Science Sparks is full of easy and fun science experiments for kids to do at home. Our fun science investigations include engineering, coding, biology, chemistry and physics experiments.
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Our science experiments include removing the shell from an egg, launching bottle rockets, create edible life cycles, making lava lamps and lots more science experiments for kids of all ages.
This hands-on chicken life cycle sensory bin is brilliant for working on fine motor skills, whilst introducing the concept of a life cycle. We used a chicken as the example as most children are familiar with eggs and chickens making it a little easier to understand. What you’ll need: How to make a chicken life…
Scribble Bots are a brilliant fun, mini engineering challenge offering lots of scope for investigations. Try changing the size or shape of the container, number of pens, number of batteries, size of propeller, make the propeller off centre or move the pens higher or lower up the container. Can you predict how each change will affect the…
I remember getting my first telescope when I was 9 years old, and then desperately wanting to visit NASA and go to space camp a few years later. There’s just something about space and the stars that is so fascinating. Two of my children are currently learning about space in school, so planets and stars…
This multicoloured volcano is slightly different to the usual single coloured versions and allows the addition of  a mini design and engineering aspect for older children. The volcano used in the photo above is a model available from Learning Resources. I just split the eruption container in half to make the lava multicoloured. Buy from AMAZON now!! UK:…
Have you tried any of the investigations we talked about in week 1 and week 2 of our Christmas Science series? I’d love to know which you enjoyed the most. This week, we’ve got even more fun Christmas science ideas, starting with Frosty the Snowman! Day 15 – Frosty the Snowman Frosty the Snowman STEM…
I’m not sure how it’s December 2nd today, how did that happen? I’m sure time goes faster each year. I do however have a fun collection of Christmas science ideas to make the run up to Christmas and beyond even more fun than usual! I’ve split them into three posts to make them more manageable. As…
We’ve been big fans of Lottie Dolls since we first came across them a few years ago. Lottie and Finn are super cute, dinky dolls with a childlike figure, designed to empower children to be themselves, imaginative and adventurous. My girls especially love the range of accessories available for Lottie. They both play beautifully with their…
Here at Science Sparks we are always on the look out for great new STEM resources and so were thrilled when Learning Resources sent us their new microscope to test Zoomy is a brilliant, easy to use all-in-one handheld digital microscope which allows children to view objects close up. Zoomy has 54x  magnification allowing children to see…
We’ve been admiring the Meccanoid Robots from Meccano for a very long time, so were thrilled to be sent a mini version ( one of the new Micronoids ) to review earlier this month. There are three different Micronoids to collect, which interact with each other if you have more than one. We were sent…
My memory of a lot of my teachers from school, especially when I was very young is quite sketchy, but there is one teacher who I have always credited with my passion for all things scientific. She was my biology teacher from age 12 to 14 and some how managed to bring the subject to…
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