Brew up your own bubbling potion with this halloween lava lamp project perfect for October. This twist on the classic lava lamp science experiment is quick and easy-to-make! Try this as a Halloween science experiments with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade students. I just love using simple halloween activities to make learning FUN!
Halloween Lava Lamp
I love using seasonal activities like this halloween science project to get kids excited about science! We made a twist on our DIY Lava lamp for some halloween fun! This this halloween lava lamp kids will explore the scientific method, cause and effect, chemical reactiona, and be WOWed by this fun halloween science experiment. Try this halloween activity for kids with preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, and grade 4 students.
Halloween Science Experiments
All you need are a few simple materials you probabaly already have laying around your house:
- Empty bottle – clear pastic bottle like a water bottle, soda bottle, etc.
- baby oil – vegetable oil will do in a pinch
- food coloring – any color you like such as orange, purple, black, etc.
- Funnel to minimize the less
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Fill 1/3 of your container with water. Now add baby oil until you have just 2-3″ of headspace left.
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Drop in about 10-15 drops of food coloring.
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The bottle already looks pretty cool, doesn’t it? Point out to your kids how the food coloring dropped right to the bottom to the water layer where it began diffusing. Oil and water based food coloring do not mix! Learn more about density with Rainbow in a Jar Density Experiments.
Drop in alka seltzer tablet. You can drop it in whole, break it in half, make in may pieces. Each will work and just change the erruption pattern. So if you are going to do it more than once, perhaps have your children make hypothesis as to what breaking up the tablet will change.
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Now it’s time to watch as your homemade laval lamp bubbles and shoots up colorful erruptions that slowly fall back down. I could watch this for hours and hours – it is so pretty!
Pumpkin Lava Lamp
When your erruption slows you can always add another alka selter tablet to get things going again! Isn’t is mesmerizing?!
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This fun science project is sure to delight kids of all ages and round out your halloween theme with seasonal science!
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Pumpkin Activities
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Pumpkin Activity for Kids
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Pumpkin Science
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Halloween Science Experiments
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- Use your leftover Halloween candy to try some of these candy science experiments, or this water displacement with candy, or this fun candy STEM idea.
October Science Printables
- Grab this free Pumpkin Life Cycle Worksheets pack to learn about the life cycle of pumpkins
- Bat Life Cycle Worksheets
- Free Spider Life Cycle Worksheets
- Worm Worksheets – practice math, alphabet, literacy, and more!
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- All About Worms Worksheets
Pumpkin Math
- Pumpkin Counting activity that uses free printable and pumpkin candy corn to count and trace
- Count to 20 Pumpkin Playdough Mats
- Practice skip counting with this hands-on pumpkin math activity
- Super cute, free printable pumpkin addition game
- Fall Addition Sticker Worksheets are a fun, hands-on math worksheet
- Pumpkin Shape Matching Game to practice shape recognition with kids
- Make practicing math fun with this super cute, Pumpkin Patch Math Game
- These fun, reusable pumpkin math worksheets are super cute and make practicing addition fun for kindergartners
- Work on color words with this free pumpkin worksheets for preschoolers
- Pumpkin Matching Game
- Even older students will have fun getting in on the pumpkin theme with these multiplication pumpkin math puzzles
- These order of operation puzzles are another fun pumpkin math activity for older students.
- Work on number bonds to 10 with these pumpkin math worksheets for kindergarten and grade 1
- Super cute pumpkin counting activity piling the “whip cream” on the pie slice
- Work on 0ne-to-one correspondence with this pumpkin math for Kindergarten
- Grab these Pumpkin Addition Worksheets for a no prep math activity for young learners
- Practicing Counting with Pumpkin Seed Counting Activity
- Practice making shapes with these pumpkin shapes printable playdough mats
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- Hands on Pumpkin Shape Matching Games for Preshoolers
- Trace numbers and work on 1:1 correspondence with this pumpkin math activity for pre-k
- Adorable Pumpkin preschool pie craft for practicing counting!
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Pumpkin Printables
- Trace and Erase to practice again with this handy Pumpkin Printable Letter Tracing strips
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- This find the letter pumpkin worksheets for preschool
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- Find the Letter Alphabet Pumpkin Worksheets
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Candy Corn Activities
Looking for more candy corn activities for kids? You will love all these creative ideas!
- Free Candy Corn Words
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- Free Printable Candy Corn Alphabet Mats
Pumpkin Recipes
Plus don’t miss our yummy pumpkin recipes for fall:
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