Monsters In My House is a unique activity book designed to help children improve their word interpretation skills, especially of the evocative ‘wow’ words that help bring writing to life, their drawing and coordination skills, and their imaginations, all while having fun. How is this done? Read More …
Plants vs Zombies is a very fun strategy-based game where you have to fill your garden with zombie-eating plants to protect your house from marauding hordes of undead. It’s a game that, at first, might not seem like it’s very educational, and it’s not if you Read More …
This is a nice little festive experiment that can be used to introduce your child to chemistry, and the concept of solutions, crystallisation and evaporation. It’s very simple, and it can be done with either a ready-made kit, like the one featured in the time-lapse video Read More …
At this time of year, there’s a huge amount of pressure on parents to go overboard on their Christmas spending so that they give their child a day that they’ll remember for the rest of their lives. The only problem with this is that few Read More …
This is a great Ted Talk from Fawn Qiu about how to create easy projects to help kids learn about engineering. It’s a great example of how, with a little careful thought and planning, relatively complicated subjects can be taught in simple, fun and practical ways Read More …
We live in a world that is dominated by electrical and electronic devices, yet how many of us actually understand how electricity works? This experiment is a great way to help your child learn the basics about electricity and electronic circuits, and it follows on Read More …
What Is It? Read Write Count is a great initiative which aims to encourage parents to integrate the learning and practicing of reading, writing, counting and maths into everyday family life in fun and practical ways. Through this, they hope to improve the academic skills of children Read More …
Clouds are something that fascinate almost all children at some point in their lives and this cloud-spotting car game is a great way to use this natural fascination to help improve both your child’s observation skills and their knowledge about how the world around them works. The Read More …
This Book Thinks You’re A Scientist by Harriet Russell and the Science Museum in London is an activity book with a difference. It’s crammed full of activities to encourage your child to pay attention to the world around them, ask questions about it and use experiments to Read More …
The Forgotten Milestone by Frank and Stacy Otillio is a book that, despite its main title, is filled with fun activities to help your child develop good pattern recognition skills. Why is this important? Well, pattern recognition is a core life skill, especially in the modern Read More …