These craft stick catapults or popsicle stick catapults are very easy to make and provide hours of fun as well as being a brilliant engineering and design project. We made our popsicle stick catapults ...
Key Stage 2 Science
Magnet Powered Egg Cars
These magnet powered cars are very easy to make and great for some competitive fun this Easter. My 10 year old and I had a brilliant time trying to build a car big enough to hold an egg safely, but ...
Disappearing Coin Trick
This easy disappearing coin trick uses refraction of light to make it look like a coin under a glass disappears! Materials Glass cup or jarCoinWater Instructions Place a ...
Terrific Scientific – Circuits for kids
Have you heard about Terrific Scientific from the BBC? BBC Terrific Scientific is a fantastic primary science campaign hoping to get children to think differently about what being a real scientist is ...
How to make a simple switch
We know from our play dough circuits that the circuit needs to be complete for electricity to flow, but we usually want to be able to control whether electricity flows or not. This can be done using a ...
Dough Universe – Reindeer Tutorial
We were recently sent the wonderful Bright Creatures Kit from Technology Will Save Us. After exploring the possibilities using the app included we set about making our own creations. Our current ...
How To Defy Gravity
This is a fantastic and easy demonstration of gravity and magnetism that will impress kids of all ages. The paperclip doesn't fall down because it is attracted to the magnet and doesn't jump up to the ...
Rocket Mouse – Whatever Next
One of my favourite children's books about space for young children is Whatever Next. In the story Baby Bear builds a rocket, meets an owl and has a picnic on the moon. Whatever Next!Today's ...
Titanic Science – Make an Iceberg
The Titanic famously sank on the 14th April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg.This activity models how an iceberg sits in the ocean and explains one of the reasons ...
How to Make a Giant Catapult
We've made lots of different mini catapults before, but never a giant catapult until today. We had SO much fun with our giant catapult, and it inspired lots of different investigation ...
