Light their way with science: Ideas to entertain and educate kids

Our Science columnist, Dr Naomi Lavelle, has some fun with her son Rohan and shares some ideas to keep the kids entertained (and educated)

Yay for summer holidays! It’s great to take a break from the school rush, the homework and the packed lunches and everyone is a little more chilled. But after the initial feeling of freedom can come a bit of reality; children like to be entertained, a lot. It can be hard to come up with activities that don’t involve screens and don’t cost much. Science just may have the solution.

Here are three science experiments that your children can try at home. You probably have everything you need for them already. As an extra bonus these experiments have a reduce, reuse, recycle message to them as they can all be done with the same small, plastic bottle.