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

In this simple presentation, we see how siphons work. I asked Alex and Max to pay attention and tell me at what level should be water so that it starts going through the straw. So they did, had fun and learned something new.
A siphon can lift the water up without a pump, and that is the reason it...

It is easy to keep children amused at a funfair. What did you do this half term? If you want to see more videos like this one please leave a comment and let us know!

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 machine!

This LEGO DUPLO math game is a simple way to introduce kids to counting! You just roll dice in turns and after three goes see whose tower is higher. Max and I had fun playing it in the DUPLO pit at LEGO House

Max loved clothes pins activity last time, so I made this simple activity for him today. By now, he is quite familiar with his name letters, but have a look how good he is with more challenging words. I do not know where he learns all that...

Thank you for your suggestions and comments to my videos. I do read them and here is the result. A new activity for name recognition, but this time Max's name is not all in capitals. Max is sticking tape over letters of his name. I was actually surprised how good hi was starting the tape everytim...

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

We are checking what would happen with coins if we add vinegar to them

This is how we turned two circles into one square. Geometry magic!

This is a perfect activity to help a toddler to get used to the idea of toothbrushing. It is super fun and it shows the need of brushing teeth daily. I printed this picture of teeth and put it inside a clear plastic envelope to draw funny-looking bacteria monsters on it with whiteboard markers. M...

How to make handwriting fun? Montessori writing tray with sugar is an easy-to-make and fun activity to teach a child how to write letters. Alex could write letters with a pencil quite well, but he just couldn't resist the sensory part of the activity.

Alex just loved finding words on these rotating blocks. It took me some time to come up with the best combination letters for each block (1 - pcrf; 2 - euai; 3 - tgnd), but then in just a minute, we had this fun educational toy. Every time Alex found a real word he had to write it down. I can’t b...

This activity focuses on recognition of child’s very own name. It’s very special to them and they feel so proud to be able to recognise or even spell it. You can use anything you have at home to cover letters, like, stickers, stones or in our case beans.

Exploring new musical instruments with Alex.

We are experimenting by piercing a potato with a sharp pencil and a straw. Do you know what would pass through easily?

We already know how to poke a balloon without popping it, but this time we are making a hole in a bubble. We have prepared a bubble solution by mixing water and washing up liquid, made a frame from a wire and tied a piece of a thread in a loop. Then we dipped the thread in the bubble solution and...

You may have seen before like someone sets grass or an object alight using a magnifying glass and the sun. But can those two things really create heat? Why not become a scientist for the day and do this fun experiment to test it out for yourself. All you need is 2 balloons, a magnifying glass and...

Alex tried to put filled with water balloon inside the jar, but he couldn't. So we heated the air inside the jar and it expanded. Once we put the water balloon on top it, the flame went out and the air in the jar started cooling and shrinking back to its old size. But the balloon didn't let any m...

To get my children excited about practising math concepts I use LEGO bricks. Today we are learning FRACTIONS and how to add and divide them in a fun, visual and hands-on way

Chores can be fun - this is what Alex learn with Foldie, the educational t-shirt from MadeByHelga. Pictures on the front of the shirt transform into different pictures once the shirt is folded correctly - it's like a clothing puzzle! Each t-shirt is made of 100% Organic Cotton and hand printed by...

This car parking number activity had a huge success with my transport-obsessed 3-year-old Max so much so we practised counting in two languages. I cut labels to make small stickers with dots. On a plain piece of paper I numbered parking spaces for toy cars so Max could match count the dots on car...

There comes a time in every parent's life when times tables learning comes up. So this is my second video in Math with LEGO series that shows how to explain multiplication in a hands-on and fun way

This is how to pop a balloon…with an orange peel. When I squeeze orange peeling, you can see that it is spraying something around. That liquid is called limonene and it easily breaks latex of the balloon causing it to pop