| There are many really fun science experiments that | | | | your children how to read the time and create a sun |
| you can do with little kids. Getting your children started | | | | dial out of cardboard. Showing them how time relates |
| on experiments early can really help pique their interest | | | | to shadows, as well as night and day can be mind |
| in science as a subject, and as something to do in their | | | | blowing for a little kid, and this is what makes this one |
| spare time. Young children usually absorb a lot of | | | | of the really fun science experiments. Not only will your |
| information faster than older ones, and so taking | | | | child learn about science and telling the time, but they |
| advantage of this sponge like quality of children will | | | | can also begin learning about the solar system and |
| really pay off in the future! | | | | how the world moves around the sun. |
| The first of the really fun science experiments you can | | | | For something more classic, but seemingly complicated |
| do with young children is to show them how their | | | | to a young child, make an egg fit into a jar. The first |
| senses work. Creating a model eardrum, making your | | | | step is to hard boil an egg and then peel it. Take a jar |
| own air freshener, or demonstrating the sensitivity of | | | | in which the opening does not allow the egg to fit |
| touch are just a few ideas on how young children can | | | | through. Pour some hot water into the jar and swish it |
| understand how important the five senses are. You | | | | around in a circular motion. Pour the hot water out, and |
| can also have them close their eyes while they smell | | | | place the hardboiled egg at the opening. Your child will |
| or eat something, and show them how closing off one | | | | watch with amazement as the egg that once did not |
| sense can make a difference in smell and taste. | | | | fit, now slides easily into the jar! Explain to your child |
| One of the really fun science experiments you can do | | | | that heat is a very powerful thing that can affect how |
| with the senses is to demonstrate to your child how | | | | objects move. There are other really fun science |
| sound travels differently through air and through water. | | | | experiments you can do with heat, but wait till your |
| If your child is a good swimmer, they will realize that | | | | child is much older. |
| when they are under water, sounds that seem to be | | | | At the end of the day, remember to have fun. Don't |
| coming from right on top of them, can really be coming | | | | pressure your child too much when it comes to |
| from a certain distance away. You can help explain | | | | science. While we all wish we could raise the next |
| this by showing them how water in a glass can make | | | | Einstein, chances our that our children will be gifted in |
| a pencil look bigger, or bend at the area where it | | | | ways we never expected and nurturing the best we |
| enters the water. | | | | can is all we can do. |
| During the summer months or on a sunny day, teach | | | | |