Your Free Colour Chemistry Activity Book
You’ve got the Book of Chemistry — now here’s the activity book that goes with it. 20+ pages of real experiments, puzzles, a science hero story, and chemistry she can wear. Exclusively for Hey Smart Girl readers.
- Dye a real t-shirt using turmeric from your kitchen — actual chemistry, actual results
- Make your own natural dye paint swatches like a proper lab scientist
- Meet Stephanie Kwolek — the chemist who made dresses from paper and ended up saving thousands of lives
- Discover why the colour of your jeans might be one of the most polluting things in your wardrobe
- Chemistry Sudoku, a colour chemistry crossword, word search, and trivia
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“Chemistry she can wear — and science she won’t forget.”
What’s Inside
Use turmeric to create a sunshine tie-dye design. Real pigment chemistry — and a result she can actually wear out of the house.
Extract pigment from five kitchen ingredients — turmeric, red cabbage, beetroot, red onion, coffee — and record results like a real dye chemist.
Why does anything have colour at all? The answer involves light, chromophores, and a banana that is technically every colour except yellow.
The girl who made dresses from paper dolls grew up to invent Kevlar — one of the strongest materials ever made. Her story is in here.
CHEMISTRY-themed sudoku using the letters C-H-E-M-I-S-T-R-Y, plus a colour chemistry crossword and word search.
Why rivers in Bangladesh run bright blue or red — and what scientists are doing right now to fix the fashion industry’s biggest dirty secret.
It Connects Directly to the Book of Chemistry
The activity book references the polymer chemistry and pH indicators she’s already read about — so she’ll have those “oh, I know this!” moments throughout.
Add vinegar to the red cabbage dye and watch what happens. She’ll already know exactly why — because she read about it in the chemistry book.
This isn’t a repeat of the book. It takes the chemistry she’s learned and asks: what does it look like in real life, in your wardrobe, in your kitchen?
What You’re Claiming
- 20+ page full-colour PDF — ready to download instantly
- 2 hands-on dyeing experiments with full instructions
- The science of colour, chromophores, and natural vs synthetic dyes
- Chemistry Sudoku, crossword, word search and trivia
- Stephanie Kwolek science hero story
- Smart Girl Challenge — design your own experiment
£0.00 — it’s yours, free, because you bought the book.
Why It Exists:Because the best science doesn’t stay on the page. This activity book takes the chemistry from the Hey Smart Girl Book of Chemistry and puts it in her hands — literally. Turmeric under her fingernails included.
Your free Colour Chemistry Activity Book
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