TheDadLab (140+ Episodes)
-
How To Make Your Own Robot Hand | Cardboard Crafts
Whether you're a fan of robot movies or just watching your dad's embarrassing robot dance moves, robots bring a lot of joy into our lives. Here is a fun craft that children and dad's can make together. This cool project is sure to create lots of laughs while you make your very own robotic hand! T...
-
How to Pick Up a Ball With a Glass | Fun Science
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 in a circular motion. Once the ball starts spinning inside th...
-
How To Paint With Dough To Make Rising Paintings
We are baking our paintings to add some volume to them. To make this magical paint we mixed 1 glass of salt, 1 glass of flour, 1 tablespoon of baking soda, 1 glass of water adding food colouring. After boys finished their festive masterpieces we backed them. Alternatively, you can microwave them ...
-
How to Multiply Using Squares | Simple Math Tricks
We continue exploring multiplication methods, and this one might be the easiest one of them all. It has quite a few names, including "Lattice multiplication", "Chinese method", and "Italian method", making it a bit of an international phenomenon. However, in the core, it is all about using square...
-
How to Multiply Using Rainbows | Simple Math Tricks
Math could be a challenging subject for some people. So why don't we make it fun by adding RAINBOWS to multiplication? This Rainbow multiplication method might not be better than the traditional one, but it is different, and that's what counts. We are expanding students' horizons by showing that ...
-
How to Multiply Using Lines | Maths Tricks
Multiplication is an essential math skill for children to learn. There is the traditional way of multiplying numbers, but children might prefer to multiply with this method using lines because it's visually appealing and easy to understand. We have tried a few examples starting from an easy one a...
-
How To Mix Primary Colours To Get Secondary Colours for Children
A fun demonstration how the primary colours mix and form the secondary colours. Thanks to the fact that water doesn't mix with oil we can observe how primary colours separate back into layers after mixing. For this activity water is coloured by food colouring and baby oil is coloured by oil based...
-
How To Mix Colours Of Light At Home - Kids Science
Do you know how mixing paint and mixing light are different? Alex is experimenting with torches to see what colours he can get by mixing light. Have a look at LEGO DUPLO characters' shadows, they are completely different colours to torches! Shadow is exactly the place where colours mix together c...
-
How To Melt Crayons In The Oven
Oh, snap! Another crayon has broken… But instead of tossing them away, why not turn them into something new? We show you how you can repurpose your old and broken crayons into cool, fresh ones. All you need is a fun shaped tray. From dinosaurs to flowers, shapes and letters, there are so many you...
-
How To Melt Crayons In Molds
It's finally the time to melt our old mixed crayons to make new multicoloured star-shaped ones
-
How To Make Underwater Volcano Experiment At Home
We can't stop doing amazing science experiments with Alex and Max. Today it was time for Underwater Volcano in a vase. When a bottle with coloured warm water was submerged in a vase with cold water, it started spreading colour. That looked really mesmerizing. Then we added ice cubes that made red...
-
How to Make Xylophone Using Water - Musical Instruments for Kids
Can you make music with water? Just pour water into jars or glasses. Each bottle has diferent volume of water in it, that is what makes it sound differently.
-
How To Make Your Own Books: Activity For Children
For about a week Alex was making books. We have plenty of them now. One book is about everything mommy loves. There is an educational one with tests, tracing and colouring tasks. But my favourite is a cookbook with a recipe how to make a heart-shaped lollipop and step by step guide how to make a ...
-
How to Make Vibrating Bug | STEM DIY Robot
DIY Vibro-Bug Alert!
Ever dreamed of having your own pet bug that won't creep you out? Why not? Check out our latest craft of an adorable 6-legged bug using simple materials. We've used a basic motor and paper clips to bring our mini critter to life, proving that robotics can be fun and accessib... -
How To Make Trolls Ice Eggs at Home
Get ready for a cool and frosty adventure with Trolls! Ever dreamed of creating magical icy eggs with your favourite Trolls characters? It's way easier and way more exciting than you'd ever think!
What you need is pretty simple: big, fun balloons, a splash of water, and your tiny Trolls buddies....
-
How To Make Super Mario Ice Eggs at Home
Super Mario ice eggs experiment for kids. Want to make some fun ice eggs with Super Mario and his friends toys? It's easier than you might think! All you need is some large balloons, water, and small figurines of the characters. Simply fill the balloons with water and add the figurines, then let ...
-
How to Make Slime WITHOUT Borax
No Borax slime! There are many different recipes to make slime, but today we will be focusing on how to make slime without Borax. We found a Borax alternative that you probably have at home that can be used to make your satisfying slime. Mix PVA (Elmer's) glue with liquid laundry detergent for th...
-
How To Make Simplest Air Cannon | Kids DIY Project
Send pom-poms flying with this simplest air cannon! This easy-to-do engineering project turned into a fun game for my boys
-
How to Make Simple Secret Decoder For Kids
People have been using codes throughout history to keep their messages private and my two little spies needed a way to sent their secret messages to each other too. So I came up with this simple paper plate decoder for them to have fun (:
-
How To Make Simple Lung Model with Balloon
Here is a quick demonstration how lungs work with a plastic bottle and two balloons I have prepared for Alex. When we pull knotted balloon, more space inside the bottle is created. To fill that space more air is sucked in thru the red balloon inflating it in the process. The opposite happens when...
-
How to Make Simple Balloon Boats
Why not have a balloon boat race? There is no need to stress, all the materials can be found in the comfort of your own home.
-
How to Make Sensory Balloons For Children
These balloons are perfect for both children tactile sensory play and for stress relieve for grown-ups. We used corn flour, beans, peas and rice, but balloons can be filled with almost anything you have at home
-
How To Make Sensory Ball For Toddlers Or Stress Ball For Parents At Home
I helped Max to make a sensory ball using a balloon and water beads so the whole family could enjoy playing with it
-
How To Make Santa Footprints For Kids At Christmas
We have done this last Christmas and children’s excitement to Santa’s snowy footprints was so rewarding. You just need to spray water on the sole of the boots. Press the wet boot into the tray of baking powder and then press the boot down firmly onto the floor to leave a print