Spooky Halloween Science Experiments You Can Do At Home
These Halloween science experiments are perfect for tweens and can easily be done at home. They’re one of the many Halloween activities you can do with your older kids.
Middle schoolers will love getting into the Halloween spirit with these creepy science experiments. So break out the lab materials. It’s time to have some ghoulish fun!
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How to Make Science Fun
There are many ways to make science fun for middle school students, but the best one is to make sure your lesson plans include hands-on activities like experiments.
Science experiments give tweens the chance to see the scientific process in action and how the information they’ve been reading about in their textbook connects to the world around them. Labs often result in surprising and interesting results, which is a great way to pique your students’ curiosity.
Plus, it’s easy to tailor experiments to the interests of your kids or a specific season or theme, like Halloween, which often makes it easier for them to engage with the material.
Experiments are a great way to learn science.
Focusing on Halloween in Science
Kids go crazy for Halloween, so it just makes sense to incorporate the season into your lessons. The easiest subject to do this with is definitely science, because it is a time when people are naturally interested in things that are creepy, crawly, and spooky.
Plus, many scientific concepts tie in nicely with Halloween themes, such as the study of bats, spiders, oozing chemical reactions, anatomy, and decomposition.
This is a fun and festive time of year, so using Halloween-themed experiments is a great way to teach tweens about the scientific method and get them excited about science.
What are Halloween-themed science experiments?
One great way to get into the Halloween spirit is by doing some spooky science experiments. But what is a Halloween-themed science experiment? It’s one that includes spooky or eerie ideas and materials.
These can be anything from creepy crawly experiments with bugs to slimy concoctions that resemble witches’ brews. You can even do some fun experiments with candy – after all, what’s Halloween without treats?
Some other common Halloween labs include making slime, creating bubbling potions, and growing mold.
It’s the season to let your imagination run wild. Just remember that with tweens, the grosser the better.
Creepy Science Kits
If you’re looking for an easy way to add some science experiments into your busy homeschooling day, check out these science kits. They include almost everything you need to complete a variety of different labs and with the detailed instructions, most middle schoolers can do them independently.
This is a great way to turn your science lessons extra-creepy this holiday without a bunch of extra planning.
- With this STEM kit, kids can make things like zombie farts, exploding slugs, and bloody slime.
- These gross gummy candy labs are sure to be a hit with your kids this Halloween.
- As part of this creepy science lab, tweens will dissect a brain, burst blood cells, and make squishy eyeballs.
- How excited would your kids be about making witches’ potions as part of science class?
- Kids can make all kinds of Halloween slime with this awesome kit.
- Learn about optics and refraction as you watch ghost eggs appear and disappear.
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Spooky Science Labs
With these Halloween science labs, you’ll have no trouble harnessing your child’s love for the holiday into some cool experiments.
From exploding pumpkins to dissolving candy, you’ll find what you need to make science extra-spooky for your tweens this season.
Do pumpkin guts rot? What happens when you leave the slimy seeds and guts somewhere warm versus cold? Find out with this hands-on experiment for kids of all ages.
See if your tweens can make a ghost levitate with this magnetic science experiment.
Learn about chemical reactions with these creepy oozing pumpkins!
Use chemical reactions to blow up a balloon and add some oozing science experiments to your lesson plans this Halloween.
Make your own glowing slime as part of your science class to teach your kids about matter and light.
Turn your thermodynamics study into a Halloween-themed one with flying tea bag ghosts.
Use some of your kids' candy as part of your Halloween-themed science lessons. In this one, they'll hypothesize how long it will take for various types of candy to dissolve.
Can you build a circuit and battery out of a pumpkin? Use this experiment to find out!
How to preserve a carved pumpkin with this fun Jack O’ Lantern rot prevention Halloween science experiment. Find out how to use common household items to make your pumpkin last longer.
Add some science and excitement to your Halloween celebrations with this exploding pumpkin science experiment. Use a few materials to create this memorable experiment.
This skeleton hand is the perfect way to add a Halloween twist to your anatomy lesson plans.
Turn this experiment into a Halloween-themed one by using creepy and spooky items in your density jar. Things like plastic spiders, eyeballs, and pumpkins.
Kids can use floating ghosts to learn about density, matter, and volume.
This Halloween, make a creepy gelatin heart as part of your chemistry lessons to teach kids about matter.
Don't eat all of your Skittles candy without trying this colorful and simple magic Skittles experiment.
As you can see, it’s incredibly easy to turn your science class into one that’s filled with slime, ghosts, and gory anatomy. Your tweens will love it!
More Halloween Fun
Want even more ideas of things you can do with your tweens this season?
- Add some Halloween themed original story writing to your language arts with this FREE printable.
- Let your kids show off their creativity with some holiday crafts, like this Frankenstein clay pot and DIY candy corn decoration.
- Do some kitchen science, also known as baking, with your tweens. They’ll love these spooky cookies and eye-filled treats.
Which Halloween science experiment are you going to work on with your tween?
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