I have always been extremely squeamish – and I HATE it. It’s had a horrible negative effect on me throughout my life and it drives me crazy that I can’t cope in certain situations. Because of this, I’ve made a concerted effort to not only hide my dislike of blood from my kids – butContinue reading “Human Body – All About Blood”
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The Wildlife Around Us
This is the winning theme from Facebook last week – so make sure you’ve turned on notifications to enter the next one! Nature seems to be healing itself and slowly creeping back to where it used to belong – with cougars in Santiago and goats moving down off the hills and wandering through people’s gardensContinue reading “The Wildlife Around Us”
Spring STEM Activities
I absolutely love Spring! I love the promise of longer days and the prospect of potentially nicer weather 🙂 The weather has been glorious – and is forecast to continue – so most of these activities could be done outside. There is a plethora of evidence showing the massive health (both mental & physical) benefitsContinue reading “Spring STEM Activities”
Senses
This is always such a fun topic to do with kids (and adults) and it’s very hands-on but with little prep. There’s also loads of activities in here that I bet your kids will want to do over and over! Happy learning! Senses Facts Infants blink only once or twice a minute, whereas adults blinkContinue reading “Senses”
Space
Hello and welcome to week 2! How did you get on with Week 1? This week is all about SPACE – it’s something that all children (and adults!) seem fascinated with and so I’ve tried to come up with a range of activities that will cater to most age ranges – although if you’re notContinue reading “Space”
STEM BINGO
Here is a fun wee STEM challenge for you to help inspire you and your kids through the next few months. Most of them should be self explanatory, but if you’ve got any questions at all please let me know!
Germs
Hi everyone! HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! Hope you’ve got a willing assistant who can do all these experiments whilst you sit with your feet up 😉 Welcome to weeSTEMs ONLINE. And welcome to the first themed week – all about germs. I thought since there’s so much chat in the world about Covid-19 I would doContinue reading “Germs”
Luxury super-soft playdough recipe to make at home
I’ve made a few variations of this recipe throughout the year – orange for Halloween, white for Christmas – and now black with glitter and stars for our Constellations theme last week. And it’s AMAAAAAZING! It’s so easy to make – so here you go – here’s all you need to get started: 1 cupContinue reading “Luxury super-soft playdough recipe to make at home”
Constellations🌌
What a crazy winter we’re having – after 4 weeks of storms and weather warnings we finally made it out and boy were we all delighted to be reunited and back outside!! Old and new faces came along on Saturday March 7th to play and learn all about constellations and the Scottish sky at night.Continue reading “Constellations🌌”
Rabbie Burns @ weePLAY
Balloch Park was lovely as always for us to celebrate all things Scottish & Rabbie Burns. We spent the morning designing tartan, creating haggis, and making playdoh shortbread. Everyone was delighted to be reunited with their friends after the long Xmas break – and we welcomed 4 new wee faces to our weePLAY session. TheContinue reading “Rabbie Burns @ weePLAY”
WD OWL Launch Event – January 2020
We had a brilliant day working with early years practitioners and local primary and secondary schools to launch the local area Outdoor & Woodland Learning group.
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