We had to make vegetable monsters for a Halloween competition at school last week, so I took the opportunity to try and teach my youngest child the names of some vegetables and how to recognise the names when written down. We also tried a bit of weighing and measuring. The vegetable monsters all looked very…
My girls love play dough, both home made and the the shop bought variety. There’s something about rolling and squishing that calms them down and always leads to fun, creative play. I set up this Monster version for Halloween, using a fantastic play dough recipe from The Imagination Tree. It was ready in less than 5…
My children always love a good baking soda activity! Even my 7-year-old still gets excited at the prospect of some fizzy fun. This simple activity took literally minutes to prepare, and all you need is baking soda, vinegar and food colouring. Our Halloween fizzy bug rocks are a slight variation on more traditional fizzy rocks,…
Do you know why we have bones? We have some fun activity ideas to share today to help you find out! Fun facts about bones A human has 206 bones! There are 26 bones in the human foot. The femur is the longest bone in the human skeleton. When babies are born, they have about…
Like most children, if given a straw, my four will blow bubbles till the cup overflows, which gave me an idea for a fun investigation. We tried to find out which of three different drinks made the best bubbles, using it as a fun exercise in experimental design. Bubbly Drinks Challenge Find out whether purple…
One of the activities my children ask to do over and over again is our jumping frogs, which are a great way to learn about static electricity. Inspired by Inspiration Laboratories moving ghost, we made jumping ghosts instead of frogs. To make it more of an investigation rather than a demonstration, we tried to make…
Autumn is definitely with us, and supermarkets here have filled their shelves with lots of lovely squash varieties. We used them to make a fun ‘Guess what’s in the pumpkin’ game as a Halloween science activity. I hollowed each pumpkin out and decorated them with a pumpkin face using a crayon pen. I then filled…
Do you remember when we designed a house made of sweets and tried to find the best materials for its construction? We’ve followed the same concept with this fun edible science investigation to make a marshmallow Olaf from Disney’s Frozen. What are the best sweets for Olaf? Marshmallows were the obvious choice, and we decided three…
We were very excited to be invited for a sneaky peak at Professor Blasts’s Learning Lab at Paultons Park. I’ve been lucky enough to tag along on a few school trips with my own children and have seen the kind of places that work well and those that don’t and I’m certain that the combination…
The science experiments my children talk about for months afterwards are generally the messy ones, like our splatter patterns, glow in the dark oobleck, baking soda experiments and the well known coke and mento experiment. If you try this classic chemistry experiment definitely do it outside as it’s VERY messy and sticky. Sometimes you’ll see it called…
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