Autumn is definitely with us, and supermarkets here have filled their shelves with lots of lovely squash varieties. We used them to make a fun ‘Guess what’s in the pumpkin’ game as a Halloween science activity. I hollowed each pumpkin out and decorated them with a pumpkin face using a crayon pen. I then filled…
Do you remember when we designed a house made of sweets and tried to find the best materials for its construction? We’ve followed the same concept with this fun edible science investigation to make a marshmallow Olaf from Disney’s Frozen. What are the best sweets for Olaf? Marshmallows were the obvious choice, and we decided three…
Right at the beginning of summer we designed and then constructed a cardboard kitchen. First we thought about the features we needed to include by looking at our own kitchen and considering what we thought were the most important features. An area for the hob Tall enough to stand at comfortably An area to rest…
I’ve often wished we had a big LEGO® vacuum cleaner that sucked up and sorted LEGO®. Our collection is mixed up in a large box under my 7 year old bed. So today, we set about making a LEGO® filter. This is our first attempt and needs a little refining. First, we looked around the…
Printing patterns with LEGO® is a simple STEM activity for young children. The bricks are a great shape for making robots or building shapes, and DUPLO® bricks are easy for little hands to hold. We did our LEGO® printing outside to contain the mess. You can print with LEGO people, normal bricks or DUPLO bricks…
Sinking and floating is great first science activity for even very young children ( carefully supervised ) and can easily be extended for older children. We’re all about the pirates this week, so collected lots of pirate themed treasure to test. Do you know why things float in water? What you need for a pirate…
Are you ready for our 6th LEGO® activity for the summer? We made several bridges and then devised a way to test how stable they were. First, we discussed how to test each bridge. We tried adding weights to the top, but they just fell off rather than breaking the bridge. We tried hanging weights from…
Our fourth LEGO science post for the summer is super simple and great fun for kids of all ages. All you need to do is collect different bits of LEGO, design a table to show your results and try and hypothesise which will float and which will sink. Test your LEGO and see if you…
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…
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