Home Activity Lab: Exciting Experiments for Budding Scientists

Dive into science with these fun and simple experiments for children to do at home.

This fun, activity-filled book is brimming with home experiments to help budding scientists aged 8-14 explore different projects. Using household items, combine science with art and craft, and make an erupting volcano, design rubber band planets, sail a soap-powered boat, and race car balloons.

Packed with photography, easy-to-follow instructions, and attention to detail, Home Activity Lab will excite young scientists from the get-go! Each of the super-fun make-and-do projects in this book comes with simple step-by-step photographs and instructions that will inspire children’s imagination and teach STEM topics.

This children’s craft book on space offers: 

- 28 hands-on projects that appeals to kids aged 8-14.
- Materials easily found around the home with no specialist equipment needed.
- Information boxes full of fascinating facts and panel stories that explain the science throughout the book.
- A clear explanation how STEM is involved in creating the project or the results of the experiment.

Ideal for kids who are interested in STEM, Home Activity Lab features a collection of science projects with easy-to-follow instructions and everyday ingredients that can be found around the house. Each experiment describes the science behind the project, highlighting STEM facts with STEM icons pointing out the key science, technology, engineering, and maths learning involved in each one.

More in the series

The Activity Lab series inspires children to get hands-on with learning by creating exciting STEM projects in their favorite subject. If you liked Home Activity Lab, then why not try Dinosaur Activity Lab for budding paleontologists, Cardboard Activity Lab for eco-friendly recycling fun, Space Activity Lab for aspiring astrologists, or Great STEM Projects experiments for all budding scientists?

Robert Winston (consultant) A renowned doctor, scientist, television presenter, and writer, Professor Robert Winston has contributed to numerous DK books, including Home Lab (2016), which won the RNS Young People’s Book Prize, and the award-winning DK book Utterly Amazing Human Body (2015).

Jack Challoner (writer) has written more than 30 books on science and technology, and also acts as a science consultant on books, magazines, and television, including the BBC. His most recent book for DK was Home Lab (2016), which was shortlisted for the RNS Young People’s Book Prize.