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Learn to Read with Blocks
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...
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Name Recognition Activity Using Tape
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.
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Name Recognition Activity Using Beans
This activity focuses on recognition of a 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...
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Flip Book Phonics Activity
Easy to make phonics flip book improves reading skills in an engaging and fun way. Alex loved going through pages of mini notepads to find letters and blends to create familiar words.
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How to Teach Basics of Gardening to Kids
Funny looking grass haired monters are due for a haircut.
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How to Teach a Child to Fold a T-Shirt
Chores can be fun - this is what Alex learn when learning to fold a t-shirt that has a puzzle on it!
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How to Suck a Water Balloon into a Bottle
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...
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How to Pierce Potato with a Straw
We are experimenting by piercing a potato with a sharp pencil and a straw. Do you know what would pass through easily?
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How to Mix Primary Colours to Get Secondary Colours
A fun demonstration how the primary colours mix and form the secondary colours. Thanks to the fact that water doesn't mix with oil we can observe how primary colours separate back into layers after mixing. For this activity water is...
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How to Melt Crayons in Molds
It's finally the time to melt our old mixed crayons to make new multicoloured star-shaped ones.
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How to Make Your Own Books
For about a week Alex was making books. We have plenty of them now. One book is about everything mommy loves. There is an educational one with tests, tracing and colouring tasks. But my favourite is a cookbook with a recipe how to make a...
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How to Make Xylophone Using Water
Can you make music with water? Just pour water into jars or glasses. Each bottle has diferent volume of water in it, that is what makes it sound differently.
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How to Make Simple a Secret Decoder
People have been using codes throughout history to keep their messages private and my two little spies needed a way to sent their secret messages to each other too. So I came up with this simple paper plate decoder for them to have fun.
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How to Make a Lung Model with a Balloon
Here is a quick demonstration how lungs work with a plastic bottle and two balloons I have prepared for Alex. When we pull knotted balloon, more space inside the bottle is created. To fill that space more air is sucked in thru the red...
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How to Make Santa Footprints for Kids at Christmas
We have done this last Christmas and children’s excitement to Santa’s snowy footprints was so rewarding. You just need to spray water on the sole of the boots. Press the wet boot into the tray of baking powder and then press the boot...
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How to Make Drawings Float with a Magic Water Marker
Subscribe to my channel and wait for Alex’s space adventure floating drawing! To make your art creation float you need just white board makers, a plate and some water. I have seen a few videos about this technique but they all seemed to...
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How to Make Colours Appear from Words
How cool is this activity with magically appearing colours from words! You would need regular markers, a permanent black marker, paper towel and water.
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How to Make Butter
We were making fresh butter for lunch with Max. The process was really simple and fun. All we needed was heavy/double/whipping cream, a glass jar and a bit of muscle to shake! In about 10 minutes we could see buttermilk separating from...
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How to Make a Tornado in a Bottle
It’s an experiment time! We have connected two bottles with a tube but you can just connect them with a tape, just make sure you put a metal washer between bottles to make the hole smaller. Spinning the top bottle in a circular motion...
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How to Make a Marble Run with Foil
This DIY toy is from the time I was a child. It is simple but it could blow the mind a person who doesn't know how it is made. Alex was looking for magnets to explain why it moves that way. All you need to make one is a piece of kitchen...
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How to Make a Paper Duck Call
Here is a quick tutorial for making a simple duck call form a piece of paper.
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Fine Motor Skills Activity: Nuts and Bolts
Nuts and bolts aren’t something you would first think to offer your kid to play with. But they are great for developing fine motor skills and just super fun.
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How to Make a Balancing Butterfly
We have made a butterfly with Max from a piece of hard paper that can balance on a tip of a pencil. Now Max is looking for magnets to explain why it doesn't fall.