Easy to make craft for a fun outdoor play. For this craft you need paper caps, balloons and ping pong balls. The only thing to be aware of is to use cheap balloons without a white powder inside them, otherwise they slip off.

Making tiny copies of planet Earth from cotton discs

This is, perhaps, the simplest and the funniest magnet fishing game with paperclips! I taped a magnet to a pipe cleaner and attached it to the front of a cap with a clothespin. After that, boys were ready to catch colourful paperclips...

This is an easy-to-make game that gives parents a chance to come up with their own variation that suits their child best. I made 2 plates. The first one was meant for Max with a challenge to make a marble to go thru every number in the...

Alex coloured paper with oil pastels and covered it with black paint mixed with a bit of dish soap for this DIY project. He had fun scratching his colourful drawings all over the page using a wooden skewer. I cannot describe how...

I love Ferrero Rocher empty boxes, perhaps, even more than chocolates. We use them a lot as trays and for different mess-free activities. Here is a quick tutorial for a homemade toy. I used different colours marble for challenges I plan...

This relatively simple demonstration of the mechanical paradox is a great way to get young kids to think about physics principles. I used Polydron Sphera to make a cylinder and a bicone (two cones joined together at their bases). The...

Max and I made this fun Day & Night Model. There are countless ways to use paper plates, but we love to use them for crafts.

A simple and fun way to explore moving objects with magnets. Max is using a magnetic wand to pull paperclips out of the bottle with rice to count them.

We do different types of activities with boys, but mixing is Max's most favourite thing. Here Max is mixing Yellow and Blue colours with a help of baking soda and vinegar reaction.

Changing the flavour of a classic pepper experiment by using cinnamon instead. The fact is you can use any spices here as long as they float.

Challenge of the week!!! How many coins can you stack on a popsicle stick held in your mouth?

Not only is this game an easy way to have fun with Max, it’s also a fun way to work on his oral motor skills.

I am not sure how to call these things we have made from straws, but we had a lot of fun with them.

A fun block duplication activity with lego duplo. When I build a model and watched Max duplicating it, it looked easy. But when we switched roles, I realised that it could be quite a challenge. You can see me putting blue block the other...

Max enjoyed another fun art project. This time we used a balloon for stamping. The idea was to use green and blue colours to make a little planet Earth, but Max couldn't stop after making just one so we have planets for everyone.

This is how my little scientist inflates balloons!

If you are looking for activities for babies or toddlers, here is an easy-to-make baby oil sensory bag.

Alex knows that every time we do an experiment the result should be different from what he normally expects to happen. This time he said that water would not spill if we turn the cup upside down. So I asked him to do just that and water...

When Alex played music this way no one could hear it but him. To change the sound he pulled the string a bit tighter or slid hand that was holding the string to change the length of it.

Here is a simple way to grow beans in a jar with kitchen paper towels. We love activities that involve growing plants. Results in those are usually noticeable only a few days later. So the process requires a lot of waiting and taking...

Here is a different way to draw with markers Max was very excited to try: How to draw multiple objects at the same time. When I was making this, it was a bit of a challenge to align all four markers so that they touch paper at the same...

Melting ice with salt and adding food colouring is a simple science project for kids of all ages. I added water in balloons and left them in freezer overnight. In the morning we started the experiment. Salt that was added to the ice,...

How fun is this breakfast trick?! It's magically spinning eggshell on a plate! The secret ingredient is water. I have dipped eggshell in water, and now it rotates instead of just sliding every time we tilt the plate. If instead of making...