Giveaway: Steve Spangler Leprechaun Science Kit

The Steve Span­gler Lep­rechaun Sci­ence kit is an awe­some way to get your kids inter­ested in sci­ence exper­i­ments AND have a blast. Steve Span­gler Sci­ence sent me one com­pli­men­tary Lep­rechaun Sci­ence kit to review. As soon as I opened the box and my kids saw what it was, they were jump­ing up and down. They remem­ber the last sci­ence kit we got from Steve Span­gler and how much fun we had explod­ing soda out of a bot­tle and grow­ing wig­gly ice cubes. Steve Span­gler Sci­ence makes learn­ing about sci­ence really fun. My kids don’t even know they are learn­ing, they think we are play­ing (shhhh, don’t tell).  If you aren’t sure who Steve Span­gler is, check out Wikipedia for the details.

There are 7 project in the Steve Span­gler Lep­rechaun Sci­ence kit. We decided to spread it out over the week. I will show you 3 of the 7 today and then offer the give­away. Then the other 4, I will show you on St. Patrick’s Day.

The Lep­rechaun Sci­ence Kit projects

• The Lep­rechaun Bag
• Rain­bow Glasses
• Lep­rechaun Snow
• Green Worms
• Rain­bow Beads
• Lep­rechaun Eggs
• Color Chang­ing Car­na­tions (includes direc­tions, how­ever you need to pro­vide the car­na­tions, food col­or­ing and cups)

Each of the first 6 projects comes with most of the items you need. You will have to add the water and sun­shine. All of the instruc­tions include the items you will need, bor­ing stuff for the adults (explains what is hap­pen­ing more techy terms), lep­rechaun secrets for kids only (a fun expla­na­tion of what you are going to do) and step by step instruc­tions. There are also links after each project to a web page with more infor­ma­tion and dif­fer­ent things you can try. All the items you need come in a con­tainer that looks like a gal­lon of paint.

Steve Span­gler lep­rechaun Sci­ence Kit

Lep­rechaun Snow

This was the first exper­i­ment my kids wanted to try (I guess the 4 ft of snow we had in Feb­ru­ary wasn’t enough). Watch the video and see how we cre­ated a cup of green snow. We just did a small cup full, but on St. Patty’s Day, I’m going to get a big bucket and make a bunch for them and fig­ure out some­thing fun to do with it.

The Lep­rechaun Bag

This one is more like a magic trick than an experiement. While, it is teach­ing you fast mov­ing streams of air, you can present it to your friends as a magic trick and amaze them! Lep­rechauns just love play­ing tricks on their friends.

Rain­bow Beads

I had my 5 year old daugh­ter and her best friend help me with this exper­i­ment. The basic project is cre­at­ing a bracelet, but the fun comes in the type of beads you are using.

Con­test

Steve Span­gler Sci­ence is offer­ing to send one of my read­ers the Lep­rechaun Sci­ence kit that I reviewed above. You must live in the U.S. to enter the con­test. Con­test ends at 11:00 pm EST on March 14, 2010. I will draw the name ran­domly at 11pm on March 14th and win­ner will be noti­fied via email. The kit will be sent out quickly, but you may not receive it in time for St. Patrick’s Day. How­ever, the projects can be enjoyed through­out the year.

Con­test Entry

To enter
Visit the Steve Span­gler Sci­ence online cat­a­log and find ONE prod­uct that you think is pretty cool AND not men­tioned here in my review. Put a link to it in the com­ments below.

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6. Fol­low my blog using either RSS or by email.

dis­clo­sure: I received one Lep­rechaun Sci­ence kit for free to review and Steve Span­gler Sci­ence is going pro­vid­ing one kit to one of my read­ers (win­ner of con­test). I received no money for this post and all opin­ions are my own.

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