Working with Sharks
Jobs working with sharks Andre Hartmann, a South African diving guide can calm down a great white shark: ‘When the shark is next to the boat, I lean over the edge, and wait for it to open its mouth. Sometimes it opens its jaw to the side. This tells you that the shark is trying […]
What if the sun disappeared?
What if the Sun Disappeared? Don’t worry! The Sun’s not going anywhere. But hypothetically, we thought we’d explore what would happen to the Earth if the Sun just… vanished. Scientists have the answers… For the first eight minutes and 20 seconds, nothing would happen, and humans wouldn’t even know that the Sun had disappeared! Everything […]
How to go stargazing
GUIDE TO STARGAZING Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered how to find the constellations? It might seem impossible at first, there are so many stars! But you’ll be relieved to know there are actually only 88 named constellations. And you can only see around half of them at a time, […]
Star facts for kids
SUPER STAR FACTS FOR KIDS! One way to make written information a little bit different is to use an acrostic. In an acrostic, the initial letters of a key word connected to the theme are used as the first letter of each piece of detail. This acrostic, full of mind-boggling facts about stars, is based on […]
Make Fabulous Festive Wrapping
MAKE FESTIVE WRAPPING PAPER Creating your own wrapping paper is lots of fun, saves money and can be better for the environment! Let’s use our imaginations, prepare stencils, then paint them onto wrapping paper as patterns to make your gifts look simply stunning! YOU WILL NEED: – Sugar paper (A4, A3 or A1) – […]
Make a Cosy Christmas Grotto and Pomanders
Make a cosy Christmas grotto! What could be more magical than creating your own Christmas nook to snuggle up in? Harvey wants you to be super inventive and go hunting around your home for bits and pieces to create your own cosy Christmas grotto, fit for Father Christmas himself! The centrepiece will be a bowl […]
Make Paper Star Decorations
MAKE PAPER STARS You might think Calculata and I don’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but you’d be dead wrong! Actually we collaborate all the time, sharing inspiration and ideas and making things together. One of our favourite ways to combine our skills is by making these beautiful paper star ornaments. Why not […]
Gingerbread Stars Recipe
Gingerbread stars YOU WILL NEED: ● 350 g plain flour ● 2 tsp ground ginger ● 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda ● 100 g butter ● 175 g soft light brown sugar ● 1 egg ● 4 tbsp golden syrup ● Icing sugar GET STARTED: Step 1 Mix the flour, ginger and bicarb in a […]
Mini Enterprise
You’re Hired! – Create a mini enterprise! Have you ever watched the TV show, Dragon’s Den? In it, budding entrepreneurs pitch their business plans on camera to leading industrialists in the hope of attracting some financial backing or some mentorship from a successful business leader. But how hard can it really be? Do you think […]
Tulip Mania Money Bubble
Tulip Mania It’s easy to understand why people might get excited about some things: football, ‘Strictly’, ‘Dr Who’. But tulips? Surely no one could get that excited about tulips? Well, that’s just what happened in The Netherlands in the early 17th century. Tulips are very common now, but back then they hadn’t long been introduced […]