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Halloween Science
Halloween Squeezy Bottle Rocket Spiders
These easy squeezy bottle rocket spiders are brilliant fun to make and a fantastic introduction to forces, especially Newton's Third Law of motion. For every action there is always an opposite and ...
Fun things to do with pumpkins
Halloween is almost over which makes me a bit sad as I love Autumn, but the run up to Christmas is my favourite time of the year and I'm determind to make the most of it. In the meantime though, if ...
How to make a play dough light up pumpkin
We recently reviewed the DIY Electro Dough kit from Technology Will Save Us and were so pleased with our birthday cake creation that we decided to make a little light up pumpkin.What do you ...
Halloween Density Jar
This is a super simple, fun Halloween density investigation, perfect for introducing the concept of liquids having different densities and for practising making and testing predictions. All you need ...
Scary vegetable monsters
We had to make vegetable monsters for a Halloween competition at school last week, so I took the opportunity to try and teach my youngest child the names of some vegetables and how to recognise the ...
Play Dough Monsters
My girls love play dough, both home made and the the shop bought variety. There's something about rolling and squishing that calms them down and always leads to fun, creative play.I set up this ...
Halloween Fizzy Rocks
My children always love a good baking soda activity, even my 7 year old still gets excited at the prospect of some fizzy fun. This took literally minutes to prepare and all you need is baking soda, ...
Bones, Bones, Bones
Today we've got some great activity ideas for learning about bones.Did you know your skeleton has three main jobs? Support Your skeleton stops you being all floppy, acting like a scaffold to ...
Great Halloween Science Experiments
We've added a few new Halloween Science Experiments to our collection this year, so I thought I'd put them in one big round up, with great ideas from other bloggers too. I'd love to know how you get ...
