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…
Cool Milk Experiment
So…here’s a very easy experiment that I’m sure your kids will love – I did, even though I’m a grown-up! What you’ll need: a bowl, 2-3 cups of milk, dish washing liquid, food colouring (at least 2-3 colours), Q-tip, and thick paper. Instructions: Pour the milk in the bowl, then add some food colouring. Dip…
Magic Bubble Recipe
I stumbled across this recipe for giant bubbles a long time ago, but I haven’t had the time (or the ingredients) to make it before. I had a friend over and she brought me some glycerin, because she knew it will come in handy for my weird science experiments. And it did! 🙂 I tested…