I really love this magic milk science experiment for kids. It only requires easy to source ingredients, it works every time and it’s always fun! We have put a simple Valentine’s Day spin on it today to make it extra fun and topical!
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This is what you will need:
A shallow bowl or dish
Full cream milk
Cookie cutters (optional)
Food coloring
Dish washing liquid
Q-tips
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This is what you will need to do:
1. Carefully pour a thin layer of milk into your dish. Place the cookie cutters into the milk.
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2. Gently drop colored food dye into the milk. You can use any colors that you like. We added red, pink and purple to fit in with our Valentine’s Day theme. Remember to drop the food dye inside the cookie cutters too.
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3. Next, take a Q-tip and dip it into the dishwashing liquid. You won’t need a big scoop, just dip the Q-tip in the dishwashing liquid, leave it for a second or two and then remove. Once you’ve removed the Q-tip from the dishwashing liquid, place it into the milk. Watch the milk dance!
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Why does the milk dance, what is the Science behind it:
Milk is not just white water. It is full of MOLECULES called proteins, minerals and fats.
When you add the detergent to the milk, the detergent chases the fats in the milk.
Because we added the food colour we can see this game of chase in the dish.
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Thank you for reading! Here is a fun and FREE Valentine’s Day number match game for you! I hope that you enjoy!
I really love Valentine’s Day activities! They’re super easy to put together, often require inexpensive materials and always look lovely when finished! I have published many Valentine’s Day crafts over the years, if you scan through my Instagram you will definitely find some cute and colorful inspiration.
In this blog article, I outline my top 5 most easy Valentine’s Day crafts for kids. You will find all the FREE worksheets required below!
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1. Color Match Hearts
I first published this activity on my Instagram about 5 years ago! I think that it might have been my first post that received a significant number of likes! To put this activity together, simply draw some hearts using different colored markers onto a piece of paper and then ask your child or students to color the hearts with a corresponding colored marker, pencil or crayon. We actually like to paint our hearts with water color paints. You can draw your own hearts or download the FREE workbook below for the worksheet that I have presented here.
The worksheet will look like this when printed.
Simply, color the hearts with crayons, pencils, marker pens or even paints! It’s fun!
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2. Geometric Hearts
I first posted this activity on my Instagram in September last year. For the posted activity, I cut a heart shape from a piece of recycled cardboard. We then added strips of washi tape and painted in between with colorful poster paint.
For this activity, just print the second page of my FREE workbook that you will find below. The worksheet will look like this when printed.
Then take a black marker pen and a ruler, and rule lines between the numbers. Start by ruling a line between the numbers 1 and 2, then 2 and 3, and so on.
Once you have ruled all your lines, grab some colored marker pens and color between the lines. You can make your heart as colorful as you like.
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3. Heart Puzzles
Heart shapes can be cut in half to make great puzzles! In this activity, I have made a simple color match puzzle. Simply print out the worksheet, it will look like this.
When you have your worksheet, carefully cut the hearts out with scissors.
Next, cut along the center line to make two puzzle pieces. Then match the pieces back together to make a full heart shape.
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4. Loose Parts Heart
These loose part hearts are great for developing creativity and fine motor control. Simply print out the 4th page of the FREE workbook and collect all your loose parts. We used pom poms, stickers, small springs, colored match sticks and stickers – but you can use what ever loose parts you have on hand at home. Then simply match these parts to the lines.
The printed heart worksheet looks like this.
Next, match your loose parts to the lines on the heart.
Another fun way to develop fine motor skills is to paint along the lines. Q-tips make perfect little paint brushes to trace the lines.
5. Stacks of Hearts
You would know by now that I really love working on and developing scissor skills with my kids. In this activity, kids can practice cutting around the heart shapes and then order them from smallest to largest in size to make this fun “stacked” rainbow heart. Learning about object size and working out how to put them in order is a great early numeracy skill too!
The printed worksheet looks like this.
Start by carefully cutting the hearts from the worksheet.
!Remember that scissors are sharp. Adults should ALWAYS closely supervise children when the are using scissors!
Then stack the hearts, starting with the largest size heart and finishing with the smallest. You may like to glue the hearts together.
As an optional extension, you might like to glue your stack of hearts onto a card and gift your lovely artwork to a friend or family member.
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Here is the FREE workbook with all the worksheets you will need to complete these activities!
We have been fascinated with watching, recording and predicting the weather lately. Here in Melbourne, Australia, the weather can be a little erratic. It’s summer at the moment which for us means that it might be a hot 40 degree (Celsius) day, or 14 degrees with wind and rain. And even though the weather is so unpredictable, I do love where we live. How is the weather where you live? Is it more predictable than Melbourne?
Scroll down to see some of our favorite weather activities and to download a free weather chart and some other FREE fun worksheets.
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The first activity I want to share is this fun fine motor lacing board. It is made from a piece of recycled cardboard, so its super inexpensive to make. And once you have made the board, you will be able to use it over and over again.
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What you will need:
A piece of recycled cardboard
Blue paint
Paint brush
White paper
Scissors
Glue stick
Bamboo skewer
White yarn
Plastic needle
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What you will need to do:
1. Cut your piece of cardboard to size. You can cut your piece of card any size that you like. The board that I made is approximately 30 x 30 cm. Next, I painted the board blue using acrylic paint and allowed the paint to dry completely. Once the paint was dry I pasted down a cloud shape onto the cardboard using a glue stick. I then used a bamboo skewer to make holes in the cardboard.
WARNING! bamboo skewers are sharp. It is a good idea for adults to make the holes in the card using the skewer.
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2. Thread some yarn onto a plastic needle and stich some rain falling. You might like to stitch straight lines, or increase the hand eye coordination required and sew some zig zag lines. It is totally up to you how you play.
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The second activity that I want to share with you is this super easy to make weather chart. To make one like ours, I simply painted a piece of recycled cardboard with acrylic paint and then pasted weather icons onto the cardboard. We then used a peg to mark the day that we recorded the weather.
This is what you will need:
A piece of recycled cardboard
Washi tape
Scissors
A printed copy of my free weather printables
Glue stick
Pegs
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This is what you will need to do:
1. Cut a piece of recycled cardboard to size. There is no set size that your card should be. For reference, our piece of cardboard is approximately 30cm long and 20cm wide.
2. I then painted the cardboard with blue acrylic paint and allowed the paint to dry completely.
3. When the paint was dry, I divided the cardboard into six sections using washi tape.
4. Then I simply printed out weather icons and pasted them onto the cardboard. You will find the FREE printables below.
5. Finally, I labelled some small pegs with the words today, yesterday and tomorrow. I printed these labels, but you could very easily write the words on the pegs.
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You will find your FREE weather chart printable here:
