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Sometimes we are just inspired… and my kids have been dying to make rockets. I on the other had have no desire to spread diet soda and menthos everywhere!!! So they did a quick search and they came across rockets that needed bicycle pumps attached to bottles or hose pipes attached to things a holes [...]

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After our weather station post a little while back and we have been looking at the different components of weather and rain has been top of the pops around here… Rain, rain, rain!!! I can’t think why – maybe because we just can’t get enough of it!!! So here are se7en fun things to do [...]

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We are learning about the weather for school right now. And since we have been having some great weather for learning about weather, every day is a different season we thought it was a good time to plot and plan exactly what was happening in the lead up to Spring. So we built a couple [...]

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Today is the day to pop over to our friends at the Magnifying Glass… One of our favorite blogs packed with natural factual things from all over the world… Seriously head straight over there and see… an interview with the gang from Se7en + 1…

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My mom always had a row of pretty little African Violets and avocado pips growing on her windowsill and somehow I am sure that kitchen windowsills are meant for collections of little plants!!! When we built onto our house I wanted really wide windowsills for making a windowsill garden… needless to say the builders were [...]

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It’s been a while since we blogged some scientific fun… so I thought I would show you what happens when we get a red cabbage in our vegi-box. Firstly I am the only member of my family that considers red cabbage to be a food – sad I know, but moving on… We got down to [...]

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I have been promising my kids we would visit the MTN Science Center for the longest time!!! I even said we would go during the school holidays, turned out our week off school was during National Science Week!!! Eugh… I thought it would be packed with people… and when we arrived the queues outside were [...]

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