A few days ago we noticed that one of our little pumpkin plants on the window sill had wilted. The soil looked dry so we watered the plant and after a few hours it was standing lovely and straight ...
Biology for Kids
Growing Microorganisms – Dirty Potatoes
Welcome to more Spectacular Summer Science, today we're growing microorganisms Following on from our hand washing exercise last week we tried another related activity. We boiled some potatoes to ...
Heart Rate Investigation
Our heart is a muscle which functions as a very powerful pump to transport blood around the body. It beats somewhere between 60 and 100 times a minute, but can beat even faster than that if needed. ...
Germs and worms
Where possible I always get my children to wash their hands before eating. The bigger two have made up a song to encourage little H to wash hers properly, it goes something like this: Rub and ...
Earthworm Facts for Kids
Earthworm factsThere are over 3000 different kinds of earthwormsAnnelids - the phylum of which Earthworms are part, are good swimmers.Some in Australia can grow to over 3 meters long!The ...
Beetle Game – Introduction to insects
Did you know beetles make up about 40% of insect species?Beetles have a very hard exoskeleton ( outer skeleton ) and hard forewings, like all insects their bodies are made up of three parts: the ...
Make your own bird feeder
Did you know that this week is National Nest Box week?Winter can be a tough time for birds. Food is in shorter supply and if an icy frost creeps over, it can harden nuts and berries and make it ...
Mint chocolate leaves – changes of state
Valentines day is coming up, so I thought we'd do some activities based around that, starting with some chocolate leaves.What you needMint leavesChocolate ( we used a lovely 70% dark kind ...
How tall is a tree?
We love trees in our house. My 5 and 4 year old children like to climb them and my 2 year old likes to collect leaves, pinecones and horse chestnuts. Last weekend we spent the morning at Alice Holt ...
Simple Science – Plants
Todays preschool plant activity is very simple and is especially aimed at younger children.We wandered around the garden looking at all the plants and flowers discussing which were big and which ...
