I’ll admit our expectations were high when I bought my 8-year-old a Magic Science kit a few years back. We all but ripped the thing out of the packaging in a rush to see for ourselves what “unleashing the wizard within” would look like.
It looked like this: A chalky white mixture of citric acid, baking soda, and water gurgling in a test tube for seconds. Who would have thought we’d need to spend time on the instruction manual, what with the eruption of color-changing froth on the horizon?Continue Reading
