Did you know you can walk on oobleck? My children participated in a fun race called Mini Mudder a couple of years ago. One of the obstacles was a huge tray of cornflour oobleck, which everyone loved, so we thought we’d try to create a smaller version in our garden. Our giant oobleck tray was…
If you’re looking for easy activities to keep the kids busy at home, these free STEM Challenge Cards might be just what you need. They all use very simple materials that you probably already have around the house and are perfect for those days where you want to chill out at home while keeping the…
Our next Easter STEM challenge is to build a harness to safely transport a small egg down a zip wire. Once you’ve built a suitable harness for a chocolate egg, you could try a real egg ( maybe boil it first ) and test to see if the harness works for that as well. We’ve…
One of our most popular posts is this great collection of Fairy Tale science activities, so when the lovely Mrs Mactivity asked if we’d like her to create some resources to sit alongside our Fairy Tale STEM challenges, we said YES! These Fairy Tale STEM activities are great for elementary or primary school-age children and…
My Santa STEM Challenges might be my favourite Christmas science activities so far. Help Santa find the North Star, save a pile of presents from crashing to the ground, make a tree and build a raft for the reindeer with these exciting Christmas STEM Activities. Four of the challenges are now available as FREE STEM…
Halloween is fast approaching, so I thought it’d be fun to put together a collection of SPOOKYÂ Halloween STEM challenges. Build play dough brains, candy grabbers, or mini light-up Halloween houses, or try one of the super simple spooky STEM ideas in the FREE challenge sheet below. All the ideas use materials you probably already have…
Here at Science Sparks we love science experiments and STEM Challenges that use recycled materials. A Pringles can is a great versatile item that can be used for lots of different science activities and projects. We’ve made torches, art bots, drums and even motorised cars all using a Pringles can as the main part. Can…
This easy paper aeroplane launcher is a great STEM project for kids. We spent a long time perfecting the design of the launcher and then even longer finding the best size plane to use. Once you’ve got the launcher working you can experiment with different trajectories and shape and sizes of planes to see which…
Today’s Fairy Tale STEM challenge is making a balloon-powered carriage for Cinderella. The orange balloon is meant to look like a pumpkin, but you could make your carriage pretty in white or pink or even build a spooky version in black! What you need: Thin/light cardboard 4 plastic lids or thick cards cut into circles…
Today’s STEM Challenge is super simple. The aim is to find out how many coins it takes to sink a foil boat. First, we cleaned up our treasure, then we made different sizes of kitchen foil boats and tried to sink them! If you want to extend the pirate theme, we love making treasure maps with…
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