About

I'm an engineer, a former professor, and a former aerospace researcher. One of the things I love most these days is my kids asking “why” about the most random things. It gives me a free pass to get as nerdy as I want on so many topics. “Papa, why is the moon round?” Let me tell you. “Papa, how do you make glass?” How much time before school do we have…

I started a Saturday-morning tradition with them: we do experiments. I come up with something random and nerdy — sometimes with both kids, sometimes just my oldest — and then we make a mess and learn stuff.

At this age their brains are like sponges — full of questions and hungry to see how things work. That's what I want to give my kids: curiosity and excitement, weird stuff with real explanations, and the idea that understanding is built through experiments. Play, mess around, get excited — and keep it fun, because it is.

Some of the inspiration also came from a science book I read as a kid — Méga expériences — the kind that made messy kitchen science and endless “why” questions feel completely normal.

Weekend Experiments started as a notebook for me, then became an online folder, and now it's here so any parent with curious kids can run weekend experiments and make their kitchen extra messy while sharing surprising things about the world.

There's also a Plan. This is the plan I use for my kids. Steal what helps, ignore what doesn't. The most important thing is having fun with your kid, not following a curriculum from a random stranger (me). Also very WIP — I'll add a new one every week!

I tried to put as much information as is helpful for you to do, manage, and explain the experiments. I hate seeing videos of kids experiments and the physics is messed up, or too simplistic and becomes misleading, or just straight wrong. So bear with me as I over explain; if you want to know, you'll know. Reach out with comments, questions, or feedback — I love hearing from other parents, and I'm happy to help if I can.

The photos started as real, very messy home shots — I cleaned them up in post. Your experiment won't look this clean; mine didn't either. That's fine.

Enjoy. And sorry for the mess.

Merch lives next door at Engineerdadcoffee.