Instead of using the iPad or bringing your kid to the mall this weekend, how about trying out some fun and exciting easy-to-do science projects with them? You don't need much, and you'll likely find the ingredients you need at home already. Check it out:

Ice Fishing

Ingredients:

A bowl of water
Some ice cubes
Some salt
Some thread

What to do:

1. Get a bowl of water and put an ice cube in it. Place the thread halfway in the water, and let one end lie on an ice cube and the other end outside the bowl.
2. Pour salt on the ice cube and wait 5-10 minutes.
3. Take the other end of the thread and "fish" the ice cube out!

What this teaches kids:

When salt touches the ice cube, it will heat a little part of it. Salt dissolves the water and fuses the ice and thread together.

Build your own home Volcano:

Ingredients:

Some baking soda
Some red paint
Water
Dish soap
Vinegar
Cardboard
Modeling clay

What to do:

1. First you'll have to make a cone from cardboard and cut the top out.
2. Place an empty container in it and apply modeling clay to give it the mountain effect.
3. Put the volcano on a plate.
4. Pour baking soda in it. And then red paint. And water.
5. Now add a drop of dish soap and start stirring.
6. Finally, add vinegar to the mixture.
7. Watch the volcano flow with LAVA!

What this teaches kids:

Baking soda and vinegar will cause a reaction that produces water, salt, and carbon dioxide. This in turn will create the eruption.

Paper Cover

Ingredients:

1 glass
Water
Paper

What to do:

1. Use a square piece of paper and put it on the brim of a glass of water.
2. Move it across and see how the sheet gets stuck to the glass.

What this teaches kids:

Magnetization! Water starts pushing the paper from one side and air pushes it from the other. When air pressure is higher than the water pressure in the glass, the paper will not fall. Magic is science.

Self-Inflating Balloons

Ingredients::

Some air balloons
33.8 to 50,7 oz (1 to 1,5 l) empty bottle
A teaspoon
A funnel
Some vinegar
Baking soda

What to do:

1. Fill one-third of a bottle with vinegar.
2. Pour 2-3 teaspoons of baking soda in the balloon.
3. Put the balloon on the neck of a bottle.
4. See it inflate.
5. Rub the balloon with any synthetic material to produce a static charge.

What this teaches kids:

Soda and vinegar will produce carbon dioxide filling the balloon. Due to the static charge, it will float on the ceiling.

Soft Naked Egg

Ingredients:

2 eggs
2 glass jars/cups
Some water
Vinegar

What to do:

1. Use one raw egg and put it in a jar of plain water.
2. Place a second egg in a glass of vinegar.
3. Set them aside for 4-6 hours and start seeing the results. 
4. In 7-10 days, the second egg will become soft and its shell will disappear.
What this teaches kids:
Vinegar will cause a chemical change in the egg, dissolving the eggshell. This is called decalcification.

Three Layers of Liquid

Ingredients:

Some juice
Vegetable oil
Alcohol
A transparent container

What to do:

1. Pour juice into a container and add vegetable oil along the walls.
2. Gently pour alcohol on the oil.
3. The liquids will separate into three layers.

What this teaches kids:

Every type of liquid has different densities. The less dense one will rise over the denser liquid.