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Science Experiments and Activities for Kids

How hard has it rained – a preschool weather investigation

How hard has it rained – a preschool weather investigation

Weather is one of the first things that very young children start to notice about the world outside the house…

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Cotton Reel Car – Simple Science at Home

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…

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Investigating how polar animals stay warm

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…

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Spider Web construction with Straws and Playdough

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.

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Science and Maths for 3 – 8 year olds. Fizz Pop Bang Ebook

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,…

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Hands-on Classification and Sorting Activity with Dinosaurs for Kids

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…

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Shoe Box Constellation Maps – Simple Science at Home

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…

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Autumn Colours Plant Science for Preschoolers

Autumn Colours Plant Science for Preschoolers

This week along with the other bloggers of the #playfulpreschool team we are sharing learning and creative ideas for preschoolers…

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Fizzing Fossil Dinosaur Eggs – Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki

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…

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8 Planets Density Experiment

8 Planets Density Experiment

Today we start the final week of Story Book Summer with one of my favourite themes – SPACE. Welcoming to…

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Model Clay Fossils

Model Clay Fossils

With just over a week left of story book summer we’re still focusing on Dinosaurs and today we welcome Cassie…

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Science Experiments to do at home

Science Experiments to do at home

Science is fun for young kids to explore and learn about through hands on activities and those activities you can…

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Exploring Floating and Sinking in the Water Table

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…

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Fun Ways for Toddlers and Preschoolers to Learn their Colours

Fun Ways for Toddlers and Preschoolers to Learn their Colours

One of the areas that I am working on with T (almost 2 and a half) is colours so this…

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Science at home – Monitoring the Weather

Science at home – Monitoring the Weather

We love doing some simple science at home (maybe more to do with my background than J and T’s interest)…

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How to Grow Broad Beans in a Jaw – Simple Science Experiments for Kids

How to Grow Broad Beans in a Jaw – Simple Science Experiments for Kids

This is another childhood favourite of mine – and something that we have done before growing beans in jar it’s…

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Science for kids – “How Plants Drink”

Science for kids – “How Plants Drink”

Exploring Plants – Science for Kids Spring with the new plants and growth is perfect to start or to continue…

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Play, Create and Explore with Light

Welcome back to Tuesday Tots and this week I’m featuring ways to play, create and explore with light that were…

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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…

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Toddler Science – absorption

Hello Rainy Day Mum readers, I’m so excited to be sharing our playtime here today. Cerys and I both have boys…

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Understanding Growth – a toddler science experiment

Have you ever tried to explain to a “Why” 2 year old what growing is? Yes we’ve read some books…

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