Activity ideas
Listed under each requirement
Be a kitchen chemist
- Make Ice Cream
- Make Salad Dressing
- Grow Rock Candy
- Pepper and Soap
- Ice Cream in a Bag
- Italian Soda
- Fizzy Sherbet Powder
- DIY Butter
- Red Cabbage Science
- Armpit Fudge
- Brownie in a Mug
- Guacamole in a Bag
- Science of an Egg
- Examine a raw egg, Hardboiled egg, and a fried egg
- Egg Bounce
- At home Scouts – Egg Shells
- Melt Caramel in Microwave for Caramel Dip (states of matter)
- 10 Halloween themed Kitchen experiments
Create static electricity
- Bend Water
- Make Pepper Dance
- Follow the Balloon Leader
- Attract small bits of tissue paper
- Dancing Ghosts
Dive into density
- Eggs in salt water
- Dancing raisins
- Lemons vs. limes
- Make a Sensory Bottle with different density objects
- Making Rain
- Floating Orange
- Candy Sink or Float
- Lava Lamps
- Viscosity Potions
- 9-Layer Density Test
- Density Tower
- Sugar Water Density Rainbow
- Floating Ghosts
- Lima Bean Ghosts
- Bob for apples
- Snowstorm in a Jar
Note – You can buy straight bottles in bulk if you do Sensory Bottles and need one for each scout. Or you can buy something like VOSS bottles and remove the lettering
Make something bubble up
- Soda Geyser
- Balloon Blow Up
- Alka-Seltzer Rockets
- Fizzy Sherbet Powder
- Baking Soda Volcano
- Bubble Art
- Elephant Toothpaste
- Frankenstein’s Hand
- Halloween Volcano
- Fizzing Cauldrons
- Monster Exploding Bags
- Lima Bean Ghosts
- Melting Snowman
Play with science
Field Trip Ideas
Pick one that works for your area
Make sure all requirements are met when going or have a pre-field trip meeting to hit the requirements.
- Children’s Museum (Interactive ones are the best)
- Kid Science Lab (like Little Beakers, Funtastic, or Mad Science)
Guest Speaker Ideas
Possibilities depending on where you are at
Make sure all requirements are met when there are there or have a meeting before or after the guest speaker to hit the requirements.
- Science Teacher
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For pre-planned meeting plans by others – see the Brownie Home Scientist badge page.
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