Challenges
Get set for thrilling challenges that'll put your skills to the test! Try one of these exciting activities where you can compete, triumph, and have a blast with friends and family. From brain-teasing puzzles to fun outdoors, they'll keep you entertained for hours.
Space coding challenge
Join the European Space Agency and the Raspberry Pi Foundation for their Astro Pi Challenge Mission Zero. These coding activities will get you started.
Organise a litter pick
Gather a group of friends and get involved in the Million Mile Clean.
Challenge yourself
Test your taste
How good are you and your friends at detecting different flavours?
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Train your brain
Your brain is a mighty organ capable of making a billion billion (that’s one followed by 18 zeros) calculations every second. Try these experiments to test your brain’s computing power.
Get your heart racing
Put your heart to the test with these simple exercises.
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Try the egg drop challenge
Put your science and engineering skills to the test to protect a falling egg.
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Go seed collecting
To celebrate National Tree Week, get out and about and become a seed planter.
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Make a time capsule
Preserve memories of life in the 2020's for the future.
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Practise coding off-screen
Get to grips with computer coding using just a pencil and paper.
Mind-bending maths games
Using some simple tricks, you can be top of the class in maths.
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Mysteries of Science Podcast
Have you heard our multi-award-winning podcast? Voted Best Science & Medical Podcast at the Publisher Podcast Awards in both 2022 and 2023, Mysteries of Science investigates the real science behind unexplained events and weird phenomena – with the help of expert guests. Join the team and start investigating today!
Helping Nature
Join the Big Garden Birdwatch
Take part in one of the UK's biggest citizen science projects.
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Start a sunflower race
Challenge your family or friends to grow the tallest sunflowers.
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Join a slug hunt
Search out your slimy neighbours in the name of science.
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Go pebble spotting
Rock on this summer - and use these tips for our summer Scavenger Hunt.
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Join the Great British Beach Clean
Adopt and care for a local stretch of coastline.
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Test your reaction time
Do you think you have lightning-fast reactions? Now is your chance to prove it.
Fishing for ice
Challenge your friends and family to pick up ice cubes using just a piece of string. Then show them how it is done using a little bit of science.
Build a newspaper table
Unlock your inner engineer and discover how paper tubes can make amazingly strong structures.
Sole searching
Get involved in this citizen-science project from Dundee University to study the marks footwear leave behind. The data you collect could help forensic scientists investigate crime scenes.
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Take the plastic challenge
Could you live without plastic? Skipper and ocean activist Emily Penn has a coll way to keep an eye on the amount you use.
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Film a stop-motion animation
Become an animator whizz with this simple project.
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Perform a magic bottle trick
Amaze your friends with this egg-cellent science set-up.
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Spot a constellation
Explore the autumn night skies and open up the universe’s wonders.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Start your new year off by doing something to help the planet.
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Can you solve this pancake problem?
Make some flippin’ fabulous pancakes and test your puzzle-solving skills.
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Go nurdle hunting
Protect your local coastline from tiny pellets of plastic.
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Build sand sculptures
Grab a bucket and spade, and create some amazing artwork at the beach.
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Take the bottle flip challenge
Will you be crowned the champion bottle-flipper?
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Send messages with Morse code
Learn how to talk with a torch and send messages in the dark.
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Get experimental
Get hands on and do some science experiments. Head over to our Experiments page for lots of activities to dive deeper into science.
Check out The Week Junior magazines' FREE Activity Hub. The team has compiled some super exciting activities from the award-winning magazine that you can enjoy at home with little to no resource - something to fun, free and easy help keep curious young minds educated and entertained.
