How I Used A Chemistry Set For Kids As An Educational Tool

How I Used A Chemistry Set For Kids As An Educational ToolHave you ever wanted to own a chemistry set for kids? You can easily find a great deal of these, and what better place to look than at an online store that specializes in learning toys for children?I remember when I bought my first chemistry set for kids, which was an Oldsmobile, I really loved the thought of making all sorts of substances with it. It seemed like it could be a great opportunity to develop a good home science project. I really was excited about it.When I finally got around to opening up the box and going through the contents of the chemistry set for kids, I was rather disappointed. The containers were different colors and I couldn't make out a thing in the instructions or the graphic instructions. What a waste! My chemistry set for kids was supposed to be the answer to my childhood dreams of being able to do all sorts of chemical reactions with my favorite alchemist characters.So I opened up the old set, opened up the label and there it was written... Chemistry set for kids. I opened the box and it was filled with lots of paper, a very plain but colorful bottle and a bunch of liquids with different labels on them. With a clean bottle and instructions I was pretty happy with it.So I took it out of the box and gave it a shake, turned it over and looked it over, and found it to be in pretty nice condition. I figured the color was meant to be a bit lighter because this was the first one I had purchased, and I tried rubbing the bottle a bit to see if I could get some extra coloring. I knew that this was supposed to be a bit darker so I put some away in a bucket along with some other things that could add to the effect, like some nail polish remover and the different liquids.I still wasn't very happy with the results, but I was pretty sure that I was going to try again with a different color. I went back through the instructions, and there it was written out for me and I knew that I was suppose d to add in a little water. So I did, and I was pretty pleased with the result.Anyway, I was looking online to see if anybody else had bought a real chemistry set for kids and it occurred to me that it might be kind of cool to design a science project out of the different liquid colors in the containers and so on. I know that I have always loved to color, and even though I was afraid that I wouldn't have been very good at it, I realized that I could design a test with the different liquids to see if they would react differently, and if I could make the test consistent.I took the old chemistry set and started filling the containers with different liquids that I knew to be different colors. I was really very happy with how it turned out, and since then it has served me for my chemistry projects. If you would like to see some more pictures of my experiments with the old chemistry set for kids, check out my website by clicking here.