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Making Our Own Glow Stick
December 30, 2009 by BlessedinTexas
Filed under family, feature
Nicholas LOVES glow sticks. We must keep the glow stick companies in business because I always have to have a stock of glow sticks on hand. He loves to crack them and take them to bed with him but he also loves to crack them in the middle of the day. He especially loves to get his hands on an unopened box of 15 glow sticks and crack them all at once. He loves glow sticks.
So we couldn’t pass up this experiment to let him make his own glow stick. The ingredients were simple: zinc sulfide powder, vegetable oil, and water. We got all of this in a kit but there are lots of sites on the internet that have directions for making your own glow sticks as well as where to locate the zinc sulfide powder.
Nicholas loves doing science experiments because he gets to wear his safety gloves. However, these are obviously adult size gloves and they can’t be very safe if they inhibit him from grasping items well. Anyone know where I can find child-size disposable latex gloves?
Daddy held the test tube while Nicholas measured the zinc sulfide and transferred it to the test tube.
Adding the other ingredients…
Voila! We made GLOW!!
Texasholly on Wed, 30th Dec 2009 9:14 am
I love this! So cool. I can’t believe it glows that well. I think it will have better results then the incredible growing frogs sitting on my kitchen counter right now.
Screwed Up Texan on Thu, 31st Dec 2009 10:24 am
Love it!
bianca on Fri, 1st Jan 2010 4:15 pm
You guys always do the NEATEST projects! When I was a kid the most exciting it got was when it rained and I could play with my Barbie’s outside in the puddles, pretending they were lakes! Nicholas is so lucky to have a creative and adventurous mom like you!
Pei Ling on Sat, 27th Mar 2010 1:39 am
the project looks interesting!! where did you obtain the kit from?
Kayla on Sat, 15th May 2010 12:56 pm
My daughter is doing a glow stick science project and yours looks very fun and simple. Where did you obtain the zinc sulfide powder kit you have displayed?
Kim Chance on Fri, 21st May 2010 1:51 pm
The kit came from Constructive Playthings. They have a store in Plano at Parker and Independence and a website http://www.constructiveplaythings.com. Sign up for their email list because they usually send out $5 off coupons with a $25 purchase. Have fun!