Science at home Archives

Rocket Launch

Posted 30/08/2021 by Letterbox Lab 296

We want to provide you and your child with some out-of-this-world fun! And your child will love making this baking soda rocket. You will most likely have the simple materials needed to build this rocket with items in your home. What you will...

Painting with Magnets

Posted 27/08/2021 by Letterbox Lab 182

Magnets can create endless hours of fun. Our Magnetoslime box has some really cool experiments that they can do with magnets, like making magnetic hair, magnetic slime and more! If you have a creative child that loves drawing, and painting, this...

Making invisible ink with lemon

Posted 30/07/2021 by Letterbox Lab 239

If your child has ever seen the film ‘National Treasure’ with Nicholas Cage and Diane Kruger, they will have seen a coded, unseen map on the Declaration of Independence. To reveal its secrets, they used lemons and heat to unveil the...

Chromatography with Coloured Sweets

Posted 22/07/2021 by Letterbox Lab 197

With the school holidays well underway, we’re thinking you need some help coming up with a few fun experiments you can do with your children at home. Chromatography with coloured sweets can show your children how sweets get their colour...

How to Encourage Wildlife into Your Garden

Posted 10/02/2021 by Letterbox Lab 381

Since you might not be getting much further than your garden this spring why not make it a little more interesting by encouraging some little visitors? This half-term is a great time to get prepared for the burst of life that is the...

12 Books that Inspire Children with Science

Posted 04/03/2019 by Mia Hatton 1650

It’s that time of the year again – fabric is strewn across living rooms nationwide as parents put the finishing touches onto World Book Day costumes. Books are marvellous things – they take us on adventures to faraway worlds and...

An Interview with Meg

Posted 06/02/2019 by Mia Hatton 936

Tomorrow is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day designated by the UN to celebrate the achievements of women in STEM fields and to address the persistent gender gap in science.¬† Here at Letterbox Lab, our goal is to inspire...

Make an Optical Illusion Card

Posted 16/10/2018 by Mia Hatton 1661

We are halfway through our Kickstarter campaign and have reached 82% of our funding goal – now that’s something to celebrate! Our Kickstarter campaign aims to launch our very first seasonal science kit.¬†STEM into Christmas¬†is a...

Make a Rocket Card

Posted 11/10/2018 by Letterbox Lab 1311

Make a Rocket Card This month we are running a Kickstarter campaign. Kickstarter is a website that helps people and small businesses bring creative projects to life through crowd funding. We’re big fans of it and have wanted to get involved...

STEM into Christmas with a kids’ scientific card-making kit!

Posted 03/10/2018 by Mia Hatton 949

Hi science fans! Update – our Kickstarter campaign was fully funded you can purchase our unique science-powered interactive Christmas cards here.¬† Original blog from 2018 – Yesterday was enormously exciting because our first ever...

A Week of Science in the Sun

Posted 28/06/2018 by Mia Hatton 1175

Has anyone noticed it’s been a bit bright and warm of late? So did we! Science activities are often lumped in with movies and board games as classic ‘rainy day’ activities but we’ve spent the last week of glorious sunny...

Introducing: How d’ya like STEM apples?

Posted 08/06/2018 by Mia Hatton 1141

Hi science fans! We’d like to introduce to you our brand new, all-singing, all-dancing email newsletter! How d’ya Like STEM Apples is a bimonthly compilation of our top tips for bringing STEM (science, technology, engineering and...