Free Autumn Treasure Hunt

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Autumn is a great time of year to get outdoors. Crisp colourful leaves, shiny conkers and falling pine cones make forests and woodlands the perfect way to recharge after a busy day!

Autumn Scavenger Hunt

This FREE autumn treasure hunt is a fun and simple way to keep kids busy while you walk!

free autumn treasure hunt featuring pine cones, acorns, helicopter seeds, colourful leaves, conkers and fungi

Take a pencil and tick items off as you find them.

More autumn treasure hunt ideas

Collect as many different shaped leaves as you can and identify them with a book or tree identification app.

image of different shaped leaves for a fun outdoor autumn treasure hunt

Make a face, object or something else recognisable from a selection of leaves, sticks and seeds.

Great tree and plant identification apps

These free tree and plant identification apps have kept my kids entertained on lots of walks recently and we’ve all learned a lot about different trees!

Tree ID app

The Wildlife Trust has a free tree id app that’s easy

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How To Make Material Finishes Ground Plans In Revit

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Let’s reap the benefits of the knowledge a Revit mannequin can hold and show. On this entry we’ll explore one possibility for documenting material finishes in a floorplan by tagging and scheduling wall and floor materials.

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Pumpkin Lava Lamps – Halloween Science for Kids

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These pumpkin lava lamps for Halloween are a fun party activity or decoration and an unusual alternative to a traditional pumpkin. They are super easy to make and entertaining to watch, especially in the dark.

Other ideas are to try different colours, add glitter, or get creative and decorate the jar to look like a witch or ghost.

make a lava lamp like a pumpkin - image of pumpkin and homemade lava lamp made with a small jar, orange water and vegetable oil

How to make a pumpkin lava lamp

You will need

  • A clear plastic bottle or jar
  • A bottle of vegetable oil
  • Orange food colouring
  • Glitter
  • Water
  • Alka Seltzer
  • Black pen and pipe cleaners for decoration
homemade lava lamp in the dark decorated like a pumpkin

Lava Lamp Instructions

Fill the bottle or jar  a quarter full with water, add some orange food colouring and mix well.

Top up to the (near) top with the vegetable oil.

The oil and water will separate into two layers. Water at the bottom and oil on the top.

Decorate as you wish, we used a black

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Easy No Borax Slime Recipe for Halloween

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This spooky slime recipe is perfect for Halloween! Stretch it, squish it, pull it or just pick the bugs out of it!

There are lots of different recipes on the internet for slime, but this is the one that has worked the best for us.

Halloween slime made with no borax

What you need to make no borax slime

¾ cup of PVA glue

¼ cup of water

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Food colouring

1 tablespoon saline solution

Glitter and other decorations – optional

All you need to do is mix the ingredients together, adding the saline last. The mixture will start to stick together as soon as you stir in the saline solution ( slime activator ). It’s great fun to watch and do!

Spooky Slime made with no borax
Spooky Slime for Halloween

Slime Challenges

Can you mix slime colours to make a new colour? Our yellow and blue slime made green slime!

How

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What happens to bones if you don’t have enough calcium?

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Calcium is a mineral needed for strong bones and teeth. Calcium also plays a role in blood clotting, the normal functioning of the heart and is used by nerves and muscles to help us move.

This activity using eggs is a very visual way to demonstrate what happens if you don’t have enough calcium in your diet.

Which foods are good sources of calcium?

Cheese, milk, fortified plant milks, yoghurt, green leafy vegetables and tinned sardines are all good sources of calcium.

sources of food that are rich in calcium

What happens if you don’t eat enough calcium

99% of the body’s calcium is found in the bones. If people don’t have enough calcium in their diet the body starts to take calcium from the bones.

Low levels of calcium can lead to brittle bones and a disease called osteoporosis.

We obviously can’t experiment with out own bones, but eggs shells are a good substitute! Egg shells are

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