I was wondering if Alex finds a way to play with a plastic bottle filled with steel balls and with a strong magnet attached to it. He did have a few ideas! Some kids are just easily entertained!

How fun is this easy-to-make straw spinner! You need one normal straw, one wider one, tape, a small ball of blue-tack and only a minute of your time.

Today we made easy-to-make catapults from popsicle sticks and rubber bands for hours of fun. When I showed this catapult to Max for the first time he was very excited to play with it as it looked like an aeroplane. He was a bit...

This experiment shows how Pythagoras Cup works. A long time ago Pythagoras made this cup (also known as a Greedy Cup), that empties itself if too much drink is poured.

A quick craft using kitchen foil to make a dream come true toy for Max.

Don't trust your eyes! If you cannot see it, it doesn't mean that it is not there. When you place a Pyrex stir rod in the vegetable oil, it disappears. The secret here is that vegetable oil has nearly the same index of refraction as...

Why not to start a solid foundation in physics in a single afternoon activity learning to balance counterweights? DIY tutorial for making scale using hanger and plastic bottles.

We are getting to know angles with this quirky activity. I love how Alex's face lights up when he sees that a number of angles in each digit corresponds to its value.

When we are mixing vinegar and baking soda, we get a foamy reaction that produces carbon dioxide. You can't see it, but we can actually fill a glass with it because carbon dioxide is heavier than air. When I pour concentrated carbon...

What child doesn't like to bash things with a hammer? So I made a surprise activity for Max this morning and he loved it. I used a piece of foam packaging from last night delivery, wooden sticks and a toy hammer.

Another fun Halloween activity with masking tape. It looks like our Mummy was a gingerbread man before.

Comparing numbers upto 6 with regular dice would be too easy for Alex, so got him 20 sided ones.

This is fun funnel experiment that proves that an empty bottle isn't, in fact, empty and to fill it with water we need to make sure that air can escape. If a funnel is properly sealed to a bottle and a lot of water is poured into it at...

You'll need pegs, marker and paper to make this activity.

We have made a spinning top from a marker and an CD for this art project. Science lovers will appreciate how we can actually track the motion of the spinning tops.

Another creative way to use straws in a fun ordering number game.

It is always fun to throw pom poms around the room, but here is a way to blend that fun with an oral-motor workout.

This fun matching activity can be easily adapted to any child. Max continues matching numbers with dots.

Check out this fun ready-to-zoom-into-space DIY toy that we made.<br/>

There is a simple way to get a ping-pong ball from a glass without touching it. Turning this idea into a fun blowing game with Alex.

This fun activity is based on a fact that children instinctively count things using their fingers.

A new challenge for Max. He needs to put the rubber bands on the paper towel roll.

Classic egg in a bottle experiment turned upside down. We used hard boiled egg, birthday cake candles and a bottle with wide neck.

Max loved filling a bottle of water with paper clips to prepare for this fun activity to discover force of a magnetic field with a magnetic wand.