Following on from our post about patterns and measuring with loom bands, we’ve devised a little activity to investigate what happens when you add weight to different types of loom bands. What you need: Different types of loom bands to test, we used a normal band, a fishtail and a starburst. A ruler A weight Somewhere…
Full details coming soon, but the idea behind this activity is to find a way to keep porridge warm while the bears go for a walk. Try leaving one bowl uncovered, place a plate over another and kitchen foil over another. Take the temperature of the porridge every 5 minutes…what happens?
Coming soon, but the idea behind this activity is to design and build a carriage for Cinderella’s pumpkin. You’ll need a mini pumpkin to test your carriage works!
My children have gone loom band crazy. Every morning starts with a conversation about how many bands they can take to school and ends with them showing me their latest creations. Even my 3-year-old can make them! Here at Science Sparks, we like to add a bit of science fun to everything, so we brainstormed…
We’re over the moon to be toy testers for Learning Resources, especially as we already own some of their great products like the digital timer and bucket balance and use them in a lot of our activities. We’ve always found the quality to be fantastic and the learning potential huge. The super sorting pie is already much loved…
Last year, we visited the Eden Project in Cornwall, where they had a wonderful Room on the Broom tent full of fun witchy activities. My girls loved making potions full of brightly coloured glitter and lovely smelling herbs. Back at home, my 5-year-old wanted to add water to make a proper potion, but before we did that,…
Every Superhero needs a cape, but which material flies best in the wind? this super simple science activity allows kids to channel their inner superhero and make the perfect flowing cape! This activity is also part of my playful science series full of simple and playful science for kids! Superhero Cape Experiment Challenge – to make…
Objects float when they are less dense than the fluid they are in. If you dropped a tennis ball and a marble into a bucket of water, the marble would sink, and the tennis ball would float. This is because a tennis ball is full of air ( it is not very dense ), and…
Find out which material makes the best ice hockey puck in this simple science investigation. Ice hockey pucks are made from vulcanised rubber. They usually have small grooves on the surface so they can grip the ice and are frozen before a game to stop them from bouncing. Ice hockey science investigation You’ll need Milk…
We do a lot of building with LEGO, blocks and boxes and recently built a whole house from fudge, icing sugar and chocolate after testing different foodstuffs for the best cement ( icing sugar won ). Today, our candy science activity was much more simple, but still huge amounts of fun, as most activities involving…
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