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BMAG for Kids online resource is a great place for children to make some exciting discoveries.  Join in the fun and find out about: Victorians, World War 2, Egyptians, Romans and Art.

Watch our short video to find out how to make your own density tower. 

Take a look at some spring-themed activities for families with children under 8.

Watch this short video to learn how to make a submarine using a straw.

Find out how you can knock down a tower of blocks without touching them.

Download a variety of colouring sheets relating to Thinktank.

Find out more about mission patches and discover how to make your own straw rockets and moon craters.

Watch our video to learn how to create lots of bubbles with our Bubble Snake experiment.

This video will you show how to build a car using materials in your own home or school.

Watch our short video to learn how to make slime!

Watch this short video to learn how make your own invincible balloon!

Try out 3 spooky science experiments: Spooky Slime, Dancing Ghosts and Pumpkin Volcano!

We have three science experiments for you to try out which are all link to space and how these concepts are used in space engineering. 

Make your own moon phase wheel.

Find out how to make an anti-gravity biscuit tin. 

Find about the materials used in the hoard and what the conservation of the hoard has uncovered. 

Watch our short video to learn how to create a fizzing Rocket.

Find out more about Mr Andrew, the last Miller at Sarehole Mill.

Find out more about Miss Olive, Secretary at Smith & Pepper Jewellery Factory.

Watch this short video to learn how to conduct your own cabbage experiment to learn about acids and alkalines.

These activity ideas are designed for families with children under 8 to play, experiment & explore together during the holiday period.

Chromatography is an experiment for separating a mixture and finding out what’s dissolved in it.

Find out more about the Staffordshire Hoard and how it was discovered.

Watch this video to find out how you can use water and oil to make a lava lamp!

Find out more about Matthew Boulton, Manufacturer and Entrepreneur.

Find out more about James Watt, Inventor and Engineer.

Find out how to build a space lander that can safely bring an egg back to earth.

Find out how to make ice cream without using a freezer.

Try out our 3 festive science experiments and show off to your family that you can shrink a coin, make beads jump and step through a Christmas card!

Watch our short video to find out how to make a Camera Obscura.

Find out how to make your own rain gauge.

Find out about Birmingham’s Windrush Generation and The Birmingham Black Oral History Project.

Eunice and four other local women founded a charity called ‘Shades of Black. Find out more about her story and listen to her oral history.

Ryland worked as a bus conductor but moved through a variety of other jobs in engineering, music and writing. Find out more about his story...

Frank Scantlebury worked for a railway signage company, and later worked for British Rail. Find out more about his story...

Carlton became Britain’s first Black Headteacher of a secondary school in 1982. He also spent many years a professional dancer. Find out more about his story...

Esme worked as a teacher on a ‘Sugar Estate’ in Jamaica. Later she trained as a social worker in England. Find out more about her story...

Check out our 4 Halloween activities for you to try at home. 

Discover more about Birmingham’s local LGBTQ+ history using objects and images the collection.

View a timeline of Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ History.

Find out more about the history of Birmingham Pride and the key figures and groups who have been involved in it.

Find out more about the impact fashion has on the climate.

Check out our 5 resources to help you explore urban nature; including a pollinator experiment, seed bomb recipe, animal detectives, search and identify animal sheet and BioBlitz tips.