10 Edible Science Experiments

Show your child that the simplest ingredients (salt and water) can be used to illustrate the concept of density!

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

Chemistry isn't just incredible ... sometimes its edible! These crystal lollipops are a delicious introduction to chemistry concepts.

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Show your child how and why the microwave works, while demonstrating just how strangely foods can behave while inside the crazy cooker.

Along with being an interesting science activity, dehydrated strawberries are also tasty â and healthy!

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Amaze your kids by separating a salt and pepper mixture using an "electric spoon" charged with wool.

Introduce your fourth or fifth grader to volume by having him build rectangular prisms, and then count each sugar cube to check his volume calculations.