Build your own laboratory using ordinary items you can find at home. This hands-on beginner's chemistry book is designed for children aged eight to 12 and offers 71 fun, easy and safe experiments, including: making a coin bottle-burper; blowing a balloon into a bottle; racing a soap-propelled boat; watching colours creep up a celery stalk; exploding your own Vinegar Volcano; sending your friends secret messages with invisible inks; and the mysterious multiplying pennies experiment. Step-by-step diagrams throughout show how each experiment works, and there are safety precautions, equipment lists, and explanations of chemical symbols, formulas, terms and definitions.