A quick and easy to make activity for Halloween that helps strengthen gross motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

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

An eraser is usually used to correct mistakes in drawings, but what about using it to draw instead?

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

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...

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...

Chores can be fun - this is what Alex learn when learning to fold a t-shirt that has a puzzle on it!

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...

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?

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...

It's finally the time to melt our old mixed crayons to make new multicoloured star-shaped ones.

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...

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.

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...

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...

How cool is this activity with magically appearing colours from words! You would need regular markers, a permanent black marker, paper towel and water.

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...

Here is a quick tutorial for making a simple duck call form a piece of paper.

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.

Max is learning the very basic concept of how clouds hold water and when they become too heavy it starts to rain, while practising fine motor skills and eye–hand coordination. For this activity we used clear water, shaving foam and...

Heating up the air inside a plastic bottle with hot water and then cooling it down with cold to see how balloon reacts.

Meet our new spooky friend for coming Halloween. I glued a sports cap to the center of CD, closed the pop-top and fitted the neck of the balloon over the moving part of the cap. When I am ready to let my ghost to hover, I put it on a...

If clear gel balls are submerged in water, you cannot see them. It is how Alex did his trick in the previous video and it is what makes this activity so fun for Max.