Do you love pumpkins? Do you get pumpkin fever this time of year? If you want to do more with pumpkins than just carve them or make pumpkin muffins, check out our totally awesome real pumpkin STEM activities. Our activities are pretty easy to do at home and don’t require any specialty items, just pumpkins and a few pantry ingredients. Oh and you can also make your pumpkin muffins with one of the easy science activities!
REAL PUMPKIN STEM ACTIVITIES FOR FALL
FIVE LITTLE PUMPKINS STEM CHALLENGE
Can you get five little pumpkins to sit on a gate? Engineer your own gate to go along with this classic counting book.
PUMPKIN VOLCANO & MINI PUMPKIN VOLCANOS
A classic baking soda science experiment with a pumpkin either one big one or a few small ones!
Explore the insides of a pumpkin with a pumpkin investigation or observation tray for real pumpkin STEM!
Throw the leftovers from the observation tray into a zip lock bag for a fun sensory bag.
We do love our slime recipe and we will even make it in a pumpkin!
Goop, gunk, or oobleck this non-newtonian fluid is great science and easy to make. Why not make it with pumpkin.
Turn a pumpkin into a LEGO scene. It’s a must see.
A carved pumpkin will rot. Why does it? Pumpkin Jack is a great book to pair with your rotting pumpkin.
Build a tunnel through a pumpkin. Can you launch a car through it?
Design your own super simple machine for hauling pumpkins.
PUMPKIN ROLLING WITH RAMPS
Slide, rain gutters, cardboard ramps whatever you want but test out how pumpkins roll on different angles of ramps. How well do pumpkins roll? Why or why not? Coming soon.
PUMPKIN MATH {Measuring and Weighing}
Supplies: String, measuring tape, kitchen scale, various sized pumpkins or pumpkins of similar size. Use string to measure around the pumpkin and then lay it up against a measuring tape to find the circumference. Weigh each pumpkin on a scale. Which one has the biggest circumference or weighs the most? Measure the height of the pumpkin from the bottom to top of stem with a ruler. Coming soon.
PUMPKIN SEED ESTIMATING
Choose a pumpkin or two and guess which one would have more seeds. Clean out the pumpkins, dry the seeds and put them in a jar. Have everyone make an estimation of how many seeds are in the jar. Count the seeds to see who had the closest estimation. Coming soon.
IRRVERSIBLE CHANGE {Pumpkin Baking}
Have you ever baked your own pumpkin to add to a favorite pumpkin recipe? We did!
DOES A PUMPKIN FLOAT {Even a big one?}
Use different size pumpkins in a big bin of water. Predict whether or not each one will float. Coming soon.
Check out how you can make a geo board out of a pumpkin. We used a white pumpkin but of course you can use an orange one too.
FUN REAL PUMPKIN STEM ACTIVITIES ALL SEASON!
Also check out these pumpkin books paired with fun pumpkin STEM ideas to try. Click on photo.
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