Comment Re:recommendations? (Score 1) 446
http://www.scribd.com/doc/21654883/The-Golden-Book-of-Chemistry-Experiments for a link to the book.
Most of what I learned about chemistry came from an old science kit from my dad as well as a book that he had as a child growing up (with lots of physical experiments as well) I also got a full dissection kit from my grandfather when I was eight.
I was also learning how to cook starting when I was seven, and made an absolutely horrid cake (okay sweetie, you pick the ingredients, and lets see how it works!) amazingly, it was edible...
Talking about removing rulers from science kits seems like a slippery slope to me, my science kit had razors, beakers, a tealight bunsen burner, needles and tweezers.
Put a label on it and say adult supervision required, and trust the adult to keep the kids from whacking eachother over the head with sticks. A bratty kid who pokes another kid bad enough to seriously injure them will find something outside the science kit to do the same thing, taking things out of the science kit wont do a bit of good.