Lab Set – Science at home with Elementary Kids
I remember as a child getting my first chemistry set, the goggles, the test tubes, chemicals in their little pots…
School Kids Activities and Crafts
Fun crafts, hands-on activities for learning and fun and delicious recipes for school kids to do independently or with you.
Sea Turtle Life Cycles – Ordering
I love when I get to pass on to my kids specialist knowledge that I know they won’t get in…
Matching Pairs – Inspired by The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
This months Virtual Book Club for Kids featured author is Margaret Wise Brown author of books like Goodnight Moon, The Important…
Cotton Reel Car – Simple Science at Home
There are certain things that stick from your childhood as activities that you did with your parents. Making cotton reel…
One Fish Two Fish – real and pseudo words game
This months Virtual Book Club for Kids is finally here and I’m so excited as we’re featuring one of our…
Pancake Toss – Shape game
One of my favourite days in February (after Valentine’s day of course) is Pancake Day – ok “Shrove Tuesday” but…
Investigating how polar animals stay warm
This week’s playful preschool theme is all about Polar Animals, and we’re investigating how they stay warm. Now, we’ve not…
Spider Web construction with Straws and Playdough
Observation and construction of spiders webs using straws and playdough a fun preschool engineering project as part of this weeks playful preschool theme. Check the end of the post for more creepy crawley themed learning and creative activities for preschoolers.
Science and Maths for 3 – 8 year olds. Fizz Pop Bang Ebook
Hands on Science and Maths activities are the best way to enthuse children about these subjects and help them learn,…
Hands-on Classification and Sorting Activity with Dinosaurs for Kids
Dinosaurs are always a favourite with kids and mine are no exception – in fact what I’ve learnt in the…
Shoe Box Constellation Maps – Simple Science at Home
This week #playfulpreschool theme is all about Night Time, as the days are getting shorter and the nights longer we’re…
Homemade Autumn Playdough Recipe
Playdough is such a simple thing to make I always use our no-cook playdough recipe and this time was no…
A Parents’ Guide to the language of phonics
In the days when I started school 30+ years ago we were taught our letters and we learnt to spell…
Fizzing Fossil Dinosaur Eggs – Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki
Dinosaurs are our hot topic of the moment – I probably know more that I ever wanted to know about an…
8 Planets Density Experiment
Today we start the final week of Story Book Summer with one of my favourite themes – SPACE. Welcoming to…
Exploring Floating and Sinking in the Water Table
This week marks the last of the 2012 – 2013 Virtual Book Club for Kids Authors and it’s Donald Crews…
How Much Water can we save
What Does It Mean To Be Green See more at memetales We’re loving this weeks theme for the readathon…
Patriotic Cup Cakes
Whether you are gearing up to support your country in the Olympics Games at the end of this month or…
Mondrian Inspired Collage
J really enjoyed our exploration into Mondrian back in May and we have had our Mondrian stained glass window on…