Super-Fun Scientific Experiments To Entertain Kids In Lockdown My Baba 18 March, 2020 Education, Living Solar Cookie Oven Scientific Principle: Solar Energy Time required: 1 hour Introduction: Usually, ovens are powered using electricity or gas. This experiment uses the sun's own natural energy - or sol...
Why Does it Rain? Nanny Anita 19 February, 2020 Activities & Days Out, Crafts & Activities, Living One question that I am repeatedly asked by my little ones is “why does it rain?” It may appear as an easy question, but it isn't, there are a lot of complicated ideas to understand in the process, so after so...
How to Make Elephant Toothpaste Nanny Anita 20 January, 2020 Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living Elephant toothpaste has been an experiment I have wanted to try for ages. However, I thought getting my hands on the chemicals would be tricky and that maybe it would be too dangerous to do with the kids. Turns...
Leaf Chromatography Science Experiment Nanny Anita 30 September, 2019 Activities & Days Out, Crafts & Activities Last year I came across this leaf chromatography experiment from one of my favourite websites Playdough to Plato. It shows what colours make up a leaf and why they change colour in autumn. Unfortunately all the...
How to Make Your Own Compass Nanny Anita 10 June, 2019 Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living Learning how to make your own compass is pretty easy, and it really doesn’t take much time at all. Make sure you follow my science board on Pinterest for more ideas. Don’t forget to save the pin for later. ...
Germ Experiment: What’s Growing On Your Hands? Nanny Anita 18 February, 2019 Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living Something suddenly hit me the other day while I was getting ready. And it was a possible reason as to why children don’t care about washing their hands. It occurred to me that YC and EC don’t seem to have a pro...
How to Make Matchstick Rockets Nanny Anita 30 August, 2018 Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living Do you know the quickest way to get a bunch of boys aged between 5 – 11 interested in doing an activity? Tell them you are going to play with matches and set something off. I’ve never seen them move so quickly....
4 Coca Cola Experiments Nanny Anita 8 June, 2018 Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living We have all heard the stories of how if you leave a tooth in coca cola that it will completely dissolve. EC was telling us how he had been doing this sort of experiment at school. Well I don’t have access to a...
DIY Parachutes for Teddies: STEM Activity Nanny Anita 9 May, 2018 Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living If there is one activity that EC is always asking to redo it is the egg drop challenge. He absolutely loves it. This week rather than launch eggs out of my window to see if they'll survive the fall, we threw ...
Kitchen Science: Red Cabbage Indicator Experiment Nanny Anita 25 April, 2018 Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living Do you know what my first thought was when doing this red cabbage indicator experiment? Why is called red cabbage when it looks purple? Yes these are the sort of questions that I constantly think off. Anyway I ...
