Play dough is a fantastic sensory material, with endless play opportunities. You can set up beautiful small word settings, make a play dough ice cream shop, chocolate shop or even use it to start to ...
Sensory and Messy Play
Jumping Leaves
This easy Autumn themed static electricity experiment is great for kids of all ages.EquipmentBalloonPaper, cut into leaf shapes - tissue paper works best, but you can experiment with ...
Firework Spin Art and Filter Paper Pictures
I'm a bit last minute posting these as today is Bonfire Night in the UK, but they came out so well I didn't want to wait for New Year.Firework Spin Art PicturesThese came out brilliantly on ...
Fizzy baking soda stars
One of the activities my children ask for over and over again is a bowl of cornflour gloop. It's so easy to make and keeps everyone happy for hours, although it is a little on the messy side, so I'd ...
Fizzy Hidden Coin Pirate Rocks
These are super simple to make and lots of fizzy fun. We used food colouring to make the baking soda look like rocks and added shiny coins for the children to find.First we cleaned up some pennies ...
Which material makes the best dress up pirate sword?
This is a great themed activity for starting to learn about properties of materials and good experimental design.First we made 3 different pirate swords. You could use any materials you want, but ...
Ice painting – ocean themed
We're making the most of the cold weather by sticking with our ice theme this week. This ice painting science activity is super simple and huge amounts of fun. I just wish I had a bigger freezer to ...
Chromatography butterflies and pop up cards
These are not the best example of chromatography, but are lots of fun to make and a good demonstration of how the ink in most felt-tip pens contains mixture of different colours. If we were to do this ...
Colourful ice and some salt
I've gone a bit ice crazy this week, my freezer is full of all kinds of weird and wonderful creations which I'll be showing you soon. First up is this block that I froze with straws inside, then after ...
Fizzy Paint
I've been trying to get my fizzy paint recipe perfect for a few weeks now and think I've finally found the ideal combination of viscosity and fizz. You could use this activity to learn about chemical ...
