I made this fun and easy Guess the Christmas Smell Play Dough for our school Christmas Fair and the children, loved it. I laid out three different types of Christmas spice-flavoured play dough in bowls, and the Christmas spices in another, then asked the children to match the spice to the play dough. How to…
Olaf is made using the same principe as our Mini Magnet Maze and Christmas Tree. We made his buttons magnetic but you could use his eyes, nose or eyebrows. You could even make a smaller version and make Olaf’s body parts moveable. Can you think of any other Frozen crafts you could make using this method? What you…
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 names when written down. We also tried a bit of weighing and measuring. The vegetable monsters all looked very…
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 Monster version for Halloween, using a fantastic play dough recipe from The Imagination Tree. It was ready in less than 5…
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 simple activity took literally minutes to prepare, and all you need is baking soda, vinegar and food colouring. Our Halloween fizzy bug rocks are a slight variation on more traditional fizzy rocks,…
One of the activities my children ask to do over and over again is our jumping frogs, which are a great way to learn about static electricity. Inspired by Inspiration Laboratories moving ghost, we made jumping ghosts instead of frogs. To make it more of an investigation rather than a demonstration, we tried to make…
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…
This fun egg rolling activity kept my children occupied for hours. We recorded how long it took boiled eggs to roll down our slide and then wrapped them in different materials to see if that affected their speed. Younger children will just enjoy rolling the eggs, but for older children, you can spend time planning…
Baking soda experiments have always been very popular with my children. They are such fun, fizzy reactions that can be used in many creative ways. We’ve made baking soda ice before, but this time I added a little twist by making it Easter egg-shaped. We also made some without baking soda and hid a toy…
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