This week to continue with the children’s love for science experiments, we tried our hands at making snow. Homemade snow is great as a sensory activity, and you only need two ingredients to make this fake indoor snow. It is super soft to play with. The kids absolutely loved this and it felt soft as they…
As a continuation from last week’s lava lamps, today we discovered and explored some volcano eruptions. Using baking soda, food colouring and white vinegar we were able to recreate our very own versions of lava boiling over out of a glass jar. By layering the baking soda we were able to hide our colour of…
Lava lamps are very fascinating, the colourful blobs moving up and down in a never-ending dance make it appear almost magical. Our Lava Lamp science experiment supported the children to continue their understanding of science as we spoke about the properties of oil and water mixing and how water is denser than oil and how…
Did you know that it is easy to turn ordinary milk into a rainbow of crazy colours? With only four common kitchen items, our children were thrilled by the colour explosion created by the hydrophilic and hydrophobic molecules in our magic ingredient dish soap. The children and educators placed drops of food colouring in the…
This week the children in our nest studio have been exploring their physical environments and further developing their gross motor skills and social interactions. By affording our younger children the opportunity to explore different physical environments, educators are better equipped to scaffold upon the current developmental level of all our children. The children have explored,…