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