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  • Simple Mixing Colours Activity For Kids

    This is a great activity for developing those fine motor skills while having fun mixing colours. We used kitchen paper towel and water coloured by food colouring

  • Smelling Activity For Children

    Testing how sensitive is Alex’s nose to check if he can identify products that are good to eat.

  • Save the Ocean Kids Activity

    We cannot survive without our oceans! We must act now to save them! This simple kids activity shows that if we remove garbage from oceans, ocean life will flourish! To make that happen, we are joining the TeamSeas initiative to raise $30,000,000 to clean 30,000,000 pounds of trash from oceans, ri...

  • Saturn | CD Craft Ideas For Kids

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

  • Simple And Fun Activities For Children and Toddlers

    This is a fun exploring activity. I have coloured water with kids paint to make sure it is not translucent, put a jar upside down in the water, added a bit of water to the bottom of the jar to create magnifying glass effect and let Alex and Max to look for hidden dinosaurs at the bottom of the ocean

  • Simple 3D Paper Chameleon Craft for Kids

    Bring your sons and daughters into the world of simple 3D paper crafts! Make this adorable paper chameleon craft using only paper circles. Kids will love making this craft because they get to use their hands and their creativity to create a fun, colourful paper animal that they can proudly hang o...

  • Simple Craft for Teaching Numbers to Kids

    This toy is a wonderful visual learning tool! If your child is a more tactile learner, try this to help jumpstart their counting skills and connecting numbers to the visual amounts. You can make the scoops of ice cream their favourite flavour for an extra special touch.

  • Running Cat and Dog | Homemade Toys for Kids

    Today, I wanted to share a simple machine craft that you can make with your kids. It looks complicated, but this cat and dog spinner is straightforward to put together. Let’s get started!⠀

  • Simple Experiment with Cornflakes and Magnet #1

    A quick experiment with magnetic cornflakes for a breakfast. If you read the label on the pack of corn flakes, you will see a list of vitamins and IRON. Magnet attracts that small amount of iron

  • Simple Paper Fish Craft for Kids

    Fish are a perfect crafting project for youngsters. This simple paper fish craft for kids is so cute and easy to make! Kids can learn to cut, glue and then get creative with the colours.
    They’ll end up with a colourful paper fish that they can use to play with or hang on the wall as decoration.

  • Simple Paper Cup Craft That Moves

    This little toy is so quackin' cute! Like some paper cup crafts we've made before, this one is really easy to make. You just need to make some strategic cuts to make this quacky friend move. You colour the outside cup to make a penguin or a turkey instead. What bird would you make?

  • Simple Floating Cup Magic Trick

    Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a floating, pouring drink! This spooky idea is the perfect magic trick for a Halloween party or even as a prank played on a friend. Watch as we show you how you can magically pour a drink while it floats in mid-air! Your audience won’t believe their eyes!

  • Simple Music Science Experiment

    When Alex played music this way no one could hear it but him. To change the sound he pulled the string a bit tighter or slid hand that was holding the string to change the length of it.

  • Simple Experiment With Candles

    This is a simple science experiment but so much learning is happening here. We confirmed that oxygen is needed for fire to burn and compared how different volume glasses influence the speed with which candles go off

  • Simple Fine Motor Skills Activity For Children

    Using pippetes is great way to teach a toddler or a preschooler to hold pencil properly for writing. This activity is Ice-Cream themed. Max had to mix colors to make each ice-cream scoop a different flavour. What is your favourite?

  • Science project for Mother's Day

    Mother’s Day is coming up soon and we are ready. Are you?
    We put a white flowel in a vase with water coloured by food colouring and a day later we got a nice surprice fo mommy

  • Quick Tape Activity for Preschoolers

    I want to share with you this fun activity Max couldn't stop doing the other day. At first, it might not look like a challenge for a child, but it does take a lot of concentration. You would need a lot of tape, but it is great to explain the right order of things (:

  • Quick Recipe for Healthy Ice Cream You Can Make

    During the summer, it can get quite hot! And there’s nothing that can beat the heat like an ice lolly. But they’re so sugary and not healthy! I came up with an alternative that tastes great and is natural and healthy. It’s only two ingredients! Natural yoghurt and a fruit of your choosing- we did...

  • Plastic Bottle Guitar | How to Make Musical Instruments

    Have you always wanted to play the guitar, but you only got the chance to play an air guitar? Now you can play and make your own! All you need are materials that you can find in your own recycling bin. Junk modelling is a great way to upcycle the things we don't need anymore. This DIY is sure to ...

  • Plastic Bag Science Experiment For Kids

    Ever wondered what would happen with a filled with water plastic bag if you pierced it with a pencil?

  • Ping Pong Ball Science Experiment With A Cup

    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

  • Ping Pong Ball Follows Running Water Tap

    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 when we move the tap. Here is what I told Alex and I hope it h...

  • Pencil and Nuts | Preschool Activity

    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

  • Paper Cup Hippo Craft Idea

    Let's craft a cute hippo toy! By changing the tension on the string, we can open the mouth of our hungry hippo a little for a small snack, or huge for a great big dinner! You can take the idea further and use this technique to create other animals. What animal is your child's favourite?