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Environmental Science: Oil Cleanup
Dive into environmental science with this hands-on eco-adventure! Learn how oil affects the ocean, then simulate an oil spill of your own and rescue the cute critters. Plus, step into the shoes of real-life wildlife rescuers and environmental engineers as you follow their story in the illustrated instruction booklet.
Why it’s awesome
Wildlife rescue
Cute critters to rescue with fabric fur and feathers to clean.
Hands-on engineering
Build, test, and repeat to create a clean-up solution.
Splashy science
Explore oil-and-water chemistry with different clean-up tools.
What’s included?
Topics explored
Ocean health
Oil chemistry
Wildlife rescue
Additional details
From the desk of the product designer:
Behind the design
“I was inspired by the workers who tackle real-life oil spills with science and engineering, and I wanted to help kids connect with those problem solvers through a series of fun experiments!”
- KiwiCo Product Designer
By the numbers
1000
Milliters of oil cleaned during kid testing
25
Wood animals rescued
Many!
Different boom configurations
Reviews
4.9
14 reviews
Customer images
Brittany
01/23/2025
Super cute, recommend for younger children maybe 6 and under. My 8 year old seemed a little bored with this.
Yvonne
08/02/2024
This is an absolutely awesome kit! My son who is 5 loved everything. Such a great visual way to learn. We read several oil spill books prior to doing this kit and this was the visual hands on. My son learned so much. Great job on this one Kiwi Co!
Elaine
10/19/2022
Great little kit :) I like that this can be used again and again with simple household ingredients
Jamie
06/01/2022
My son loves this so much, even I have fun playing with this with. High quality items, very inspiring to children to spark care and love of the animals and the environment. So much fun with a great message!
Jennifer
10/07/2021
My six-year-old grandson loved this kit! We had a lot of fun with the experiments and the booklet was excellent. We did a little research on the recent oil spill in California so it was good timing. With just a few modifications I was able to use it with the three-year-old that I nanny. He loved it as well. This is a kit we’re going to use a lot in the future.
Friederike
10/02/2021
Our daughters enjoyed this activity a lot. They are very interested in environmental science and loved to learn about both wildlife rescue as well as environmental engineering.
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