Fifteen Simple Science Projects for Easter
Get ready for a colourful and educational Easter with these engaging science experiments designed for kids! These activities incorporate real and plastic eggs, colourful reactions, slime, and STEM challenges, making learning fun and exciting.
Easter Egg Stacking STEM Challenge
Using plastic eggs and play-dough, children can attempt to stack as many eggs as possible to explore balance, stability, and engineering concepts. This simple yet tricky STEM activity is suitable for preschool and early elementary children.
Chemical Reaction with Real Eggs (Lemon Volcanoes style)
Take your science experiments to the next level by using real eggs for an acid-base reaction. Soak the eggs in vinegar to dissolve the shells (which contain calcium carbonate), then decorate them with food coloring for colourful effects. Alternatively, a lemon and baking soda fizzing experiment can be done on paper plates with food dye to simulate erupting volcanoes, showing exciting colourful reactions.
Slime Making with a Touch of Easter Magic
Create slime using everyday ingredients like glue, baking soda, vinegar, and contact lens saline solution or water activators. Adding glitter, food coloring, or glow-in-the-dark powder gives it a festive, colourful look. This slime-making experiment introduces concepts of polymers and physical chemistry while offering a tactile sensory activity.
Egg Sensory and Fine Motor Science Activities
Use hollow plastic eggs filled with small objects or coloured liquid to create a sensory bin or matching game that promotes fine motor skills and introduces counting or matching letters and colours with STEM relevance.
Milk and Food Coloring Reaction ("Explosive Firework Display")
Inspired by Disney science experiments, pour milk into a shallow dish, add drops of colourful food dye, then touch the surface with a dish soap-coated Q-tip to create swirling colourful patterns due to surface tension changes, demonstrating fluid dynamics and chemistry.
These experiments combine fun, colour, tactile engagement, and foundational STEM principles suitable for kids at various ages and skill levels, perfect for Easter-themed learning and play. Additionally, there are more experiments available such as the "Rainbow Fizzy Easter Eggs", Peeps science experiments, and a collection of Easter slime recipes.
For a more comprehensive guide, check out the Printable Easter Project Pack which includes 20+ Easter science activities and STEM projects for K-2 and beyond. This pack offers simple background science explanations, theme activities, journal pages, and design process steps, as well as additional STEM activities like the Easter egg tower, spaghetti and marshmallow challenge Easter theme, brick building ideas, puzzles, and screen-free coding activities.
Happy Easter and happy experimenting!
- The Easter Egg Stacking STEM Challenge uses plastic eggs and play-dough, allowing kids to explore balance, stability, and engineering concepts.
- Real eggs can be used for an acid-base reaction in the Chemical Reaction with Real Eggs experiment, demonstrating concepts found in both chemistry and biology.
- Slime Making with a Touch of Easter Magic, incorporating glitter, food coloring, or glow-in-the-dark powder, introduces concepts of polymers and physical chemistry.
- Egg Sensory and Fine Motor Science Activities promote fine motor skills and introduce counting or matching, with an added STEM relevance.
- The Milk and Food Coloring Reaction creates swirling colourful patterns due to surface tension changes, demonstrating fluid dynamics and chemistry.
- Preschool and early elementary children will enjoy the Sensory Bin or Matching Game using hollow plastic eggs filled with small objects or coloured liquid.
- Inspired by Disney science experiments, the "Explosive Firework Display" showcases interactive and educational play while learning about fluid dynamics and chemistry.
- The educational fun continues with the "Rainbow Fizzy Easter Eggs" experiment, offering an exciting visual display of chemical reactions.
- Peeps science experiments offer a sweet way to learn about chemical and physical properties, working well as snacks or projects.
- A collection of Easter slime recipes provides hands-on learning opportunities, ensuring lasting fun and engagement.
- For a more comprehensive guide, check out the Printable Easter Project Pack, featuring 20+ Easter science activities and STEM projects.
- Online-education resources can be utilized for lifelong learning, as these projects support core STEM principles in an engaging and accessible way.
- Engaging in these activities fosters a stronger foundation in science, engineering, and mathematics for kids, promoting education-and-self-development and nurturing their curiosity and creativity for future projects.
