A quite dramatic colour change made this chemistry experiment really mesmerizing for Alex. After blending a few red cabbage leaves I poured purple cabbage juice into glasses. I added a little too many leaves, so I had to add more water...

A little space art project we have done with Max. What should we call that planet?

We are back home and we are going back to experiments. A raw egg sinks in water, but can we increase water's density to make it float? Alex adds salt to see what would happen. Then I carefully add fresh water on top of salted one (not to...

Alex was really surprised to see what water was able to do when we poured it down a string. All I needed for this simple experiment was 2 cups, piece of string that can absorb water and special properties of water (ability to stick to...

Here are 2 plastic cups for Alex to cover floating ping pong ball. They produce completely different results and it happens due to a small hole at the bottom of the second cup.

Here is a simple experiment for children at the kitchen that Alex loved. When a ping pong ball is placed straight under running water tap, it does not move away from the water stream. In fact, the ball sticks to it and follows it even...

It’s amazing to watch how quickly children learn. When Alex does this activity first time, he uses both hands to save his little structure from collapsing. But after a few goes, he effortlessly builds a really high tower.

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.

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.

Art project of the day. Painting on tin foil and stamping

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.

It is just fun to spin a coin in a balloon. But we used a 7-sided 20p coin that made some interesting noise.

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.

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.

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.

Money Math! We are using coins with different face value to count 10 pence.

Max loves this simple letter recognition activity covering letters from his name with clothes pins.

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...

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...

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...

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).

Simple science experiment with glasses “magically” sticking to a balloon

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.

A quick and easy to make activity for Halloween that helps strengthen gross motor skills and hand-eye coordination.