Recycling Steel
Recycling Steel Steel is the most recycled material on the planet, more than all other materials combined, because it is solid and durable. Steel uses a lot of energy, but the good news is that it can be recycled repeatedly. So, recycling can save a lot of energy by...
Recycling Plastic
Recycling Plastic Plastic is a very common material and can be used for almost anything. It is used for furniture, car interiors, toys, bags, and clothing. However, you can only recycle some types of plastic, such as milk bottles or plastic bottles. Plastic is made...
Recycling Paper
Recycling Paper is a very easy product to recycle. It is clean, can be disposed of in your house, and it is quickly made into other products. In fact, paper and card make up nearly half of the materials collected from households for recycling. It can take as little as...
Spider Spinning a Web
MOHAMED ABDULLA SHAFEEG/GETTY IMAGESWould you like our Dan The Gardener & Friends FREE Activity Book for kids packed full of colouring-in, dot to dot, word searches, recycling tips and diary sheets plus much more?Fun Spider Facts for Kids Spiders can spin webs of...
White Chocolate and Apricots Krispy Cakes
White Chocolate and Apricot Krispy CakesIngredients: 100g white chocolate 50g apricots 90g rice krispies Equipment: Cake cases Heatproof mixing bowl Wooden spoon Wire rack Saucepan Method: Fill the saucepan half full of cold water, and place it on the hob. Turn the...
The Best Way to Water Your Plants
The best way to water your plants The best water to feed your plants with is rainwater. Rainwater has all the natural minerals that plants need and use to stay healthy and grow strong. But it does not always rain, so when you cannot collect rainwater, OK, it is fine...
Winter Gardening for Children
Winter Gardening for Children Even in the colder months of autumn and winter when lots of plants have lost their leaves some vegetables prefer to be planted so they are ready for the start of spring. Some vegetables even need a touch of frost to improve their flavour....
Sunflower Seed Bread
Sunflower Seed Bread Ingredients: 224 g strong bread flour 120 ml of warm water ½ tsp dried fast-action yeast 1 tbsp olive oil ½ tsp of salt 1 heaped tbsp of sunflower seeds Equipment: Jug Sieve 2 Mixing bowls Baking tin Cling film Wooden spoon Wire rack A tablespoon...
Overgrown Gardens – Nature’s Paradise
Overgrown Gardens An overgrown garden may not look as neat as a tidy garden, but it provides homes for many insects, animals and birds. Overgrown gardens create an ecosystem for lots of creatures to live in. When plants grow big, and you do not cut the grass, many...
What’s in a Seed?
It is amazing how a seed can be kept for years and it still grows when you plant it. Seeds are living things which live inside a shell which protects them. Inside the shell, they have an embryo which it grows into. Inside the seed shell, there is also food which the...
The Rock Cycle
The Rock Cycle The story of a rock is not a simple journey at all. Rocks are a bit like grass not in the way that they are green or animals eat them. But in the way that we walk over or see them every day and don’t really realise that they are the foundations of our...
Venus Fly Trap Video
The Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)This is a carnivorous plant native to subtropical wetlands on the East Coast of the United States in North Carolina and South Carolina. It catches its prey—chiefly insects and arachnids—with a trapping structure formed by the...
