Germ Experiment: What’s Growing On Your Hands? Nanny Anita 18 February, 2019 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, 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...
4 Coca Cola Experiments Nanny Anita 8 June, 2018 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, 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...
Kitchen Science: Red Cabbage Indicator Experiment Nanny Anita 25 April, 2018 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, 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 ...
Flying Tea Bag Ghosts Nanny Anita 26 October, 2017 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, 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...
How Can You Bounce a Bubble? Nanny Anita 5 January, 2017 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Living Last year I asked EC and YC what they wanted to do more of this year; EC wanted more science experiments and YC more art. Not very helpful. This year I will try to make more of a balance between doing science, ...
Walking Water Science Experiment Nanny Anita 3 November, 2016 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts Every so often for bath time EC and YC like to add tablets that change the water colour. They like to see what colours they get when mixing them together, plus it is rather cool to have a different colour bath ...
Volcanic Eruptions: Set Your Own Volcano Off in This Simple Science Experiment Nanny Anita 12 July, 2016 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Living We are back to an oldie but a firm favourite activity of mine; setting off volcanoes. This was one of the shows I use to do onboard Disney Cruise Line and everyone loved doing them, although the clean up was a ...
Sun Tan Lotion Painting: Why We Need To Wear Sun Tan Lotion Nanny Anita 16 June, 2016 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living Make sure you follow our STEM board on Pinterest for more ideas. I think I have lost count of the number of times I have struggled to put sun tan lotion onto a uncooperative child while telling them “if you ...
Diet Coke and Mentos Science Experiment Nanny Anita 28 April, 2016 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living When I worked for Disney Cruise Line one of the experiments we used to do with the children was the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment; it was part of a show called Super Sloppy Science: Gases and Goos. It was a p...
Skittles Science Experiment Nanny Anita 5 April, 2016 Activities and Days Out, Blogger, Living Do you ever see a craft or activity online and think “I have to do that?” (I hope that at least some of my things do that). Well I saw this skittles science experiment and had that moment! It is soooo cool, I ...
