This post was originally published in 2014, updated with new graphics and links.
1. Open-Ended Potion Making
You don’t need much for potion making – just a few containers (fancy containers work best), food coloring, vinegar, baking soda, and imagination. My daughter went wild making potions of her choice.
2. Accessorize Your Potions
Adding Halloween accessories (think Dollar store!) will make your potions appropriately spooky. Little Bins for Little Hands packs a lot of Halloween science fun in this guest post for B-Inspired Mama
3. Make Spooky Eruptions
Good old vinegar and baking soda again, but Blog Me Mom upgraded a “spookiness factor” by adding themed containers and black tempera paint to her spooky Halloween eruptions.
4. A “Must Have” Halloween Potion
Growing a Jeweled Rose is a queen of glow play. The “magic ingredient” in most of her mixtures is glow water, which looks amazing but surprisingly easy to make.
5.Glowing Goop
Also from Growing a Jeweled Rose comes an extension of glow water – a mysterious goblin goop – perfect for Halloween!
6. Glow in the Dark Playdough
Regular play dough is too boring? Enchant your kids by this glow in the dark homemade playdough version from Sun Hats and Wellie Boots.7. Make Use of Pumpkin Guts
Don’t throw out pumpkin guts! Make a pumpkin slime instead using this pumpkin slime recipe from Learn Play Imagine.
8. Pumpkin Oobleck
Another recipe for pumpkin guts comes from Inspiration Laboratories. This time they are mixed with water and cornstarch to make pleasantly smelling pumpkin oobleck.
9. Pumpkin Puffy Paint
There is something magical in microwaveable puffy paint. Fun At Home With Kids shares a perfect fall scented puffy paint recipe for pumpkin and apple puffy paints.
10. Gross Jell-O Play
Gross out your kids or party guests with this jelly messy play from Nurture Store.
11. Dry Ice Magic
Dry ice bubbles create a proper atmosphere and infinitely fascinating for scientists big and small. This activity from Not Just Cute is definitely on our list of things to do!
12. Fake Blood
Do not limit yourself to red paint! Steve Spangler Science offers proper fake blood recipes and discusses the differences between them. Let it flow!
13. GROSS EDIBLE BLOOD WORMS
This jell-o blood worms from The Idea Room will be a cool addition to a Halloween party or to sensory play. Don’t they look disgustingly real? I am still undecided whether I want to try them or not!
Your Turn
More Halloween Fun?
Spooky Footprint Haunted House Craft from Play Dough & Popsicles
Halloween Number Game from Adventures of Adam
Halloween Tree | A Fall Nature Craft for Kids from FrogMom
Halloween Movies Not Scary from iGameMom
Monster Learning Activities for Halloween from Books and Giggles
Halloween Board Books from The Jenny Evolution
Halloween Read and Play from My Storytime Corner
Free Tarantula and Spider Do-a-Dot Printables from Living Montessori Now
Halloween Preschool Printables from Living life and learning
Gross and Jiggly Halloween Jello Worms: A STEM Activity for Kids from Schooling a Monkey
Gruesome Nibbles from Tales of Education at Home
Halloween Phonics Worksheet -Color by Letter from Mrs. Karle's Sight and Sound Reading
Pumpkin fairy house from The Usual MayhemFollow Natalie Planet Smarty Pants's board Halloween on Pinterest.
15 comments:
love all these ideas, this is going to be great for the halloween party next month.. thanks for sharing @tisonlyme143
My brother used to obsessively make fake blood and then make movies using large amounts of that fake blood.
This couldn't have come at a more perfect time. My daughter has been on a major science experiment kick. Thank you!
Those dry ice bubbles are great!
Get some round ice cube trays and freeze blueberries in water in them. Then float those eyeballs in Halloween punch.
Buy some fresh carrots. Cut them into finger sizes. put peanut butter on the nail bed, and use the peanut butter to glue red apple peel cut into a fingernail. Eat that! People shudder, but they go for it.
These are great! I can't wait to try some of them! I am featuring this post on Saturday Science!
I love all of your ideas. They are so awesome and look so fun to do.
What great ideas! Thanks for sharing!
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I LOVE all these ideas, thank you so much!
~Sandy Gram
Great ideas.
Such cool ideas!
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These are all awesome!
Thanks for sharing @Saturday Science! Such a great round up of lots of fun ideas :)
These are all fun Halloween activities!
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