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Art Activity: Painting with Ice Lolly
Painting with ice cubes is a refreshing activity for hot days like today. We used this nice pineapple ice cube tray but a standard ice cube tray and lollypop sticks should be fine for this activity too.
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Art Activity: Paint on Ice
It was so much fun to paint on ice! When boys stopped painting for a bit, water from melting ice run washing all the paint away and they were presented with blank canvases again.
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Art Activity: Paining on Tin Foil
Art project of the day. Painting on tin foil and stamping
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Science Experiment: Depth Perception
We have done a test to see what happens if we try putting a pencil through the hole in a nut while one eye is closed. As it happens, it could be a challenge because we are losing a sense of how far away the pencil is.
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Noisy Coin in a Balloon Experiment
It is just fun to spin a coin in a balloon. But we used a 7-sided 20p coin that made some interesting noise.
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Fun with Mixing Using a Frother
We had a day of mixing fun with a milk frother. I quickly grabbed everything from around the house that we should try throwing in a vase before making a tornado there. New batteries were loaded and we were ready to start. Max just loved...
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Missing Number Math Activity for Kids
Max is looking for missing numbers with pegs. Some children just remember number sequence as a poem, but this activity challenges them to get a better understanding of numbers.
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Mirror Drawing Activity for Preschoolers
Alex was doing this activity for the second time and he loved it again. I have edited photos of Angelina Jolie, Ellen DeGeneres, Mark Zuckerberg and Beyonce and asked Alex to draw other sides of faces.
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Math Number Quantity Activity for Preschoolers
This is a quick fun activity we did to reinforce Max's understanding of the value of each number. We used play dough and toothpicks.
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Money Math Activity for Kids
Money Math! We are using coins with different face value to count 10 pence.
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Building a Magnetic Sculpture Using Nuts
Magnets are really a blast to play with! Alex loved making magnetic sculptures with nuts on a strong magnet. I put the magnet on top of steel saucepan to make base studier for more creativity.
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Letter Recognition: Words Activity
Max loved clothes pins activity last time, so I made this simple activity for him today. By now, he is quite familiar with his name letters, but have a look how good he is with more challenging words. I do not know where he learns all that.
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Letter Recognition: Name Activity
Max loves this simple letter recognition activity covering letters from his name with clothes pins.
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Learning the Alphabet Activity for Preschoolers
That is what we call touchscreen experience without a tablet! After attaching a zip bag to a cardboard with printed alphabet I added shampoo and letter-shaped buttons inside it. Now Max had to push letters to match them with printed...
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Science Experiment: Testing Head Conduction
Testing heat conduction with Alex. We stuck a bead of butter to the ends of metal, wooden and plastic spoons. We had to wait results a bit after adding hot water to the bowl, but it was worth it. Another lesson is learned here. Metal is...
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Science Experiment: Soap-Powered Boat
Here is our soap powered boat that Alex has made from a business card. He cut corners of the card and put soap at the back of the boat. After he placed the boat onto the water, it scooted across. To try that again, we needed to rinse out...
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Science Experiment: Balloon that Doesn't Pop
Easy science experiment for children. We are popping balloons with Max today. It is simple with just one pin, but when the number of pins increases, the balloon doesn't pop (unless I push it really hard).
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Science Experiment: Balloon and Sticking Glasses
Simple science experiment with glasses “magically” sticking to a balloon
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DIY Halloween Craft: Ghosts Using Milk Jugs
How cool are these light up spooky ghosts? So easy to make and they look super cool. To make them I used empty milk jugs, battery operated lights and baking paper (to make the light spread evenly).
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Sorting Colours and Shapes: Flags of the World
Here is an easy activity with flags of the world. Alex is matching counters with flags by colours or shapes found in them. He didn’t stop until he covered every flag.
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Halloween Game: Cup Stack Toss
A quick and easy to make activity for Halloween that helps strengthen gross motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
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How Vinegar Cleans Old Coins
We are checking what would happen with coins if we add vinegar to them.
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How to Use Your Eraser to Draw
An eraser is usually used to correct mistakes in drawings, but what about using it to draw instead?
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Paper Trick: How to Turn Circles into Squares
This is how we turned two circles into one square. Geometry magic!