Experimenting with plastic bottles, straws and water

If you have a balloon and a straw at home, you can make this fun spinning balloon.

Here is an answer to childrens' wishes for a snowy day if you don't see any show through your window. Alex happily cut dozens of paper snowflakes. Each paper snowflake was beautiful and unique as a real one.

I was wondering if Alex finds a way to play with a plastic bottle filled with steel balls and with a strong magnet attached to it. He did have a few ideas! Some kids are just easily entertained!

Today we made easy-to-make catapults from popsicle sticks and rubber bands for hours of fun. When I showed this catapult to Max for the first time he was very excited to play with it as it looked like an aeroplane. He was a bit...

This experiment shows how Pythagoras Cup works. A long time ago Pythagoras made this cup (also known as a Greedy Cup), that empties itself if too much drink is poured.

Why not to start a solid foundation in physics in a single afternoon activity learning to balance counterweights? DIY tutorial for making scale using hanger and plastic bottles.

We are getting to know angles with this quirky activity. I love how Alex's face lights up when he sees that a number of angles in each digit corresponds to its value.

What child doesn't like to bash things with a hammer? So I made a surprise activity for Max this morning and he loved it. I used a piece of foam packaging from last night delivery, wooden sticks and a toy hammer.

Another fun Halloween activity with masking tape. It looks like our Mummy was a gingerbread man before.

Comparing numbers upto 6 with regular dice would be too easy for Alex, so got him 20 sided ones.

This is fun funnel experiment that proves that an empty bottle isn't, in fact, empty and to fill it with water we need to make sure that air can escape. If a funnel is properly sealed to a bottle and a lot of water is poured into it at...

You'll need pegs, marker and paper to make this activity.

We have made a spinning top from a marker and an CD for this art project. Science lovers will appreciate how we can actually track the motion of the spinning tops.

Another creative way to use straws in a fun ordering number game.

It is always fun to throw pom poms around the room, but here is a way to blend that fun with an oral-motor workout.

This fun matching activity can be easily adapted to any child. Max continues matching numbers with dots.

Check out this fun ready-to-zoom-into-space DIY toy that we made.<br/>

There is a simple way to get a ping-pong ball from a glass without touching it. Turning this idea into a fun blowing game with Alex.

This fun activity is based on a fact that children instinctively count things using their fingers.

A new challenge for Max. He needs to put the rubber bands on the paper towel roll.

Classic egg in a bottle experiment turned upside down. We used hard boiled egg, birthday cake candles and a bottle with wide neck.

Max loved filling a bottle of water with paper clips to prepare for this fun activity to discover force of a magnetic field with a magnetic wand.

Easy to make craft for a fun outdoor play. For this craft you need paper caps, balloons and ping pong balls. The only thing to be aware of is to use cheap balloons without a white powder inside them, otherwise they slip off.