Thanks to an opportunity to collaborate with our friends in the Clonakilty Bike Festival, we are putting together an activity on ‘What is Rotational Symmetry?’. What is Rotational Symmetry? Repeated patterns around a fixed point. Rotational Symmetry can involve any number of repeated elements. You see it many places but probably don’t realise it. Using […]
Scavenger Hunt Clues
Scavenger Hunt Clues I love writing Scavenger Hunt clues. One simple activity to easily get outside into nature for all the family is the humble Scavenger Hunt clues. But this one is with a difference. The Smart Happy Project is about increasing a connection to nature and encouraging observation and identification skills. In the book Last Child […]
Signs of Spring and the Equinox
Well done! You have made it through the winter. On March 20th we arrive again at an Equinox, this time the Spring or Vernal Equinox. This is the same as the Autumn Equinox only the other way around. For a simple, explanation of what an equinox is, What happens and why? make the ‘what is an equinox’ […]
Online Launch
It’s all very exciting. What you see here is what I’m calling the ‘Experiment Edition’. A virtual magazine made up from some new and some activities already on the website. Seeing is Believing Browse and share. These are a just a few sample pages of what the magazine will look like. Kids magazines are hard to […]
The Wonder Journal
A diary of nature observation and discovery activities. Today is the day, introducing the Smart Happy Project’s first collaborator with the launch of a new nature journal. Really excited! Moving on from our last post on Richard Louv and the sense of wonder in children, Sophie Rees brings us ‘The Wonder Journal’, a diary of […]
