If your kids love sensory activities, then they will love learning how to make sand slime! Sand slime has a similar texture to wet sand on the beach. Its stretchy texture, combined with the sand’s roughness, makes it ideal for fun at any time and one of my favorite slime recipes without contact solution! Toddlers, …
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STEM activities (activities with elements of science, technology, engineering, and math) help children see that science and math can have a creative element, too. Try these quick STEM activities when you don’t have tons of time to plan! In today’s world, technology seeps into everything we do, and children can be taught to approach all …
No science is more fun than candy cane science. But you don’t have to have candy canes to make these salt crystal candy canes for a super fun candy cane experiment! Making salt crystals is a fun way to explore candy cane science even if you don’t have any in the house! We loved this …
Become a Christmas engineer with this simple sleigh building challenge using egg cartons! Kids will love this Santa sleigh STEM challenge! We have conducted many amazing Christmas STEM challenge ideas already, and the girls are having a blast! In this engineering activity, I challenged my kids to create a new sleigh design for Santa using …
Love Christmas? Love science? Love Christmas STEM challenge ideas? Combine the two and make these water bubble Christmas lights for pretty, holiday fun! My in-laws have a string of ancient Christmas lights they break out every Christmas that when heated, cause some sort of liquid to bubble inside a bulb. The lights are so old, …
It’s Thanksgiving, which means time for pumpkin pie, history lessons, and football. And if you live at our house, it’s also time for Thanksgiving science experiments! These Thanksgiving experiments show kids some of the science behind the holiday and are a fun addition to any Thanksgiving STEM activities you do this November and are a …