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Home » Science Tricks » Making Mischief with MAOAM #AD

Making Mischief with MAOAM #AD

Modified: Aug 18, 2020 · Published: Jul 23, 2020 by Emma Vanstone · This post may contain affiliate links · 17 Comments

Lockdown has brought plenty of challenges, benefits and some disappointment over the last few weeks. We feel very lucky that we are healthy and have been able to work from home, but the children have missed out on SO much recently. Birthday parties, sports competitions that they’ve trained months for, school trips, leaving parties and many, many wonderful experiences with friends. It has also brought some unexpected benefits. While our pace of life hasn’t slowed down as such, we have all spent more quality time together which has been lovely. I am getting to the point now though where I want to inject some extra fun back into our lives and luckily MAOAM are here to help with their Mischief Hub filled with fun ideas.

MAOAM’s green mascot Max, ably assisted by the infamous Dick and Dom, have compiled a series of fun ideas for mischievous activities you can try at home.

The first prank that caught my eye was Spider Scare. We used a small plastic bug, but you could also cut the shape out of a piece of cardboard.

Spider in a lampshade - fun prank for kids

Inspired ( and impressed ) by spider Scare, we decided to make some spooky spider shadow puppets and also hid a spider in an ice cube!

How do you trick the kids?

Keep busy with the MAOAM Mischief Hub

Next time the kids are bored crank up the MAOAM Mischief HUB and the kids will be happily tricking each other ( and you ) for hours! Finding fun tricks have also been a welcome break for me from work and the endless tasks of cooking and cleaning for everyone. We’ve giggled and shrieked a LOT this week.

The Making Mischief Hub is a BRILLIANT resource for inspiration, full of ideas that are easy, great fun and a fantastic way to ease the pressure of lockdown life.

MAOAM already make life fun with their fruity chews and now you can make mischief with them too!

This post is part of a promotional campaign with BritMums and MAOAM

Last Updated on August 18, 2020 by Emma Vanstone

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  1. Samantha Donnelly

    July 23, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    It looks like you had a lot of fun, great ideas especially now schools have broken up and parents will be looking for fun things to do

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  2. Claire

    July 23, 2020 at 5:27 pm

    Gosh the one on the light is so realistic I think I’d of run off screaming!!

    The kids would love this though! For fear of being terrorised forever though I might keep this idea to myself 😉

    Reply
  3. hayley gray

    July 23, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    this looks like fun, something my boys would do! they love playing tricks and pranks on each other! i can see me screaming all the holidays as im terrified of spiders

    Reply
  4. Kristine Nicole Alessandra

    July 23, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    It sure looks like it will give the kids (and parents) so much fun coupled with learning too. I will have to check this out for my grandson.

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  5. Sarah Bailey

    July 23, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    It sounds like Maoam have come up with a fun idea to keep kids feeling creative and having fun! Fantastic.

    Reply
  6. Angela Milnes

    July 23, 2020 at 11:39 pm

    Maoam have done great making this mischief hub available and it’s something I really think can help when kids are stuck indoors or in the garden! Plenty of mischief to get up to in the garden too!

    Reply
  7. Liam | Whatthedadsaid

    July 24, 2020 at 9:27 am

    This looks a bit of funny and some good activities, my kiddies love Maoam sweets,great post.

    Reply
  8. Natasha Mairs

    July 24, 2020 at 11:33 am

    My kids love Maoams!! I wish they were also suitable for vegataraians as I want to try them out.

    Reply
  9. MELANIE EDJOURIAN

    July 24, 2020 at 1:43 pm

    I think the kids would love the spider scare. It actually happened in real life a month ago. We found a live spider in my light. I think half the UK heard me scream!

    Reply
  10. Jen from Jenography.net

    July 24, 2020 at 5:21 pm

    Love the spider on the lampshade — so simple but effective!

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  11. Yeah Lifestyle

    July 24, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    The spider in the ice-cube looks like a great idea especially since it has been hot recently. Will be checking out more fun ideas to make some mischief

    Reply
  12. Rebecca Smith

    July 26, 2020 at 5:58 pm

    Ah so much mischief to be had! The Making Mischief Hub sounds like ever such a lot of fun, I will definitely be checking it out.

    Reply
  13. Laura Schwormstedt

    August 01, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    Love these fun ideas, especially the spider in the ice cub – my kids would find that very entertaining lol

    Laura x

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  14. Marianne Weekes

    August 10, 2020 at 8:01 pm

    I must say, my twins are petrified of insects. In actual fact, this could be an excellent way to get round the fear and become more used to the idea of being close to insects.
    I shall try and let you know how I get on!

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  15. Kristine Nicole Alessandra

    August 11, 2020 at 3:05 pm

    This is definitely going to help kill the boredom. My sons are both grown, but they are terrified with cockroaches. I want to trick them with a fake cockroach, hahaha. Will check out Maoam.

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  16. Ashlee

    August 11, 2020 at 4:20 pm

    I have a 6 year old cousin who loves playing pranks, and learning new things! This pandemic has really been a struggle so I love that Making Mischief with MAOAM is around to offer these fun experiences with constructve mischief lol!

    Reply
  17. Nancy G_

    August 11, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    These ideas are so cute. I love the little spider one. I bet my son and my husband would get a grand ol’ kick out of it, too.

    Reply

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