What to play in autumn? 5 Awesome autumn-themed STEAM activities
/Do you like autumn? In this season when the temperature is getting cooler, let's have an autumn-themed activity with our children!
This time we’ve selected 5 STEAM activities related to autumn, including how to use Oreo cookies to understand the moon phase, make pumpkin volcanoes, use building blocks to make pumpkins, and maple leaf dyeing science experiments!
Every kind of activity is really full of autumn feel. Are you looking forward to it?
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What to play in autumn? 5 awesome autumn-themed STEAM activities
1. Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Viewing Science: Oreo Biscuit Moon Experiment
The most important festival in autumn is the Mid-Autumn Festival! I wonder if you have any fixed activities during the Mid-Autumn Festival? I love barbecue and grapefruit! (So not creative).
If you want to play something different with your kids during the Mid-Autumn Festival, you must try using Oreo cookies to learn the moon's ecstasy, just do it!
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Things need to be prepared
8 Oreo cookies
Learning chart (not necessary)
How to do the Oreo biscuit moon experiment?
Explain why the moon is cloudy and clear.
Use the cream filling of the biscuit to make moon phase changes.
Take the child to observe the moon phase changes.
You can also print out the following study sheet to play the moon cookie experiment to make it easier for children to understand!
Credit: Superstar Worksheets
2. Know the fruits of the season: DIY apple life cycle hat
Autumn is the season of apple. Apple is the healthy and a very good fruit. Take advantage of this season to do a little STEAM activities with your children and let them know the growth of apple!
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Credit: The STEM Laboratory
Things need to be prepared
Drawing paper
Pencil, colored pen or watercolor
Double-sided tape
How to make the apple lifecycle hat?
Draw a periodic pattern of "from seed to apple" on the drawing paper.
Cut out a long piece of paper, wrap it around and stick it as a hat.
Paste the drawn patterns on the edge of the hat, and you are done!
You can also search for "apple life circle" on the Internet, and there will be many apple growth patterns or study sheets.
Credit: The STEM Laboratory
Credit: The STEM Laboratory
Wearing such a cool cycle hat not only learns the plant growth cycle, but is also full of fun in the process. Isn’t it great?
3. Halloween pumpkin volcano
Autumn is also the season for Halloween. In addition to the Halloween costume parade, you might as well have a more weird "Pumpkin Volcano" science experiment with your children!
Things need to be prepared
Dishwashing liquid
Baking soda
White vinegar
Food coloring (orange, purple, green)
Small pumpkin
Others: knife, small spoon, small container
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How to make Halloween pumpkin volcano?
1. Cut the pumpkin head and clean the seeds.
2. Pour a teaspoon of baking soda in each pumpkin.
3. Add a little dishwashing liquid.
4. Add food paint.
5. Finally, pour 1/3 cup of white vinegar to complete.
Credit: Natural Beach Living
Credit: Natural Beach Living
Observe carefully, what will happen to the pumpkin?
Adding acid (such as acetic acid) to baking soda will cause a chemical reaction to produce carbon dioxide. At this time, many bubbles will be generated inside the pumpkin. As the carbon dioxide increases, the bubbles will be squeezed out, which looks like a volcanic eruption!
4. Maple leaf dyeing science experiment
This is a very simple scientific experiment that is very suitable for autumn. But first you have to take your children out to "collect maple leaves". Take the opportunity to take the children out for a walk!
Credit: A Little Pinch of Perfection
Things need to be prepared
Maple leaves of different colors (red, yellow, green, brown)
Alcohol
Transparent test tube
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Credit: A Little Pinch of Perfection
How to do the scientific experiment of maple leaf dyeing?
First, wash the picked up maple leaves and blanch them in boiling water for 5 minutes.
Take the leaves out and place them on the tabletop to warm them up.
Pour alcohol into the transparent test tube container.
Put the maple leaf directly into the alcohol and let it stand overnight.
Get up the next day and you will see Maple Leaf stained with alcohol! It turns out that the cooked leaves have no cuticle protection. When they are soaked in alcohol, the chloroplasts of the leaves will be removed and dissolved in alcohol to form dyeing. It is beautiful, right?
Credit: A Little Pinch of Perfection
5. Use building blocks to create pumpkin
Seeing a foreign teacher using Lego bricks to teach children to make pumpkins, I think that Plus-Plus is more suitable! Because you can make an "arc shape" with Plus-Plus, and it can construct a very stunning shape whether it is flat or a 3D design!
See more creation ideas with Plus-Plus.
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