This is a very easy art project you can do with kids of all ages, even 3 y.o. Materials: plastic cup (as many as the colours you want to use), water, dishwashing liquid, food colouring, straw, paper. Instructions: pour water and dishwashing liquid in the plastic cup (the ratio can be 2:1) and the add…
Volcano Eruption
Materials: baking soda, vinegar, glass bottle (transparent bottle), paint or food colouring (red/orange), plastic dinosaurs and trees (just to decorate), sensory table or a large tray (to keep the liquid from spilling) Age: kindergarten, primary school Instructions: Place the large tray so that all the kids can see. Then, place the dinosaurs and the trees…
Lava Lamp
Materials: jar or bottle, effervescent tablets, oil, water, food colouring. Instructions: Find a large jar or bottle. Pour water (at least 300 ml) and oil (also around 300-400 ml or more). Put some drops of food colouring (any colour will do). We chose green because the children voted for it 🙂 After the food colouring…
Make Your Own Wormery
Worms are fascinating! I still remember playing with them when I was a kid: we used to build mud houses and drive the worms around. 🙂 (I’m not joking: we used toy cars. Poor worms!) The kids kept playing with worms in the yard, but knew almost nothing about them. We decided to learn about…
Sweet Potato Experiment
We started growing our own sweet potato plant. We suspended the sweet potato over a small bucket (although a jar is better, because you can observe how the root grows) with some sticks to hold half of the potato outside. We put it on a windowsill to get some sun, but unfortunately the weather has…
Food Colouring
My new icing colours just arrived by post! I’m so excited…I can’t wait to make play dough with my kids tomorrow! 🙂 I’m nuts about food colouring. It’s great, because you can use it to create fun sensory trays (by painting rice, pasta, sand, dough, flour), to paint with it (and oil, salt, water), to…