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Love Christmas? Love science? Love Christmas STEM challenge ideas? Combine the two and make these water bubble Christmas lights for pretty, holiday fun! My in-laws have a string of ancient Christmas lights they break out every Christmas that when heated, cause some sort of liquid to bubble inside a bulb. The lights are so old, …

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It’s Thanksgiving, which means time for pumpkin pie, history lessons, and football. And if you live at our house, it’s also time for Thanksgiving science experiments! These Thanksgiving experiments show kids some of the science behind the holiday and are a fun addition to any Thanksgiving STEM activities you do this November and are a …

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Thanksgiving STEM activities are a fun way to keep kids occupied when parents are in the kitchen. These thanksgiving engineering activities will boost your kids’ engineering skills and make engineering activities for kids a blast! Thanksgiving Engineering Activities Perfect for STEM Centers Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I love cooking, baking excessive amounts …

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Kids will be fascinated by this bubbling blood slime recipe. The topic of blood is perfect for Halloween or any other time you want to gross your kids out. The best thing about this version of our Halloween slime recipes is that it is non-traditional and requires NO borax, which means you can safely use …

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Try this super spooky and creepy twist on marker chromatography when you make coffee filter ghosts using chromatography! This chromatography experiment for kids is a blast at Halloween! Ghost experiments to do at home are so much fun! (and you can do them in the classroom, too!) “Ghosts are spooky. I love them,” my preschooler …

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For this experiment, give the traditional density jar science experiment a Halloween twist by making a Halloween density jar! Halloween. It’s a spooky season for witches, skeletons, and, STEM activities? Halloween can be the BEST time for science and STEM, just because creepy science is so much fun! Halloween STEM activities for middle school are …

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