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GDUNH? GCNH? The Nappy Hunt!

by Deb on September 1, 2010

Hunting … hunting … if you’re just here for Wordless Wednesday, greetings and salutations. Enjoy the cute picture of playing hide and seek and you can ignore the rest of this post. If not, read on! Say what? Once again I am sponsoring the Great Down Under Nappy Hunt or Great Cloth Nappy Hunt, depending [...]

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Comparing Bubble Mix

by Deb on September 3, 2010

Tragedy struck last weekend, we were out of bubble mix. And what is a science-y family to do when that happens? That’s right, we didn’t just make our own, we made two different versions and compared them. I love this bubble mix recipe because it is so simple even the 2 year old can make [...]

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13 More Things to do with Water

September 2, 2010 Babies

Seeing I looked at energy last week, I thought I’d look at water this week. I did a list of things to do with water almost exactly a year ago, if you add these ideas you’ll have even more games! Oil and water – Either make layers or put the two in a bottle with [...]

Mushrooms and the Immune System

August 30, 2010 Food

I have a guest poster today looking at some of the science backing up nutritional recommendations. This is a little more speculative than I usually deal with – it’s a long way from cell-culture studies to real life – however I like it for two reasons. Firstly, it fits within what is already known about [...]

Insides on the outside

August 27, 2010 Activities

Look what we did last night! The little one on the left is a skeleton, the big girl has organs. This was a first time, so we just chatted while drawing, and after the photos it became a general draw on each other (and Mummy) session. Including some beautiful vines and flowers. The girls already [...]

13 Alternatives to Fossil Fuels

August 26, 2010 Energy and Change

To fit in with the Carbon Futures Challenge, I thought I’d look at some types of energy for electricity and fuel that aren’t based on fossil fuels. These are a problem because they are basically converted wood and plankton so they are very high in carbon. Burning them creates carbon dioxide, which contributes to the [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Sand Balloons

August 25, 2010 Materials

We play with balloons a lot, in fact in a recent interview I called them ‘the ultimate children’s toy!’ It’s now at the point where the girls will think of weird and wonderful things to do with them all on their own, this is their setup for putting sand in them. It was quite a [...]

People Participating in the Carbon Futures Challenge

August 24, 2010 General

Hello everyone and thanks for joining. Come over to the Discussion threads and introduce yourself, that will be the place to keep everything together so I’m not checking Twitter, Facebook and the blog for messages. The discussion is open to everyone, not just participants, you might have some good ideas to share even if you [...]

Visiting Scitech

August 23, 2010 General

On our holiday we went to the fabulous science museum in Perth, Scitech. I love Scitech, if we lived there we’d be members. There are two things reasons I love science museums other than the sheer fun of being there. One is that the kids remember it, it’s something special and exciting and often involves [...]

Building Landscapes.

August 20, 2010 Activities

I used to teach a fun lesson about erosion where we mixed up all sorts of dirt, put it into a gutter, put a hose on it and saw how it got moved by the water. Then at one school I didn’t have a piece of gutter, so I found a nice pile of dirt [...]