Read on to find out how you can make this Spooky Glowing Fluorescent Slime using a yellow highlighter pen and our slime kit! We made amazing spooky glowing fluorescent slime in time for Hallowe’en and we want you to be able to make it too. Read how easily we did it and watch the video too…..
Halloween is just around the corner so how about some easy Halloween Science you can do at home?! These glowing Orbeez are fab for Halloween Science or, to be honest, at any time of year! They are so easy to make at home using the ink from highlighter pens. A safe and easy experiment that the children loved especially at this spooky time of year. Read on for the method and video tutorial.
We’ve had so much fun making this amazing colour-changing thermochromic slime using thermochromic dyes. This is a slime that changes colour at just 31oC …..and the best part is that you can now make your own colour changing slime using our Thermo Slime Kit! Read on & watch the video too…..
Gummy Bear Osmosis Experiment This is an ideal activity for the GROWTH theme of British Science Week 2022. Gummy Bear Osmosis experiment is a fun demonstration to help explain the tricky subject of osmosis, as well as being a great way to teach experimental design. It’s also an experiment you can eat when you’re finished! Read on to find out why the Gummy Bear Osmosis Experiment is so good at teaching osmosis (obviously!), but also experimental design, mass, weight & volume as well as embedding maths.
We’re running a Summer Holiday Club in Barnstaple this year and have teamed up with our friends at Norse Hawk Activity Centre to create 4 exciting Viking Science themed days, which are guaranteed to be exciting, busy, science-y, and with a dash of Viking thrown in!
A PDF workbook to download for free! The “Super-easy 6” In this easy science experiments free download we’ve put together 6 of our favourite activities. We’ve chosen these 6 because they are so easy to do and produce very colourful results, they are really cool too. Called The Super-Easy 6, they provide good starter activities at home to get you & your family into science with ease. To download the Super-Easy 6 click on the button below! I want this free PDF! I’d love to know how you get on, so please share your experiments, with photos if possible, on
For our online science workshop – Spinners – you will also need the spinners template which you can download here. Make sure you print it off onto A4 paper ready for the session, along with the other items you need: scissors and paper clips.
Make a gravity defying Balancing Skeleton! You’ll need: the template (see below) & something to use as 2 weights to alter the centre of gravity so that it balances in this vertical position, we use either pennies or bluetack or play dough. So, are you ready to make a gravity defying Skeleton? Lets go……
If you’re looking for fun and easy science experiments, look no further! We have loads of easy science guides for you, including this one – Magic Milk Science Experiment, a swirling, colourful science experiment that you can do right now with things from your kitchen!
Make fizzy ice cubes and rainbows of colours in our latest science experiment! You need very little equipment for this ice-cool fizzy experiment ideal for toddlers – baking soda, ice cube tray, water, colouring & vinegar. This is a practical and fun way to observe colour mixing, chemical reactions and change of state.
Here is a science flextangle template for you to download for free to make at home. These geometric toys are great fun to make and play with. A flextangle is usually made of paper, which has been folded in a specific way to make a movable, or flexible, toy. Read on for the download with instructions.
Here’s an easy bath bomb recipe for children. Follow the method below and find out how we have adapted the recipe to make it simpler for children to do. These bath bombs are rainbow coloured too! We also explain the science behind why bath bombs fizz. You can buy our Bath Bomb Kits too!
You too can make Giant Bubbles! Once you’ve bought in a few bits of kit and some ingredients, there’ll be no stopping you! Both kids & adults love Giant Bubbles, they are awesome. Not only are these bubbles huge, but they float gracefully and the rainbow effect within them is stunning. So beautiful. First you’ll need to make some bubble wands, then make the bubble juice. Read on to find out how!
Have you spotted dense webs on hedges and wondered what’s lurking inside? Ever wondered what spider was inside them because they don’t look mush more dense than a typical spider’s web? Possibly you’ve seen the webs with caterpillars wriggling in them? Well, hese grubs are not an eight-legged creature’s lunch and that web was actually spun by those caterpillars. We spot these webs, belonging to the Lackey Moth caterpillar, on our walks along the coast paths in North Devon. Read on to find out about these creatures, their weird webs, and crazy grown up moths!
Magnetic Slime….it moves….it slides…..it gobbles up magnets…….this slime is alive!! Slimey Science fun at home making magnetic slime. Read on to find out how to make magnetic slime & watch the video too…..
Did you know that scorpions glow?! Last week at the Science & Nature Easter Holiday club, we met Spike – the scorpion. Spike’s owner, Ranger Russ, taught us loads about all his animals that he brought in for us to see, such as Millie the Millipede, Chomper the Tarantula, and Clive the 12ft python! However I was particularly intrigued by Spike’s special ability to glow under a UV torch, so I looked into this phenomenon a bit more and here’s what I found out…..
