vanstone 7 Comments

The kitchen is a great place to explore science with children . Even something as simple as melting chocolate is a great science experiment . You can cook, bake, set up a sensory activity, create science magic , make lava lamps and volcanoes, or even play with ice. The creative opportunities with this collection of kitchen science experiments are endless!

The best thing about science in the kitchen is that you probably already have everything you need!

Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids

There are so many different things you can do with eggs. Learn about strong shapes, dissolve the shell in vinegar, transform egg white into meringue and make an egg float with these awesome egg experiments .

Kitchen Science for Preschoolers

My preschooler loves gloop or oobleck; if you’ve never made it before, you must try it. The cornflour ( cornstarch ) and water mixture feels solid if you squeeze it but turns into a liquid when the pressure is released.

Use eggs to learn about tooth decay .

This  density experiment will impress everyone. Finding a small object to balance on each layer is an extra fun challenge.

Sweet Treats

Create a Bake Off worthy masterpiece with the Science Sparks Bake off ! Find out why honeycomb has bubbles, why cakes turn brown and more!

Can you believe meringue is made from sugar and egg white? Little scientists can transform egg white into a lovely sweet treat .

Discover the power of baking soda by making pancakes!

Making treacle toffee is a great activity for learning about changes of state as the sugar melts and then becomes solid again. Be very careful with the hot mixture, though.

Try some colour mixing with jelly . This is great fun, and you end up with a fun dessert after the investigation.

Grow some sugar crystals and make a lolly.

Find out why popping candy pops or try one of these other candy experiments kids will love !

Savoury Kitchen Science

Make a pizza to learn about respiration  and yeast. Breadmaking is another fun activity to see yeast in action .

Make a baked Alaska to find out how to put ice cream in the oven without it melting.

Make some yummy honeycomb and discover why it has holes.

Can you make your butter from cream?

This activity is excellent for learning about colloids. It takes a bit of time and some energy, but the end result is worth it.

Food and Diet Activities

Find out about food groups with this fun activity.

Discover how much sugar common drinks contain .

We’ve also recently used hula hoops to group foods into healthy and unhealthy.

Milk Based Experiments

Do you know why milk curdles ?

Did you know you can make glue from milk which actually sticks!!

This one is not so appetising, but still fun. Find out why apples rot .

Using kitchen equipment

Get imaginative with some candy  mixtures

Pull out the kitchen scales and try some  weighing and measuring .

More scientific principles

Sugar cubes and absorption.

Explore absorption with  sugar cubes and coloured water; this is a great way to learn about the properties of materials in the kitchen!

Filter water

Learn about filtering by cleaning up dirty water with a filter.

Make a firework in a glass to discover why oil and water don’t mix.

Make an indicator with red cabbage.

Create a pretty milk display to learn about emulsions .

Discover how to make a lemon sink

Chemical Reactions

Dancing raisins.

Can you make  raisins dance ? It might be easier than you think!

Fizzing baking soda rocks

These  fizzing rocks  are a big favourite in our house. You could even add some plastic bugs to give an added twist.

Blow up a balloon with yeast.

Explore yeast and respiration by  blowing up a balloon . Other things to try include baking soda and vinegar, or even popping candy and water!

You could also learn how to blow up a balloon with lemon juice .

Baking Soda Volcano

Finally, how about our old favourite, the infamous baking soda volcano ?

What do you think? Can you think of any more kitchen science experiments for us?

Kitchen Science Challenge

Can you assemble a whole meal demonstrating a different science concept with every course?

Snackable Science

I’ve mentioned it a few times, but did you know I have a new book? Snackable Science is jam-packed full of exciting edible experiments for kids of all ages!

I’m so pleased with how it turned out, so I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Last Updated on February 21, 2023 by Emma Vanstone

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These activities are designed to be carried out by children working with a parent, guardian or other appropriate adult. The adult involved is fully responsible for ensuring that the activities are carried out safely.

Reader Interactions

April 29, 2013 at 8:42 am

I have only discovered you today. It is wonderful that someone else uses everyday science fun activities. I am a retired science teacher, and my grandchildren all love doing experiments.

April 29, 2013 at 6:33 pm

Thank you so much, that is lovely to hear. Do let me know if you have any ideas for us 🙂

April 30, 2013 at 1:48 pm

Pinned this! Thanks for the great ideas. Monica Join us for Family Fun Friday. Share your posts with 100+ bloggers and 400+ readers. http://happyandblessedhome.com/category/family-fun/

May 07, 2013 at 2:28 pm

What a great collection! Just dropping by to let you know I am featuring this in Tuesday Tots this week!

May 08, 2013 at 5:18 am

What a great collection of simple science fun!!! Thanks for sharing at For the Kids Friday! I am featuring THIS post at this week’s party! Love having you share with us at SunScholars!

May 10, 2013 at 9:16 pm

we love food fun in the kitchen. Hope you share some of these on our #kidsinthekitchen linky this week http://lookwhatmomfound.com/2013/05/homemade-versus-store-bought-kidsinthekitchen.html

June 06, 2014 at 9:35 pm

Hi, will you be publishing a book? I am looking for an inspiring book on science experiments for kids

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15 Easy Kitchen Science Experiments (With Ingredients You Already Have)

Krystal DeVille

September 19, 2023

Kitchens aren’t just for parents and making meals!

Kids can use kitchen ingredients and tools to learn from kitchen science experiments. Check out the following ideas for fun kitchen science.

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1. Rubber Egg Experiment

• White vinegar
• Glass or jar

Cover an egg in a container with vinegar to see the shell disappear and the resulting egg that feels like rubber. Children learn about the chemical reaction between the eggshell (calcium carbonate) and the vinegar (acetic acid). Bubbles on the egg and on top of the water are from carbon dioxide. 

2.  Shaking for Butter

• Heavy whipping cream
• Jar with lid
• Sealable plastic bags

Using heavy whipping cream at various temperatures, kids shake the cream in a jar to observe changes in color and texture. They learn about emulsification and the butter-making process of churning, in which cream is agitated and fat particles begin clumping together. They can see whipped cream form first, followed by butter, when the air is no longer held by the cream.

3.   Bread in a Bag

• Plain flour
• Granulated sugar
• Rapid rise yeast

Your children mix ingredients to make dough in the plastic bag, then knead the dough to bake. They discover how yeast is a dormant fungus that can be awakened with warm water and sugar as a food source for fermentation. Children also observe bubbles that form when the yeast eats the sugar and gives off carbon dioxide.

4. Growing Plants from Food Scraps

• Pineapple top
• Green onion white root sections
• Avocado pit
• Wide-mouthed, clear jars or glasses

Kids poke toothpicks into a pineapple top and avocado pit and prop over jars filled with water, while the white (root) ends of the onions are placed directly in water. They can see how roots grow on the pineapple and avocado and how the green ends of the onions poke from the top as the roots in the water continue to grow. 

5. Lemon Volcano

• Craft sticks
• Food coloring
• Baking soda

Your kids place cut lemons in the bowl with dish soap, food coloring, and baking soda poked in with craft sticks. They observe the reaction between the acid (lemon) and base (baking soda). Carbon dioxide is released and appears in the bubbles, made even more visible with the help of the dish soap that captures the gas.

6. Rock Candy

• Bamboo skewers or wooden sticks
• Large glass jar

Children squirt colors into the water you’ve heated and added sugar to melt. They roll moistened sticks in dry sugar to make the seed crystals, then place those in the jar of the cooled mixture. See how a saturated solution allows the sugar molecules to bump into each other and start sticking together.

7. Baked Potato Science

• Large potatoes
• Plastic wrap
• Baked potato pins

Kids predict which method of cooking a potato will be the fastest in the regular oven: plain potato, in foil, with baking pin, in foil with baking pin OR in the microwave plain or in plastic wrap. They explore how the wrappings may hold heat within to steam, whether the pin helps heat enter the potato sooner, and if a microwave is faster than a traditional oven.

8. Magic Milk

• Milk (whole or 2%)
• Cotton swabs

Your children squeeze colors into a shallow dish of milk and then touch the milk with a swab soaked with dish soap, to see the various colors of milk shoot away from each other. They learn that fat in milk is a nonpolar molecule, which doesn’t dissolve in water. The soap makes the fat separates from the water.

9. Solar S’Mores

• Small, low boxes, such as pizza boxes
• Black construction paper
• Foil & plastic wrap
• Long wooden skewers
• Graham crackers
• Marshmallows
• Chocolate bars

Kids make their own solar ovens with the first 4 items and then build s’mores with the food ingredients. On a sunny day, they observe the effects of solar energy to melt the chocolate and make the marshmallows puff. Discuss the purpose of the foil (reflection) black paper (heat absorption) and plastic wrap (heat retention).

10. Walking Water

• Test tubes with rack OR clear plastic cups/jars
• Paper towels cut into thin strips

Children add water and different colors to the containers and stir, then place the paper towel strips into the containers, with two ends in each. They can see how the colored water “walks” through the fibers and spreads to meet and mix. This is a capillary action, which is the same way that plants, such as celery, take in water.

 11. Cake Experiment

• Baking powder
• Cooking oil
• Ramekins OR other small baking dishes

Bake four different cakes with the kids, leaving one important ingredient out of three: oil, egg, or baking powder. Kids predict the various effects in looks and flavor related to each missing ingredient. They learn that eggs add color, flavor, and structure; oil adds moisture and tenderness; and baking powder makes the cakes rise with its release of carbon dioxide.

12. How Does Salt Affect Ice?

• 5 clean tin cans
• Coarse rock salt
• Measuring spoons
• Digital thermometer (no-contact type)

Have children add the same number of ice cubes to each can and then add a teaspoon or 2 tablespoons of either table salt or rock salt into each, shaking them a bit to spread the salt. They observe condensation on the bottoms of the cans as the reactions begin. Help them take temperature readings to compare the effects in each can.

13. Sandwich Bag Compost

• Food waste in small pieces (veggies are best)
• Cardboard egg carton pieces
• Sandwich bags

Kids add the first two items with a bit of water to individual bags with the tops zipped most of the way and a straw inserted into a gap for air. Mush it up a bit each day and add more water, if needed for moisture. They observe on a small scale how composting turns food waste into soil.

14. Explore the Density of Liquids with Salt

• Clear glass
• Vegetable oil

Children pour oil into water to observe what happens, adding a drop of color on top, followed by larger and larger sprinkles of salt. They offer ideas of why the various movements take place. They learn water is denser than oil and salt are denser than the liquids.

15. Ice Cream in a Bag

• Small zipper sandwich bag
• Gallon-sized zipper bag 

In the small zipper bag, your child adds the first 3 ingredients and zips closed. Add salt and ice to the large bag and place the small bag inside the larger one and seal. They shake to make ice cream! Children can learn that salt (sodium chloride) lowers the freezing point of water so it can become even colder .

These kitchen science experiments are easy and require little planning! They’re great activities to learn the scientific method and for some of these food experiments, you can enjoy a tasty treat afterward too!

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 Not all science requires expensive and hard to find chemicals or fancy laboratories. You can explore the fun of science in your own kitchen. Here are some science  experiments  and projects you can do that use common kitchen chemicals.

Click through the images for a collection of easy kitchen science experiments, along with a list of the ingredients you will need for each project.

Rainbow Density Column Kitchen Chemistry

Make a rainbow-colored liquid density column. This project is very pretty, plus it's safe enough to drink. Experiment Materials: sugar, water, food coloring, a glass

Baking Soda and Vinegar Volcano Kitchen Experiment

 This is the classic science fair demonstration in which you simulate a volcanic eruption using kitchen chemicals. Experiment Materials: baking soda, vinegar, water, detergent, food coloring and either a bottle or else you can build a dough volcano.

Invisible Ink Experiments Using Kitchen Chemicals

Write a secret message, which becomes invisible when the paper is dry. Reveal the secret! Experiment Materials: paper and just about any chemical in your house

Make Rock Candy Crystals Using Ordinary Sugar

Grow edible rock candy or sugar crystals. You can make them any color you want. Experiment Materials: sugar, water, food coloring, a glass, a string or stick

Make pH Indicator in your Ktchen

Make your own pH indicator solution from red cabbage or another pH-sensitive food then use the indicator solution to experiment with the acidity of common household chemicals. Experiment Materials: red cabbage

Make Oobleck Slime in the Kitchen

Oobleck is an interesting type of slime with properties of both solids and liquids. It normally behaves like a liquid or jelly, but if you squeeze it in your hand, it will seem like a solid. Experiment Materials: cornstarch, water, food coloring (optional)

Make Rubber Eggs and Chicken Bones Using Household Ingredients

Turn a raw egg in its shell into a soft and rubbery egg. If you're daring you even bounce these eggs as balls. The same principle can be used to make rubber chicken bones. Experiment Materials: egg or chicken bones, vinegar

Make Water Fireworks in a Glass from Water and Dye

Don't worry - there is no explosion or danger involved in this project! The 'fireworks' take place in a glass of water. You can learn about diffusion and liquids. Experiment Materials: water, oil, food coloring

Magic Colored Milk Experiment Using Kitchen Chemicals

Nothing happens if you add food coloring to milk, but it only takes one simple ingredient to turn the milk into a swirling color wheel. Experiment Materials: milk, dishwashing liquid, food coloring

Make Ice Cream in a Plastic Bag in the Kitchen

You can learn how freezing point depression works while making a tasty treat. You don't need an ice cream maker to make this ice cream, just some ice. Experiment Materials: milk, cream, sugar, vanilla, ice, salt, baggies

Let Kids Make Glue from Milk

Do you need glue for a project, but just can't seem to find any? You can use kitchen ingredients to make your own. Experiment Materials: milk, baking soda, vinegar, water

Show Kids How To Make a Mentos Candy and Soda Fountain

Explore the science of bubbles and pressure using Mentos candies and a bottle of soda. As the candies dissolve in soda, the tiny pits formed on their surface allow carbon dioxide bubbles to grow. The process occurs quickly, producing a sudden burst of foam from the narrow neck of the bottle. Experiment Materials: Mentos candies, soda

Make Hot Ice Using Vinegar and Baking Soda

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You can make 'hot ice' or sodium acetate at home using baking soda and vinegar and then cause it to instantly crystallize from a liquid in 'ice'. The reaction generates heat, so the ice is hot. It happens so quickly, you can form crystal towers as you pour the liquid into a dish. Note: The classic chemical volcano also produces sodium acetate, but there is too much water present for the hot ice to solidify! Experiment Materials: vinegar, baking soda

Fun Pepper and Water Science Experiment

Pepper floats on water. If you dip your finger into a water and pepper, nothing much happens. You can dip your finger into a common kitchen chemical first and get a dramatic result. Experiment Materials: pepper, water, dishwashing liquid

Cloud in a Bottle Science Experiment

Capture your own cloud in a plastic bottle. This experiment illustrates many principles of gases and phase changes. Experiment Materials: water, plastic bottle, match

Make Flubber from Kitchen Ingredients

Flubber is a non-sticky slime. It's easy to make and non-toxic. In fact, you can even eat it. Experiment Materials: Metamucil, water

Make a Ketchup Packet Cartesian Diver

Explore the concepts of density and buoyancy with this easy kitchen project. Experiment Materials: ketchup packet, water, plastic bottle

Easy Baking Soda Stalactites

You can grow baking soda crystals along a piece of string to make stalactites similar to those you might find in a cave. Experiment Materials: baking soda, water, string

Easy Egg in a Bottle Science Experiment

An egg doesn't fall into a bottle if you set it on top. Apply your science know-how to get the egg to drop inside. Experiment Materials: egg, bottle

More Kitchen Science Experiments To Try

Here are more fun and interesting kitchen science experiments you can try.

Candy Chromatography

Separate the pigments in colored candies using a saltwater solution and a coffee filter. Experiment Materials: colored candies, salt, water, coffee filter 

Make Honeycomb Candy

Honeycomb candy is an easy-to-make candy that has an interesting texture caused by carbon dioxide bubbles that you cause to form and get trapped within the candy. Experiment Materials: sugar, baking soda, honey, water

Lemon Fizz Kitchen Science Experiment

This kitchen science project involves making a fizzy volcano using baking soda and lemon juice. Experiment Materials: lemon juice, baking soda, dishwashing liquid, food coloring

Powdered Olive Oil

This is a simple molecular gastronomy project to turn liquid olive oil into a powdered form that melts in your mouth. Experiment Materials: olive oil, maltodextrin

Alum Crystal

Alum is sold with spices. You can use it to grow a large, clear crystal or a mass of smaller ones overnight. Experiment Materials: alum, water

Supercool Water

Make water freeze on command. There are two easy methods you can try. Experiment Materials: bottle of water

Edible Water Bottle

Make a ball of water with an edible shell.

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40 Genius Kitchen Science Lab Projects For Kids

Playing with food, it’s something kids love to do. What’s better than playing with food? Using food to learn! Kitchen Science Lab for Kids is a fantastic way to get kids exploring with food and learning valuable science lessons. Plus, many of these activities teach healthy living principles that will help kids live healthier lives!

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So how does one get started doing science labs with kids in the kitchen? The best way is to start by letting kids explore with their food. Have them make observations and talk about items in the kitchen. Cut open various foods to explore them, inside and out. Use a magnifying glass or microscope to examine items up close. Invite them to help you bake and cook. Let them see up close the transformations food can undergo in the kitchen. Let them get hands on and explore. It’s amazing the amount of learning that can happen when we let kids follow their interests.

Once you are ready to start some more structured lessons, here are some genius kitchen science lab activities for kids . Let these inspire your own kitchen science experiments !

MAKING FOOD SCIENCE LABS

Sweet Slurpee – In this science lab kids will learn how to use a little ice and salt to make themselves a sweet slurpee treat. This heat transfer activity takes a bit of time but the results are a hit every time.

How to Make Ice Cream in a Bag – A classic summer favourite, learn how to make delicious Ice Cream in a Bag using a little bit of science and a little bit of energy. Regular and dairy free recipes included.

Making Butter – Need an arm workout? Get your busy kids putting that energy to good use as they shake, shake, shake their way to some delicious, homemade butter.

Bread Science – After making butter it’s time to bake some homemade bread to pair with your delicious butter. We have made bread so many different ways, just pick the one that’s perfect for you and learn math, chemistry and more. Plus fresh baked bread tastes incredible!

USING CANDY FOR SCIENCE LABS IN THE KITCHEN

Skittles Experiment – This gorgeous experiment brings out the creative juices in kids! So easy to set up and the result is the most stunning pieces of science art. A definitely must do!

Gummy Mummies – We love making our own gummies and it wasn’t long before the kids were wondering what kind of science we could do with our gummies. This activity has a wonderful history tie in, to help broaden your lesson.

Growing Gummy Bears – A fantastic partner activity to Gummy Mummies, is to do this growing gummies experiment. Do these two activities together for even more studies and learning.

Edible Marshmallow Play Dough  – For your slime and play dough obsessed kids, this is a fun way to make an edible alternative using items in the kitchen. It’s super fast and easy to do, and kids can’t resist having a little taste. For another recipe alternative, try this  Edible Silly Putty .

Layered Lollipops – This activity smells amazing and kids are fascinated by the results. It takes a steady hand, but once you have layered your lollipops, the results are mesmerizing.

Want to do more science studies with sweets and candies?

Check out this Marshmallow Unit Study that will really help your students dive in and explore these soft, tasty treats.

I LOVE Chocolate. Like, love, love, love chocolate! So whenever the opportunity arises to use chocolate in our studies, I’m all over it! Especially when it results in delicious truffles. This Chocolate Unit Study is sure to keep your chocolate lovers happy.

If you have older kids and want to really challenge them, why not start make your own candies? We went deep, really deep, with this very in depth candy science study where we explored many facets of candy making, and even made a whole lot of candy. It was a fascinating study that we did over many months, and boy did we learn a lot!

SCIENCE LABS USING EGGS

Bouncy Egg Science Lab – The kids actually call this the naked egg experiment or dragon eggs, but when I came across this version that called it a Bouncy Egg Science Experiment , which I thought was a much more fitting name. No matter what you call it though, this is a fun activity, that can get a little messy, but has some great chemistry lessons.

The Egg Drop Challenge Kitchen Style – The classic egg drop challenge is an engineering lab that encourages kids to get really creative building things. But for our Kitchen Science Egg Drop Challenge we use simple items from the pantry to keep our eggs from breaking when dropped.

Egg Geodes – Create stunning crystals with this Geode making project that uses an egg shell to seed the crystals. The result is a plethora of glittery crystals that will make your kids say WOW!

CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN THE KITCHEN SCIENCE LAB

Milk Plastic – Making casein plastic is by far one of our favourite kitchen chemistry labs. The results are mind boggling and what you could create with your milk plastic is endless. We have made everything from Christmas ornaments to spooky glow in the dark pieces for Halloween . Simple, yet so much fun, this is one activity every kid should try.

Magic Milk – Don’t put away the milk yet! This experiment is magical in the way colours erupt and spread through the milk. It’s an easy experiment, that has appeal for all ages.

Lemon Volcanoes – This rainbow eruption smells incredible. An easy and fun activity that encourages exploration of chemical reactions in a safe way using natural foods.

Dino Eggs – One of the most popular acid-base reactions in the kitchen is vinegar and baking soda. It’s exciting, easy and there are so many different ways you can use this reaction to create exciting activities. Dino Eggs are a very popular version of this reaction that can be used by any age. It’s a great way to give out little gifts too!

Bottle Rockets – You can take your baking soda and vinegar reactions outside for this STEM activity that is a blast every single time! My kids especially love it when we powered up our reaction . The heights we reached were incredible!

Erupting Slime – For the slime lovers in your life, this twist on the traditional volcano science lab is sure to be a big hit. Once again it uses our baking soda and vinegar reaction, but in a unique way that is sure to wow!

Colour changing chemical reactions – Did you know you can create PH indicators with items in your kitchen? It’s simple but the results will have kids testing the PH of everything. Plus they will feel like a true scientist in the laboratory!

Colour changing lemonade – This gorgeous twist on natural PH indicators will have your kids asking for lemonade over and over again this summer.

EXPLORING DENSITY SCIENCE LAB

Lava Lamp – The homemade lava lamp activity is such a fun project to do with this. This version glows in the dark, which created some unique learning moments.

Exploring the density of sweeteners – Kids love water balloons, so when we have the chance to use them in a little science my kids get really excited! With this study we are exploring the phenomenon of the traditional Does It Float Soda Pop Can experiment . But this time we dive deeper into the science in order to use scientific principles to provide proof of concept.

WATER SCIENCE LABS AND PROJECTS FOR KIDS

Desalinization Experiment – How do you remove salt from saltwater? How does salt in water affect the buoyancy of an object? Does the amount of salt in water affect it’s density? These are just a few questions that are answered with this genius science lab that will have kids feeling like true scientists.

How Does Salt Affect Ice – Not only does salt have some significant affects when mixed with water, but it also causes some exciting and interesting things to happen when added to ice. In this STEM lab for kids, they explore how salt affects ice using some very insightful measurements.

Water Lab – Safe drinking water experiment – Water safety is a huge issue in many parts of the world. Understanding what is in our water is important for keeping kids safe. Especially when they are exploring the great outdoors. In this lab we test water from various local sources to see what is lurking beyond what we can see.

Want to find more Genius Water Projects for Kids ? Make sure you check out this resource that is packed full of exciting science labs and experiments.

Build a Battery

Build a Food Battery – This kitchen science lab is for your older kids that want a true challenge. Create a potato, lemon or pumpkin battery that generates enough energy to power an LED light bulb. A fantastic activity for your older kids learning about circuits and also energy in food sources. Click the images here for more details.

Happy learning in the kitchen with these genius science lab projects for kids!

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Fun Kitchen Science Experiments

We love learning and playing with simple kitchen science experiments . These fun at home science experiments will develop a love for learning and science with your kids! We love simple science experiments for kids!

Edible At Home Science Experiments To Try

We love simple science experiments that are also edible. Let’s whip up a little kitchen chemistry wth food science, including plenty of edible slime recipes , homemade ice cream in a bag, and fizzy lemonade!

Bread in a Bag

Baking is fantastic science, and this bread in a bag experiment is perfect for learning about yeast and chemical changes while making a tasty snack.

Ice Cream in a Bag

Grab the gloves because this gets chilly even if it’s a 100 degrees outside. Homemade ice cream in a bag is an excellent way to enjoy kitchen science and learn about freezing point.

Butter in a Jar

Shake it up! Keep shaking, and eventually, you can turn cream into a rich, delicious butter that doubles as kitchen science.

Fizzy Lemonade

Science you can drink while learning about acids and bases! Try making fizzing lemonade for fun kitchen chemistry.

Rock Cycle Bars

How do sedimentary rocks form? Demonstrate the rock cycle with this completely edible rock cycle snack bar.

Popcorn Science

Turn your next movie time into a little bit of science time, too, with popcorn in a bag.

Slushie in a Bag

Homemade slushie or sorbet in a bag you can make in a bag for chilly kitchen science and a great alternative to our homemade ice cream in a bag.

Snow Ice Cream

If you’ve just had a snowstorm or have plenty of white stuff hanging around, snow ice cream is a gun treat to try. You can also try snow candy !

Marshmallow Slime

Edible slime starts with the best marshmallow slime! You can either use jumbo marshmallows (microwave needed) or you can use marshmallow fluff (no cook).

Regrow Lettuce

Grow your own food on the kitchen counter from the leftovers!

Salad Dressing

Oil and vinegar don’t normally mix! Find out how to make a homemade oil and vinegar salad dressing with one special ingredient.

Starburst Rock Cycle

Try this fun Starburst rock cycle activity where you can explore all the stages with one simple ingredient.

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More Fun Kitchen Science Experiments

These science experiments below use ingredients you will commonly find in your kitchen. But most of them you would not want to eat!

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Browning Apples

Why do apples turn brown? Find out why with this fun kitchen science experiment.

Blow Up A Balloon

Combine quick science and balloon play with our easy-to-set-up kitchen chemistry for kids! Can you inflate a balloon without blowing into it?

Baking Soda and Vinegar

Baking soda and vinegar eruptions are always a hit, and we have a ton of baking soda experiments for you to try. From pumpkin-cano to erupting watermelons and more.

Bubble Science

Investigate the science of bubbles and have fun at the same time.

Candy DNA Model

Learn all about DNA with this easy-to-make candy model. You might want to sample it too!

Cloud In A Jar

Three things are needed to make a cloud. Warm moist air, a cooling process and a cloud condensation nucleus or something to start the cloud.

Cranberry Secret Messages

Are you a fan of cranberry sauce? I’m not a huge fan, but it’s great for science! Explore acids and bases with the kids and of course, see if you can write a secret message or two.

Dancing Corn

Can you make corn dance? This bubbling corn experiment appears almost magical but it really just uses baking soda and vinegar for a classic kitchen science activity.

Dancing Raisins

Can you make raisins dance? All you need are a few simple kitchen ingredients for this fun science experiment.

Egg In A Bottle

This egg in a bottle project is a fun way to learn about how changes in air pressure can result in a fascinating outcome. Watch a boiled egg get sucked into a bottle without even touching it!

Egg In Vinegar

Rubber egg, naked egg, bouncing egg, whatever you call it, this is a pretty cool science experiment for everyone. All you need is an egg and vinegar.

Electric Cornstarch

Learn about static electricity with a simple kitchen ingredient, cornstarch and a balloon.

Elephant Toothpaste

Grab some peroxide and yeast to make this foaming chemical reaction that some say looks like elephant toothpaste!

Floating Orange

Investigate whether an orange floats or sinks in water. Learn about buoyancy and density with a simple ingredient from the kitchen, an orange.

Floating Rice

Explore friction with a fun and simple activity that uses classic household supplies.

Germ Experiment

Here’s a kitchen science experiment you definitely won’t want to eat! Grab some bread and investigate which surface will grow the most germs.

Glowing Spinach

Transform ordinary spinach that you eat into a glowing green mixture under ultraviolet light!

Grow Salt Crystals

Simple to grow and taste safe, this salt crystals experiment is more manageable for younger kids, but you can also try growing borax crystals  for older kids.

Invisible Ink

What is the best invisible ink? Find out how to create secret messages with invisible ink made from lemon juice.

Kitchen Sink or Float

What sinks and what floats? Grab some everyday items you have in your kitchen to test out. You might find our choices to be eye-opening for little scientists!

Lava Lamp Experiment

Every kid loves this classic experiment that is two activities in one! Do oil and water mix? What is the chemical reaction? So many great questions…

Make colorful art with milk, dish soap and food coloring for fascinating kitchen science.

M&M Experiment

Science and candy all in one perfectly simple science activity for kiddos to try. Do the colors mix? You will want also to try this awesome floating m experiment !

Milk and Vinegar

Kids will be amazed by the transformation of a couple of household ingredients, milk and vinegar, into a moldable, durable piece of a plastic-like substance.

Easy to make and even more fun to play with. Just 2 ingredients, and learn about non-Newtonian fluids with this simple kitchen science activity.

Pop Rocks and Soda

A fun candy to eat, and now you can turn it into an easy Pop Rocks science experiment too! Find out what happens when you mix soda with pop rocks!

Soda Experiment

Love fizzing and exploding experiments? YES!! Well here’s a another one the kids are sure to love! All you need are Mentos and coke. Here is an even more explosive version of it!

Sugar Water Density

Check out the density of liquids and try to make a rainbow too.

Walking Water

Get out the roll of paper towels for this kitchen science experiment!

Water Absorption

Simple to set up and fun to experiment with, kids can test everyday materials to see if they absorb or repel liquids.

Using The Scientific Method With Kids

The scientific method is a process or method of research. A problem is identified, information about the problem is gathered, a hypothesis or question is formulated from the information, and the hypothesis is tested with an experiment to prove or disprove its validity.

Sounds heavy… What in the world does that mean?!?

The scientific method can be used as a guide to help lead the discovery process. You don’t need to try and solve the world’s biggest science questions! The scientific method is all about studying and learning things right around you.

As kids develop practices that involve creating, gathering data, evaluating, analyzing, and communicating, they can apply these critical thinking skills to any situation.

Even though the scientific method seems like it is just for big kids, it can be used with kids of all ages! You can have a casual conversation with younger kiddos or do a more formal notebook entry with older kiddos (free printable below).

💡 Click here to learn more about the scientific method for kids with examples . Includes information on developing a hypothesis with kids, variables , and more.

Helpful Science Resources

Here are a few resources to help you introduce science more effectively to your kiddos or students and feel confident when presenting materials. You’ll find helpful free printables throughout.

• Best Science Practices (as it relates to the scientific method)
• Science Vocabulary
• 8 Science Books for Kids
• All About Scientists
• Science Supplies List
• Science Tools for Kids
• 50 Easy Science experiments for kids

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Love the cookie cutter idea. My little preschooler loves this mini science experiment: milk in bowl, food coloring drops and swirl with toothpick. Entertains for a good 20-30 minutes every time.

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These are so cute and fun! Science experiments are always a hit with the kids. Thank you for sharing!

I am always intimidated by doing science experiments with my boys. I know they’d love them… but science was not my thing. So I shy away from them. These look so easy though, we may have to give ’em a try! Thanks for sharing on Makeovers & Motherhood’s Welcome Party Wednesday Link-Up! I am featuring you this week!

It is great when we can use items we already have at home to help our children have fun learning! These are wonderful ideas that are easy to prepare. And I love that you contained each on a separate tray, should make clean-up a bit easier. Thanks for sharing at the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop!

Everyone loves what you guys are up too. This kind of clever work and exposure! Keep up the terrific works guys I’ve added you guys to my blogroll.

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30 Simple Kitchen Science Experiments for Curious Kids

February 13, 2022 by Ana Dziengel 2 Comments

Try these simple kitchen science experiments that utilize basic materials from the pantry! Yes, science for kids is THAT easy.

Of all the science secrets I have learned over the years, utilizing my pantry is probably the most important one. There’s a simple reason why: Cooking is chemistry. Think about it, when you cook (especially when baking ) you combine different ingredients, add heat, and create a new substance. That’s chemistry.

After years of working with children on science experiments, I realized that introducing science to kids really is as easy as a trip to your pantry/refrigerator. In fact, with 10 common household ingredients you can do a whole host of science projects. In this post I’ll share 20 kitchen science experiments to try with our Top 10 ingredients. And then I’ll share some bonus experiments using additional pantry ingredients.

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Top 10 Kitchen Science Experiment Ingredients

• Food Coloring
• Baking Soda

Why are these ingredients perfect for science experiments?

Before we get to the kitchen science experiments, let’s talk about why each of these substances are so magical!

1. Food Coloring

A couple drops of food coloring make experiments come to life for kids. Not only does color make reactions easier to see, it also gets kids excited about trying an experiment. I always give kids a choice of colors when they do their experiments and they love any opportunity for personalization. If you will be doing a lot of experiments at home or with students in the classroom, I highly recommend you buy large bottles of food coloring at a restaurant supply store or invest in liquid watercolors . A little goes a long way.

2. Corn Syrup

Corn syrup is the perfect ingredient to illustrate the concept of viscosity to kids. Viscosity is the measure of friction in a liquid. This determines how fast or slow a liquid flows when poured. Corn syrup has high viscosity and moves slowly while water has a low viscosity and flows quickly. Corn syrup is also an inexpensive, clear alternative to ingredients like glycerin, honey, or maple syrup. Psst…it can even be used to make DIY paint!

Vinegar has so many uses in science it’s almost impossible to touch on all of them. But here is why vinegar is so versatile: Vinegar is a taste safe, touch safe acid. Acids and bases are a cornerstone of chemistry projects and the acid most of us have on hand in some form at all times is vinegar. For kitchen science experiments I use white distilled vinegar because it is inexpensive and clear (save the balsamic and apple cider vinegar for cooking!). You can buy distilled white vinegar in gallon size jugs.

Other acids you might find in the kitchen are citric acid (lemon juice and Kool-aid), yogurt, molasses, apple sauce, and buttermilk.

Pro-tip: Vinegar is the best substance to use to clean up slime!

4. Baking Soda

If you want to experiment with acids (like vinegar) and bases you need a base, enter baking soda! Baking soda AKA sodium bicarbonate is considered a base , a substance that releases hydroxide ions in aqueous solutions. Bases are often bitter tasting and when they come into contact with acids they can form salts. For an in-depth look at bases hop over here.

Baking soda is utilized in baking because when it reacts with an acid it produces carbon dioxide gas which helps baked good rise and become light and fluffy. Wondering what the acidic ingredient is in baked goods that baking soda reacts with? It’s often brown sugar! That’s a surprise to even me!

I love baking soda so much I actually partnered with Arm and Hammer to do 5 science projects featuring baking soda.

Oil is a lipid , an organic compound that is hydrophobic, meaning it will not dissolve in water. Lipids include fats and waxes. Natural oils are created by plants and animals through metabolic processes so that living organisms can store energy for future use. Here’s a kid-friendly, in-depth look at lipids .

For kitchen science experiments, buy an inexpensive basic cooking oil like canola or vegetable oil. Save your nice olive oils for recipes!

Pro-Tip: Cooking oils can be used to clean and dissolve oil based materials. I’ve used it to clean oil pastels off plastic and beach tar off feet!

In chemistry a salt is a substance created by a chemical reaction between an acid and a base. Sodium chloride AKA table salt is the salt most of us use every day to enhance the flavor of food. Salts have some properties that make it perfect for use in kitchen science experiments: It dissolves in water and can be used to make crystals, it’s a wonderful conductor of electricity, and it can be used to make a super saturated liquid called brine which you can use for a variety of projects. Brine is used for pickling and preserving foods as well as to dissolve ice! Brine is also a favorite substance to use demonstrate buoyancy.

Bonus: Salt is also really fun to use in art projects like raised salt art and salt and watercolors .

Milk is an emulsion made up of fat and protein in water. An emulsion is an immiscible mixture of two liquids, meaning the materials cannot be blended together. Milk may seem like one substance but on a microscopic level the proteins and fats in it are separated. Because it’s an emulsion, when a substance like soap is introduced the fat molecules in milk are disturbed and move around.

The proteins in milk is called casein and is a polymer, whose properties can be used to turn milk into plastic!

8. Dishsoap

We know that oil and water don’t mix but what if there was a compound that attracted both water and oil? Lucky for the us there is, it’s called soap. Soap molecules have properties of both water and oil , and when you add them to a tub full of dirty dishes the soap molecules attract the fatty oil molecules on the dishes and then suspend that oil in water, helping remove the food from the dish. A simple science experiment would be to try to clean two oily dishes, one in a tub of water only, and one in a tub of soapy water. It will be very apparent how powerful that molecular attraction is! This is a fun article explaining the science at work doing dishes.

Detergent is considered a surfactant, a compound that reduces the surface tension between two liquids or between liquid and a solid. Soap also acts as an inhibitor in chemical reactions, slowing them down.

If you have ever baked bread you have seen (and eaten) a wonderful chemistry project! Baker’s yeast AKA Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a single cell fungi that converts starch and sugar into carbon dioxide and alcohol through process called fermentation. Fermentation is responsible for baking bread that rises and making wine! You can read about yeast and the many ways it’s used in baking here. And for all my fellow nerdy adults (and teens) out there check out this fantastic explantation of the chemistry of baking bread!

In kitchen science experiments we typically use yeast to generate carbon dioxide gas which can be harnessed to blow up balloons or create seemingly endless eruptions like Elephant Toothpaste

10. Cornstarch

Last but definitely not least is the ingredient I stock up on every time I go to the restaurant supply store: Cornstarch. Cornstarch is made from the endosperm of corn. It is similar to flour but unlike flour is has been refined to the point that is contains only carbohydrates and no proteins. In cooking it is used to thicken sauces and batter some fried foods.

But the best thing about cornstarch is the substance you get when you add water to it. Cornstarch does not dissolve in water, instead it forms a colloid, a mixture in which a small particles of a substance are suspended throughout another substance but not chemically bonded. For this reason oobleck, AKA gak, goop, or slime (the combination of water + cornstarch) acts as solid when you add pressure to it, and a liquid when it’s left untouched.

If you only had to buy one ingredient and do one kitchen science experiment my top suggestion would be oobleck.

Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids

The science experiments below utilize our top 10 ingredients. You will be amazed at how many different experiments you can do with combinations of these versatile ingredients!

With these 10 ingredients you can do the following experiments:

Wizard's Brew

Baking Soda + Vinegar + Dishsoap

Ice Sculptures

Water + Food Coloring + Salt

DIY Lava Lamp 

Baking Soda + Water + Oil+ Food Coloring + Vinegar

Fizzing Hands

Diy bubble solution.

Water + Dish Soap + Corn Syrup

Layered Liquids

Water + Oil + Food Coloring+ Corn Syrup

How to Make Oobleck

Cornstarch + Water

Frozen Goop

Dish soap silly putty.

Dish Soap + Cornstarch

Shiny Pennies

Magic milk .

Milk + Food Coloring + Dish Soap

Fizzing Dino Eggs

Baking Soda + Vinegar

Hot Ice Science Experiment

Color mixing.

Water + Food Coloring

Tornado in a Jar  

Water + Dish Soap + Vinegar

Exploding Baggies

Vinegar + Baking Soda

Make Milk Plastic

Milk + Vinegar

Fireworks In A Jar

Food Coloring + Oil + Water

Blow Up a Balloon with Yeast

Yeast + Water + Sugar

How to Make Elephant Toothpaste

Yeast + Hydrogen Peroxide + Dish Soap

Ice Cube Rope | Science Experiment

Water + Salt

Walking Water Experiment

Food Coloring + Water

More Kitchen Ingredients for Science Experiments

Once you get started raiding the pantry for science experiment materials you won’t be able to stop! Here are more pantry and kitchen staples that can be used for science projects and some projects to try with them:

Dissolve egg shells in vinegar to make rubber eggs or make eggs float in brine !

Lemon Juice

Everyone’s favorite natural acid can be turned into Lemon Volcanoes , Lemon Batteries , and Invisible Ink .

Kool Aid contains citric acid which, like lemon juice, and vinegar, reacts with bases to create carbon dioxide. It’s also delicious. Try making a Harry Potter themed chemical reaction you can drink called Amortencia.

There is no cooler colloid to dig your fingers into than gelatin. This wobbly weird substance is impossible not to touch. This project is always a hit with our students!

Everyone loves a science experiment you can eat as dessert…like rock candy !

Combine pepper and soap in this classic experiment or watch static electricity in action with this one .

Make a pH indicator using red cabbage!

Whipping Cream

Turning whipping cream into butter and ice cream are two of the tastiest science experiments you can do at home!

No kid will turn down this Skittles science experiment or watching the Growing Gummy Bear experiment!

More Kitchen Science Experiments

Here are a few of our favorite books for more fun science experiments you can do at home:

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What a great post, and thanks for the link love! I love the graphic of ingredients!

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STEM: 20 Kitchen Science Experiments Your Kids Will Love

May 6 by Alli

I don’t mean to scare you or anything but, it’s May folks. Summer vacation will be here before you know it – do you have a plan? Mine is to set up some sort of loose schedule . Nothing too confining but a flexible outline of how any days spent at home are going to go .  I’ll have more details later this month , but for now, suffice to say, I’m gathering resources . And this list is one of them.  Summer is the perfect time to try a science experiment or two from the comfort of your own kitchen and I plan to refer back to this list often over the next four months . Here’s Alli with the goods…

I don’t know about you, but my kids are suckers for a good science experiment . And I’ll be honest, so am I.

I can still remember “experiment day” in seventh grade science class. I mean, who didn’t love a good volcano eruption? Salt crystal formation? And flubber???

One of the best parts about being a Mom (in my humble opinion) is recreating fun memories with your children. And science experiments are the perfect opportunity to do just that.

And here’s the best part: They’re not as hard as you think!

Most experiments will work for kids of all ages, and actually make minimal mess . (Though, sometimes a mess can be a part of the fun.)

But most importantly, science experiments encourage our kids to be curious while discovering the world around them. And who doesn’t want that?

We’ve rounded up a list of 20 Kitchen Experiments your kids will love. Have Fun!

1. Make Elephant Toothpaste : Mix dry active yeast with water and hydrogen peroxide to produce elephant sized foam.

2. Make Rain from Clouds : Make a shaving cream cloud rain by mixing food coloring with water.

3. Make Invisible Ink : Write a special secret note using this mixture made with lemon juice.

4. Make a Tornado in a Bottle : Make your own swirling tornado using water and dish soap.

5. Make Spaghetti Slime : Make a colorful stringy slime.

6. Make a Rainbow Jar : Make your very own rainbow while learning about density.

7. Make a Sparkle Explosion : Create a sparkling explosion using baking soda, vinegar, and glitter.

8. Make Milk Paint : Make colorful artwork on milk with food coloring and dish liquid.

9. Make Rock Candy : Make this scientific recipe using just sugar and water.

10. Make a Wave Bottle : Using an empty plastic bottle, recreate waves that mimic the ocean.

11. Make an Earth Cake : Learn about the structure of the Earth with a special cake.

12. Make an Egg Walk : Find out if you can walk on eggshells.

13. Make Dancing Worms : Watch jelly worms dance in a mixture of baking soda and vinegar.

14. Make Soda Balloons : Blow up balloons using only a soda bottle.

15. Make a Lemon Batter y : Make a battery using a lemon from your fridge.

16. Make Name Crystals : Watch your name come to life with mineral crystals.

17. Make Edible Flubber : Make a gooey green slime that your kids are sure to love.

18. Make a Sandwich Bag Compost : Learn the science behind composting in this compact experiment.

19. Make an Egg Bounce : Make a raw egg bounce with white vinegar.

20. Growing a Garden from Food Scraps : Find out if you can regrow vegetables in a jar.

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5 simple kitchen experiments for kids that count as homeschool science class. You already have the ingredients!

by Kate Etue | Oct 6, 2020 | Back to School , Tips + Tricks | 0 comments

Lately, my homeschooled children been having fun with these simple kitchen experiments for kids that absolutely count as science class time. And as we get into our second month of school, I really need this in my back pocket!

Honestly, some days, my kids complete their school work really quickly and we’re stuck wondering how we’re going to finish out those four full hours of required academic instruction each day. That’s when I turn to one of our favorite  educational board games  or another creative idea — like these.

Best of all, each of these experiments use simple ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen, like eggs, vinegar, stalks of lettuce,  cookie ingredients, maybe some candy.

No need to order any Lugol’s Iodine or silicone carbide to complete these.

Wait, you mean baking cookies counts as science class? Yes, it does.

Related: Getting kids in the kitchen: A helpful guide to teaching kids cooking skills by age. Home Ec class, anyone?

5 fun, simple kitchen science experiments for kids

For chemistry class: Learn about the science of baking cookies

Let’s start with my favorite easy kitchen table science class: baking chocolate chip cookies.

Anne Marie Helmenstine, PhD uses her  basic chocolate chip recipe  at Thought Co to explain, in detail, the chemical processes that happen to make cookies so delicious. She describes why fat helps cookies brown, why preheating the oven matters, why using cake flour is a bad idea. And to get even more technical, she explains how 2NaHCO 3 → Na 2 CO 3 + H 2 O + CO 2  is the chemical magic you’re looking for.

I love this article because it is detailed enough for high school kids to get something new out of it, but parents can also limit the information  to make it appropriate for young elementary kids in homeschool science class, too.

For physical science class: Learn about osmosis with gummy bears

Kids love science experiments that demonstrate the different effects solutions have on an object. So grab a notebook and some colored pencils, and let them do a little prediction and scientific observation on some candy with this gummy bear osmosis experiment at KiwiCo.

There are so may ways to have fun with this: By soaking the candies in different solutions, they’ll see so many different changes. Have the kids check the bears at 30 minutes, 3 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours and note what’s different. See if they can get the biggest gummy bears to shrink back down. It’s endless.

Just be sure to buy extra gummy bears so they aren’t tempted to eat the ones that have soaked in the solutions. Eep.

For biology class: Learn about xylem and phloem with celery stalks

When my 7th grader cracked open his homeschool biology book, all those terms that this English major had forgotten came flooding back: Xylem, PPhloem. Cambium. Lignin .  Fortunately I did remember one of my favorite easy science experiments from childhood, in which we stick some celery stalks in colored water and watch the color move through the plant.

Turns out, that’s the xylem working. Want to try this simple kitchen experiment yourselves for science class? Check out the instructions of the   xylem water movement experiment from Laura Hamilton on Flickr. She explains it in far more detail…but not too much. It’s perfect for elementary age kids and I’m so glad to have found it!

For physics class: Learn about sound waves with a bowl of water and some music

My kids have always heard about the concept of sound waves, but it’s hard for them to understand that they really are actual waves of sound. Because, you know, they can’t see sound waves. It helps to discuss echoes bouncing around in a cave where they can’t escape, but for a hands on kitchen table science experiment, I love this simple sound waves experiment from Premeditated Leftovers.

All you need are some earplugs and a tabletop Bluetooth speaker (unless you have an old boom box lying around somewhere). Then blast music to watch crumbled bits of paper, rice, popcorn, or anything else small and light as it dances on the plastic wrap. So cool!

For chemistry or physical science class: Learn about acid-base reactions with eggs and liquids. (Don’t worry, they don’t have to drink them!)

One of my kids’ favorite science experiments of all time is this dissolving-eggshell experiment  that we found at Blue Bear Wood. Trust me, promising your kids they can do an egg toss game with their experiments after they’re done will tempt even a cynical middle-school boy to participate.

I like how Blue Bear Wood asks the kids to predict what different reactants will do to the eggshell, then observe and chart their experiments over time.

That said, a similar acid-base eggshell experiment at Go Science Kids explains in a little more detail what’s actually happening to the egg shells, specifically as they react with the vinegar.  If you’re doing this with older kids, it’s especially helpful. And to get them even more motivated, let them know they’ll have to drink the orange juice, vinegar and egg mixture if they slack off.

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10 Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids

My girls love cooking and doing experiments, so kitchen  science experiments are like the best of both worlds for them. Plus they are educational. It is amazing how many different experiments you can do with a few simple pantry items and foods from the fridge. You probably already have most of these supplies in your kitchen right now. I asked my girls to help me round-up some of our favorite kitchen science experiments  for this post. There are a few of these experiments that you can even eat- yummy! That sounds like a good time to me.

Spend some time in the kitchen exploring these 10 fun and easy food science experiments! Read on for the details.

1. Dancing Raisins : Your kiddos will be mesmerized by this experiment. Head over to Buggy and Buddy for the tutorial.

2. Invisible Ink: Painting with Citrus : Use extra lemons and limes to make invisible ink.  Tinkerlab has the instructions for this experiment.

3. Ice Cream in a Bag : Who knew you could make ice cream in a bag? Love this one! Check it out over on  I Can Teach My Child .

4. Cabbage Leaves and Food Coloring : Kids will love watching the leaves absorb all of the different colors.  Paging Fun Mums has the step-by-step instructions.

5. Can You Sink a Marshmallow? : Find out how to sink a marshmallow with this fun experiment. Visit  Steve Spangler’s Blog for the full tutorial.

7. Kool Aid Puffy Paint : Create your own puffy paint to craft with! Loving this kitchen experiment from Learn Play Imagine .

8. Science on a Stick: Rock Candy : Super fun and super YUMMY kitchen experiment. Read all the details from  The Kitchen Pantry Scientist

9. Two Toothy Eggsperiments : Get out your eggs for this cool experiment from  Luv Pre-K .

10. Gummy Bear Science : Gummy bears would be so fun to experiment with! Head over to  Science for Kids to see what this experiment is all about.

Don’t these experiments sound exciting? Try these out for an afternoon of boredom busting, a snow day at home, or even make great ideas for a birthday party. I love that these kitchen experiments are perfect for kids of all ages. Which one is your favorite?

If you have done any kitchen experiments before, we’d love to hear your ideas in the comments!

Amy is happiest surrounded by her husband, her three amazing kids, stacks of books, and craft supplies. With a background in psychology, early childhood education, and elementary teaching, Amy is a supporter of playing dress-up, digging in the dirt, and squeezing out puddles of glue. At her blog, Let’s Explore , Amy shares her family’s experiences creating, imagining, and playing together.

Awesome roundup of ideas, Amy! I’m adding that kool-aid paint to my shopping list. And thank you for including us in this post.

Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids

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The kitchen is one of the most fun places to experiment and learn about science! Check out these SUPER cool kitchen science experiments for kids and try a few in your kitchen. Some of these are edible food experiments and some just use regular kitchen pantry items that you likely have on hand. Did you know I studied food science in school & then taught it for a few years? I love all kinds of food and kitchen science activities.

Science is used in the kitchen in so many ways!  These experiments will get your kids excited about the science and chemistry behind everyday items in your house. Plus, they can learn some baking tips, too!

If you love Kitchen Science check out my STEAM Kids in the Kitchen book. It has 70+ STEM activities, projects and experiments that can be done in the kitchen or with food-related ingredients.

An awesome food science activity is making bread. I love to make homemade bread. This is kitchen chemistry at its best!

I wanted my kids to understand how yeast works to make the bread rise, so we did a little experiment with it. You know the one with baking soda & vinegar that blows up a balloon, right? Well, this is like that, but you use yeast instead. It isn’t quite as exciting & dramatic because it blows the balloon up slowly as the yeast proofs, but it was a great visual for my kids to see how it works and why.

To do this, just use a water bottle and put in warm water- about 1/2 c., 1 Tbsp of yeast, and 1 Tbsp of sugar. Shake it gently so it mixes together. Place a balloon over the top of the bottle and watch what happens!

Make some bread dough at the same time. Help your kids see how the the yeast works to make the bread dough rise. Plus, you get some delicious bread to eat at the end. Here is my family’s favorite bread recipe!

Also Try our Bread in a Bag Experiment !

More COOL Kitchen Science Experiments:

Gelatin Fruit Enzyme Experiment – see which fruits prevent gelatin from setting up.

Try a food chemistry experiment: Learn how to see the DNA in an Onion !  You’ll need some dish soap for this experiment.

Apple Browning Science Experiment – do you know why apples brown? Learn all about it in this post! Use the scientific method to discover what common kitchen ingredients can prevent them from browning.

Rock Candy Geodes are a super cool food science activity- delicious, to eat, too! The outside is made from homemade fondant and the inside crystal is a sugar water concoction that forms into sugar crystals.

Cross-Curricular Kitchen Lessons – how to learn all subjects through activities in the kitchen!

Cabbage Juice Science – Create a kitchen science lab and test the pH of household items with this cool chemical reaction.

Does it Dissolve? – Try this experiment to see which things dissolve in water.

Cleaning Pennie s- use some common household ingredients from your kitchen to see which one leans your pennies the best.

Making Juicy Noodles – you can eat these juice strings, too! What a fun experiment to try! Kids love making and tasting these.

Cake Experiment – yummy and fascinating! What happens if you leave out certain ingredients?

How to Make Butter in a Jar is a fun one to do with a group of kids or at home. It’s cool to see how butter forms and learn why!

Green Eggs Experiment – No food coloring was used to color these eggs? It’s all a chemical reaction made from simple foods.

Solar Cooking – S’Mores- I LOVE the science experiments that end in a delicious edible product.

Play Anatomy Lab – use gelatin and create an anatomy lab with gelatin molds! These are made with plain gelatin, but you could definitely make them edible with regular Jello!

Rubber Egg Experiment – make a squishy egg!

Rainbow Milk Experiment – this classic science project is so fun to watch!!

Shrunken Head Apples – we did this at halloween time, but it is a fun educational activity for kids any time of the year!

Microwave your marshmallows! and watch them grow!

Salt Water Density Experiment – Test the density of different quantities of salt water.

Make a Battery using Lemons !

Make some Oobleck using just cornstarch and water.

Inflate a balloon when you create carbon dioxide gas with a reaction between baking soda and white vinegar.

Build Homemade Volcanoes with ingredients straight from the kitchen.

More fun Kitchen Science Ideas From around the web. . . 

Gummy Bear Science from Teach Preschool

Edible Mars Rock from The Fairy and the Frog

Dissolving, Expanding & Bouncing Eggs from Blue Bear Wood

50 Kitchen Science Activities  from Science Sparks

Candy Cane Science Experiment from Preschool Powol Packets

Also be sure to check out my post with Super Simple Science Experiments!

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Ooh I love the yeast experiment… must try that next time we make bread!

Love all the experiments that you can do at home. So much fun. Thanks for including us xxx

Thanks so much for including Science Sparks xx

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Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids Ages 3 to 8

Keep your kids’ brains busy and inspire innovation with simple STEAM projects you can do with the materials you have at home!

(Ages 5-11 )

If you’ve ever wondered why it might be hard to get out of quicksand, it’s because it can act like both a liquid and a solid. Cornstarch slime is a fun substance that does this too! When a substance like this has properties of both liquids and solids, they are called non-Newtonian fluids, which you’ll learn more about in this experiment. You’ll also explore what interactions make it go from one state to another. When you slowly press your fingers into cornstarch slime —stored in a Ziploc bag —it’ll feel like a liquid. But when you quickly press your fingers into it, it becomes as hard as a rock! Why do you think that is?

Want more slimey science fun without the hassle of gathering materials? Explore the science of thermochromism with Color Changing Slime from the KiwiCo Store !

(Ages 3-8 )

Try out this two-part water experiment! First--why can't you blow up a balloon in a bottle? And, second--what happens when you do...and then fill it with water?

(Ages 5-16 )

Discover non-newtonian fluids (substances that act as both a liquid and a solid) and liquids that glow under black light with this messy, but delightful activity!

Have you ever hit some water with a hammer? We’re not sure why you would have, but if you can imagine doing that, you can also imagine that the hammer would make a splash as it goes right into the water. The water doesn’t really push back on the hammer. But what if it did? What if you hit the water, and it stopped the hammer?

The mixture you’re going to make in this activity does just that. Oobleck is a type of mixture called a non-Newtonian fluid. If you push hard on it (no need to use hammers for this part), it hardens up and pushes back against you. If you push lightly on the oobleck, though, it stays liquidy and your hand will easily go into it.

My silly scientists had a blast with this hands-on experiment! We used mason jars and plastic water bottles to make our own mini tornadoes. Then they spent the afternoon spinning their bottles and watching their tornadoes twirl! They fascinated everyone from our tiny tots to my big 4th graders!

(Ages 3-11 )

See how a drop of soap can create an explosion of color with this easy experiment!

Want to learn more about chemistry without the hassle of gathering materials? Explore 11 fun chemistry experiments with a Chemistry Play Lab from the KiwiCo Store !

Investigate the scientific process with ice! Our Kiwi Crate lab book has six awesome and easy experiments that will keep your kids busy while you get work done. The best part is you can download or print out all the activities!

(Ages 3-12 )

Turn your kitchen into a chemistry lab with this simple science experiment! You only need three ingredients: baking soda, food coloring, and vinegar.

(Ages 3-7 )

Primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) are the source of all other colors. Secondary colors (green, purple, and orange) are created when two primary colors mix. If you freeze up colored ice cubes, you can experiment with color mixing as they melt. Combine cubes to make secondary colors, and if you’re feeling really creative, see if you can make tertiary colors (yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, and yellow-green)! Heads up: This project will dye your little ones’ hands. We recommend using gloves or putting the colored ice cubes in plastic bags for mixing.

When we think of slime, we think of a super-fun gooey experience. But with a handy bag, we can create an awesome rainbow project that lets us enjoy slime and learn at the same time! In this experiment, we make slime in the three primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) and layer them up to produce secondary colors (orange, purple, and green).

(Ages 3-16 )

In our household, we're not afraid to get a little messy, after all, it's inevitable with two little ones running around! So we loved this idea of making homemade finger paint using simple ingredients from the pantry. It was great to know that the paints were non-toxic in case any wandering fingers made their way into mouths. We had so much fun making and playing with the vibrant colors. We will definitely be doing this project again!

It is time for these little bears to grow up...and out with this gummy bear science project! Watch as gummy bears grow and shrink in different liquids in this kid-friendly experiment. This project is open for exploration and discovery, so kick things off by asking your child what they will happen to a gummy bear in water. Will it dissolve? Will it shrink or grow? Will it fall apart? How long will it take? Don’t forget to grab a notebook to write down their ideas so you can compare what they predicted with what actually happens! You’ll start to see results in just a few hours, and you’ll definitely see big changes in size in just a day.

Want to explore more kitchen science experiments? Explore the tastier side of learning with Science of Cooking: Ice Cream from the KiwiCo Store !

Write secret messages to your friends and family and then let them decode it with any source of heat - like a candle or an incandescent light bulb!

Want to learn more about chemistry without the hassle of gathering materials? Explore the science of thermochromism with Color Changing Slime from the KiwiCo Store !

Learn how to make a handful of grains hop and dance with this simple kitchen experiment! Add in a splash of food coloring to create a cup that is mesmerizing to watch and enjoy.

(Ages 3-4 )

Have you ever noticed that if you slice an apple in the morning, it turns brown by lunch? This is actually a chemical reaction at work! In this experiment, you’ll learn more about how the oxygen in the air around us causes this reaction (also known as oxidation). With a little help from Ziploc bags, test different liquids to see if you can figure out a way to keep apples fresh from morning to noon.

Is a square egg possible? Not in nature - but you can re-shape a hard-boiled egg in just a few easy steps!

Discover everything that eggs have to offer with Eggsperiments from the KiwiCo Store ! Use the scientific method with a series of egg-based experiments that explore chemistry, physics, and biology.

Want to see a chemical reaction in action? With this egg in vinegar experiment, we observed and followed a regular egg through a transformation to become a bouncy egg. You can too with just a few repurposed ingredients you may have around the house for Easter!

This experiment allows you to see how two common household materials react — eggshell and vinegar. When these materials come in contact, a (safe) chemical reaction takes place and creates new compounds. This easy experiment is great for children to do on their own, and fun to observe how the egg changes over time.

Can you bounce an egg without breaking its shell? Try this simple chemistry experiment and make a large, luminescent rubbery egg.

Did you know you can grow your own sugar crystals at home? In this experiment you'll learn about crystal growing science while making edible sweet treats.

Has your child ever wondered how plants get water from their roots all the way to their leaves? This simple celery experiment shows how colored water travels up a celery stalk!

Looking for more kitchen learning projects to do with your young scientist? Roll and stamp your way to early math exploration with a Fun Dough Pasta Maker from the KiwiCo Store !

(Ages 5-8 )

Pull a couple of cereal boxes from the shelf and test their iron content with this simple experiment. It's fun to see your breakfast whiz across the surface of milk using a magnet!

Try this spicy science trick at home!

My son has always had an interest for the kitchen. Whether I'm cooking dinner or baking cookies, you can be sure that he'll come running when he gets a whiff of something delicious. I loved the idea of encouraging his curiosity in the kitchen and introducing him to some herbs and spices we use in our everyday cooking. We created our very own mini sensory lab and my son loved exploring all the different ingredients we use in our home cooked meals!

Is there anything more fun for kids than bubbles? Not in my house!--well, at least on this afternoon with with this particular bubble bottle. My kids and I had a great time making our one-of-a-kind bottle...then we had a blast blowing a GAZILLION bubble suds!

With your kitchen as your lab and baking supplies as your ingredients, create your own underwater firework spectacular! These underwater fireworks go off because of density. Density means how much something weighs for a given volume of it. Denser things like iron and stone sink. Less dense things like wood and rubber float.

In this experiment, you use four different liquids with four different densities: oil, water, food coloring, and saltwater. The oil sits on top of the water because it’s less dense than water. The water sits on top of the saltwater for the same reason. Food coloring is denser than oil and a little bit denser than water, but it isn’t as dense as saltwater. When the drops of food coloring hit the dense saltwater, they disperse like exploding fireworks!

Eager to learn more about the world around us? Explore the science of volcanic eruptions with a Geologist Starter Kit from the KiwiCo Store !

In our part of California, we don't get any snow. While we try to make at least one trip to Tahoe every winter for a weekend of skiing and sledding, sometimes it's still not enough snow to satisfy my kids.

To recreate some of that fun winter magic, we decided to make our own snow! It was a great way to have fun with sensory play.

Looking for more crafts to decorate for the holidays? Create awesome decorations and have hands-on fun with a Rainbow Air Dry Clay set from the KiwiCo Store !

Did you know you can make your own bouncy balls at home? You can with this project that's also a quick chemistry exploration in polymers. You'll be jumping for joy right alongside your super awesome bouncy balls at the end of this experiment.

(Ages 7-16 )

Fizz, fizz, zoom! This baking soda experiment boat is easy to build and fun to race.

Discover more about the science of pressure with a Bottle Rocket kit from the KiwiCo Store ! Assemble a launcher, rocket, funnel, and launch mixture to experience some extremely fizzy fun.

Can you make a balloon inflate without using air? Sure you can! You just need to make carbon dioxide gas, which is easier than you think. When your vinegar and baking soda touch, get ready to watch the bubbly reaction!

Want to explore more hands-on science experiments without the hassle of gathering materials? Learn about chemistry and design out-of-this-world bath bombs with Planet Bath Bombs from the KiwiCo Store !

These little eggheads are an adorable project! Just plant the grass seeds and watch the hair grow. You can even use these eggheads as seed-starter pots because they are biodegradable and full of calcium for your plants!

If you wanted to pour water out of a Ziploc® brand bag into a bowl, where would you put the bowl? Directly under the opening of the bag, of course. (Thanks, gravity!) But if you had a piece of string, you could pour the water from a few inches off to the side of the bowl, over the table, and still get the water to flow into the bowl —all thanks to the adhesive and cohesive properties of water.

(Ages 1-8 )

Show off your patriotic spirit with this simple yet satisfying star project. Watch as five broken toothpicks transform their shape with just a few drops of water.

Will your toy sink or float? This experiment is fun for all ages.

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Customers find the experiments in the science fundamentals kit pretty fun, neat, and interesting. They also say the science sounds fun and is a great learning activity. Customers also mention that the experiments are well-planned and easy to complete.

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Customers find the science fundamentals kit very easy to use. They mention the directions are very easy, the experiments are simple, and the set up is well done. Customers also appreciate the instructions are geared towards kids, and mention the experiments keep their attention without being too complicated.

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Customers are mixed about the supplies. Some mention that they included plenty of the supplies so experiments could be done more than once, and there are extra ingredients included. However, others say that it was missing some of the items needed to complete the experiment.

"...and the first day was a big let down because the box was missing the key ingredient (red cabbage powder) for the experiment...." Read more

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"Took off one star because some of the experiments didn’t work and disappointed my daughter. But she loved the rocks and most of the experiments." Read more

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At the Democratic Convention, a Historic Nomination

What story did the democrats tell about kamala harris and will it be enough to win.

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[BACKGROUND CHATTER]

I’m standing in a sea of people coming out of this vast convention. And people are holding signs, smiling. There’s confetti everywhere. There are balloons, white, red, and blue. And there’s a lot of excitement.

From “The New York Times,” I’m Sabrina Tavernise. And this is “The Daily” from inside the Democratic National Convention Hall, where Kamala Harris has just accepted her party’s nomination, becoming the first woman of color in US history to do so.

Today, the story this convention told about Harris and whether that story could be enough to win.

It’s Friday, August 23.

[SERENE MUSIC]

The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day. What shall our our legacy be? What will our children say? Let me in my heart, when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.

On night one of the Democratic National Convention, the evening was really defined by this very emotional, quite bittersweet goodbye from President Biden.

And there’s nothing we cannot do when we do it together.

God bless you all. And may God protect our troops.

It was the closing of one chapter so that another could begin. It was Kamala Harris’s moment.

[UPBEAT JAZZ MUSIC]

So right now, it’s 7:40. We are on the floor at the Democratic National Convention. It is a crazy party atmosphere, which is like a massive understatement.

Day two kicked off with delegates gathering on the convention floor, casting their votes in a kind of symbolic way to make Harris the party’s nominee.

This giant festival of lights, people in cowboy hats, people with blinking bracelets, people with Christmas lights wrapped around their hats, heads, shoulders, people wearing donkey hats. I mean, it’s very, very, very celebratory in here.

We need to see that we’re moving on. We are turning a chapter in America.

How do you feel right now?

Awesome, excitement, energized. Ready to win this election.

I love it. I love it. People are just excited, electrified, and they’re just loving it, and they’re happy.

This has been the most electrifying event I’ve ever attended in my life. It’s my first convention. But what a convention to come for, right? To make history right now, as we charge forward to November 5, to elect the first female Black president. I’m excited.

So with Harris now the nominee, a new campaign slogan appeared everywhere. And that was, “A new way forward.” But in a campaign that’s just four weeks old, it was really an open question what “a new way forward” actually meant.

We’re not going back!

We’re not going back! We’re not going back!

And then over the course of the week, as speaker after speaker took the stage, we started to get an answer. The story of forward would be told through the story of Kamala Harris herself. And the question hanging over the week was really whether that story could appeal to a broad majority of Americans, voters outside of the convention hall who will ultimately decide the election.

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Astead, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

Again. The second time in a week. And I’m very excited for it.

So Astead, we had on the show on Monday to answer a question for us, that I think a lot of people have, which is, who is Kamala Harris? And you ended that conversation by saying that the Democratic Party also recognizes this reality, that for a lot of people, she is still this unknown quantity.

And that the party had a big task here at the convention this week, which was to find a way to finally tell her story. It does seem like they’ve tried to do that. Let’s walk through the case that they’re making for her. And what you’ve seen here in your reporting for your show, “The Run-Up.”

Yeah, I mean, I think that the Democrats have definitely laid out a case for her as a candidate, but also a story for her as a person. They have leaned into the different parts of her biography to really follow through on what, I think, is the best version of her campaign, which is a little bit for everybody. There is a story there about more moderate legislation, but pieces of progressive history. There’s different parts of her bio that speak to Black communities, immigrant communities.

Of course, the historic nature of her gender and the roles like that. And I really think it has followed through on what I expected for this week, which is that she seems to function politically as a mirror of some sort, where the party wants to position her as someone who basically, no matter what you’re looking for in terms of a vessel to beat Donald Trump, you can find it in this candidate.

Let’s dig into that more. Where did the convention start, that story?

Hello, Democrats!

Yeah, I think it really starts in her personal biography.

And I’m here tonight to tell you all about the Kamala Harris that I know.

They have told a story that she often tells about her being a first generation American.

Her mother moved here from India at 19.

And being a daughter of an immigrant mother who really raised two daughters in the Bay Area from working class roots. And that’s been a real thing that they’ve tried to own.

Kamala was not born into privilege. She had to work for what she’s got.

When she was young, she worked at McDonald’s.

They talk about her working at McDonald’s in college.

And she greeted every person without thousand watt smile and said, how can I help you?

I think it’s overall about trying to present this as someone who pulled himself up by bootstraps. It represents the American dream. And I think for Democrats, it really returns them back to the place they want to be. Democrats like thinking of themselves as a party who appeals to the diversity of America, both in racial ways, in gender ways, but also in class ways.

In Kamala Harris, we have a chance to elect a president who is for the middle class because she is from the middle class.

And I think they used other parts of her identity, specifically thinking about being the first Black woman to accept a major party’s nomination.

We know folks are going to do everything they can to distort her truth.

And I think Michelle Obama’s speech, specifically, spoke to the power and anxiety that sometimes that identity can bring.

My husband and I sadly know a little something about this.

For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us. See, his limited, narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hard-working, highly educated, successful people who happen to be Black.

And I would also say that it was an implicit response to what Republicans and others have been trying to say, talking about Kamala Harris as a DEI hire, someone who was only in their position because of their identity. But the way that Michelle Obama framed it was that those identities have power.

I want to know. I want to know. Who’s going to tell him, who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?

Just because someone the first to be in a position, does not mean that is the only reason in the position. But it also doesn’t make those identities meaningless. The fact that she is a Black woman should be seen as a strength, not as a weakness.

Is there a risk to that, though? I mean, by openly talking about race, is there a risk that goes too far and begins to alienate voters outside the convention out in the world who they need to win in November.

I mean, there’s always a risk. But I don’t really think so. Democrats have had increasing trouble with Black voters. There’s been a downturn in Black vote share all the way dating back to 2012.

In Biden’s now suspended candidacy, that was one of the things driving his polling weaknesses was kind of tepid reception from Black voters. A pitch to them is something that is a upside of the Kamala Harris campaign. And the hope that they could consolidate that community is where any Democratic nominee needs to be as a baseline.

We both got our start as young lawyers, helping children who were abused and neglected.

One thing I noticed that came up a lot during the speeches was her background as a prosecutor. How did the party present that part of her biography?

As a prosecutor, Kamala stood up for children who had been victims of sexual abuse.

She put rapists, child molesters, and murderers behind bars.

They talk about it in the way that I think fuels what they want to say is the reason she can take on Trump, that this is someone who has stood up to bullies before, who’s not going to be intimidated easily —

And Kamala is as tough as it comes.

— who’s tough, and who doesn’t shirk away from a challenge.

And she knows the best way to deal with a coward is to take him head on, because we all know cowards are weak. And Kamala Harris can smell weakness.

I think all of that adds up to say, you can trust this person to go up against Donald Trump. You can trust this person to go up against the Republican Party, because she’s not someone who is scared.

She never runs from a fight.

A woman, a fierce woman for the people.

But then, of course, we heard about another side of Kamala Harris, a more personal side.

Yeah, and I think this is the part of Kamala Harris where I think was kind of most missing in the presidential run. Frankly, it’s the part that she keeps most private. She is a warm family member and friend.

Hello to my big, beautiful blended family up there.

And I think what the speech from her husband did was really show and lay that out.

I got married, became a dad to Cole and Ella. Unfortunately, went through a divorce, but eventually started worrying about how I would make it all work. And that’s when something unexpected happened, I ended up with Kamala Harris’s phone number.

He talks about the kind of awkwardness of their first interaction.

I got Kamala’s voicemail, and I just started rambling. “Hey, it’s Doug.”

And I think you have a real kind of sense of their genuine connection to one another.

By the way, Kamala saved that voicemail. And she makes me listen to it on every anniversary.

Like, yes, this is someone who is tough, who is taking on corporations and cartels and all of that stuff by day. But this is someone who also makes a point to cook Sunday dinner for family every week.

And she makes a mean brisket for Passover.

And makes sure to really go close to his kids and is very close with her family.

That’s Kamala. She’s always been there for our children. And I know she’ll always be there for yours, too.

Going back to the last time the Democratic Party nominated a woman, Hillary Clinton, she had presented herself in a very different way. She kind of ran away from that stuff. She was saying, I don’t bake cookies, that’s not what I do. I’m kind of out there with the men, fighting.

And this convention and this candidate, Harris, is very different. She’s a newer generation. And she can do her career and bake cookies. Those things are not in conflict. This is a different type of woman leader.

This week we talked to Senator Elizabeth Warren on “The Run-Up,” and one of the things that she mentioned was she feels that there’s been a big change from 2016, even 2020 to now. Not just the amount of women in public office, but she said they don’t have to choose between sides of themselves. And I think that’s what diversity means.

Of course, Kamala Harris can be a tough politician and also bake cookies. Hillary Clinton did that, too. It was just that she was told that was not the way that she had to present herself. What Kamala Harris is benefiting from is there’s a greater space and ability to choose multiple things at once. And so particularly if others are going to talk more directly about gender or race or other things, that kind of frees her from having the burden of doing that herself.

And in fact, Hillary Clinton, herself, did speak, of course, on day one. She talked about that glass ceiling in the history that has led to now, including her own experience in 2016.

Yeah, I thought the Hillary Clinton speech was really powerful. I think a lot of the speakers put this moment in historical context, both politically and personally.

My mother, Dorothy, was born right here in Chicago before women had the right to vote. That changed 104 years ago yesterday. And since that day, every generation has carried the torch forward. In 1972, a fearless Black congresswoman named Shirley Chisholm —

— she ran for president. In 1984, I brought my daughter to see Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman nominated for vice president. And then there was 2016, when it was the honor of my life to accept our party’s nomination for president.

The last time I was here in my hometown was to memorialize my mother, the woman who showed me the power of my own voice. My mother volunteered at the local school.

I’m the proud granddaughter of a housekeeper, Sarah Daisy, who raised her three children in a one-bedroom apartment. It was her dream to work in government, to help people.

My grandmother, the woman who helped raise me as a child, a little old white lady born in a tiny town called Peru, Kansas.

I want to talk now about somebody who’s not with us tonight. Tessie Prevost Williams was born in New Orleans not long after the Supreme Court ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. That was in 1954, same year I was born. Parents pulled their kids out of the school.

There was a way that I think the candidacy and the person was placed in a long legacy, both about gender identity and racial identity that kind of teed up this Thursday as a culminating moment, both politically and I think, in a broader historical context.

Together, we put a lot of cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling. And you know what? On the other side of that glass ceiling is Kamala Harris raising her hand and taking the oath of office as our 47th president of the United States!

I wish my mother and Kamala’s mother could see us. They would say, keep going. Shirley and Jerry would say, keep going!

I think you can do a lot to set up a candidate to be in a good position. All of this stuff adds up to some part of the puzzle, but the biggest piece is the candidate themself. At the end of the day, they have to close the deal. And I think this moment is her chance to tell her own story in a way that sometimes she has not decided to. And that’s still what this whole convention success and failure will ride on.

We’re going to watch tonight. We’re going to watch with our colleague, Reid Epstein. And you are going to have a great episode of “The Run-Up” on Friday. We will all be tuning in.

Thank you. I appreciate you doing this, Sabrina.

Really thanks a lot, Astead.

Are you a delegate?

Sorry, we caught you mid French fry eating. What’s your feeling about Kamala and what her story has been? Are you getting to know her this week? Are there things you’ve learned about her this week?

Yeah, I’m learning more and more as we go along. The more and more I learn about her, the more I’m impressed with her. I mean, she worked at McDonald’s when she was going to college to try to pay her way through.

Her very small beginnings. Not a trust fund baby type of thing. I relate to that. Like, I was on food stamps this year. So it’s like if she can do it with that background, it gives everybody hope.

Hillary was my girl. When Hillary ran, I championed her as well. But I didn’t feel this way as I feel about Harris. I’m like, do I want to run for office? If she can do it, I can. She looks just like me, right? She represents, she works at McDonald’s. She paid for every. It’s relatable. And that’s what everybody needs.

We’re going to break that glass ceiling. I’m getting teary, teary in my eyes. And it just means so much to be inclusive.

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What does it mean to you that Kamala Harris is a woman? What does it mean to you that she’s a Black woman?

To have a Black woman become the president of the United States, and for her to turn the world upside down in 30 days, to know that I’m in the midst of this miraculous history is phenomenal.

One delegate who really stood out to us was Beverly Hatcher, a 76-year-old Black woman from Texas.

I was raised by a wonderful Baptist mama. I just lost her. But I am who I am because of my mother. We were always pushed to do whatever we wanted to do. I’ll never forget. I wanted to be a majorette. I taught myself, because we had no money for, what is it called, lessons

And a majorette is like the baton twirler, right?

Yes. And when I did finally try out in my 11th grade, I won right off. And my classmates, who were predominantly white, as years have gone by, have told me at class reunions and stuff, Beverly, the sleepy town of Wellington woke up.

Oh, my god, we got a Black girl getting ready to be the head majorette. But it happened because I had the drive and the will. My mother and my family stood behind me, and didn’t miss a parade, or a football game, or a basketball game.

And you see that in Harris?

Beverly, what would your mom say if she saw this?

My sisters have been telling me every day how proud my mom is. And I’m just happy. I’m happy to make her happy. Yeah.

We women, who have had mothers like Kamala, like Michelle, I remember Hillary’s mother, we women value their strength and their wisdom. And we’re just glad that they gave us a legacy to pass it on.

Thank you very much.

We’ll be right back.

Reid, hello.

OK. Kamala Harris just wrapped up her acceptance speech. Before we talk about what she said and the case she presented, tell us how her campaign was thinking about the stakes of this moment.

Sabrina, this evening was one of two opportunities, along with the debate next month, for her to speak to tens of millions of people at once. And so for that, the stakes were really high.

Her goal was to present herself as a serious person and a serious candidate, who was not the candidate who flamed out in 2019 or the unsteady vice president from the beginning of her term. She had to show that she had the gravitas to be the commander in chief, the political aptitude to reach out to the middle, and also to progressives in her party all at the same time.

A very tall order. Tell us how she went about doing that.

Good evening, everyone. Good evening.

Well, she started talking around 9:30 Chicago time to a packed United Center with 14,000 or 15,000 people, many, many wearing all white, the color of the suffragettes, a color that makes a statement just by wearing it. And when Harris took the stage —

— they erupted in a cheer that forced her for a couple of minutes to wait before she could start talking.

Thank you. OK, let’s get to business. Let’s get to business. All right.

And what did she finally say once she started talking?

She told the story of her life.

The path that led me here in recent weeks was, no doubt, unexpected. But I’m no stranger to unlikely journeys.

My mother, our mother, Shyamala Harris, had one of her own. And I miss her every day, and especially right now.

She talked about the influence of her mother, who raised her and her sister.

And she also taught us, “And never do anything half-assed.” And that is a direct quote. [LAUGHS]

She spoke about her family’s humble beginnings in Oakland.

Before she could finally afford to buy a home, she rented a small apartment in the East Bay.

Then she started talking about her career as a prosecutor.

In the courtroom, I stood proudly before a judge and I said five words.

She brought back one of the lines that she used in her 2020 campaign about how when she stood up in a courtroom, she began with the same words.

Kamala Harris for the people.

And she said she would bring that same philosophy to the White House, that she was not working for specific individuals, but for the people at large.

And so on behalf of the people —

Eventually she did a bigger wind up to formally accepting the nomination.

— on behalf of every American, regardless of party, race, gender, or the language your grandmother speaks —

And listed the people on whose behalf she did so.

— on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth —

It was really a kind of a feat of speech writing to build up to this big emotional moment.

— I accept your nomination to be president of the United States of America.

And what did you make of that, how she was doing that?

It was building up this speech to be a serious political document and present her as a serious figure in this moment. And so she still has to prove to people that she is capable of being the commander in chief and running the country.

And how does she try to prove that she’s capable of being a commander in chief?

What she did was try to draw the distinction between herself and Donald Trump.

In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences, but the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.

And she warns that Trump would not have guardrails on him if he were elected to a second term.

Just imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.

And how he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United States not to improve your life, not to strengthen our national security, but to serve the only client he has ever had, himself.

The speech was very clear-eyed about the stakes of the election.

They know Trump won’t hold autocrats accountable because he wants to be an autocrat himself.

There was a whole section in the middle of the speech where she ticked through, one by one, a whole series of warnings about things that Trump would do to the country if he were back in the White House.

Get this, he plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator and force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions.

Simply put, they are out of their minds.

What else stuck out to you?

It was remarkable, the section of the speech where she talked about Gaza.

President Biden and I are working around the clock, because now is the time to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done.

She did not veer too far to the left.

I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself.

She managed to say things that would be appealing to both sides.

President Biden and I are working to end this war, such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination.

It was a remarkable moment to hear the arena erupt at the end of that section, to hear her support for both the Israelis and the Palestinians reveal that kind of enthusiasm, after the party has been really ripped apart for months about how to handle the situation.

Fellow Americans, I love our country with all my heart.

She ended this speech with a paean to patriotism.

We are the heirs to the greatest democracy in the history of the world.

She dove headlong into the American exceptionalism argument that is native to Republicans and to older generations of politicians, like Joe Biden.

It is now our turn to do what generations before us have done. Guided by optimism and faith to fight for this country we love. To fight —

But is not something you always hear from younger Democrats, who are a little less comfortable with some of the flag waving.

Let’s vote for it. And together, let us write the next great chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told. Thank you. God bless you and may God bless the United States of America. Thank you all.

She seemed to really be taking aim at this criticism of her, which is that she’s this radical California liberal and she can’t be trusted with the keys to the country.

I mean, that was one of the tasks that she had tonight, was to make the argument, particularly to voters in the middle, the suburban voters that used to vote for Republicans, but have been repelled by Trump and driven to Democrats in the last several years, that they can vote for her without worrying that she’s some kind of Bernie Sanders acolyte.

And some of that is based on the way she ran her last presidential campaign. Some of it, frankly, is because she’s a Black woman from California. And that the voters who will determine this election are voters in less diverse states, for the most part.

So Reid stepping back here, it feels worth remembering just where we were at the end of the Republican National Convention that was just over a month ago. Things couldn’t have felt more different. The GOP was on top of the world, while the Democrats were in disarray over Biden’s refusal to leave the race.

And now here we are. And it feels like things couldn’t be better for the Democrats. At least that’s the feeling I’m having coming out of this convention.

I mean, the whole race has turned upside down from where it was when we left Milwaukee. And Democrats are upbeat. They are confident. It is a party that is remarkably united behind their candidate.

But you have to remember, this election will be very close. It is, indeed, a game of inches in the key battleground states. And what she was trying to do was to present herself as someone who can be trusted as commander in chief to win over the tiny slices of the electorate that will determine the winner in places like Wisconsin, and Michigan, and Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona.

And those are the states that will determine the election. And they have made a calculated decision that those voters needed to see her as a commander in chief, something they had not seen from her before. And we will see in the coming days and weeks whether she’s accomplished that in a way that brings enough of those people on board for her to win a term as president.

Reid, thank you.

Thank you, Sabrina. [WHIMSICAL MUSIC]

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As a result, Arizonans newly registering to vote for this year’s presidential election must provide copies of one of several documents, such as a birth certificate or a passport, in order to prove that they are US citizens. Democrats have denounced the new rule as an attempt to prevent legal immigrants from voting.

And US Health officials have approved the latest slate of annual COVID vaccines, clearing the way for Americans six months and older to receive updated shots in the coming days. The approvals come amid a prolonged surge of COVID infections, which have risen all summer.

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One day I just I woke up in somebody else’s shoes. I felt like I had entered somebody else’s life. And I didn’t know how to get back to mine.

Today’s episode was produced by Lynsea Garrison, Rob Szypko, Jessica Cheung, Asthaa Chaturvedi, and Shannon Lin. It was edited by Rachel Quester, contains original music by Rowan Niemisto, Dan Powell, Diane Wong, and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Chris Wood. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk of Wonderly.

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Last night, at the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s nomination, becoming the first woman of color in U.S. history to do so.

Astead W. Herndon and Reid J. Epstein, who cover politics for The Times, discuss the story this convention told about Ms. Harris — and whether that story could be enough to win the presidential election.

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