The ultimate collection of DIY activities to do with your kids to teach STEM basics and beyond, from a wildly popular online dad.
With more than 3 million fans, TheDadLab has become an online sensation, with weekly videos of fun and easy science experiments that parents can do with their kids. These simple projects use materials found around the house, making it easier than ever for busy moms and dads to not only spend more quality time with their children but also get them interested in science and technology.
In this mind-blowing book, Sergei Urban takes the challenge off-screen with fifty step-by-step projects, including some that he has never shared online before. Each activity will go beyond the videos, featuring detailed explanations to simplify scientific concepts for parents and help answer the hows and whys of their curious children. Learn how to:
explore new fun ways to paint;
make slime with only two ingredients;
defy gravity with a ping-pong ball;
produce your own electricity, and more!
With TheDadLab, parents everywhere will have an easy solution to the dreaded "I'm bored" complaint right at their fingertips!
ISBN-13: 9780525542698
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date: 05-14-2019
Pages: 192
Product Dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Sergei Urban is a stay-at-home father who started TheDadLab as a way to share fun activities others can do from home while educating their children and spending more quality time with them. All of his ideas are inspired by his sons and what he has lying around his house. Originally from Latvia, Sergei now lives in London with his wife and two sons. He has a master's in economics and runs TheDadLab full-time.
Table of Contents
About TheDadLab 1
Introduction 3
Kitchen
Egg Tower Challenge 7
Invisible Fire Extinguisher 10
Walking on Eggs 13
Homemade Butter 16
Ketchup Diver 19
Color-Change Cabbage 22
Curious
Homemade Magnet 27
Balloon Balance 30
How Sound Travels 34
Electric Drawing 37
Face That Follows 40
Balloon Light Switch 43
Why Do We Need Two Eyes? 46
Exploring Density in a Glass 49
Family
Homemade Harmonica 55
Paper Rocket Blastoff! 58
Bag Liftoff 60
Grass Hedgehog 64
How to Catch a Bubble 67
Painting with Nature 70
Getting Inside a Bubble 73
Swing Painting 76
Ping-Pong Launcher 80
Banding Together 83
Guess That Smell! 86
Foam Blower 89
Tricky Fishing Game 92
Messy
Straw Sprinkler 97
Kitchen Craters 100
Painting with Bubbles 103
Oobleck Slime 106
Magic Cup 109
Fossil Dinosaur Eggs 112
Watery Wonder 115
Quick
Magic Strips 121
Ping-Pong Trap 124
Color from Nowhere 127
Leak-Proof Bag 130
Shadow Tracing 133
The Power of Magnets 136
The Unsinkable Ship 139
The Bouncing Marble 142
Gravity-Defying Bottle 145
Colorful
Floating Pictures 151
Magic Color Jars 154
Painting on Ice 158
Hidden Colors 161
Your Own Printing Press! 164
Candy Kaleidoscope 167
Colored Shadows 169
Afterword 173
Acknowledgments 175
Index 177
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