These fun music science experiments for kids are all about making sounds, how we hear sounds, pitch and music! Set up a speaker, a drum, and rice first to see sound in action, then make a drum, rainstick, guitar and lots more easy music science activities. Making and testing musical instruments is a great hands-on…
Mobile launch platforms were used to transport the Saturn V rockets and space shuttles to the launch pad. This activity introduces children to the concept of a mobile launch platform and uses the idea as inspiration for a fun engineering challenge. Challenge Design and build a mobile launch platform for a rocket. The platform should be moveable…
I remember getting my first telescope when I was 9 years old, and then desperately wanting to visit NASA and go to space camp a few years later. There’s just something about space and the stars that is so fascinating. Two of my children are currently learning about space in school, so planets and stars…
In the story of The Princess and the Pea, the princess can’t sleep because she can feel a pea through many layers of mattresses. We used the story to inspire first the building of a wooden bed and then the addition of mattress materials to see which cushioned our pea ( a marble ) most effectively….
Do you know how to make a square bubble? Bubbles are made from a thin film of soapy water filled with air. When you blow a bubble, the film of soapy water expands outwards to form a sphere. Whatever shape bubble wand you use you’ll always get a spherical bubble. You can test this by…
Why does salt melt ice? We’ve experimented with ice and salt before and found that salt does make ice melt faster, but do you know why? Salt lowers the freezing point of water which sounds complicated but actually makes a lot of sense once you try it out! The photo above is just a block…
This is a great space science challenge to use as an introduction to a space theme and/or for exploring properties of materials. You’re on the Space Station and need to do a space walk, but you’ve torn a big hole in your glove, how can you fix it? Space Science Challenge Can you fix the…
We’ve made play dough circuits before. They are super easy and the creative opportunities almost endless, so in the absence of any real snow so far this year thought we’d make a play dough light up snowman! Materials Play Dough Battery Pack: UK: http://amzn.to/2dS9vCj US: http://amzn.to/2dSberc LEDs Batteries Instructions First we refreshed our memory about circuits, by creating…
This multicoloured volcano is slightly different to the usual single coloured versions and allows the addition of  a mini design and engineering aspect for older children. The volcano used in the photo above is a model available from Learning Resources. I just split the eruption container in half to make the lava multicoloured. Buy from AMAZON now!! UK:…
Have you tried any of the investigations we talked about in week 1 and week 2 of our Christmas Science series? I’d love to know which you enjoyed the most. This week, we’ve got even more fun Christmas science ideas, starting with Frosty the Snowman! Day 15 – Frosty the Snowman Frosty the Snowman STEM…
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