Pierce, but NOT pop the balloon - Science Magic!

Balloons have become inherent part of any party - for decoration and for kids play. What happens when a sharp object pricks a balloon? Oh, everybody knows that..the balloon goes POP! Well, you might not say that after seeing this video.

Friday Family Fun - Spaghetti Strength Balancing

How strong is spaghetti? How much strain it can tolerate before bending and before breaking? Can a bunch of spaghetti hold a book or two? Or even more? How do engineers build a bridge? How do they build a multilevel parking lot? What factors do they consider before building? WOW! How many questions arise? And how many more in kids' minds. Won't it be fun to feed those questions? Won't it be fun trying to understand?

Chemistry of inflating a balloon - Science Experiment

Blowing the balloon requires strength of the lungs. If I say that's not required, that too for smaller kids, what would you say? Without a huff and without a puff, we can blow the balloon, Aahah! Read ahead to find out all about it and the fun involved!

Pushpin Pointillism Canvas Art- Jesus

Pointillism is a painting technique where a painting is made by a series of dots. The dots blend together to form a full image. This method was first introduced by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in 1886. Though this technique was ridiculed then, it became popular later.

Friday Family Fun - Finger Paint Figures

Finger painting is fun for all ages. Just dip your finger in paint and move it around - structured or unstructured! When done with family its even more enjoyable. Kids love to see the parents get messy with their hands, believe me! It gives them a happiness thinking that their parents are like them after all! :-) So here is a beautiful art which we did as family by finger painting.

Dancing Raisins - Science Experiment

Simple but beautiful experiment to observe and learn about volume and density. And its also calming to look at the dancing raisins!

Recycled bottle Spaghetti turkey - Thanksgiving craft

Runaway Turkey - Thanksgiving craft

Its that time of the year again, people call it Thanksgiving and gobble us up!!! Run! Run! Gobble Wobble! Its the turkey escape! Roll like a ball, loose a feather or few, but run far your life!

Friday Family Fun - Sponge Painting

Friday is fun - no homework for the next day and for the older kids, no test to worry about! And perfect day for family fun too. So here we go, I have decided to start a series of posts,  Friday Family Fun.

Periodic Table Birthday Cake

My son loves Science!
Chemistry! Oh, Yes!
He has a good chemistry
With Chemistry!
Periodically he proclaims that love
Which seems to be elemental!

Tiny seed, Neglected?

Image: Thanks Google

One sunny day by the pool
I sat relaxing with a book;
My boy swimming in the water
And I swimming in the words!

My eyes taking off from the book
Now and then to watch the kids;
WOW! One flight of my eyes landed
On a tiny sparrow, near the bush!