Where Do I Buy Cool Science Stuff for Kids?

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Edmunds Scientific! http://scientificsonline.com/

Very cool educational science toys of every type! Check out their clearance tab.

S.

If online places will do (with expedited shipping), try here:
http://scientificsonline.com

There are two really, really great toy stores in Southlake that carry all kinds of unique things.

1. Learning Express ###-###-####
1275 E Southlake Blvd # 437, Southlake, TX

2. Owl's Nest Toy Shop ###-###-####
1220 Prospect St, Southlake, TX

R. :)

Toys R Us suprisingly has quite the science section.
You can also look on Amazon.

The volcano is pretty easy to do from scratch.

Take a paper towel tube. On one end, make half inch verticle cuts. Bend these cuts out to create tabs. Tape these tabs down to a piece of carboard.

Ball up some newspaper and use masking tape to attach it to the tube and cardboard platform. Now you have a volcano form.

Look up a recipe for paper mache goop. Elmers glue and water, or a flour and sugar water recipe...there are a lot of recipes for mache goop online.

You can either put newspaper in strips, or leave in sheets, and put them in the goop and then mold them to your volcano form you have already created.

You will have to let the volcano dry between layers. Three layers worked well for us.

When it is done and dry, paint with tempura paints.

Finally, put a 3 oz dixie cup (bathroom size) in the top of your tube. Add Baking soda...you can mix in some food colouring into it if you like. And then pour in the vinegar and have fun.

On our next one, I want to get some air tubing, like you find in fish store, and a turkey baister or syringe. I plan on threading the tubing up the inner tube of the volcano during construction so that the vinegar can be pushed up from underneath the backing soda for a more realistic effect.

My son and I put plastic dinosaurs around the volcano, as well as some branches and such to make it look like a miniature scene. We then took some pictures of the mad scientist (my son) looming over the scene. It was fun.

Teacher's tools in North Richland Hills. There might be something like it in West Fort Worth.

Fort Worth Science Museum (where the Children's Museum is) has a large gift shop inside. They have tons of exactly what you want including experiments, inventions, gags and silly gifts, books, posters, how - to projects, build - your -own projects etc. Good luck!

The Children's Museum of Science and History

http://www.fwmuseum.org/shop-too

P.

many of the hobby stores around here carry such items. maybe call a few and ask?

I know that Toys R Us sells volcano kits. Also Barnes & Noble has very cool science books/kits, books of experiments.

I've seen some cool science stuff at Target. It is with the toys and has the "build your own" type stuff. They looked pretty fun and not too expensive either.

Mardel stores have some really cool science stuff too. They have a bunch of those hands-on kind of projects that look like tons of fun! We go there every now and then so my husband can find social studies resources.

Try the store at the Museum of Science and History (Children's Museum) in FW. I have also purchased some good science experiments for my 4 yr. old at Toys R Us and Toyworks on Camp Bowie. good luck!

there is a store in Dallas called "Lakeshore Learning" and it is for teachers. You might call them before you consider a trip over here to be sure they have what you need, but there is all sorts of educational stuff for teachers there.

Hobby Lobby has all sorts of things for the kids. G. W

I can tell you! They have some great kits at the Museum store in the Science and Nature museum in Fort Worth, and I also saw some at Toys R Us near North Richland Hills off Pipeline (near the NE mall). I saw the same brand at both of them. (http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Explorers-Blowing-Scienc...)
Hope that link works, each store has several of this brand.