I arrived to fun amateur chemistry just a year too late – the chemistry sets were basically very, very safe. No oxidizers, no finely milled metal powders. And I was probably 9 and I went to the local pharmacy and the pharmacist basically said they no longer compound their own stuff, and he’d just sold off his remaining chemicals the year prior.
Thing is, if you’ve got enough black powder ingredients, you can in fact make a fairly sizable bang. I’m not sure if you could get it to detonate.
