Just as I was about to buy an elaborate jewellery box for Mut Tiy En Rayay's (7yrs old) kharadu zamam (children's day) gift, she told me she wanted a chemistry set for her birthday in March. So for her birthday we'll probably take her to a science fair and for kharadu zamam she got this chemistry lab. It's for 10 year old's and over, but she's definitely ready for it's concepts.
We've read through the safety instructions and we're doing the first experiments now, which are introducing her to soluble and insoluble substances, dissolving, solutions, solvents and solutes.
The only drawback is that we opened the kit ready to get started, only to find there's a whole shopping list of stuff you need that aren't in the kit. Many are found around your home (i.e. salt, hydrogen peroxide, ground pepper etc) but quite a few we don't have (ie white sugar, food colouring, methylated spirit etc).
What she'll learn and experience by doing the experiments is worth the extra effort of getting the additional materials and she'll be able to perform 100 experiments in total.
It might be worth finding out the additional materials your desired kit needs before you buy it so you don't get off to a false start like we did.
As she is really into science right now, I got her to do a complete write up of the experiment, complete with a materials and equipment list, an explanation of what she did and a results table, just like I remember doing in secondary school.
It was music to my ears when she said to me the next day "Muldudtet, we didn't do any Mir work yesterday morning", so I told her the experiment was Mir work and she said "THAT was work, that's my favorite work ever"!!!
We got ours for £26 from Amazon.co.uk (click here) though I've noticed the price is currently just £19, if you want it get it while it's reduced.
Hatap yasar
Mut Bastat En Rayay
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