Tagged STEM Activities

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...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

EC is really into his STEM projects and loves to build things. This week I set a cork raft challenge for him (and of course YC); to see who could build a cork raft out of the material we had. And whose could st...

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...

Make sure you follow my STEM board on Pinterest for more ideas, and don’t forget to save the pin for later. Phew! Last week was a scorcher of a week. I thought I had missed all the really hot weather when I...

Make sure you follow my STEM board on Pinterest for more ideas, and don't forget to save the pin for later.  I’m not going to lie; this is a really cool experiment. That takes no time to prep and about 5-10 mi...

Make sure you follow my STEM board on Pinterest for more ideas, and don't forget to save the pin for later. Over the last few days we have been doing quite a few activities using balloons. I haven't posted th...