The Quirkles & Fuddlebrook Science and Literacy Series

There’s a lot to be learned from bubbles! While this activity is not in any of our books, it’s a great one. Also use your bubble mixture to try Lindy Light’s Color Spectrum or Ellie Electricity’s Static Balloon Investigation. Both of these activities are found in the More Quirkles Experiment book. Try our Rainbow Snake Bubbles experiment today: https://www.quirkles.com/science-experiments-for-kids.cfm?experiment=B3D9D47D-32F6-4458-807F6846D3B7F814

Winter adaptation is amazing! Where we live seasons can be crazy 🥶! We can bundle up or stay inside. We also bring in our pets. But what about other animals? Animals have many ways to adapt during the cold winter months. Some migrate, adapt or hibernate. ❄️☃️❄️ Materials: Petroleum jelly (approximately 3.75 ounces or larger) Two quart size zipper bags Two plastic bowls (approximately two and one-half quarts) Pitcher of water (two and one-half quarts) Ice cubes (ten ice cubes) Two large rubber bands A helper and volunteer

While this book is about beautiful cave crystals, it seems appropriate in December to think about lovely snow crystals instead. Make your own in this fun activity with a few simple supplies!

Bright, twinkling lights and holiday festivities make this month seem magical—almost electrifying. It only seems appropriate to feature the Quirkles’ Ellie Electricity and the concept of electricity and how it plays into the season. The holidays are time to make connections. See how the energy stick illustrates this concept.

While the Fuddlebrook book, In Search of Hidden Treasure, is about beautiful cave crystals, it seems appropriate in December to think about lovely snow crystals instead. Make your own in this fun activity with a few simple supplies!

Here's a fun activity to try to keep the kids entertained during Thanksgiving! You better not be afraid of getting wet! If you do this right, centripetal force will keep the water from spilling. Materials: Plastic bucket Water

The Wizard of Oz has nothing on us. She’s melting, she’s melting, she’s melting! We use the holiday traditions to create a memorable lesson about polymers. Watch Wanda transform in front of your eyes!

Changing seasons, fall colors, and a fun holiday make for many teachable moments during October.This month watch as Chloe, our budding young scientist, and Ms. Terri show you an activity called Gilbert Gas’s Oozing Bubbles. We love Halloween so we offer a spooky twist (Ghost Bubbles) but if you don’t celebrate the holiday, you can simply teach about states of matter.

The season for fall colors is upon us, so take some time to enjoy it! Read the Fuddlebrook stories, A Change of Season and Liza’s Colorful Tale, where she takes in the glorious colors of the season, to learn more about the science of color. After you’ve finished reading, go on a nature walk to collect leaves from different trees and bushes. Watch our video as we identify different parts of a leaf and make beautiful fall artwork too in our activity “Liza’s Leaf Rubbings.” Materials: 🍂🍁 Leaves from different trees (as many variations as possible) Two pieces of white copy paper Crayon

What better subject than science to make the classroom come alive? This month we offer some simple and very fun science activities that are guaranteed to make children look forward to coming to class and then telling others about what they have learned. But, it’s not just about the “wow” factor. It’s also important that the concepts learned are meaningful and robust. This month we offer a bonus, that, while not in this book, ties to Friction Fred. Watch our video to learn how to make armpit fudge. Instead of the conventional way of ingredient mixing, we use the friction and the heat of the human body, namely the armpit, to do the work. It’s actually quite tasty and just gross enough to be wonderful to a young child!

Even with today’s technological advances, airplanes use the same principles of aerodynamics used by the Wright brothers in 1903. In order to gain an understanding of flight, it is important to understand the forces of flight (lift, weight, drag, and thrust), the Bernoulli Principle, and Newton’s first and third laws of motion. The simple but awesome activity in our video focuses on one of those aspects: the Bernoulli Principle.