Chemistry on a Budget: Microscale Equipment

 The Royal Society of Chemistry has several resources for microscale chemistry.  Microscale means using drops of chemicals instead of beakers of solutions.  This approach is both cheaper and safer.  You may recall using liters of corrosive acids in chem lab.  RSC has this page of microscale equipment, including how to cut a pipette into a tiny spatula.  Here is another article with tools, such as drinking straw scoop, for microscale with a few labs.  Try a few labs before you commit.  I like this Small Scale Lab Manual to use for labs.  But, most of the time, I just use drops instead of mL for lab.  If one uses five mL, substitute five drops.  The kids get the same experience, just on a smaller scale.