SCIENCE

Blast off into Halloween with a science experiment that will surely amaze the kids! Flying ghost rockets are easy to set up but jam-packed with explosive STEM fun. After the paint bombs art and DIY lava lamp activities, my kids have been itching to use Alka Seltzer tablets again. They know that exciting things happen […]

Your kids will love playing with dry ice! Check out these fun dry ice experiments for kids that will help your kids learn about the solid form of carbon dioxide.

This easy and fun rain cloud in a jar science experiment will show your kids how precipitation happens when the clouds get too heavy! How can you make it rain inside the house? Since we can’t physically bring clouds indoors, we will create our own! After growing up in SoCal, my kids are not very

Learn how to make a working pumping heart model with kids. This pumping heart model demonstrates how a real heart pumps blood in and out of its chambers! The heart is a special muscle that sends blood around your body. How exactly does the heart pump blood?  My kids have been interested in the heart

Kids love to learn through play. Making this simple egg carton spine model will get your child interested in the human body and how it works.

The anatomy of our hands is complex and intricate. Made up of many different bones, muscles, and ligaments, our hands can move in ways that other parts of our body can’t. The model robot hand demonstrates just how important it is for all the different parts of our hands to work together for movement. It

My son hates the sight of blood, but he loves slime! So to teach him the components of blood, we are going to make a 3D blood slime model! This fun blood cell model science activity is a great way to introduce the parts of blood to grade school kids. Plus, it makes a gross

The heart is arguably one of the most important organs you need in the human body to survive. It pumps blood throughout the body, supply oxygen and nutrients to the tissues, and remove carbon dioxide and other wastes.  With a simple DIY stethoscope, your kids can listen to each other’s heartbeats. This is a fun

Bones have so many functions. For example, they protect our vital organs like our brain and heart, and they form the shape of our face. What would happen if we don’t have bones? How will our bodies support their weight? In this Play-Doh skeleton activity, we are going to explore just how important our bones

Your kids will have love learning about the human skeletal system by building it with Q-tips. This Q-tip skeleton craft also doubles as a Halloween craft! The head bone’s connected to the neck bone, the neckbone’s connected to the backbone … who doesn’t know the famous Dem Bones children’s song? And that’s the song we