My 8 year old son loves getting involved with little experiments these days so I knew he’d love trying spending time Enjoying Gross Science for British Science Week. Let’s face it, he’s fixated with bodily functions so it was never going to be anything other than a big hit, was it! British Science Week runs from today, 9th March through til 18th March and we thought we’d start it off with a fart and a poop, as you do!
The John Adams Gross Science set is aimed at children aged 7 and over and it consists of 12 different activities. Whilst adult supervision is required due to some of the chemicals included in this set, children can have lots of fun.
We’ve been enjoying Gross Science for British Science Week with this set, which comes with full instructions. You do need additional items to complete 8 of the activities in this set, but they are pretty much standard things that’s you’d have to hand in the kitchen. The activities that do need these extra items are all clearly marked, so with a bit of planning you won’t have any unhappy kids as they start their Gross Science fun.
The range of activities include Making a Fart in a pot, Bouncy poo, Snot, how a Burp works, Life size bouncing Eye Ball, Making Zits (this set is names Gross Science for a reason you know), Maggot filled would, Digestive system, Lets Launch your Lunch, vomit, making a life-size jelly brain, Jelly fingers. There are also six Gross Science food recipes to try out at the end of the instruction leaflet. We may well be eating Maggot Stew next week!
With a son who is obsessed by farting, find me an eight year old boy who isn’t, i just knew he’d want to start with he Let’s Make a Fart in a Pot activity.
The instructions are clear and easy for children to follow and my son was soon having lots of fun with this particular experiment. Even our cat Brewster was eager to see what was happening as my son worked on his adding skills to ensure he’d put just the right amount of water in the pot to start the fun.
With his goggles in place he added the Fart Putty Powder and stirred and stirred until the mixture started to solidify a bit. He left the concoction for 5 minutes and then discovered it was a far more solid lump, a bit like slime he thought.
He then pushed the Fart Putty into the Fart Canister and pushed into the mixture with his finger. Lots of fart noises later and a son who was in fits of giggles. A big hit and something he’d have loads more fun trying out on his Dad the next day.
You can store the Fart Putty in this canister or in another airtight container and then your child can create farts at will. Joy!
As well as having fun with the actual activities, the instruction booklet also explains why and how different processes happen. So what a fart actually is and why they happen, what snot, why squeezing spots isn’t such a good idea and how and why scabs form, for a few examples. So children are learning whilst having fun, always a good thing as far as I’m concerned.
There was no way that my son wouldn’t be making Bouncy Poo and he actually started this experiment whilst the Fart Putty was setting. Now please forgive the fact that my son’s rather silly mother hadn’t read the bit about adding water to the food colouring powder bottles at the start of the booklet. I’ll be owning up to my son sometime this week about that! But even with that faux pas he had lots of fun with this activity.
Again making use of adding skills to ensure he had the correct amount of water, using the remaining Fart Putty powder and food colouring to start his poo off on the right track.
Once the poo goo has been poured into the mould, you place it inside a plastic bag, seal it and put it in the fridge overnight for your bouncy poo to set! My son had already decided that he was going to trick his Dad the next day, and blame our poor cat for leaving him a little parcel. Nice!
He’s a charming child really. He’s certainly been enjoying Gross Science for British Science Week. He decided he wanted to try making Vomit next – nice! For this activity you will need a mixing bowl, wooden spoon and scissors, along with items supplied in the set.
This lovely creation takes 2-3 days to dry out, you then cut the provided wax paper around the edge, crumple it up and there you have it. Lovely.
Over the coming week I’ll be watching on as my son constructs his life-size bouncing eyeball and I’m not sure who is actually more excited at creating our jelly brain with the moulds provided!
My son has been enjoying Gross Science for British Science Week and we both give this set a big thumbs up. Priced at £18.99 I’ve included my Amazon Affiliate link below for your reference.
disclosure: we were sent the item mentioned in exchange for an honest review.
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We love to make rainbows with skittles and water.
Baking soda volcano is our favourite experiment!
We love experimenting making our own instruments at the moment, which is kind of science-y learning about sound!
My kids would love the fart putty. I think however old you are, when someone does that, everyone has a little smirk on their faces
All my attempts at baking are experiments which usually go wrong.
we love making slime x
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My son would love to do the Making a Fart in a pot. Would be giggling away
My Son likes doing the experiment where you put some black berol pen on a piece of kitchen roll and then you put it in a small glass with some water at the bottom. he likes to see the different colours that come out of the kitchen roll as it gets wet.
We used to enjoy doin the fizz and bang experiments. Volcanoes and cola rockets
We enjoy making different types of slime. Because it’s something my youngest can join in with.
My kids would love to make slime
When I was a child I used to love growing crystals, the results were so beautiful. I’ve not done it with the grandchildren yet – I really must!
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We liked making a volcano.
we would try the fart putty because my sons would find it hilarious x
Easily the volcano!
We like the volcano experiment.
We have done the Skittles experiment at home and had great fun with it.
my kids enjoyed making the volcano
We haven’t really done experiments at home – they’ve done the slime at parties and really enjoyed it. We’ll have to try a few experiments!
My son enjoys using a bowl of water and getting everyday objects to see what floats and what sinks
I’ve never really tried any so would love to win this to try some out
We really like trying the slime experiment.. sometimes it works and sometimes it does not!
we love moving the foam boat with handsoap little lady was amazed
has to be making slime at the moment
We enjoy making bottle lava lamps with oil, water and glitter xXx
Gosh ! Usually ANYTHING that makes a mess – bicarb in the cola !!
Cant wait for the warmer days to go outside
We love making slime in our house – this would be awesome for my daughter 😀
The volcano experiment because they love it when it hit’s the ceiling,it really makes them laugh.
We like making colcanis with bicarb and coke because we love to see it ooozing and working
We love the skittles rainbows! Bonus is that we get to eat the sweets we’re not using!
The Skittles experiment where you make a rainbow of colour in water.
We like the volcano experiment as it’s fun to watch and see how well it works.
The volcano one as it pleases any boys really! We should try and do more though
we made some mini comets with bicarb and citric acid x
Making an egg float in water with salt and water
Making slime it’s all they do!!
We love making a volcano with coke and mints as it’s super fun!
We are into making Slime at the mo
making crystals
We enjoyed making the baking soda volcano!
We really love making slime!
Blowing up a balloon with vinegar and bicarbonate of soda.
Making wine glasses sing, it’s fun.
we used to like growing crystals it was fun
I don’t think it’s science as such but my daughter has been teaching me to make slime
I still love the Cola bottle and Mentos fizzy explosion, I do it for me more than the kids!
My daughter loves making slime and would love this set. Thanks for the chance x
Making slime
baking soda volcano
Slime, fart putty, volcanoes, bath bombs because they are all messy
We like making slime because of its texture!
We have done the lemon experiment. Cut of the bottom to allow it to stand. Cut the top off, squish the lemon inside and add some dye, we use clothes dye and pour in to lemon, add a teaspoon of baking powder and you have your own mini volcano
We love making slime
We like making a lava lamp by mixing oil, food colouring and water in a plastic bottle.
seeing what things float in water
the slime we tried to make it before and it went all wrong haha xx
We’ve not done one at home but my little boy made a volcano at nursery and loved it so will be trying it ourselves soon
Making slime or the exploding cola or melting crayons…basically anythinf that involves mess!
we often do the one with the bottles filled with water and then pumping air into them from a valved foot pump and then the bottle going into the air! Our 5 yr old loves that!
We like making colours, from water paint, melting crayons, berries.
We enjoyed making Lava lamps using alka-seltzer, water, oil and food colouring.
We have made bath bombs if that is an experiment x
We like putting objects in a bucket and seeing which ones float
the old mentos in coca cola experiment – the kids love it.
We enjoy making goo! Gets everywhere though! Thanks for the chance
Dissolving the egg shell from a raw egg is our favourite
Making goo- it is so much fun
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An egg in vinegar is something the kids find really cool
Kids are loving making slime at the minute
Playing music using water!
mentos and coke!!!
the kids love to see it explode!!
we’ve done the mentos and coke experiment, the kids loved that!
mentos and coke
Thos crystals that grow in solution, they look so pretty and I used to make when I was a kid!
I’d love to try the vomit one
We make a fruit battery
the volcano!
my nephews love making slime any thing messy and they love it
As yet we havent tried any…..
Making an erupting volcano children find it fun
We have been making alot of slime lately!
Home made volcanoes are a winner here!!
We haven’t tried any.
making slime
Making rainbow Ross with food colouring
Making a tornado in plastic bottles!
My son would love to make the volcano
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We’re making home made slime at the moment with pva glue, soap and baking powder!
Homemade slime with my little niece with pva glue soap and baking powder
Baking soda volcano but only just before cleaning day!
My daughters make all thee weird and wonderful potions and put just about everything into them. I still haven’t figured out what for yet apart from the fact I have to tide all their mess up afterwards. x
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The volcano experiment would delight the children as it is much more daring than most.
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Exploding volcanoes!!
love making slime
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slime for us
We enjoyed the coke and mentos experiment in the garden though
I love the baking soda volcano experiment!
Bicarb and white vinegar my kids love this
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We like making paper mache volcano’s that really erupt
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The fart putty would be a big hit!
Thus summer I want to make a volcano outside – I’ve seen it on you tube and looks fab!
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Mentos and Diet Coke as the reaction is spectacular!
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My kids like making lava lamps
We tried to make slime. It’s the craze at the minute apparently.
The potato clock, it’s great fun!
Marbling on paintings with oil and water -it is therapeutic and the way the oil reacts to the water and paint makes for some amazing pictures
love making different things with slime
We love making magnets jump
love making slime
The erupting volcano using bicarb is always good. I’d love to give these gross experiments a go with my nephew.
the volcano 🙂
We love making slime in my house.
fart in a pot sounds hilarious…my son always giggles where farts are involved.
the potato clock
Making slime appears to be a firm favourite in our house at the moment. Thanks for the chance
we like to use skittles and water to make rainbows
so we like doing an experiment with pepper but i dont know what you would call it – fill a bowl with water, sprinkle pepper over the top – dip your finger in – it sticks to your finger. Then put washing up liquid on your finger and stick it in – th pepper moves away from your finger. It’s pretty cool you can also do it with some milk and food colouring too 😀 we like doing it because its easy and its with ingredients we always have to hand
Recently we tried a crystal growing kit which was a lot of fun.
My kids like to make a volcano using baking soda. I think they like it because it’s messy!
We love the tornado in a water bottle experiment…..its abit of a competition in our house as to who can make it spin for the longest!
My son made the exploding volcano in his forest friends lesson recently. So we’d love to do that again.
We enjoy making slime! We love trying new ways! Our most recent was soap and shampoo!
We like the volcano because it can be spectacular.
id like to try the volcano experiment
Mentos in coke. Kids love it.
We’ve been experimenting with eggs and their strength
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We love to grow crystals because they are so pretty!
making slime and bath bombs is big in our house right now!x
We once made a lava lamp, and like growing crystals!
Baking soda volcano. It looks cool!
Making slime is always a winner, something I do together with my Grandson
baking soda volcanoe
slime both my kids are crazy with youtubing about it
making slime because it is so easy and satisfying
The closest we’ve come to a science experiment so far is growing our own fruit and veg from seeds.
baking soda volcanos x
Making the children disappear 🙂
Slime because it’s yucky and funny and easy to do
We love making slime or our own play dough
We would definitely enjoy the fart experiment. It looks great fun!
We love making a baking soda volcano. My daughter is also 8 and she would love this. It looks like lots of fun x
We made some bath bombs which was good fun
making slime if that counts
My son would love to do the Making a Fart in a pot. He’s at that stage where bogies and farts are funny
I’d like to try the “walking quickly over cornstarch slime” to change it from a liquid to a solid. We’d need a lot of slime though.
The baking soda volcano is always a favourite with the kids
We like to try and make slime never works so i buy from the poundshop loool
WE love making slime and always try out new ways and we also love the volcano experiment with vinegar and bicarbonate of soda
we recently made lemon volcanoes which were great fun and smelt lovely!
Would love to try the baking soda volcano would be so much fun
We really love making slime – messy but lots of fun!
For us it has to be the errupting volcano. The kids love it because it’s messy and my fiance and I favour it because it’s something we also did as children and enjoyed.
Making slime from various ingredients in the house is always fun
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I love making volcanos using “secret” ingredients
We like to make glitter slime with y girl using borax – also i do homemade soap using lye