Looking for a fun popcorn experiment? This dancing popcorn experiment is the perfect way to test the duration and effectiveness of different chemical reactions, and it takes just 3 ingredients to complete! This is one of our favorite quick STEM activities to try in the classroom or at home. And who doesn’t love popcorn science? …
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If your kids love sensory activities, then they will love learning how to make sand slime! Sand slime has a similar texture to wet sand on the beach. Its stretchy texture, combined with the sand’s roughness, makes it ideal for fun at any time and one of my favorite slime recipes without contact solution! Toddlers, …
No science is more fun than candy cane science. But you don’t have to have candy canes to make these salt crystal candy canes for a super fun candy cane experiment! Making salt crystals is a fun way to explore candy cane science even if you don’t have any in the house! We loved this …
Become a Christmas engineer with this simple sleigh building challenge using egg cartons! Kids will love this Santa sleigh STEM challenge! We have conducted many amazing Christmas STEM challenge ideas already, and the girls are having a blast! In this engineering activity, I challenged my kids to create a new sleigh design for Santa using …
We love the countdown to Christmas and always celebrate with Christmas tree STEM activities (because we are us). For many years, Monkey had her own Christmas tree advent calendar that she would hang an ornament on each day from December 1st to the 25th. But since Bo has been mobile, that system was no longer working. …
Make your Christmas STEM challenge ideas last when you make these Christmas STEM fizzing ornaments using baking soda and vinegar chemical reactions. When it comes to mixing Christmas and science, you have to think outside the box a little bit like with these chemistry ornaments that can be part of any Christmas tree STEM activities. …