Imaginative Teaching Resources & Inspirational Career Ideas from the Chilled Food Industry
We’ve selected some of our favourite store cupboard science ideas to keep your children entertained through the holidays. From exploding cola to exploring the DNA of summer strawberries these ideas keep the learning fun – for all the family.
Using everyday resources and easy to follow instructions a slice of fun with a helping of learning is guaranteed! Click on the links for all the details.
Week 1 – Can you grow a microbe zoo from your hands?
This one is all about handwashing – see how the mould on the bread grows over the next weeks.
Store cupboard science – festering bread, sugar and exploding bags!
Week 2 – Making flowers change colour.
From white to pink or blue or purple – you decide how to transform your bloom.
Store cupboard science – another helping!
Week 3 – Discover the DNA of a summer strawberry.
Extract DNA from your strawberries and look at the science behind whipping cream to go with them.
Store cupboard science – another helping!
Store cupboard science – festering bread, sugar and exploding bags!
Week 4 – Get creative with ‘puffy paint’
Take flour and water and food colouring to make amazing 3D paint!
Store cupboard science for the summer.
Week 5 – Can you use science to make your own ice cream?
And can you pick up any left over ice cubes without using your hands?
Store cupboard science – the sweet treat edition!
Store cupboard science for the festive season – pick up an ice cube without getting chilly fingers!
Week 6 – We love lemon juice! Secret writing, exploding potions and more….
Lemon juice is your secret store cupboard summer science ingredient!
Store cupboard science – egg whites getting fluffy, apples going brown and invisible ink!
More store cupboard science ideas – fizzy fun, invisible cola & bendy bones
Week 7 Fizzy summer fun
Cola’s not just for drinking – find out how to explode it and make it invisible.
More store cupboard science ideas – fizzy fun, invisible cola.
Store cupboard science – milk, eggs and a minty geyser!
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