A carriage for Cinderella’s pumpkin
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!
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Age 4 - 6 | Early Years Science | Everyday Materials | Just for Fun | Scientific Enquiry | Understanding of the World
Loom Band Ideas – Patterns and Measuring
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…
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Super Sorting Pie from Learning Resources
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…
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Making and Filtering Potions
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,…
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Age 4 - 6 | Design and Technology | Early Years Science | Everyday Materials | Materials and their Properties | Understanding of the World
What’s the best material for a Superhero cape?
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…
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Fruity Boats – sinking and floating experiment
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…
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The best ice hockey puck
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…
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Candy Science – Building Towers with Sweets
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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6 Easy Air Pressure Experiments for Kids
These air pressure experiments are great fun and fantastic demonstrations of a fascinating force. What is air pressure? Air pressure is the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth. We measure air pressure using a barometer. Have you ever climbed a mountain or visited an area at a high altitude and found you get…
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Waterproof Roof STEM Challenge
This waterproof roof STEM challenge is a simple but fun activity that even very young children will enjoy. My 3,5 and 7-year-old loved it, especially when it came to making it ‘rain’. LEGO waterproofing experiment Before starting, we spent a few minutes talking about what we expected to happen and how we could make the…
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