Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
This Meccano Lamborghini Huracan Spyder set comes with 259 durable metal parts, including rubber tires, stickers, pose-able steering, 2 ergonomic tools and easy-to-follow instructions. It is suitable for aged 10 and above. Mr C was so happy when he saw this set. This is one of his many dream cars he would like to own. I think he might just realise his dream if he sticks with models rather than a real one!
Letterbox Lab is a monthly subscription that arrives through your letterbox containing everything your child needs to start playing with science. It is a great way to encourage and enrich your child with this easy to use kit, and help your child to explore the world and make science fun.
Wild! Science have a range of educational and fun collectable science kits that is suitable for children. They are a great kit to get children to learn and explore important scientific concepts and skills. If you have not heard or used a Wild! Science Kit before, why not check out this Perfume Factory.
Perfume Factory is suitable for children aged eight and above. It comes with everything you need to blend your own secret formula scents.
The Electric Stunt Buggy from Interplay is an easy to build model car for children aged eight and above. This buggy is from the Technokit range which helps your child to practise and learn about electrical and mechanical principles.
Hexbug have a VEX Robotics range which is a brilliant set of STEM products that allows children to build cool robotics. Each kit comes with two alternate builds and each is fully functioning.
Today, I am showing you this sophisticated Hexcalator Ball Machine which was inspired by cutting edge medical devices and uses a hand crank to power 3 hexagonal indexing wheels to transport balls uphill where they are released onto the return ramp.
Want to get a shiny penny? It is very easy! Recently, we have been focusing on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), learning through educational focused activities at home.
This is a very simple science project that you could do with your toddler or young children at home. There are so many ways of shining your pennies using lemon juice, vinegar, a fizzy cola drink and all sorts.
A few weeks ago, we had fun learning through educational STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) focused activities at home. One of the science activities was to learn about tornadoes and we have been provided with this Tornado Maker kit which is suitable for ages 5 and above.
This week, we been having fun learning through educational STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) focused activities at home. This powered clock is a science activity that is suitable for aged 5 and above. I do find it difficult to explain to my children but they did get the gist of it!
To make life easier, rather than looking around for all the bits to build, we had this Lemon Clock kit provided by Great Gizmos for our Twitter party. If you want to get this kit, you can get it online such as from Amazon. If you prefer to make your own, you would need black and red wires, copper and zinc plates, LCD clock and tape.
This kit is simple to build but it is best to allow older children or an adult to build it as the bits are quite fragile.
Did you join us yesterday for Blaze and the Monster Machines Twitter party? We all had a lovely time with UKMumstv and Nick Jr on Twitter #NickJrBlaze. It was very manic as usual and I tweeted about my children’s creations!
Yesterday was the Blaze and the Monster Machines première and it was our first time watching it! My son totally loves it! It is definitely an animated cartoon he will watch again and again! It is about AJ, an 8 year old techie who drives monster-truck Blaze, the top racer in Axle City. Blaze is Axle City’s greatest hero and it’s number one racer! Blaze knows everything about science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Each episode introduces different STEM concepts, including buoyancy and trajectory which are the activities that we did together during the party.
After both children completed their maze, we made these two awesome Blaze Monster cars out of chocolate, Jelly Babies and Smarties! Don’t they look cool!
This is my third collaboration with Science4you. Last month we mixed up chemicals to make a balloon without blowing and the month before that, we had fun building a plane! This month we are mixing up slippery slugs! It is called Slimy factory!
Recently, we reviewed the Creative Cube & Pyramid set by Science4you. Do take a look if you didn’t see it first time around. We are lucky to represent Science4you and in the next two months, I will blog about two of their fantastic Science kits.
Meccano was invented in 1901 in England by Frank Hornby and was originally marketed under the brand name “Mechanics Made Easy”. The name Meccano was later patented in 1907 and became a popular toy for many households for over 100 years. Personally I have never owned a Meccano set before and so I was happy that Meccano UK chose me to review their Meccano Construction set. It is perfect for my son Mr K who is 5 years old as the set is suitable for age 5 and upwards.
