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Yeast and Sugar Experiment

I’ve been baking bread just about every day for the past three weeks (nothing too crazy since it’s all done in the bread maker), but last week my 3.5 year old and I got into a discussion about the properties of yeast. We like to tinker and experiment – big surprise, I know — and decided [...]

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Incredible Growing Gummy Bears

Here’s a fun experiment that hardly takes up any room, isn’t messy, and your kids will love it! Here’s how we landed on this experiment: We stopped at the drug store for baby wipes, and 3.5 year old N bombarded me with five minutes of this… “Mom, stop! You have to see this. Mom, can you [...]

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Water Scooping for Babies

While my older daughter tore up the grass with the Slip ‘n Slide, I set my 10 month old up with a bucket of water and some measuring cups. And she got right to work, filling and emptying the cups. It was interesting to watch her attempt to fill the cups when they were upside [...]

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Outdoor Water Painting Experiments

My friend Diana sent me these amazing photos of her son (almost 2 1/2 at the time), experimenting with water painting. She offered him a couple containers of water and a paintbrush and gave him free reign to paint away. I love how he was able to take these simple materials and experiment with them [...]

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Traveling Magnets

While we make a lot of art in our home, I cherish any project that develops creative and critical thinking skills. I’m attracted to fun activities with an experiential twist, and I’ve noticed lately that we’ve been dabbling in the worlds of science, literature, and dramatic play, as much as we have in that of [...]

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