Unleash your inner scientist! This set of 10 durable, hand-held magnifying glasses is perfect for young explorers, budding scientists, and curious minds. Each plastic magnifier offers 5× magnification—ideal for studying insects, plants, rocks, or reading fine print.

These brightly coloured tools (random selection of colours in each set) are fantastic for outdoor discovery, classroom STEM experiments, party bags, treasure hunts, and nature walks.

Perfect for:

• Science experiments at home or school

• Nature trails and bug hunting

• Kids’ party bags and activity packs

• Classroom sets or group activities

Lightweight, safe, and easy for small hands to hold
5× magnification
10 bright, colourful magnifiers per pack
Random colours – each set is a surprise!

Magnifying Flowers

 Mini Explorer Challenge!

Use your magnifying glass to explore the world around you! Complete the fun tasks below and become a true nature detective.

Your Explorer Tasks

• Find and draw 3 different leaves. Can you spot the veins?
• Look closely at a flower. What colours and shapes do you see?
• Spot a bug or insect. Draw it and describe what it’s doing.
• Examine a rock or pebble. What patterns or textures can you find?
• Use your magnifier to read tiny writing on a label or book.
• Look at your own fingerprints – what do they remind you of?

Explorer Sketch Zone

Can you draw what you see?

Sparks of imagination are at the heart of creativity!
– Scientific Sue      

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Bring your dragon to life and watch it spin and soar through the air with the power of science and a little imagination!

• 15 multicoloured linking balloons

What You’ll Need:

• Hairdryer or
• Retort stand, boss, and clamp — or masking tape and a sturdy table
• Permanent markers
• Balloon Pump

1. Let’s Create:

   1. Inflate 5 balloons (start with 5 – you can add a 6th later if needed).

   2. Link the balloons together end-to-end to form a wiggly line – this is your dragon’s body!

   3. Decorate: Draw your dragon’s face on one end using marker pens. Use your own design or our fun template.

   4. Form a Ring: Join the head and tail to create a circular dragon.

   5. Set Up the Air Stream:
      – If using a retort stand, clamp the hairdryer at about a 5-degree angle to vertical.
      – If using tape, position the hairdryer on a table and tilt it slightly backward. Use books or blocks to test the angle before taping it securely in place.

   6. Power Up: Switch the hairdryer on to full blast!

   7. Take Flight: Gently hold your dragon in the airstream and let go. Watch as it hovers, spins, and dances like a real flying dragon!

   8. Adjust as Needed:
      – If it flies too high, add another balloon to increase weight.
      – If it doesn’t spin, adjust the angle of the hairdryer slightly.

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   Top Tips:

   • Use the cool setting on the hairdryer.

   • Experiment with balloon numbers and angles to see how they affect your dragon’s flight.

   • Great for exploring forces, motion, air pressure — and dragon magic!

 Sparks of imagination are at the heart of creativity!

                                                                                                – @ScientificSue

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Light-up Sound Making Wizards Wand

• 1 Electronic Wizard Wand

An electronic wand which lights up and plays a magical sound when the button is pressed. Perfect for all wizards and witches.

It makes a lovely magic sound and the LED light shines when the side button is pressed.

This is a perfect gift for a birthday, Hallowe’en and Christmas.

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• Suitable for indoor and outdoor fun
• The Air Zooka operates by pulling and releasing the built-in elastic launcher
• The column of air can travel over 4 m!
• Use it to knock down paper cups
• Or remove Grandad’s toupee

The Air Zooka is a wind tunnel in miniature, trapping air in its conical rear quadrant and firing it forward with elastic speed for maximum disruption.

Ruffle someone’s hair or cloths, push papers off tables, spook someone as the turn the corner – the possibilities are endless.

Paired with a smoke machine, this air cannon will fire beautiful smoke rings!

The proper name for this concept is the vortex generator, because the rings that are being shot out of the Air Zooka are actually flat vortices of air.

How the air moves when leaving the Air Zooka

The circle shape is created because the air in the centre of the air zoom is exiting faster than the air around the rim of the air zooka – hence this toy can be used to illuminate Bernoulli’s principle which states: The faster the flow of air becomes, the lower the pressure air becomes.

Safety: Never fire the Air Zooka in anyone’s face (people or animals)

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Pronunciation: /EV–ə–NES-koh

Description: Makes the target vanish.

Seen/mentioned: Used in Order of the Phoenix  by Snape to make Harry’s potions disappear from his cauldron.

Contents:

• 3 Opaque cups
  

  Magically appearing pop-up wands

• Death Eater Crystals  (Ooze Baff Crystals)
• Bottle of Unicorns Urine (Coloured water)
• Small spoon
• Pipette
• Stirrer
• 2 Small mixing cups
• Mixing bowl
• Labels

In this video Scientific Sue will show you how you can use Ooze Baff crystals in a very magical spell. A similar spell used by the Death Eaters in the Mr Potters Magical World. The death eaters suck up the souls of their victims – our ‘Death Eater Crystals (Ooze Baff crystals) suck up liquids! Use a little bit of science to find out how much the crystals suck up and still stay in a sticky solid format – then use that science in the Evanesco Spell. This video will take you through the steps you need to take to wow and confuse your audience – Science Magic – Fun Guaranteed!

The Science

Ooze baff crystals are an example of  water absorbing polymers.

A polymer is a molecule, made from joining together many small molecules called monomers. The word “polymer” can be broken down into “poly” (meaning “many” in Greek) and “mer” (meaning “unit”).

Sodium polyacrylate are the water absorbing polymers found in babies nappies – the crystals Scientific Sue uses in her first EVANESCO Spell in the video below.

Water absorbing polymers soak up water through a process called osmosis and they swell up. Some, like Ooze Baff, just absorb a small amount of water. Others, like the crystals in nappies absorb huge amounts of water.

The polymer chains have an elastic quality. The amount they stretch depends on the polymer. Ooze Baff makes a wonderful slime like substance, whilst the nappy powder makes a substance like slushy snow.

Most common synthetic polymers are said to be hydrophobic (water-fearing), which means that they do not absorb water. Examples of these polymers might include products such as plastic cups, bags, and plastic toys. There are also hydrophilic, or water-loving polymers. Many natural polymers such as cotton fibres are hydrophilic.

If you like this product you will love our Magic Snow!

Science2Life’s Science iT! activities and programmes

Children love to be engaged in learning, especially through interactive projects that they can really get involved and be hands on with.

Science2Life’s Science iT! activities and programmes are part of our STEAM Academy. The activities use everyday life objects, toys and knick-knacks and turns them into fun, innovative, hands-on experiences designed to encourage children to:

• discover the amazing world of science and engineering
• to perform engaging activities that show how science and engineering is at work in their everyday lives
• to foster a lifelong love of science and engineering
• to give a basic grounding in scientific concepts and scientific thinking
• to increase children’s motivation to learn and
• enhance their perception, creativity and logic.

Hands-on learning is learning by doing.

Children involved in our ‘Science iT!’ activities and programmes are introduced to various STEAM learning methods and activities. Our creative programmes involve learning activities that require active thinking and experimenting to find out how things work. We all know how curious children are about the world around them and how they love using the word ‘why?’

The aim of our activities is to provide optimal learning opportunities that strategically help children grasp mathematics, engineering and science concepts.

With the inclusion of the arts component into STEM it makes it more fun to learn, and more approachable to children.

Art education allows children to learn things in a more open-ended way and make them applicable to real life.

Links to the curriculum

All of Science2Life activities can be used to entertain children – however they have been created with the curriculum in mind, so are perfect activities to generate mesmerizing examples of the topics they can be used to explore.

Plus our Science iT! activities can up scaled-up to be used in workshops within the classroom, for festival and birthday celebrations, which provide opportunities for children to collaborate on initiatives, explorations and creations.

The idea behind our Science iT! activities is to ignite children’s natural innate curiosity about the world around them (and the items in it) and to channel their enthusiasm for scientific discovery as early as possible.

Currently Science2Life have the following Science iT! activities:

1. The Magical EVANESCO Spell
2. The Magical AMORTENTIA Spell
3. The Super Bouncing Bubble Kit
4. Make your own Fossil Kit
5. Colour Changing Bracelet Kit
6. Pneumatic Monsters Activity
7. Creative Circuits
8. The Magical Wandarama
9. Gone Fishing
10. The Jitter Bug

Each of the above activities can be turned into a workshop programme! Interested? Give us a call!

Scientificsue@science2life.com

+447970884728

Note: All of Science2Life’s STEAM ACADEMY shows and workshops are designed to not only motivate and fire the spirit of discovery within your children but also ignite curiosity in their minds.

For more information on our shows visit our website: https://www.science2life.com

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Super Bouncing Bubble Kit – A Magical Science iT! Activity from Science2Life

Special Appearance:
Lucy Carrol, age 7, helps out at Scientific Sue’s dazzling Science of Bubbles show during Science Week Ireland at the Institute of Technology, Sligo.
(Photo by James Connolly, 12NOV17)

Make Science Bounce—Literally!
Discover the awe and wonder of hands-on science with our Super Bouncing Bubble Kit. Specially designed for young scientists and bubble lovers, this STEM-inspired kit turns everyday play into an exciting scientific adventure.

What’s Inside the Kit?

Everything you need to start your bouncing bubble experiments right away:

• 50ml Super Bouncing Bubble Solution

  

  Boy holding a bubble

• 2 Magic Gloves (so you can catch and bounce bubbles)

• 1 Bubble Blower

• 1 30ml Mixing Cup

• Step-by-step Instructions

How to Make Bouncing Bubbles:

1. Open the bubble solution and carefully remove the seal.

2. Pour the bubble solution into the small plastic cup.

3. Slip on your magic glove.

4. Dip the wide end of the bubble blower into the solution.

5. Gently blow a large, tennis-ball-sized bubble – with the blower pointing downwards.

6. Raise your hand.

7. Flick the bubble into the air and catch it with your gloved hand.

8. Can you make it bounce? Try again and again!

9. Now bounce it from hand to hand – You are officially a Bubble Juggler!

Let’s Investigate:

Encourage scientific thinking with these bubble-based challenges:

• How many times can your bubble bounce before it pops?

• Does bubble size affect bounceability?

• What happens if you blow harder or softer?

• Can you bounce a bubble on wool, cotton, or rubber gloves?

• Which surface works best for bouncing?

Perfect for solo play or family fun, this activity builds skills in observation, prediction, and experimentation—all while having a blast!

Perfect For:

• STEM experiments at home or in the classroom

  

  Blowing bubbles

• Birthday party activities

• Christmas stocking fillers

• Science fairs and festival workshops

• Curious minds aged 5+

Educational Benefits:

Science2Life’s Science iT! Activities are developed by real educators to promote:

• Early engagement with science and engineering concepts

• Critical thinking, creativity, and logic through play

• Lifelong curiosity and a love for learning

These STEAM activities transform toys, tools, and household items into powerful learning opportunities—making science accessible, fun, and unforgettable!

Safety First!

Recommended: Young children should wear safety goggles when playing with bubble solution to prevent soap splashes in their eyes.

If a bubble bursts in the eye:

• Rinse immediately with lukewarm water using a clean jug or shower stream.

• Young children may be wrapped in a towel for comfort during rinsing.

Warning: Bubble solution may cause slippery surfaces. Clean up spills right away to prevent accidents.

Linked to the Curriculum

All Science2Life kits are aligned with key STEAM learning goals and are perfect for:

• Supporting school topics like forces, surface tension, and states of matter

• Introducing key scientific practices such as hypothesis testing and recording results

• Being scaled up for classroom workshops, festivals, or science birthday parties

Explore More Science iT! Activities:

Science2Life offers a full range of hands-on kits including:

• The Magical EVANESCO Spell

• The Magical AMORTENTIA Spell

• Make Your Own Fossil Kit

• Colour-Changing Bracelet Kit

• Pneumatic Monsters

• Creative Circuits

• The Magical Wandarama

• Gone Fishing

• The Jitter Bug

Each one can be scaled up into a workshop programme. Want to know more? Get in touch!

Email: ScientificSue@science2life.com
Call or WhatsApp: +44 7970 884728
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Join Scientific Sue on a Bubble-Filled Adventure!

Using a tub of bubbly magic, a bubble blower, and special gloves, Scientific Sue brings the science of bubbles to life! This amazing kit delivers fun, learning, and laughter—perfect for budding scientists and bubble chasers alike.

Curriculum Links: Super Bouncing Bubble Kit

Suitable for: Key Stage 1 & 2 (England, Northern Ireland) / Primary Levels (Republic of Ireland)
Curricular Areas: Science | Mathematics | The Arts | Literacy | STEM

SCIENCE

England: Primary Science (KS1 & KS2)

• Working Scientifically

  • Asking simple questions and recognising they can be answered in different ways

  • Observing closely, using simple equipment

  • Performing simple tests and using results to draw conclusions

• Everyday Materials / States of Matter

  • Identifying and comparing the suitability of materials

  • Observing materials change (liquid film stretching, popping)

  • Exploring bubbles as a gas trapped in a liquid

• Forces and Magnets (KS2)

  • Understanding how pushes and pulls affect motion

  • Investigating how forces act on objects (bubbles bouncing and falling)

Northern Ireland: The World Around Us (KS1 & KS2)

• Interdependence / Movement and Energy / Materials

  • Exploring how materials behave in different conditions

  • Investigating forces in action (bouncing, gravity, motion)

  • Developing skills in observing, predicting, and recording

Republic of Ireland: SESE – Science

• Energy and Forces

  • Exploring the effects of different forces on objects

  • Recognising how air (a gas) can exert a force

• Materials

  • Investigating how different materials interact (bubble vs glove surface)

  • Exploring the properties of liquids and gases

• Working Scientifically

  • Questioning, observing, predicting, investigating, recording and evaluating

MATHEMATICS

England/Northern Ireland: Mathematics (KS1 & KS2)

• Measurement

  • Using standard units to measure liquid volumes

  • Comparing and ordering measurements (e.g. bubble sizes)

• Statistics

  • Collecting and recording results

  • Creating simple tables or charts of bounce counts

Republic of Ireland: Mathematics

• Measure

  • Estimating, measuring, and comparing capacities

• Data

  • Recording data using tables or graphs

  • Interpreting results from bubble experiments

THE ARTS

England/Northern Ireland/ROI

• Visual Arts / Design & Technology / Expressive Arts

  • Appreciating the aesthetic qualities of bubbles

  • Encouraging creativity in test design and decoration of equipment

  • Using colour and texture in glove choice or themed experiments

LANGUAGE & LITERACY

• Oral Language & Communication

  • Encouraging students to describe what they see and explain their ideas

  • Developing scientific vocabulary (e.g. surface tension, predict, solution)

  • Sharing findings through presentations or discussions

• Reading and Writing

  • Following written instructions

  • Writing up results, predictions, and observations

STEM / STEAM Outcomes

• Hands-on inquiry that supports scientific thinking and problem-solving

• Cross-curricular learning with real-world application of science concepts

• Encourages creativity, curiosity, and exploration through open-ended investigation

• Provides a platform for collaborative learning and communication

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Our Safari Bubble Blowers are a Fantastic Science Gift

There are 5 safari bubble blowers and these animals need to get bubble food frequently. Fill the bubble liquid into the tray and dip the bubble ring into the liquid. After taking it out again squeeze the safari animal to get them to blow small bubbles. This is their way of saying thank you for feeding them.

Pustefix means soap bubbles in German and these Pustefix bubbles are hands down the best on the market. Pustefix got its start after World War II, when the company’s namesake, Rolf Hein, a chemist and entrepreneur, experimented with soap-bubble mixtures until he hit upon the perfect solution. That blend, still used today, is non-toxic and bio-degradable – and results in gorgeous streams of shimmering, long-lasting bubbles.

These wonderful safari bubble blowers are used in our Science of Bubbles Show.

Warning!: Not suitable for children under 36 months – Contains small parts.

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• 10 balloons with inflation tubes
• Assorted colours
• Approximately 26cm when uninflated

A Little bit of Science – Let’s make this rocket fly in a straight line!

NISF Funky Forces Show

Observing

• Develop children’s powers of observation using their senses
• Communicating
• talk with adults and other children
• ask questions
• Investigating
• explore
• predict
• experiment

What you need:

• String
• Sticky tape
• A plastic straw
• A balloon (not blown up)

What to do:

Thread the straw onto the string.  Tie the string across the room so that it is quite tight and high up.  Blow up the balloon and hold the end closed so that it stays inflated.  Using sellotape or double sided stickers, attach the balloon to the straw so that it hangs underneath the string.  Let the balloon go and it should fly across the room.

Nuts & Bolts 

• Packet of rocket balloons
• Helium canister
• Metre stick
• Empty box e.g. one that holds printing paper
• Stick on Velcro
• Scissors

Secrets for Success

Blow up a balloon. Discuss what is happening to its shape in between puffs.

What are you putting into the balloon? Air

What is the air made up of? A mixture of gases – mainly nitrogen and oxygen molecules.

The gas molecules act a bit like children in a bouncy castle – every time one hits the side a force is exerted on that side.

The more puffs the higher the number of molecules inside pushing on the sides of the balloon – the air pressure inside the balloon is higher than the air pressure outside.

For the brave amongst you … keep blowing up the balloon until it bursts! At this point the air pressure inside the balloon is too high for the balloon. The skin has been weakened so much it tears and bursts very quickly.

Repeat but this time when the rocket balloon is really long, remove the mouth piece and let it go.

Discuss its motion. Do it again this time filling it with Helium gas…

Now repeat with 2 balloons, one filled with air and the other with helium, release them at the same time after a countdown.

As well as going faster the helium rocket makes a sound with a higher pitch. Why is this? See below

Science in a Nutshell

Balloons are fantastic toys which allow us to easily illustrate energy changes, Newton’s Laws of Motion as well as the properties of materials. When you start blowing into a balloon the balloon starts to get bigger, the skin starts to stretch to facilitate the added air, the air pressure inside the balloon increases. Potential energy is stored in this stretched rubber. We can use this energy to demonstrate the Law of Conservation of Energy: Energy cannot be created or destroyed just changed from one form to another.

If you just keep blowing into the balloon there will come a point when the pressure inside the balloon is too high for the rubber material to support it. The skin weakens rapidly and the balloon bursts. The stored potential energy is then mainly converted into sound energy but also into the kinetic energy of the moving pieces of the broken balloon and a little bit of heat energy.

If you have students who are really scared of loud noises you could just blow up the balloon and release it, the rocket balloons are specially made for this activity and plus they make lots of noise as they fly around the room gradually getting smaller and smaller. As they move they sometimes gain height, which means they gain gravitational potential energy, this is converted back into motion energy as they fall again.

When you let go of the neck of the balloon why does the balloon move forwards? Remember Newton stated that for a body to move there needs to be resultant force acting on that body in the direction of the motion. What pushes the balloon forwards? It is not, as some text books say, the air leaving the neck of the balloon. That gas is moving in the opposite direction and pushes on the gas molecules in the air behind it. The gas exiting the balloon is moving in the opposite direction to the direction the balloon is moving in!! So how can it push the balloon forward? The answer is it can’t!! So, what does?

The demonstration I use to illustrate this paradox is ‘borrowed’ from a physics lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast – so my thanks are given. You will need a cardboard box, some Velcro, scissors and a long stick. The box needs to be open at the top and with the help of the scissors one of the narrower sides needs to be cut down the middle from the top to the bottom and then the bottom edges also cut, leaving you with two flaps.

With a piece of cardboard taken from the top of the box make a rectangular strip 10 cm in width and the same height as the box. Add Velcro hooks to the insides of the flaps and Velcro loops to the strip of cardboard in a fashion that will allow you to close the flaps securely. With them closed, place the box on a bench, or the floor, and with the aid of the stick quickly hit the inside walls. Note if one wall is hit more frequently than the others the box will move in that direction. You want to hit the walls so that there is no overall movement of the box – this represents the molecules of air hitting the insides of the tied balloon.

The pressure due to the collisions of the many billions of molecules in the balloon acts in all directions equally. However, when you open your flaps by removing the Velcro strip, the pressure now does not act equally. This is the same as untying the neck of the balloon.

When you now hit inside the box the forward hits are now not balanced by the backward hits which means you have a resultant force acting forwards, so the box will move forwards.

The balloon moves forwards due to the resultant force from the air molecules still trapped inside of it!

Now to the sounds the balloons make – When we talk, sound is produced by passing air over our vocal cords (flaps of tissue in our throats) causing them to vibrate. The vibrating vocal cords make the air around them vibrate and this makes sound. We can change our voice by changing the shape of our throat and mouth, allowing us to make different sounds for different words. Our voice comes out in the form of waves, and it is the frequency of these waves that makes a high note sound high and a low note sound low.

But our voices aren’t quite this simple. You know how different instruments sound different even if they’re playing the same note? That’s down to ‘timbre’. Our voices have a timbre too – they are not just one pure note but a mixture of lots of different waves of different frequencies. When air moves through our throats, it vibrates and you end up with lots of resonant frequencies, or harmonics, which sound different between different people. Someone can sound all squeaky at the same pitch as someone else who sounds normal depending on the harmonics of their voice (explaining why some people sound great during a karaoke session and others, well, they just don’t).

Now the fun bit is when we start thinking about what happens if we breathe helium- which now not recommended as the gas in helium cylinders is a mixture of gases (one being methane) due to the rising cost of helium gas Sound waves behave differently depending on what they are trying to move through. Normally, we breathe air, which is a mixture of gases containing mainly nitrogen and some oxygen. Sound waves generated by our vocal cords move through air at a constant speed of around 350 metres per second.

But helium is less dense than the air we normally breathe and this means that sound waves travel through it much faster than usual (around 900 metres per second) during the short time that they are making their way through the throat and out of the mouth. The pitch of our voice isn’t actually altered, but the timbre or quality of the voice is. Basically, the fast-moving, higher frequency sounds have more power as they float about in your throat, and the lower frequencies get a bit lost. So, our voices end up sounding flat and you talk something like Donald Duck.

In this demo the vibrating neck of the rocket balloons are used to represent our vocal cords. The note from the balloon filled with air is lower than the one that was filled with helium. The fact that the helium balloon moves faster and falls to the ground first is another way of highlighting the fact that the atoms in this gas are moving much faster than the molecules in air.

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