Holiday Science Activity Camp Weeks

Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games, fun quizzes.

Please find below the Science Activity Week introductions.It would take your child two years of attending every camp before they repeated any of our programmes.

Please refer to the  booking form for when and where they are running.  

Five day camp, day order may differ per venue. Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes.

After watching a cool super-hero show, discover techniques used to fight crime including chromatography and forensics! Then look into a world of creepy crawlies and investigate adaptations and reasons behind their form.

Get launched into our solar system and get an understanding of just how big it really is! Study magnets and magnetic fields, including building your own compasses and challenge each other in hands on games.

Explore the invisible world of wind, waves and energy by constructing your own mini wave cannons, not forgetting a looking into the exciting world of electrons in lightening and how everything can be turned on its head!

Feeling hot or cold? It doesn’t matter as during this day we look at the science behind high and low temperatures with special paper and our mystical dry ice! Surface tension together with the importance of the elements for plant growth is revealed!

Can fruit really make a circuit light up? We’ll see in this day packed full of reflecting, refracting and changing the direction of light in constructing periscopes, bug viewers and even creating our own thaumatropes!

SCIENCE FACTORY

Five day camp, day order may differ per venue. Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes.

As well as building bonds between other campers your children will become mini engineers! Looking at the science behind bridges, boats and balancing objects your child will work in teams and by themselves to master the art of construction.

Taking on a slightly environmental theme this day explores the science behind the renewable energy found in wind, water, and the sun. The kids will be lead in each of these sessions and will have a chance to build their own windmills, water wheels and mini solar powered ovens!

During this day your child will be discover the science behind the forces of flight, magnetism and pneumatics! Exploring these topics the children will build their own kites, spinning objects and pneumatic toys.

We learn about the intriguing properties of the 3 states of matter and even get to make our very own candles! Children will also learn how to bend light and will get to gaze into space before bed time as they leave the camp with their own miniature telescopes!

Five day camp, day order may differ per venue. Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes.

This first action filled day launches your children into a mixture of science behind activities involving force and motion, from sprinting to wrestling. We look at friction, mass and muscles; we explore the need for all these when competing in physical competitions. Special take home science experiments and highlights include: • Knock Down Wrestler! • Friction Sprinter! • Forces of Flight in Field events!

We take a close look at the effect of  water and resistance on our bodies! We will be looking at the properties for water and the science behind how and why boats float. It culminates in a boat building competition! Special take home science experiments and highlights include: • Cool Clay Boat! • Parachutes! • Motion of Spheres and its History!

This day concentrates on projectiles used in events. Looking at all the forces involved. Your children perform experiments to test and investigate speed, distance and time. Special Science experiments to take home and highlights include: • Energy Show! • Balancing Toy! • Aerodynamic Arrows!

We submerge ourselves in the science of momentum in moving bodies, food facts and dive deep into buoyancy! Special take home science experiments and highlights include:  • Marble Momentum! • Fiery Food Facts! • Pascal’s Submarine Diver!

Five day camp, day order may differ per venue. Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes.

After a science show to kick it all off, children will be looking closely at Mother Nature and the creepy crawlies in her world. Special Science experiments to take home and highlights include: • Animal Puppets! • Slime! • Skeleton Jigsaws!

Delving into the microscopic world we discover sub zero temperatures and how atomic structures can produce beautiful results. Special Science experiments to take home and highlights include: • Dry Ice! • Creating Crystals • Cabbage Indicator

Investigating jet propulsion, reducing friction and momentum are just some of the highlights of this day. Special Science experiments to take home and highlights include: • Balloon Powered Cars! •Balloon Hovercrafts! • Egg Cars!

This electron and energy packed day will have us looking at light in more detail, as well as the effect of electrons in circuits helping us light up the room. Special Science experiments to take home and highlights include: • Sun-printing! • Kaleidoscopes! • Diffraction! • Glasses! Crazy Circuits

Four day camp, day order may differ per venue. Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes.

Children gain a better understanding of the lung. They gain a better understanding of their bodies and learn some interesting and gruesome facts about it! They will also investigate what happens when our teeth are left in an acidic solution for too long! The children become mini doctors; they will discover what protects the heart and learn how to use a stethoscope and exactly where the heart is located in the body! Special take home science experiments and highlights include • Lung Model! • Teeth Model!

Children will learn the different stages in a bee’s life. They will discover how and why woodpeckers have adapted to their environment. The children become mini palaeontologists and discover what a fossil is; they will understand what happened to the dinosaurs! The children will also discover each stage of the frog’s life cycle and learn some interesting facts about weird looking frogs!…. ! Special take home science experiments and highlights include •Bee Model! • Pecking Woodpecker! •Fossils! •Origami frogs!

The children discover why mucus is so important to humans and its properties especially when we suffer from hay fever! They will discover what decomposers are, how fast germs spread, observe bacteria being created and realise that plants decompose really well! They will discover that plants have evolved interesting defences and ways to gain nutrients and learn that fruits and vegetables can be used to generate a small amount of electricity using zinc and copper! They will discover that plants have transport systems just like us! Special take home science experiments and highlights include •Gooey Slime! • Growing Initialled Cress!

The children discover where sound is produced in our bodies. They will discover how animals smell! Children gain a better understanding of the human eye and make their own Benham Disc. The children go into a journey learning about the brain, take part in fun and interesting experiments! Special take home science experiments and highlights include •Paper Banger! • Scented Soap! • Brain Hat! • Benhams disc!

Four day camp, day order may differ per venue. Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes.

Your mini-scientists are launched into challenges such as making a paper cup that holds water, designing a beak which picks up food and creating the most intricate spider web! The children then take part in fun, science based quizzes.

The creative thinkers compete with each other to come up with the tallest tower, the best pipe cleaner scene and even construct a bridge! The children then take part in a fun science workshop learning about some amazing scientific facts!

This day is very practical where children make their own egg drop zone and try to save Eddy the Egg! They need to make a safe dam for a village in danger! They take part in a fun bubble session as they attempt to make their own bubble wands!

The designers make the strongest boat! They compete with each other to make the furthest flying object! The children get involves in scientific word scramble competitions and get hands on with making their own magic wallet!

Four day camp, day order may differ per venue. Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes.

Four day camp, day order may differ per venue. Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes.

We learn about the intriguing facts behind the ‘Aborigines Boomerang’ and become Mini Rocket Scientists! What is propulsion? We’ll see in this day packed with creating your own aerodynamic arrow, hoop glider and stomp rocket!

Having constructed a helicopter blade, the kids launch themselves into an air resistance investigation making parachutes! They discover the science behind Da Vinci’s Catapult and try to save Eddy by building their own drop zones!

Play with your perception of light and investigate its funky properties with your very own LED finger torch! Learn all about the fascinating experiments surrounding fire! Become an Astro Physicist, observe cool experiments and make a light diffracting star as well as a static Glider!

Four day camp, day order may differ per venue. Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes.

The children think very carefully about materials and properties to separate a number of different mixtures; they think about the effect of materials on insulation as they fight to keep the penguin Mr Pengi warm!  They compete with each other to come up with the tallest no- tapes allowed tower- Easier said than done! The children then take part in a fun science workshop learning about amazing scientific facts!

Four day camp, day order may differ per venue. Every day at camp is science expedition into the unknown and over the week your child will do 40+ science activities, exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes.

The children will discover how different sized material can help trap and purify water. They will make their own take home filtration device to filter muddy water. Children would be thrilled by the magical changes that happen to different items when their temperatures are altered. Children discover that solid, liquid and gas all have the property of ‘heated expansion’ and ‘cooled contraction’. They will work as a pair to investigate the unknown Mystery Powder white solids and discover different chemical reactions through their investigations.

Every day on this spooky Halloween themed four day science activity  camp is a great mixture of exciting demonstrations, hands-on experiments, team games and fun quizzes. Over the week your child will do 40+ science activities including: