Many years ago we went through a stage of painting on sheets of ice and then pressing paper on the top. Once the paper dried we used it as a fun background to draw on.This activity is a little ...
Early Years Science
10 AMAZING Baking Soda Experiments
Baking soda experiments or activities are a great, safe and easy way to introduce the concept of a chemical reaction to children. Baking Soda is alkaline and reacts with acids such as vinegar, ...
Rolling Ball Box
My one year old loves bouncing balls. He will quite happily bounce a ball around the house for hours. He also loves putting things in boxes, so when I found two large cardboard tubes I knew exactly ...
DIY Science Party for Kids
Lots of people ask me about parties and the best experiments to keep children entertained at a science party. Science Sparks is full of fun, safe and hands-on science investigations that would make ...
Walking on oobleck
Did you know you can walk on oobleck? A couple of years ago my children took part in Mini Mudder, one of the obstacles was a huge tray of cornflour oobleck which everyone loved, so when TTS Group ...
How to make oobleck
Making oobleck, also known as cornflour gloop or slime was one of the very first science activities I wrote about on Science Sparks. I've given this very old post about how to make oobleck a bit of an ...
How to make a Baking Soda Volcano
When you think of great science experiments for kids one of the first that springs to mind is probably a baking soda volcano and vinegar volcano. I remember making one with my little brother in the ...
Why do things float in water?
This activity uses a bit of science trickery to make an object that sinks in water, float in water. Why do things float in water? Objects are made up of very tiny molecules. Molecules can be packed ...
Colour Theory with Squishy Bags
These squishy bags are a great, mess free way to experiment with mixing colours ad colour theory. After we'd finished experimenting making different colours we put a sheet of card inside each paint ...
Fairy Tale STEM Printables
One of our most popular posts is this great collection of Fairy Tale science activities, so when the lovely Mrs Mactivity asked if we'd like her to create some resources to sit alongside them we said ...
