Meet the three-year-old girl performing science experiments on YouTube

'Everything is an experiment to her'

While most three-year-olds are still getting to grips with sentences, Freya Mason is already paving the way for a career in YouTube as a scientist.

The Leicestershire-based toddler performs experiments at home and presents her findings to more than one thousand viewers on the video streaming platform, where she has her own channel: Freya’s This Is Science.

Mason began her experimenting escapades after she dissolved some skittles in water to create a rainbow-like effect at the age of two.

'It's her choice to do the experiments and the films' (SWNS)

Since then, she’s performed a whole host of kooky experiments, from making lava lamps using oil and Alka Seltzer to hatching chicks in her back garden.

“It's her own curiosity that fuels it,” Mason’s mother, Sarah, explains.

“She's always wondering how the world around her works. She sees things as little puzzles to work out and she's always trying to make sense of the world around her."

The ambitious tot hopes to grow up to become a doctor or researcher and, according to Sarah, she is also a natural performer who regularly thanks her viewers for 'tuning in'.

"Freya will quite often say when we are playing 'can we pretend it's a video?' She likes to present and be on video.

"When we get the camera out she doesn't know that there aren't people watching at that moment. She thinks people are watching it like a webcam.”

Her videos have been viewed by more than 1,000 people across the globe.

While the magnitude of viewers may not be of huge importance to Mason, she relishes in the engagement her videos receive.

Mason pictured with Sarah, 35, a seamstress from Lutterworth, Leicestershire (SWNS)

“If I say '100 people watched your video' she doesn't really understand the significance of that,” said Sarah.

"But when I say to her 'a little boy saw your video and his mum wrote this' she gets that. She loves that.”

Sarah hopes that her daughter’s videos will inspire other young girls to pursue careers in science.

'If girls don't see other girls and women doing things, they don't feel able to make change.' (SWNS)

“By not encouraging girls and women into science you are discounting 50 per cent of the population, and that's narrowing potential researching by 50 per cent,” she said.

She points out that while Freya is unaware of the gender stereotypes that surround scientific professions, she is already tuning into certain stereotypical tropes from the children she goes to school with.

"She is picking up things about girls liking pink and being princesses,” she said.

“I always challenge her. Of course she's allowed to like pink and princesses and dolls - but I want her to know she doesn't have to because she's a girl."