Infographics

Seven Ways to Help Your Child to Learn Using a Tin of Soup

The humble tin of soup. A common item in any kitchen. But did you know that there are at least seven different ways any parent can use a tin of soup to help their child to learn? This beautifully illustrated infographic gives parents seven great ideas for how they can use a tin of soup to inspire and engage their child, helping them to learn in the process.

Take a look and see which ideas you could try out with your child, and maybe you’ll be inspired to come up with your own ideas as well.

Four Ways You Can Use a Box of Cereal to Help Your Child to Learn

For too long empty cereal boxes haven’t been sufficiently recognised for their learning potential. Found in cupboards and on tables across the country, the cereal box presents parents with many different ways they can help their child to learn. In this beautifully illustrated infographic, you’ll find four strategies any parent can use to get their child learning, thinking and being creative. Download the resource today and start trying out the ideas with your child. Then, move things on a level by coming up with your own ideas for using a cereal box to stimulate learning.

Five Ways You Can Use a Satsuma to Help Your Child to Learn

The gentle satsuma, found in many a fruit bowl across the land, but rarely considered as a tool to foster learning. Yet parents can use a satsuma to get their children thinking about biology, chemistry, art and maths. This familiar fruit can quickly become a gateway to the development of knowledge and understanding, giving parents a way to help their children to learn at any time of day or night. Download the infographic and discover how you too can use a satsuma to help your child to learn.

Six Ways You Can Use Eggs to Help Your Child to Learn

Fried, boiled, poached or scrambled. However you like your eggs, they also provide you with a way to get your child thinking critically and creatively. Whether it’s maths, physics, biology or art, the eggs that we find in our fridges or on our sideboards are ready to be used as a tool for learning in any child’s home. With eggs, you can turn dinnertime into learning time, or simply hard boil them and spend a Saturday afternoon exploring the nature of gravity with your child. Take a look at the beautifully illustrated infographic and discover how you too can use eggs to help your child to learn.

Four Ways You Can Use a Newspaper to Help Your Child to Learn

Delivering news to the people for hundreds of years, newspapers remain a fixture of our lives even in the digital age. But did you know that a single newspaper presents myriad opportunities for parents to help their children to learn? And we’re not just talking about reading the newspaper and seeing what’s inside. We’re talking about architectural challenges, artistic endeavour and structural engineering. In this infographic you’ll discover four ways any parent can use any newspaper to help their child to learn.

Six Ways You Can Use a Sponge to Help Your Child to Learn

Commonly used to do the washing up, sponges can also be a starting point for lots of different learning experiences for you and your child. Whether it’s investigating the nature of sea sponges – the original sponges – examining the structure of a sponge and the chemistry behind this, or creating your own sponge sculptures, this staple of the kitchen counter is a brilliant tool any parent can use to foster learning and get their child thinking, doing and creating. Download the infographic and start exploring how you can use a sponge to help your child to learn.

Five Ways You Can Use a Shoebox to Help Your Child to Learn

Found in cupboards, closets and wardrobes the world over, the empty shoe box is not just a useful storage space for random items collected over the years. It also doubles up as the focus of fun and engaging learning activities you and your child can enjoy together. With an emphasis on creativity and exploration, this infographic gives parents five activities they can do with their children that will promote creative thinking, build language skills and deepen understanding. Download today and take a look.

Five Ways to Use a Bag of Rice to Help Your Child to Learn

Eaten by billions of people around the world, rice is not just an essential foodstuff, it can also be the basis of interesting and occasionally profound learning experiences for you and your child. Take a bag of rice from your kitchen cupboard and use it to explore osmosis, portraiture and ancient mathematical problems. Start looking at rice in a way you’ve never done before and start using that old bag of rice at the back of your kitchen cupboard as a tool to engage your child and to help them to learn.

Four Ways You Can Use a Ball of String to Help Your Child to Learn

There’s always a ball of string knocking about somewhere in the house. It might be in a drawer, under the stairs, or in the shed. Wherever it is, get hold of it and start using it to help your child to learn. This beautifully illustrated infographic gives you four starting points you can use to foster learning and grow your child’s understanding. Recreate the sculptural style of Barbara Hepworth, measure unconventional shapes and spaces, and design a lattice strong enough to support the weight of different objects. Turn a boring old ball of string into a game changer with this wonderful resource.

Seven Ways You Can Use a Table to Help Your Child to Learn

The site of breakfast, dinner and lunch, the dinner table can also be a site of learning, presenting as it does numerous opportunities for you and your child to have fun and learn together. You might find yourselves exploring the anatomy of the human body, investigating the properties of pine trees or creating an imaginary spaceship that the two of you fly away into the heavens. This resource gives you the starting point you need to begin using your dining table as the basis of helping your child to learn.