Pin by Koukla Kids on Summer Fun! Holiday Science Projects - Fun Science Projects for the Holidays. Updated December 08, 2014.
Are you looking for another source of fun for the winter holidays? Why not add some educational science projects with a winter holiday theme? These seasonal activities and experiments will entertain you, plus you may learn something too. Christmas Tree Preservative - You can use a little chemical know-how to keep your holiday tree fresh and beautiful. All you need are some common household ingredients. Marbled & Scented Gift Wrap - Use a surfactant to marble paper to make your own gift wrap. Make Your Own Snow - If the temperature where you live dips below freezing, then don't settle for polymer snow. Magic Crystal Christmas Tree - Grow crystals on a paper or sponge Christmas tree with this fun and easy project. Poinsettia pH Paper - The colorful bracts of this traditional holiday decoration contain a pigment that you can harvest for use as a pH indicator.
Grow a Borax Crystal Snowflake - Borax Crystals. Snow Ice Cream Recipes - Make Ice Cream Using Snow. There are actually a few different recipes for snow ice cream.
Here are some of the most common recipes: Snow Ice Cream without Eating Snow This first recipe uses snow and salt to freeze the ice cream (an example of freezing point depressions), but this recipe doesn't involve actually eating the snow (the rest of the recipes do). This is a great recipe if you want to play with the snow, but don't consider it clean enough to eat. Fill a gallon freezer bag halfway full with snow or crushed ice. Snow Ice Cream Recipe #1 This is a classic recipe that works really well because the sweetened condensed milk is thick and helps hold quickly melting snow together. 1 gallon or big bowl of clean snow (if you like, you can put the bowl outdoors to collect it as it falls) 1 14-oz can of sweetened condensed milk 1 tsp vanilla extract Mix the ingredients together and eat the snow ice cream.
Snow Ice Cream Recipe #2 Chocolate Snow Ice Cream big bowl of snow 1 cup sugar 1 cup chocolate milk. Magic Crystal Christmas Tree - Grow a Magic Crystal Christmas Tree. The magic part of the magic crystal Christmas tree is partly how quickly the crystals grow and partly the whole notion of a paper or sponge tree magically sprouting crystal foliage.
This project is a variation on the charcoal crystal garden, except the crystals are grown on a tree form. You can watch a timelapse video of this project to see what to expect. Magic Crystal Christmas Tree Materials 6 tablespoons or 90 ml water 6 tablespoons or 90 ml table salt (preferably uniodized) 6 tablespoons or 90 ml Mrs. Stewart's liquid laundry bluing [manufacturer's website] 1 tablespoon or 15 ml household ammonia food coloring (optional) Make the magic solution by dissolving the salt in the water and stirring in the bluing liquid and the ammonia.
How to Make Fake Snow. You can make fake snow using a common polymer.
The fake snow is non-toxic, feels cool to the touch, lasts for days, and looks similar to the real thing. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: mere minutes Here's How: There are a couple of ways to get the ingredient necessary to make fake polymer snow. Tips: Fake snow is non-toxic, as you would expect from a material used in disposable diapers. How to Make a Snowflake - Crystal Activity, Fun Science Experiments for Kids. What you'll need: String Wide mouth jar White pipe cleaners Blue food coloring (optional) Boiling water (take care or better still get an adult to help) Borax Small wooden rod or pencil Instructions: Grab a white pipe cleaner and cut it into three sections of the same size.
Twist these sections together in the center so that you now have a shape that looks something like a six-sided star. Make sure the points of your shape are even by trimming them to the same length. What's happening? Crystals are made up of molecules arranged in a repeating pattern that extends in all three dimensions. When you add the borax to the boiling water you can dissolve more than you could if you were adding it to cold water, this is because warmer water molecules move around faster and are more spread apart, allowing more room for the borax crystals to dissolve. When the solution cools, the water molecules move closer together and it can't hold as much of the borax solution.