Thames & Kosmos Ooze Labs: Colourful Crystal Lab

Explore the natural beauty and wonder of crystals by growing them yourself in many different shapes and colours. Set up your lab base station - the headquarters for all your crystal growing experiments, complete with beakers, test tubes, petri dish, tweezers, centrifuge, display dome, and more. Then conduct more than ten experiments in crystal formation, using safe, non-toxic crystal salts.

Make a crystal volcano by growing fast-forming crystals on a paper cone. Watch long spindly crystals form on a rock as if from nowhere. Grow crystals in many different ways, such as in a petri dish by evaporation, on a string dangling in solution, and by cooling a supersaturated solution. Experiment with three different chemicals, each resulting in different crystal shape.

Mix your own colours for your crystal growing solutions in the spinning centrifuge, so you can achieve a variety of different colours: red, pink, blue, purple, and clear. Learn about how crystals form in your experimental solutions and also in nature.

Real science and playful science fiction come together in this wacky, activity-filled kit!

Combine the Colourful Crystal Lab Base Station with other Ooze Lab Base Stations to make an awesome laboratory set-up!

6+ years.