Summer, fall, winter or spring, when young children with time on their hands, you must be a number of planned activities. Each child receives fun, it also requires that education, entertainment and 10 projects with magnets to fill the bill. This list is also divided between “experience” (1 to 5) and “projects” (6 to 10), you can attract the attention of your future scientists and your future artists.

There are many places that you get all the magnets, and not forgetting the many different types are at your disposal. They come in all sizes and shapes, colors and simple, flexible and even in the leaves can be of any shape.

For the following activities, you need a large number of magnets and other supplies. Instead of a material for you, but it is suggested that you decide what you (and your kids) to then mount your supplies from the list in each activity to describe.

Note: The “you” in the following instructions may mean that parents or the child. Frankly, these activities are fun and interesting for all ages!

1 Do you have a compass

You need the following:
– Non-metallic bowl filled with water
– Metal Pin -
– Magnetic
– Cork

This experience will show how a compass, True North.

Magnétiser pin by keeping it in hand and stroking with magnets in one direction, base (head) on the point. Lift the magnets in place, then start again at the base. Repeat at least 25-30 times.

Now, drag the pin on the piece of cork, so that the cap is in the midst of pins and place the cork / pin in the (non-metallic), bowl filled with water. The PIN must magnets have enough of a point north.

You can also try to see how your new PIN magnet is to see if young people search for metal objects, such as paper clips.

2 Polar attraction / A rejection

You need the following:

– Two (2) Bar magnets

Magnets, of course, the north and south magnetic pages. Depending on the end (or pages), which is strength, they are either strongly attract or not at all. If you north and south magnetic poles as well as to attract them. If you have two other pages, north or south, they attract or not they are really meet each other.

With this experience, you and your children discover the power of attraction or rejection of the magnet.

Place two opposite ends, and you’ll find they attract each other immediately. The lesson: North and south pole of the magnet to attract other in different strengths depending on magnets and conditions.

Now, try to force the two parties in the north of the magnet. You can feel, as poles on the other. You can do the same thing, what with the south and the same effect. You can measure the force at the same time poles and keep your shares on the magnet.

3 Polar attraction / B rejection

With the same bar magnets, place them on a table. Take a page with magnetic north edge forward, and drag it around the other side magnetic north. The magnet They are not far from exploitation moves on where you are, and even try himself around.

This shows that your side south-north magnetic. You can determine the strength of magnets to see how far you can be sure, and yet these effects.

Polar attraction 4 / rejection to resume b with the same type of magnet, but three to five of them, experimenting with magnets by pressing a kind of magnetic train. “Line-up with magnets to the south north and south to north pages, then press the first magnet and observe other magnets leap forward.

Keep up feed magnet This way you can as much cooperation in the “train”.

5 magnets floating

You need the following:

– Five (5) to eight (8) donut Magnets (those with holes in the middle)
– One (1) timber General Staff, which trains pass by Loch magnetic
– Base stems (wood or clay modeling)

If you do not buy or build a base of the General Staff, you can in a wad of modeling sound. It does not go with a lot of weight, so it is not “more than ready.

First, the magnetic forces of the ring magnets and the east to the north or south.

Remember that, of course, as polar opposites. Now, three or four magnets at the bottom of the wooden bar, as he is. The positioning of magnets is important: Put all South with magnets on the bottom, so that if you add three or four magnets, the north (top) the lower part of the magnet to draw down ( South) on this page up. Thus, the very top of the pile, you have a north side.

Place the magnets at the north end. It will not draw on the north side lie below this threshold, it proposes to “float” on the other magnet. You can always open the demonstration by placing magnets another south side to define this time, on the stem. This new magnetic planer is also, like any other place on the stem (booster to another North and South Orientation).

6 A fun magnetic tickets: refrigerator magnets

You need the following:

– Several letters of size sheets of magnetic material flexible, white on one side
– Photos of family or child Artwork
– Add or glue, scissors

If children decide whether they want their refrigerator magnet with a drawing or a photograph. It might be fun for each child, his or her own photo magnet.

Cut the drawing or a photograph and they cut well. Put it on the magnetic disks and form a trace with a pencil, then cut the shape of the magnetic sheet. Glue the drawing or image for magnetic materials.

7 tickets amusement magnetic B: Word Magnets

You need the following:

– List of words often used together for Education (Internet)
– The computer and printer (alternative: Sharpie pin)
– Several letters of size sheets of magnetic material flexible, white on one side
– Add or glue, scissors

On the Internet, you will find several sources of lists of words most used. You need a selection of nouns, verbs, articles and other types of puzzle for education, but also some favorite family name, nickname, etc.

Print the list on the computer printer, with each word in a 1/2-Zoll of 2 inches. Alternatively, if you do not have a printer, you can Sharpie pens to write words into 1/2-inch by 2-inch tapes sheet.

Cut and paste the words on large tracts of the leaf. Put the words in the magnetic refrigerator or stove before. Let us surprise you new to the other, make up silly slogans or simply fun they jumbling up!

8 Tickets magnetic amusement C: Kiddie cards

You need the following:

– Several letters of size sheets of magnetic material flexible, white on one side
– Artwork children and old newspapers (for images, words)
– Add or glue, scissors

Trace a standard business card in the leaves, or draw 2-inch by 3.5 inch rectangle. Your children, images, which relate to their characters - Tiger for the rough and tumble dryer, for small princesses graceful ladies, or vice versa! You can write their names, and even the presidents of all businesses do they want to invent. The cards can be completed in the refrigerator in their school lockers or anywhere, is a magnet.

9 Colors magnetic tic-tac-toe

You need the following:
– Colored by magnets pocket (same size, different colors)
– 5-inch square magnetic plates, white on one side
– Sharpie rule and pencil

Draw a Tic-Tac-toe play in the magnetic sheet. These range in the refrigerator, the stove before or another centre of the available space. Keep yourself to a bag very similar to the magnets of different colors to play in the proximity of the location and control of color for itself and another for the opponent, a Tic-Tac-toe move whenever so close in the region. Check the date and watch you train your opponent. It is a great way to stretch a game of tic-tac-toe out for a day, sometimes, so you an opportunity to take a snack in the fridge, too.

10 MEMO holder personalized

You need the following:

– Bar magnetic, at least 1/2-inch wide, three (3) to four (4) inches long
– Paper, crayons and pencils, scissors, glue

Trace the shape of the magnetic bar on a piece of paper. This will show you how you much space to write your name and design. You can write your name or simply your letters of a different colour, including the addition of themes and other forms. Cut the piece of paper and paste it on the side of the bar magnet. Now you have a way for “to do list” or “memo to Mom” on the door of the refrigerator, stove before or any other magnetic field on the ground.

What with all the letters and forms and images and name tags, from these projects, there could be a real increase of the “magnetic publication” of your home. The magnetic words, tall, especially educational value, and lessons learned in the simplicity of the magnets are useful as entertaining. With only a few magnets and an art book, you can save a lot of fun to your home!