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Science is fun!
Keeping the kids entertained and learning at the same time is a challenge — but it can be done! We’ve rounded up 10 fun and messy science experiments that you can do outside, right in your own backyard. Your kids can create bouncy balls and baking-soda volcanoes, explode sandwich bags and create electricity from lemons. They won’t even realize they are learning because they’ll be having so much fun!
You can jump to the one that catches your eye on the list below:
- Squirt gun volcanoes
- Carbon sugar snake
- Rubber bands around a watermelon
- Grow your own crystal geodes
- Exploding sandwich bag
- Turn a penny green
- Magic hatching dinosaur eggs
- Make bouncy balls
- Make a lemon battery
- Make gigantic bubbles
Up first: Squirt gun volcanoes
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Editor’s note: This article was originally published several years ago and was updated most recently on June 5, 2025, by ParentMap’s associate editor, Kari Hanson, with new experiments and a fact-check.
