A Fizzy Surprise
The kids and I are great fans of the simple baking soda and vinegar reaction. They come back to this one regularly. It’s so easy and versatile. This week I changed it up a little bit by adding in a…
Rubber Band Car
This is one for the older kids as it’s quite tricky! The idea is that you use the energy in an elastic band to make the car go – ours didn’t quite work however and definitely needs some tweaking! We…
Make your drawings move!
This is very simple and easy to do – but I think we need some more practice! Perhaps you will have more success! All you need is a whiteboard marker, some hot water and a plate. Draw a simple drawing…
No leak plastic bag!
We had seen this experiment in one of Lucas’ science books (Science and Stuff by Orbax and Pepper – highly recommend it! These guys are great, we’ve seen their show. Buy the book here). We then saw the experiment on…
Quarantine Bucket List
Today I had the idea of getting the kids to write a to do list of things they would like to after the quarantine ends. I’m sure others have done the same! I wrote it out really quickly over dinner…
Playdough Circuits!
We had some fun this week with basic circuits and conductors. We have done these a few times in the last couple of years and they are great fun. This week we used playdough as our conductor. Our circuit looks…
Lego Life Magazine
Did you know you can receive a free Lego Life Magazine through your letter box every three months? We’ve been receiving them for a while now and L in particular enjoys them. They include brain teasers, comic strips and posters.…
Secret Messages
This is a quick, easy and fun activity. We first did it a couple of years ago and we revisited it this week. All you need is a white wax crayon, white sheet of paper and paint. If you happen…
Pellet Launchers
Making simple pellet launchers is great fun! There are two examples in this blog post of simple launchers we have made recently. The first one is simple, the second more complex! Box Launcher: L and A had great fun making…
Hour of Code
As part of homeschooling we recently discovered the website ‘Hour of Code’. It’s full of activities for various ages on coding, including some Minecraft challenges. L has had some fun trying out some of the activities and working his way…
