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....
Summer Experiments to Entertain the Kids My Baba 7 August, 2018 Activities & Days Out, 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 s...
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 ...
Candy Cane Science Experiment Nanny Anita 26 December, 2017 Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living I always find (as with most holidays) we seem to end up with lots of sweets around the house. At Easter we obviously have lots of chocolate. Halloween it is just sweets in general. But at Christmas we end up w...
Flying Tea Bag Ghosts Nanny Anita 26 October, 2017 Activities & Days Out, Blogger, Crafts & Activities, Living Over the past few weeks we have done quite a few Halloween crafts and games, therefore it is high time for a science based activity. I can assure you there is no quicker way to get EC involved in an activity th...
