Ages 5+

Oil + Water Chemistry

$29.954.9

Oil and water may not mix, but kids and chemistry definitely do! First, set up your own chemistry lab. Add fizzy tablets to oil and dyed water to make an underwater “volcano,” make colorful, swirly art, explore the concept of density when you build an oil-and-water-powered ship-in-a-bottle, and more!


Why it’s awesome

  1. 3 experiments

    Make an underwater volcano, bubble bottle, and underwater fireworks.

  2. Sailing ship-in-a-bottle

    Build an oil-and-water sailing scene toy.

  3. Swirly art

    Create colorful art with chemistry and share a postcard with a friend.

What’s included?

  • 3 food coloring bottles, each 0.5 fl oz (15 mL)

  • vegetable and baby oil, each 3.38 oz (100 mL)

  • 10 fizzy tablets

  • 5 beakers

  • 2 test tubes

  • 4 foam lab bases

  • 5 squeeze bulbs

  • funnel and tray

  • stir stick

  • 2 plastic cups

  • cotton balls

  • 5 watercolor sheets

  • 5 postcard frames

  • bottle with wood base

  • boat

  • foam clouds

  • pebbles

  • mess mat

  • illustrated lab book

Topics explored

  1. Scientific method

  2. Density experiments

  3. Mixing oil and water

From the desk of the product designer:

Behind the design

This crate is all about experimentation — with oil and water! Discover the molecular science behind oil with fun experiments like an underwater volcano and fireworks. Plus, turn science into art creating a one-of-a-kind postcard and a boat in a bottle.

- KiwiCo Product Designer

By the numbers

1000

Milliliters of oil used in development

9

Boats tested

6

Experiments considered


Reviews

4.9

16 reviews


Customer images

    TV LOGISTIK Mrs Alla Babiy

    01/03/2024

    My son loved it

    Nana

    02/15/2023

    kept my grandson busy for quite awhile. He loved experimenting

    Bavila

    06/27/2022

    My 2 year old absolutely loved this box. So happy I added it in between crates.

    Kathryn

    04/08/2022

    Wonderful product!

    Denise

    02/03/2022

    This was so much fun for my 3yo. We spread the activities out over the course of the week. It's been almost 3 hours of activities altogether. Each activity was so much fun.

    Briana

    12/27/2021

    What we liked: each activity in the kit was fun (except one); most of the ingredients can easily be found at home, so you can continue to experiment; the instructions and materials were great to get the lab set up, and once you are all set up, that's all you need. What we didn't like: the underwater fireworks didn't really work and there was no troubleshooting guide to suggest what might have gone wrong - it only did the "fireworks" when we took our own step and added colored water at the top.

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