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    Summer STEM play – Tin Foil Cargo Boats! 🚤 Yo Summer STEM play - Tin Foil Cargo Boats! 🚤 

You will need:
- tin foil 
- a bowl of water
- cargo (e.g. coins)

Create your boat by folding tin foil at the edges into a boat shape. Test it on the water to see if it floats. Then begin to add your cargo. How much cargo can your boat hold? Can you adapt your boat design so it can hold more?

For more STEM activities check out the 15-Minute STEM books! Link in bio 🔗 

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    Summer STEM play – Natural Colours! 🎨 You wil Summer STEM play - Natural Colours! 🎨 

You will need:
- a colour chart
- a camera

Try this activity in your garden or when you’re out for a walk. Hand your child a colour chart and challenge them to find natural materials that match the different colours. You could take a photo of each colour match you find. Which colours are the most common in the natural environment? Which colours are harder to find?

For more STEM activities check out the 15-Minute STEM books! Link in bio 🔗 

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    Summer STEM play – Number Hunt! 1️⃣2️⃣3️ Summer STEM play - Number Hunt! 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣

You will need:
- a number checklist
- a pencil or pen

This is one of my favourite activities to do when out and about with children. Challenge them to find the numbers 1 - 20 in different contexts in the outdoor environment. Older children could look for the numbers 1 - 50 or even numbers etc.

For more STEM activities check out the 15-Minute STEM books! Link in bio 🔗 

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    Summer STEM play – Flag Symmetry! 🇦🇲🏴󠁧 Summer STEM play - Flag Symmetry! 🇦🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You will need:
- examples of real life flags
- a piece of paper/card in a flag shape
- a ruler
- colouring pencils or pens

Take a look at examples of flags (e.g. in the back of an atlas or ones you’ve spotted in real life). Which ones have lines of symmetry? Is the symmetry vertical, horizontal or diagonal? Now create your own flag, making sure it is symmetrical.

For more STEM activities check out the 15-Minute STEM books! Link in bio 🔗 

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    Summer STEM play – Water Capacity Challenge! 💦 Summer STEM play - Water Capacity Challenge! 💦 

You will need:
- containers of different sizes
- a measuring jug
- a large bowl of water

Challenge your child to estimate and find the capacity of different containers by filling them with water. Encourage the use of mathematical and scientific language such as ‘more and less’, ‘millilitres and litres’ and ‘capacity’. Which container holds the most water?

For more STEM activities check out the 15-Minute STEM books! Link in bio 🔗 

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    Summer STEM play – Wiggly Worms! 🪱 You will n Summer STEM play - Wiggly Worms! 🪱 

You will need:
- a whiteboard pen
- a China plate
- a jug of warm water

Draw your wiggly worms with a whiteboard pen onto a China plate. Gently pour a layer of warm water onto the plate. Give it a shake and watch your worms wiggling around! Can you find any real life worms outside in the garden or park?

For more STEM activities check out the 15-Minute STEM books! Link in bio 🔗 

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    Summer STEM play – Indoor Rainbow! 💡 You will Summer STEM play - Indoor Rainbow! 💡 

You will need:
- a hollow circle shape (eg tape roll)
- clear sticky tape 
- coloured pens
- a light source 

Cover the hollow part of the circle shape with clear sticky tape. Then decorate the non-sticky side with a rainbow pattern. Finally, place on top of a light source, turn off the lights and admire your rainbow! 

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    Summer STEM play – Oobleck Slime! 🧪 You will n Summer STEM play - Oobleck Slime! 🧪

You will need:
- cornflour
- water
- food colouring
- a bowl

Mix half a cup of cornflour with a quarter of a cup of water. Add in some drops of food colouring, stir and play! What do you notice about the properties of the slime?

Oobleck slime gets its name from a Dr Seuss book! It has both the properties of a solid and a liquid and is lots of fun to play with.

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    Summer STEM play – Sweetie Symmetry! 🌈 You wi Summer STEM play - Sweetie Symmetry! 🌈 

You will need:
- coloured sweets/chocolates
- a plate
- warm water in a jug

Arrange the coloured sweets/chocolates in a pattern around the edge of your plate. Then gently pour the warm water into the middle of the plate. What happens to the colour on the sweets?

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    Summer STEM play – Water Xylophones! 🎶 You wi Summer STEM play - Water Xylophones! 🎶 

You will need:
- empty jars
- water in a jug
- a stick

Fill each jar with a different amount of water and then tap them gently with a stick. Can you play a tune?

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    Coming soon – Summer STEM play! Throughout August Coming soon - Summer STEM play!

Throughout August I’ll be adding lots of quick, easy STEM activity reels. You’ll find plenty of ideas to inspire your children’s play this summer. ☀️ 

Give us a follow and share to your parent friends! 

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    Welcome to the HowToSTEM Instagram! You will find: Welcome to the HowToSTEM Instagram! You will find:

🧪 Quick, easy activities for kids
⚙️ Science, Tech, Engineering and Maths
🐝 STEM play inspiration for parents 

I’m Emily Hunt, author of the ‘15 Minute STEM’ book series. As a mum of 3 and experienced primary school teacher, I understand the challenge of offering play opportunities that are fun and have an educational twist. 

Use the ideas on this account to inspire your STEM play!

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    Rainbow Fairy Potions! This activity is simple to Rainbow Fairy Potions!

This activity is simple to set up and provides lots of opportunities for exploration and fun.

You will need:
✔️tubs of water in each of the primary colours
✔️Empty tubs 
✔️Scoopers
✔️A colour stimulus (eg fairies or coloured dots)
✔️rainbow decorations/petals (optional)

The learning
This activity explores how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours. Encourage your child to find natural objects to decorate their potions with (eg petals) and use it as an opportunity to find out the name and some facts about each plant.

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    Looking for the perfect stocking filler? 🎄 Eac Looking for the perfect stocking filler? 🎄

Each 15-Minute STEM book contains 40 quick, easy to resource #STEM activities. Ideal for sparking children’s curiosity!

Tag someone who would like 15-Minute STEM for Christmas 🎁 

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    Halloween STEM: Scared Pepper! This Scared Pepper Halloween STEM: Scared Pepper!

This Scared Pepper experiment can be used with children as an example of the effectiveness of using soap to protect us from bacteria. We can also use it to explore surface tension: This means that the molecules cling together tightly, creating a kind of ‘skin’ on the surface of the water. The pepper floats on the surface. When we add washing-up liquid it breaks the surface tension and disrupts the pepper, causing it to ‘flee’ to the edges of the bowl.

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    Spiderweb Engineering! 🕷 🕸 Explore how eas Spiderweb Engineering! 🕷 🕸 

Explore how easy it is to make a good spiderweb in this Autumnal #stem activity, taken from #15minutestem book 2.

How much ‘prey’ can you catch in your web? How could you improve your web to hold more prey?

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    HALLOWEEN STEM: Floating Ghosts! YOU WILL NEED: a HALLOWEEN STEM: Floating Ghosts!

YOU WILL NEED: a China plate, a whiteboard marker and a jug of water.
STEP 1: draw your ghosts onto the plate using the whiteboard marker.
STEP 2: gently pour water over the plate and watch your ghosts float around!

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING: whiteboard pens have minimal adhesiveness (stickiness) so we can wipe them off surfaces when we’re finished with them. The ink inside them can’t be dissolved with water and it is less dense than water. This means that when we add water to the plate our ink ghosts slowly float to the top. 👻🎃

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    Colour Mixing! This colour mixing water activity Colour Mixing!

This colour mixing water activity is always a huge hit with children. Start with the three primary colours. Then challenge your child to create each of the secondary colours.

Extend by seeing if they can create different shades of each colour.
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    We love this Apple Electricity experiment from the We love this Apple Electricity experiment from the @galttoys Science labs kit. It’s great for the Autumn time when the apples are ready to harvest. Explore how to generate electricity from an apple and the chemical reaction behind this.
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    Number Hunt! A fun #stemactivity for anyone after Number Hunt!

A fun #stemactivity for anyone after some inspiration with the kids in the midst of the summer holidays! It involves minimum resources and is really easy to adapt depending on the needs of your child. Here’s an easy, medium and hard version:

EASY: take a photo of the numbers 1-20 in different contexts (E.g. only one photo of a door number, only one photo of a number plate).

MEDIUM: choose a multiplication table and then see if you can photograph each number within it on a different context.

HARD: go on a number hunt to look for square, cubed or prime numbers.

Use it to discuss all the different ways that numbers are used to categorise and order. Where would we be without them?!

I’ve had lots of fun photographing numbers for this reel. Be warned - once you start looking for numbers it’s hard to stop! 📸 

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