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DIY Craft: Paper Bag Tree
Let’s create a 3D sculpture of an autumn tree! In the fall, we can clearly see how unique are shapes of different types of trees. With the project, you’ll be able to turn your paper bag into any kind of trees you like. I was going for...
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Science Experiment: Melting Ice Using Salt
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,...
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Learn to Add Numbers
This addition machine is hungry for numbers! It shows children that there are multiple ways to get to the same number. It can grow with your children because you can put in any numbers you want. Let me know if you make this addition...
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How to Pick Up a Ball With a Glass
Here’s something that’s really amazing, but it also takes a bit of skill and patience too! How can you pick up a ball with a glass without touching the ball itself? Place the glass over the ball and then start spinning the glass around...
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DIY Toy: Skipping Ghost
Halloween could be cancelled this year, but we still can get into the spooky spirit. Here is a cute little ghost toy you can make.⠀ Materials:⠀ - Paper plate⠀ - Toilet paper roll⠀ - Hot Glue⠀ - Wire, one thick and one thin⠀ - Paper cup⠀...
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How to Make Pull-up Monkey Toy from Cardboard
Let’s make a little monkey toy for your playful little monkeys! MATERIALS:⠀ - Cardboard - Wooden skewer - Paper - 1 Washer - Boxcutter - Hot Glue INSTRUCTIONS:⠀ (1) With the boxcutter, cut out thin strips out of the large cardboard...
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How to Make Pom Pom Launcher from Toilet Paper Roll
Great for sneak attacks or a game of pom-pom tag. It's really fun, and my boys were entertained for a while time with this quick and easy craft.⠀ ⠀ Materials:⠀ - 2 toilet paper rolls⠀ - pencil⠀ - scissors⠀ - 2 rubber bands⠀ - tape⠀ - pom...
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DIY Halloween: Neon-Lit Costume
What costumes will your children be wearing this Halloween? This year I decided to make glow-in-the-dark costumes for my children. I took old black hooded jackets and joggers and stuck neon gloving wire with a glue gun and hidden the...
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How to Make Music with a Straw
Who doesn't like to dive in into the science of sound by creating a fun musical instrument your children could play with? To create a sound, you need to create a vibration. In this experiment, when you blow the air, you make the column...
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How to Make Magic Sand that Never Gets Wet
I have planned this activity for quite some time and the day has finally come for my boys to play with magic water repellent sand. It is difficult to determine what type of activity it is - a bit of art, a bit of science, but what I can...
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How To Make Elephant Toothpaste
For this fun experiment, we have transformed our kitchen into a laboratory. We put on our lab coats, gloves and safety glasses to observe this amazing reaction that produces a lot of foam and a bit of heat too. Materials needed: - 1/2 a...
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How to Make Eggshell Spin on a Plate
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...
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How to Make a Marble Run in Two Minutes
Here is one of the simplest marble runs you can make at home in no time for children to play. You just need a ruler and a few pegs.
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How to Make a Flying Bird Mechanical Toys
Explore how a string can spin a wooden skewer with this easy craft!⠀ MATERIALS:⠀ - Small empty drink carton⠀ - Paper straw⠀ - Wooden skewer⠀ - String⠀ - Washers⠀ - Paper and markers⠀ - Hot glue⠀ - Boxcutter⠀ - Scissors⠀ INSTRUCTIONS:⠀...
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DIY Craft: 3D Photo Frame
I take millions of photos, forget hundreds of thousands of them, but I do print the best ones. There is just something about holding a finished framed photo that is much more satisfying than seeing the photo on a pocket-sized screen....
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How to Blow Out a Candle Behind a Bottle
Challenge of the week! Blow out a candle behind a bottle! It shouldn't be difficult because even so, the air cannot go through a bottle, it can curve all the way around and still blow out the candle. We have experimented with different...
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Art Challenge: Draw with your Feet
We are comparing how difficult it is for Alex to draw a picture of his brother using his hand versus his foot.
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Science Experiment: Hot and Cold Water
The science will amaze you if you just look close enough to things that surround you. What do you think would happen if you put hot and cold water in one container without mixing? Would "hot-air-balloon" principle work underwater where...
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Friction Experiment: Rice in a Bottle
We are exploring friction with this simple science experiment. Max put raw rice inside a bottle and taped it against the table, the rice settled, reducing air pockets between each grain. So much so that when Max pushed a wooden spoon...
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Foot Ball Game for Toddlers' Motor Skills
Do you know what motor skills are? They’re the skills that we use without even thinking - writing, standing, walking, and so on! All these skills are learned, but we think they’re so easy! Learning a new skill is always hard- especially...
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Science Experiment: Oil and Water
It's just mesmerising to watch how colour patterns formed in this experiment. You only need three simple ingredients, a minute to set it up, and you will have an exciting activity for your kids! Food colouring is water based, and it...
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Exploring Velocity with a Marble Race
After I have introduced Max to velocity and density with this fun marble race, density became the subject of almost every conversation we have. At lunch, for example, we discussed the density of ingredients in the soup we were eating....
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DIY Simple Mesmerising Toy
When people ask me about how we live at home without a TV, I reply that there are plenty of other mesmerizing things to look at. Here is a good example of that. We used a balloon, marble, rubberband and a glass to quickly make this toy.