Balloon Races For A Rainy Day
Balloon races are a great activity for a rainy day, especially if you have a house full of children over a wide age range. It doesn’t require much preparation or even equipment, but it is a lot of fun.
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Craft Stick Catapult Steam Challenge
At the beginning of the year I stated I wanted to do more steam activities with EC as he doesn’t really want to do the crafts any more. Having both EC and YC at home because school is shut has given me a real o...
Build a Lift Stem Challenge
Trying to find ideas that are easy to do, fill up the time, and are educational can be tricky at the best of times. Throw us all into a lock down, and it gets a whole lot harder. This build a lift stem challeng...
How to Make a Junk Model Paddleboat
As EC is getting older, he is less inclined to take part in the craft activities. Which is absolutely fine, I just need to be better at finding things to tempt him away from the screen. One thing he loves to do...
Why Does it Rain?
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
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...
How to Make Your Own Compass
Learning how to make your own compass is pretty easy, and it really doesn’t take much time at all.
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Germ Experiment: What’s Growing On Your Hands?
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
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
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...
