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Upside Down Glass of Water Trick
Defying the laws of gravity? Try turning a glass of water upside down without spilling. Place a card over the top of the glass filled with water. Quickly turn the glass upside down, holding the card in place and then, carefully let it...
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Stroop Effect: Tricky Colours Mental Workout
Checking if interference between the contradicting information can cause problems for Alex to do a simple task - naming the colours! Try doing it yourselves! Pause the video and name colours, not the words.
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Outdoor Activity: Tree Bark Rubbing
Depending on a type of tree and its age bark is rough or smooth. Boys were interested in running their fingers over tree’s trunk to feel the texture of its bark. So we made a portfolio of bark rubbings to take our discoveries home.
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Toddler I-Spy Bottle with Animals and Rainbow Rice
Here is a quick discovery bottle I made for Max. It could be used on a long car trip or a flight because of the number of questions I could ask him to find an answer to in the bottle, like what sea creature can you spot there or what...
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Toddler Activities: Learn to Write Numbers and Letters
Tracing chalk numbers with wet cotton buds
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Outdoor Activity: Tin Foil River
Water play is always a hit with my boys. The weather was perfect for making a river in our own garden using aluminum foil.
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Teach Letters Using Sugar
A Montessori writing tray with sugar is an easy-to-make and fun activity to teach a child how to write letters. Alex can write letters with a pencil quite good, but he just could resist the sensory part of the activity.
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Science Experiment: Surface Tension
Here is another simple surface tension demonstration with a ping pong ball. When Alex places the ball in the centre of a half-full glass it is moving toward the side, but when the glass is full the ball changes direction and moves toward...
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Scissors Skills: Sunny Cutting
A sunny way to help my boy to improve his scissor skills
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Montessori Activity: Sound Box with Plastic Eggs
After Easter egg hunt we were left with loads of plastic eggs. So I made this Montessori-inspired sound set. Max had to match sounds, pairing every red egg with one green egg.
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Smelling Challenge for Kids
Testing how sensitive is Alex’s nose to check if he can identify products that are good to eat.
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Science Experiments with Eggs
A quick demonstration of gravity and motion in this experiment with raw eggs before we cook them for breakfast. All we needed was: a toilet paper tube, a paper plate, a glass of water and a bit of curiosity.
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Fine Motor Skills Activity: Water Syringe
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.
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Science Experiment: Magnetic Corn Flakes
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.
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Science Experiment: Putting Lit Candles Out with Glass
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.
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Magic Colours Using Markers and Water
Alex enjoyed this simple arty project - colour magic with kitchen towel, markers and a bit of water.
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Fine Motor Skills Activity for Toddlers
This quick clothespins with pasta activity is a perfect for our lazy Monday.
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Fine Motor Skills Activity: Playdough and Pasta
Here is a simple fine motor activity with playdoh and pasta that every toddler will enjoy.
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Writing Activity with Stencils
A simple activity we do sometimes with stencils taped to piece of paper. Max loves exploring symbols and shapes while tracing them with pencils. Any stencils are good for the activity.
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DIY Craft: Saturn Using a CD
A little space art project we have done with Max. What should we call that planet?
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Science Experiment: Saltwater Egg
We are back home and we are going back to experiments. A raw egg sinks in water, but can we increase water's density to make it float? Alex adds salt to see what would happen. Then I carefully add fresh water on top of salted one (not to...
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Shadow Tracing for Preschoolers
We took advantage of a sunny day and had lots of fun tracing shadows outside.
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Science Experiment: Pouring Water Down a String
Alex was really surprised to see what water was able to do when we poured it down a string. All I needed for this simple experiment was 2 cups, piece of string that can absorb water and special properties of water (ability to stick to...
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Science Experiment: Ping Pong Ball Tricks
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.