Dear parents, is it time to teach about stability or shapes? Gather your toothpicks, marshmallows and start building. If you don’t have any marshmallows in your cabinet, dig up your stash to find plasticine instead.

Turns out, children can learn simple things from building with these two items. Teach them about stability and challenge them to do the highest building (Let’s see if they can apply the factors of stability which are the base and height).

After your children have completed the challenge, let them explore building other things with those two items, you will be very surprised with their creativity to build something out of the box and unthinkable. Make sure to throw all the used toothpicks! If you choose Science subscription kits, you may not have to

Clouds are beautiful, aren’t they? Children can make their own indoor cloud with easy to find materials around your house. All you need are: 

• Glass Jar with Lid
• Ice Cubes 
• Warm Water
• Aerosol Spray

First of all, pour the warm water inside the glass jar, stir it and put a few ice cubes on the lid and put it on the glass jar. Leave it for a few minutes. When you can see fog, take the lid off and spray the aerosol spray in the glass jar. And then, replace the ice cubes on the lid and put it back on the glass jar. Remove the lid for a while and voila! Clouds are forming under your roof. You have to make sure that this experiment is done in front of a dark background or else the clouds are not obvious to be seen.

Are you up for an exciting STEM challenge for your homeschool little scientists? This might be the perfect STEM activity for you!

If you don’t have pool noodles, use tissue rolls or newspapers. You just need tape and your children are ready to go. When you tape the tissue rolls on the wall, make sure you tape the downside of them to make sure they are attached to the wall properly.

You might need to help your children in cutting the tape with scissors. The best part of this STEM activity is, of course, trying the roller coaster. Use your children’s toy car or marble, anything that will roll is allowed. This is where the children will develop their problem-solving skills because they need to alter the positions of the track on the wall, whether they need to move it up, down, forward or backward to ensure the roller coaster track can be used!

You can practice counting and measuring too! Just ask your children to count how many tissue rolls you are using and ask them to measure the track they made. 

Is it time to teach your little scientists about Heat and Changes? Let’s go to the past with this DIY solar cooker. It is very easy to demonstrate changes of some food with your stove, but there is no fun in that!

Why not we create a DIY solar cooker and prepare our lunch for tomorrow? It is very important to start this project one day before because you will need the sunshine to help you cook the eggs or melt the butter. All you need are:

• Box
• Aluminium Foil 
• Transparent Plastic 
• Some Food 

Wrap inside of the box with aluminium foil and cover the box with the transparent plastic after you put nay food in the box. To demonstrate the changes of the food because of heat, use butter, chocolates and ice cubes first.

Put it in a bowl and put it inside the DIY solar cooker. Wait for a few minutes and observe the changes. You can prepare a table for the children to record their observation and how many minutes or seconds taken for the food to melt.

When they are done with these 3 foods, now put an egg inside it. Ask your children to predict what will happen to the egg and pstttt… Remind your children took it in a clean bowl because that will be your lunch! 

Are you in the mood of doing a spring cleaning during the weekend? I highly suggest you to do this STEM activity during the weekdays for you homeschool session with the little ones.

Teaching about air pressure? It’s high time for you to train your children to be an engineer with this mini vacuum cleaner set. It is very easy to assemble and when you purchase this, you will get another 8 awesome STEM activities included with lesson plans, too!

This is not included in any Science subscription sets but this is one of the best STEM Camps that ALFA and Friends have. You can conduct 1 set of STEM activity each day including the weekends. No more headache to find more STEM activities to do at home. 

Lungs and skeleton are the crucial topics that parents need to teach the children, even for homeschool children. Why? Because the lungs and skeleton are important aspects of the human body.

With hands-on experiments, children will understand more about how lungs work and how our skeleton looks like. Breathing in and out activity is fine, but you are not able to visualize the contraction and relaxing of the lungs.

Let’s learn about tornadoes! Do you have any ways to learn about tornadoes without hurting yourselves and your children? We do!

With only two bottles and a tornado tube, you can show your children how tornadoes are formed. If you want more excitement, pour a few drops of food colouring and glitters. This will be the most beautiful tornado that you and your children have ever seen.

Can your children calculate how many seconds are needed for the bottles to empty the water inside? Get a stopwatch and start counting. If you have extra time, open up the comic magazine included in the Spark Kit box and do the activities included in it! 

Rainbow! Do you know how easy we can STEMized rainbow activities? Yes! You can do some of these activities if you are up for rainbow STEM challenge. 

• Colour Mixing 

• Rainbow Bag Kit 

• Snake Bubbles 

• Salt Painting 

• Walking Water 

• Rainbow Slime 

It’s time to learn about time. But before that let’s make a clock with lemon as the battery. With the power of electrolysis, there will be no need for you to get alkaline batteries.

Are you interested to do this activity, but you cannot find any of the materials needed in your DIY stash? We have a solution for you! With this battery kit in the STEM subscription kit, you can even ask your children to explore with potato, apple, limes and watermelon.

Draw a table and record their observation. When it’s time for you to teach about time, your children will be very excited because of this experiment! Who knows, this might drive their interest to learn more about time.

When you are teaching about vibration, this sound hose will be the most perfect hands-on experiment for you to do with your children. Teach them first about vibration and let them explore with this sound hose.

Dear parents, here’s a little tip for you, speed is the key! If you want to, let your children spend sometimes reading the comic magazine to figure out what they can do with the sound hose. There are tons of activities and games they can do in the comic magazine, too!

You do not have to print more exercises because you have it all in a box. You can get tons of these boxes with different activities in our, not science subscription kit, but STEM subscription kit.

If you need a programme for your children homeschool lessons especially for Science, Mathematics or STEM, ALFA and Friends have it all! Just contact us to know more about all the wonders that we have to offer to you.