Messy Church Does Science: Take-home ideas

Can’t get enough of Messy Church Does Science? There are loads of experiments and other activities you can do at home to continue exploring the ideas in our other resources.

Take home idea downloads

• Water
• Earth, stars and space
• Air
• Light and colour
• Human body
• Plants
• Animals
• Power and energy
• Transformations and reactions
• Time and measurement

Web links

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Water

• Walking water
• Surface tension
• Sugar rainbow

Earth, stars and space

• Milk planets
• Photos and films from NASA
• Star Tracker Lite
• Experiments in the international space station
• Save the earth from asteroids
• A quiz on climate change

Air

• Hovercraft
• Unpoppable balloon

Light and colour

• Square bubbles
• Light travels in a straight line

Human body

• Explore your perceptions (proprioceptions)
• Test your body’s rhythms
• Magic tricks for your body

Plants

• Colour-changing flowers
• Find out about plants in your area (The Eden Project)
• Take a tree quiz

Animals

• Tracks
• Minibeast hunt
• Make a glow-in-the-dark spider’s web
• Build a skeleton

Power and energy

• Make an orange candle
• Make a spinning decoration
• Make ball shooters
• Energy flow online game
• Energy-saving tips

Transformations and reactions

• Make butter
• Steel wool reacting with oxygen
• Quiz about chemicals
• Change your batteries

Time and measurement

• Make an anemometer
• Measure how energy transfers using bouncing balls
• Layers of time game