Chinese paper dragon
Sophie's homework was to build a paper dragon so here’s her end result. Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Not my temple, but it seems to be everywhere on the internet [...]
Fabric scraps collage houses
If you like me keep fabric scraps here's an idea. Get some cardboard and glue and some markers. They can do anything rainbows, cars, butterflies. We went for houses this [...]
Find me snow trail & car play
Sophie's idea - a hide and seek variation where you leave a trail in the snow. The car play might be even better in deeper snow. Get those diggers and [...]
Drawings in the snow
Use the snow as canvas and give the kids some sticks to draw or write on it.
Green & shiny pennies
Here's another fun experiment with pennies. You need half a cup of vinegar and a teaspoon of salt. Mix it and put the coins in the solution. The dull ones [...]
Playing with plastic cups
Use plastic cups to build castles and towers. This will help with fine motor skills, precision and basic notions of architecture. When finished with that ideea find a pin pong [...]
Play idea – at the beach
This was entirely Sophie's ideea. She misses her granny and wanted to pretend she is at hers and they go to the beach. Giving the lockdown and middle of winter [...]
Surface tension experiments
A great way of teaching kids about water surface tension with just a bunch of coins (plastic or real), water and a dropler. I did this with my 5 year [...]
Erupting volcano
Go outside and make a mud mountain. In the middle put an used can and put half a tub of baking soda and some colour powder/pigment. When ready pour some [...]
Frozen water balloons
Had to take a break from screens as I was experiencing some vertigo. Much better now so here is an experiment to try when is very cold outside. Fill balloons [...]