If you have access to a real lab you can use the fancy stuff.
However, you can do just fine with common household items.
1. Coffee filters. Use this to filter out dust and undissolved material
from substances which you are crystalizing from solution, such as vitamin C.
2. Glass slides and coverslips. This can be picked up on Ebay.
3. Glass can substitute for beakers, and flasks.
4. An Eyedropper is helpful to dispense liquid materials onto a slide.
5. Beer. Needed for creative inspiration.
6. Plastic petri dish or clear plastic CD jewel case, will enhance colors.
Put it under the specimen on the microscope.
7. A cigarette lighter, candle, alcohol lamp, or other gentle heat source.
This is used to melt substances which will be crystalized from the melt.
8. McDonalds Coffe stirrers. Make great spatulas for dispensing small amounts
of chemicals.
9. Linear (not circular) polarizing filters. You will need two of these.
They can be glass or plastic.