The Top 20 Best Halloween Activities from Kid Bloggers
By Blog Editor Susan Wells
One of my responsibilities at Steve Spangler Science is to get to know bloggers by reading their blogs, leaving comments and sharing with them. Mom bloggers are incredibly creative. All of us at the Spangler Labs enjoy seeing twists on our experiments as well as new activities and science lessons that come out of the parent blogging community. Here is our choice for the top 20 blog posts for Halloween from some of the blogging world’s best kid bloggers. Not all activities are fully science-related, but all are unique and creative and will give your Halloween some extra fun.
If you see an idea below that catches your fancy, share it with your friends, family and blog readers. Just keep in mind that if you like it, link it. Give credit to the originator of the idea. Then go out and come up with your own unique idea.
1. Glowing Goblin Goo
from Growing a Jeweled Rose
2. Sensory BOO Bottles
from Mom 2 Posh Lil Divas
3. 5 Science Experiments for Halloween
from Science Sparks
4. Halloween Science Fluorescent Chlorophyll
from Inspiration Laboratories
5. Bones. Skeletons. Science
from Rainbows Within Reach
6. Halloween Animal Activity for World Animal Day
from BlogMeMom
7. Halloween Sensory Bags – Goblin Guts & Melting Witch
from Growing a Jeweled Rose
8. 5 Little Pumpkins Activity Packet
from Playdough to Plato
9. Halloween Messy Jelly Play
from Nurture Store
10. Halloween Count Down Calendar
from KC EDventures
11. 10 Little Pumpkins Felt Story Board
from Love, Play, Learn
12. Monster Eggs – Colored Halloween Eggs
from Growing a Jeweled Rose
13. Halloween Ice Ghosts
from the Golden Gleam
14. Spider Activities for Kids
from Here Come the Girls
15. Tie Dye Pumpkin Shirt
from Momma’s Fun World
16. Fall Activities for After School
from The Educators’ Spin On It
17. Glycerin Leaves
from TinkerLab
18. Kool-Aid Pumpkins
from Housing a Forest
19. Scarecrow Crafts and Games
from B-Inspired Mama and Educators’ Spin On It
20. Monster Race Board
from Glittering Muffins
Looking for more ideas? Kindergarten and Preschool for Parents and Teachers also has an extensive list of Halloween learning and sensory activities.
Wow, fantastic list of activities. Thanks for including Science Sparks.
What a great list, Susan! As you know I’m a huge fan of Steve Spangler — thanks for including us.
Oh thanks for including my spider round up!
Such a brilliant list – if only there were time to do all of it!
What a fantastic list! Thank you so much. I LOVE science and kids do too.
Awesome collection of ideas. Thanks for sharing!
A great list for Halloween fun! Thanks for including my Fluorescent Chlorophyll demo.
Wow, thank you for including our Boo Bottles on this awesome list of Halloween fun for kids.
I’m so appreciative of your including ‘our’ skeletons over at RainbowsWithinReach. I am honored.
TERRIFIC resources!
Debbie Clement
Thank you so much for including our Fall Activities for AFter School. We do a lot of science experiments together after school and I can’t wait to check out the rest of the collections you’ve shared. What a fun week we’re going to have for Halloween!