My theme for the next few weeks is Fairy Tales and Traditional Tales, starting with a Billy Goats Gruff STEM Challenge to build a raft to help the Billy Goats Gruff avoid the bridge. First we read the story and then talked about which materials might work best for a raft. We decided the raft…
A bottle xylophone is one of those super simple science activities everyone should try at least once. All you need is some bottles, water and something to bang the bottles with. We started the process with a bit of measuring, using 10ml in the first bottle, 20ml in the second and so on. Can you…
The Create-a-Maze is part of a range of great STEM products available from Learning Resources, who kindly sent us one to try out. I’ve now donated it to my daughter’s school who I know are having huge amounts of fun with it. The Create-a-Maze comes with a sturdy maze board, which is a really good…
I try to build in extra numeracy and literacy to our activities wherever possible, even it’s just something as simple as a bit of counting as we go along, but making a specific maths game is even more fun. Maths games are especially great for children who might not like maths or struggle with a…
This is an easy waterproofing activity with a pirate theme. We painted one side of the coin so we could easily see if the coin was wet and placed 5 coins in each bag ( paper, cloth, plastic ) before spraying with water and then examining the coins. Don’t forget I’ve got lots more early years…
We’re coming to then end of our pirate themed activities and I had been really excited about this one but nearly didn’t write about it because IÂ just couldn’t get the barrel skittles to look as good as I wanted, but the kids loved it and actually there were so many different factors to explore that…
The Rainbow Fish is a lovely story about a beautiful fish who eventually shares his shiny scales with other fish in the sea, he refuses at first, but then realises that having friends is more important than being beautiful. I used The Rainbow Fish resources from Twinkl to save me drawing the fish, then cut out scales of…
I try very hard with Science Sparks to only use equipment and materials generally found around the home, so people don’t have to buy lots of resources to carry out our activities, but there are a few items that make great resources for Early Years settings or for a science at home box. Magnets We used…
I’ve got another fun pirate themed activity today, this time demonstrating density. Density is quite a hard concept to grasp but this is a really nice introduction and full of little wow moments. Just the fact that the oil sits on the water is quite fun. We used blue water to make it look like…
This is a fun, super simple pirate themed waterproof experiment. You’ll need: Paper with a picture on it. Materials such as kitchen roll, plastic, bubble wrap, greaseproof paper, tissue paper cut into squares. Water Glue Squeezy water bottle. Instructions Draw your pirate ship. Feel the different types of material, which do you think will be…
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