Candy Science Experiments for Your Halloween Leftovers

Odds are good if you celebrate Halloween that your household is about to have more candy in it than you really want to or should eat. So why not turn some of that sugary goodness into a science project?

Check out this article on the best STEM gifts for kids.

Check out our Online store for special buys on Educational gifts We find bulk items and end-of-stock supplies to bring you heavily discounted items. (make sure you check our store often so you don’t miss out on new stock). We also have some free printable files, including a Science PDF for learning about Microscopes.

Playdough to Plato has collected 21 candy science experiments you and your kids can do with cast off Skittles, gummies, M&Ms and more.

A couple of my favorites are

Skittles Rainbow in a Jar

Candy Chromotography

Does Candy Sink or Float? (We did a similar thing at our local children’s museum and my daughter really enjoyed it)

Pop Rockets don’t actually use candy (plastic candy containers are used to build the rockets) but they’re really cool so I couldn’t help including them)

There’s lots of other great stuff over there, too, so go check it out for some fun activities to continue the Halloween festivities without actually eating all the candy the kids collected!

Do you do science with candy? I’d love to hear what you’ve tried.

[Photo via Playdough to Plato.]

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Learning about Women in STEM

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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