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Baking Soda Powered Boat
This baking soda powered boat is a great mini engineering challenge for kids. It involves lots of scientific thinking and is a fantastic hands-on science activity. Little scientists need to think...
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Make an Optical Illusion
This super simple optical illusion lets you turn two pictures into one! Did you know your brain uses shortcuts in order to process all the millions of things we see at any one time? An optical...
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Easy Autumn Estimating Jars
I LOVE Autumn, and my 5 year old loves going exploring and numbers, so today, we combined all three to make a fun estimating activity using estimating jars. We traipsed through the woods collecting...
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15 Science Experiments for Autumn and Fall
Autumn is such a great time of year. I love the colourful leaves underfoot and the first hint of winter. To celebrate the changing seasons, I’ve pulled together a wonderful collection of Fall Science...
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Simple Science – learning about forces
Today, we’ve been trying to learn about forces. Pushes and pulls are examples of forces. When we push or pull something, it moves. Can you push a toy car softly? What happens? Does it move further if...
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How waterproof is it?
This mini science activity is great for learning about properties of materials, particularly how waterproof they are. It can be messy but works well as an outdoor or bathtime activity. The idea is to...
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How to make plastic milk
Plastic milk was one of the first experiments I posted on Science Sparks when the kids were little. It was a lovely sensory experience for them at the time, but they obviously couldn’t understand what...
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Exploring forces with bubble wrap
We’ve done a couple of simple activities based around forces recently, so when a sheet of bubble wrap arrived in a parcel, I knew just how to use it. We laid the bubble wrap sheet flat on the floor...
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Easy Magnet Sensory Bottles
Sensory bottles are fantastic fun for young children but might take a bit of practice to get right. They are inexpensive to make and can be themed to whatever your child happens to be interested in....
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Doctor Role Play Activities
My little girls love to play doctor role-play games, leading to many fun learning opportunities over the years. These are our favourite ideas for learning while playing doctors. Easy ideas for doctor...
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Plant Science for Early Years
My children love pottering around the garden and watching plants grow, especially those that grow food! Spring seems to have arrived, so we’ve been making the most of the sunny weather and taking the...
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Why do plants need water?
A few days ago we noticed that one of our little pumpkin plants on the window sill had wilted. The soil looked dry so we watered the plant and after a few hours it was standing lovely and straight...
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Playing Detective – add some science to role play
This post is all about adding a bit of science sparkle to role-play. The activities should hopefully add a stimulating and educational twist to an already fun game. My little boy is usually a bit...
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Fizzy, Frozen Easter Eggs
Baking soda experiments are always very popular with my children, it’s such a fun reaction and can be used in lots of creative ways. We’ve made baking soda ice before, but this time I added a little...
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20 Outdoor Science Experiments for Kids
When I asked parents what puts them off doing science experiments at home one of the reasons was the mess, which after many a gloop covered kitchen floor I can definitely empathise with. So today, I’m...
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Muffling Sound investigation
We’ve talked about properties of materials before when we investigated how waterproof materials are or how strong they are, we’ve even organised different objects by the material they’re made from by...
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Frozen Kool-Aid Oobleck
This is a fun summer twist on sensory play with Oobleck. I simply added a small amount of kool-aid mixed with water to my goo (cornflour ( cornstarch ) and water), then carefully poured the mixture...
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15 Fun ideas for Science with LEGO
Here at Science Sparks we love LEGO. My children play with LEGO or DUPLO everyday and it’s been fantastic for helping them develop fine motor control, logic skills and for learning to read and...
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Learning about Symmetry
My 7 year old loves patterns and symmetry. When he builds a LEGO or DUPLO house they always follow either a pattern or are symmetrical. I think symmetry appeals to his mathematical brain. Today we’re...
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Waterproof Roof STEM Challenge
This waterproof roof STEM challenge is a simple but fun activity that even very young children will enjoy. My 3,5 and 7-year-old loved it, especially when it came to making it ‘rain’. LEGO...
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