40 small experiments You Should Let Your Children Do for fun and learning

I’ve been reading more this year and recently skimmed through fifty dangerous thing you should let your children do. The idea of this book is that danger is something kids need to learn to handle by experience. The 50 small experiments in this book can potentially cause a minor injury but are never really seriously dangerous. In fact most of them aren’t dangerous at all, but at least they are fun. It’s too bad a book like this is needed today, because kids in today's life live a very structured and constantly supervised existence, and this is a good way to supervise a little danger.



This is the list I like -- buy the book if you want to learn more detailed instructions

1. Play with fire
2. Do swimming
3. Let them use screwdriver
4. Throw rocks
5. Deconstruct an appliance
6. Drive a car
7. Put strange stuff in the microwave
8. Climb a tree
9. Boil water in paper cup
10. Spend an hour blind folded
11. Use a knife
12. Light the stove
13. Slide down the bannister
14. Jump on the bed
15. Hammer a nail
16. Have a pillow fight
17. Not wash their hands before dinner
18. Answer the door
19. Play in the front yard without you
20. Cook
21. Perform on street
22. Break the Recipe Rule Book
23. Look directly at the sun properly
24. Sticking Your Hand out the Window
25. I let my children fail
26. I let my kids play in the country
27. Sleep under the stars
28. Abseiling: Descending the face of a cliff with only a rope to hold you might enjoy
29. Paddle a canoe
30. I let my kids play with scissors and knives
31. I let them mess around in the kitchen
32. I let my kids travel alone on the subway
33. Superglue your fingers together
34. Make a bomb in a bag
35. I let my children open and break my computer
36. Go rafting
37. Lick a 9 volt battery
38. Play in rain/Hailstorm
39. Kiss/Hello like French
40. Cross Town on Public Transit,
41. Change a Tire