Our quick and easy Valentine STEM activity is great for kids who love to try science at home. February has been a creative month for us with the kids learning from home and we’ve set up a lot of STEM experiments at home for fun. This month we’ve experimented with dissolving Love Hearts and made tangram hearts. We love science at home and growing your own crystals is a fun way to explore STEM subjects. Epsom Salt pipe cleaner hearts equipment All you will need to try this at home is a bag of Epsom Salt (I bought mine from…
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My kids love to craft with our pup and with Valentines Day coming up they wanted to make something special. We made him his own puppy costume for Halloween so it seemed only right to make him something to celebrate Valentines Day. This year we made a special kissing booth for him! You can make your own dog kissing booth with a cardboard box and some paint! DIY puppy kissing booth First we made the kissing booth from a large cardboard box. We cut a large slot out of the front of the box so our dog could sit in…
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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and we’ve been enjoying all kinds of Valentine themed arts and crafts this year. I like to come up with different things to keep my kids busy and active and now they are a little older they enjoy STEM learning. Our STEM Valentine tangram for kids is a great STEM learning tool which helps build important STEM skills. STEM Valentine tangram for kids What is a tangram? Invented in China about 200 years ago, a tangram is a two-dimensional puzzle, created by cutting a square into seven pieces. The puzzle consists of seven…
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Our home learning has been a lot of fun recently. My 9 year old loves science so we’ve been trying all those home science experiments we’ve wanted to try but never had the time. After the success of our winter Candy Cane experiment my daughter suggested we try it again with Love Hearts. We love those cute little Love Hearts, especially the emoji ones! I thought they would be easy to find but they weren’t – so I ended up buying a huge box of them! Love Hearts have been around for years and I’m sure everyone remembers looking for…
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We are so happy to see the back of January and welcome February. There are so many things to look forward to in February including Valentine’s Day, Pancake Day, birthdays and Spring! Now my children are a little older I knew they would enjoy some STEM experiments and we have tried a few over the last week. There are some really fun science experiments you can do at home and they never fail to delight my children. The first one we wanted to tell you about was the Heart Marshmallow Valentine STEM challenge I set the kids. You don’t need…
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So you may not be expecting me to be sharing a Spring craft at the end of January. My daughter was clearing out some old notebooks last week and discovered some flowers she had carefully pressed last year. We actually have a vintage flower press which we picked up at a charity shop but for some reason we had placed the flowers she picked amongst the pages of her notebook. The notebook was untouched for months and we were surprised to find leaves and simple flowers all perfectly preserved. Pressed Spring flowers suncatcher It felt wrong to just throw the…
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I am so ready for something to celebrate and bring some colour into our lives again! I always find January a difficult month so have been eagerly looking for signs of Spring. This week we’ve spotted catkins in the trees, snowdrops on the ground and the bunches of daffodils I bought have been blooming with colour. Next month we will be celebrating Valentine’s Day on the 14th February and I couldn’t resist a few crafts with my children. My son adores the art of origami and had so much fun making a bunch of Valentine paper heart origami bookmarks. These…
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We were looking for a fun science experiment to do at home over the Christmas holidays and found a simple STEM activity which kept my children busy. They love simple science experiments they can do at home and had so much fun trying to grow their own Christmas trees. Grow your own Christmas tree sponge equipment Kitchen sponge Cress seeds Plastic container Grow your own Christmas tree sponge We love a STEM experiment, this is something which combines elements of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. My kids love to be out in the garden but cress is something that can…
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My children love a few games of Among Us and the game has influenced our crafting. We’ve had so much fun making Among Us gingerbread biscuits and decorating Among Us painted rocks. My children love to sew and we had a lot of fun with our felt Crewmates. Today we’re going to show you how to make your own Among Us Crewmates. Materials to make Among Us Crewmates Selection of colourful felt Among Us Crewmate template Scissors Needle Embroidery thread Stuffing How to make your own Among Us Crewmates Print off our free Among Us Crewmate template, choose your felt…
