In the story of Hansel and Gretel, the children leave stones and then breadcrumbs to find their way home, but the breadcrumbs get eaten, and the children end up in a witch’s house. The idea of this science activity is to find a new way for Hansel and Gretel to leave a message or draw…
Today’s Fairy Tale STEM challenge is making a balloon-powered carriage for Cinderella. The orange balloon is meant to look like a pumpkin, but you could make your carriage pretty in white or pink or even build a spooky version in black! What you need: Thin/light cardboard 4 plastic lids or thick cards cut into circles…
Kids are naturally curious about the world, and one great way to encourage their natural interest in everything around them is through play. Science activities work perfectly alongside play and are so much fun kids won’t even realise they are learning. Using educational craft projects Kids love assembling things: being given parts and using glue,…
Did you know you can bake ice cream without it melting? A Baked Alaska is a dessert with a sponge cake base, ice cream middle and meringue top! The secret to keeping the ice cream cold is all in the meringue! Meringue is full of air bubbles which stop the heat from the oven reaching…
When making some jelly last week, I noticed the packet said it wouldn’t set if pineapple, kiwi or papaya were added to it. We decided to find out why pineapple stops jelly setting. If you love science in the kitchen don’t forget we’ve also got 50 fun kitchen science experiments and ideas for a science…
We have a little magnet kit that we play with frequently. It’s great fun, and the children are always so surprised that they can actually feel the force pushing the magnets apart. To explain magnetism further, we made a magnet maze. First, we played to see which type of objects a big magnet stuck to….
Today’s STEM Challenge is super simple. The aim is to find out how many coins it takes to sink a foil boat. First, we cleaned up our treasure, then we made different sizes of kitchen foil boats and tried to sink them! If you want to extend the pirate theme, we love making treasure maps with…
Here at Science Sparks we know how tricky it can be having the kids at home all day especially if you’re trying to work or have children of different ages to look after. This collection of at home science projects might just help you through! I’ve chosen science projects that don’t use too many materials,…
Before we had clocks and watches, people used sundials to mark the passing of time. A sundial measures time by the sun’s position and usually has markings for each hour of sunlight. Sundials have something in the centre that casts a shadow over the markings showing the time. There are lots of ways to make…
These Key Stage 2 science experiments are great for school or home and perfect to sit alongside science in the classroom for Key Stage 2 in the UK or for children aged between around 7-11 who love science! If a science challenge is more your thing, we’ve got easy STEM challenges using newspaper, FREE STEM Challenge cards and lots…
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