Science experiments at home with MEL Science

Disclosure: I was sent this subscription box in exchange for my honest opinions

We would all love to bring the fun things children learn in schools into our home, wouldn’t we? The trouble is we don’t always know just where to start. My kids both love science, mainly the hands-on fun experiments but I certainly don’t have a kitchen full of chemicals ready to crack out something fun whenever they would like me to.

That’s where MEL Science subscription boxes come into play – they bring the classroom into your home and you don’t have to be a science teacher to complete the experiments with the use of details instruction booklets, all the equipment and chemicals, gloves, safety goggles are provided within the set and you are able to download an app and follow these along on your phone/tablet/laptop too.

These subscription boxes help to provide everything (and much more) that you will need to learn new experiments in the comfort of your own home in a very hands-on way.

These science sets are monthly subscription boxes which are sent out directly to your home when you first subscribe you are sent a free comprehensive Starter Kit and VR headset and  2–3 experiments delivered to your door every month. You’ll only get the one starter kit, which is sent with your first delivery, this contains all the extras you will need for all of the experiments. For the subsequent months, you’ll get 2-3 experiments.

This comprehensive Starter Kit contains all the equipment you’ll need to conduct your experiments. It also includes accessories for your smartphone or tablet to help you learn chemistry more effectively. You’ll use the items in this kit repeatedly throughout your subscription.

Each month you are sent a different chemistry set. Each MEL Chemistry set includes 2-3 experiments and contains the equipment you’ll need to conduct the experiments: enough chemical reagents for at least 2 attempts, additional components, and visual step-by-step instructions.

We received the first month’s experiments which were Tin experiments: Tin dendrite, Tin hedgehog.

Having enough chemicals in the kits for a few tries is great especially if you have more than one child at home – I know how frustrating it can be when more than one child is able to do things like this, so this really is a huge selling point for me.

Making a tin hedgehog

This is an experiment you need a few days to observe the results, over the course of a few days/week you will see the ‘tin hedgehog’ growing inside the pot.

Inside the box, you have all the chemicals you need to do this experiment a couple of times, a card with all the instructions on, a pot to grow your hedgehog in and you’ll find gloves and protective goggles in the starter box.

Please do make sure children wear the goggles and gloves, these kits do include chemicals safety always comes first.

Read through the instructions carefully together before you start, and you can also download the Mel Science app onto your phone or tablet and follow along with each step that way.

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The chemicals are all measured out into bottles all ready for you and you need to follow the instructions, pouring one bottle into another and shaking well (with the lid on).

This is the tin at the start of the experiment.

This is after a few days, inside the kit is also a smartphone camera, which helps to take macro photos.

Tin Dendrite

This is another fun experiment, where you can see a ‘tin tree’ growing before your eyes.

You need to add your own batteries to this experiment (4 AAA).

Mix the chemicals together, pour into a petri dish and add a couple of drops of washing up liquid.

Connect the crocodile clips to the battery pack – black to black, red to red, then clip the crocodile clips onto the side of the perti dish, they need to be touching the solution.

Sit back and watch the tin dendrite grow, after about 30 minutes it will look like this.

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The kids loved doing both of these experiments and meant they were able to learn something I wouldn’t have been able to teach them myself at home.

These kits come monthly delivered directly to your door and cost £29.90 a month – this is a monthly subscription kit, so you sign up to recurring payments but you are able to pause or cancel at any time.

For more information, please check out the website melscience.com

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