After a trip to the beach we returned with a bucket full of treasures and decided to make a rock pool in the garden for lots more beach play at home. You can see in the pictures some of the things we collected, and a few we already had at home: pebbles and shells, sand and . . . → Read More: How to make a rock pool
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There are opportunities for scientific learning everywhere. When your children are tired and it’s cold and dark outside, you may think hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows are just for comfort – but no! Science in action! Let them discover a little about heat and solids. Pop a marshmallow onto a skewer, light . . . → Read More: Marshmallow science Science doesn’t start at high school with Bunsen burners and litmus paper. Babies, toddlers and pre-school are natural scientists, exploring and testing out their world. Creating a play-friendly environment and giving them time to investigate what catches their interest is the first step towards developing enquiring minds. Try these ideas for more child friendly . . . → Read More: Pre-school science ideas Growing sunflowers with children? Download our free sunflower activities ebook. How are your sunflowers coming along? Ours went out in the garden a couple of weeks ago. The tallest one is up to 45cm on our sunflower height chart and mostly they’re doing well – working their way up the wall but not yet taller . . . → Read More: Snail races Growing sunflowers with children? Download our free sunflower activities ebook. Sunflower Club: We have lift off! I can’t tell you how excited we were to discover our baby seedlings have popped their heads above the soil. Big and Little were dancing! The plantlets are tiny at the moment but we have high . . . → Read More: Sunflower height chart Growing sunflowers with children? Download our free sunflower activities ebook. Today’s the day – we planted our Sunflower Club seeds! Sunflowers are hardy annuals so you can plant them straight outside from March onwards. We learnt last year however that slugs just love to much straight through juicy, new sunflower stems, felling all your plants . . . → Read More: Planting Sunflower seeds  |
   
                    
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