This title contains 50 stimulating and original activities, including foaming monsters, hanging crystals and kaleidoscopes. It offers a fresh and exciting approach to the practical world of science, combining creative arts and crafts activities with the basics of physics, chemistry and biology. Every card contains a separate activity that is beautifully illustrated and shows clear, step-by-step instructions. It is spiral bound to allow easy use and transportation, and means no card will ever get lost!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
I am utterly delighted with this book. It contains such good, simple science experiment ideas. The experiments generally rely on bits and bobs most people will have lying around at home, and all the clever science is explained as part of the experiment. I would have loved this book as a child, and I can't wait to try the experiments. My little boy is just shy of two and admittedly is a bit young for it, but I'm looking forward to when we can do these experiements together. I would have said that the book is good for primary school children (with supervision), but I cannot see why younger secondary school children would not enjoy it too.
A few examples of the experiments in the book are:
Catch the birdie - a simple spinner disc toy - a cage on one disc and bird on the other - when spun it looks as if the bird is in the cage.
Cooking in the sun - line a bowl with foil and put a marshmallow in it to 'cook' on a hot day.
Separating the ink colours in felt tip pens.
Jumping pepper - Putting pepper in a shallow plastic box and creating static electricity with a woolen jumper and seeing how the pepper responds.
Elastic band paddle boat.
Butterfly feeder.
Seeing DNA - extracting DNA from an onion - you'll need surgical spirit though.
Making butter.
Seeing how ants work together with a piec of fruit.
Growing crystals.
Actually some of the experiments would be fun for adults too. Really very impressed, cannot recommend this highly enough. I'll be buying some more as presents!
A few examples of the experiments in the book are:
Catch the birdie - a simple spinner disc toy - a cage on one disc and bird on the other - when spun it looks as if the bird is in the cage.
Cooking in the sun - line a bowl with foil and put a marshmallow in it to 'cook' on a hot day.
Separating the ink colours in felt tip pens.
Jumping pepper - Putting pepper in a shallow plastic box and creating static electricity with a woolen jumper and seeing how the pepper responds.
Elastic band paddle boat.
Butterfly feeder.
Seeing DNA - extracting DNA from an onion - you'll need surgical spirit though.
Making butter.
Seeing how ants work together with a piec of fruit.
Growing crystals.
Actually some of the experiments would be fun for adults too. Really very impressed, cannot recommend this highly enough. I'll be buying some more as presents!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
My little boys and I love this book! At first I was a little dubious as the book itself is fairly small and I wondered how on earth they could have crammed 50 interesting and meaningful science projects in here. However, I was proved wrong. Whilst the "science things to make and do" in this book are not ground breaking, they are very interesting for young children and are usually performed with things that are easily available within the home.
Most of the experiments/activities are quite short and so are well within the attention span of little ones which is great. There's nothing worse than starting out on an interesting project, only to find that it takes too long and the kids have all wandered off halfway through!! As I already mentioned, most of the things to do are pretty simple, but they do introduce a lot of very interesting scientific topics - just a few of which are: sound vibrations; magnetism; static electricity; friction and gravity. Obviously, depending upon the age of the child and how interested they are in what you are doing, you can then go off and explore these topics further. A few of these little experiments have really gripped my sons' imaginations and we've found ourselves delving a bit deeper into those topics. I would imagine that this book is ideal for children from about 4 to 10 years of age.
The book itself is ringbound with a very tough cover and thick pages - so should stand up well to being used by children.
So, if you secretly fancy making a hovering butterfly, a foaming monster or a pinhole projector - amongst lots of other things - then this could well be the book for you. It provides something a little bit different to do on those, (many), rainy days and there's a good chance that the kids will be learning, as well as having fun. What more could you want?!
Most of the experiments/activities are quite short and so are well within the attention span of little ones which is great. There's nothing worse than starting out on an interesting project, only to find that it takes too long and the kids have all wandered off halfway through!! As I already mentioned, most of the things to do are pretty simple, but they do introduce a lot of very interesting scientific topics - just a few of which are: sound vibrations; magnetism; static electricity; friction and gravity. Obviously, depending upon the age of the child and how interested they are in what you are doing, you can then go off and explore these topics further. A few of these little experiments have really gripped my sons' imaginations and we've found ourselves delving a bit deeper into those topics. I would imagine that this book is ideal for children from about 4 to 10 years of age.
The book itself is ringbound with a very tough cover and thick pages - so should stand up well to being used by children.
So, if you secretly fancy making a hovering butterfly, a foaming monster or a pinhole projector - amongst lots of other things - then this could well be the book for you. It provides something a little bit different to do on those, (many), rainy days and there's a good chance that the kids will be learning, as well as having fun. What more could you want?!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By P. Wills
Format:Spiral-bound
Buy their 100 things to do, all the things in this are included in both books, will have to give this one away having bought both...
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fun activities that are easy to implement
I would say this is aimed for children ages 3-7
pros : engagingly illustrated, sturdy, a wide variety of activities (indoor, outdoor, very basic to complicated, using... Read more
pros : engagingly illustrated, sturdy, a wide variety of activities (indoor, outdoor, very basic to complicated, using... Read more
Published 13 days ago by abroad
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Great gift
Bought for nephew as birthday gift, he loves it and is very excited to work his way through these. Some he can do on his own and some with parental supervision so encourages... Read more
Published 17 days ago by Herdawness
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what I was expecting
It is perfect if you want some new ideas to keep children occupied and at the same time teach them a bit of science.
Published 1 month ago by silvia
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Brilliant book
Amazing book full of idea's which don't need you to spend a fortune getting extra things to complete. So many good things to try!!
Published 2 months ago by Melanie Prissick
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Great Book for all
What a great way to learn. Mixes science with fun and it wasn't out of the wrapping for 5 minutes before they were into the first 'experiment'
Published 4 months ago by Andrew D. Siveyer
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Good book
We have been working our way through this book. It's worth looking through & starting to put some items by for when needed. It's proved popular with my 6.5 year old.
Published 4 months ago by babyboysmommy
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Pleased!
This book arrived promptly before christmas. An ideal gift for a newly qualified teacher. It is also a handy sized book.
Published 17 months ago by C
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A great book
I bought this book for a 5 year old boy but soon realised that my 4 year old daughter was also very interested so we made on experiement from the book and she loved it. Read more
Published on 23 May 2011 by Farida
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Ideas...
I originally bought this book as a gift - but I fell in love with it and was immediately compelled to try out the activities with my 2 year old. Needless to say - it was a 'hit'. Read more
Published on 8 April 2011 by Shiraz
4.0 out of 5 stars
Easy and interesting
Lots of different experiments to try. Experiments take anything from 5 minutes to a few days. Easy to follow instructions.
Published on 3 Jan 2011 by Olga
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