Are you looking for some spooky science to do at home? If you want to know how to do some Halloween experiments and make DIY Halloween decorations, you’ve come to the right place.
Discover how to create edible fake blood, craft a spooky window scene, turn Halloween candy into dancing Franken-worms, mix up a batch of gooey oobleck slime and carve a puking pumpkin right here. PLUS find out which issues of Whizz Pop Bang contain Halloween activities!
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1. Edible fake blood
You will need:
• 4 dessert spoons of golden syrup
• 10-20 drops of red food colouring
• 1-2 drops of blue food colouring
• 1-2 pinches of cocoa powder
• Flour
What you do:
Mix the red food colouring into the syrup a drop at a time until it looks blood coloured. Adding a drop of blue food colour ing will make it even more realistic, but be careful you don’t make it purple! Mix in a pinch of cocoa powder. Add a little flour if it needs thickening, or a drop or two of water if it needs thinning out. Drip it around your mouth like a vampire and go and scare your friends!
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2. Spooky window scene
You will need:
A pencil
Black card or paper
Scissors
Translucent sweet wrappers or coloured tissue paper
Sticky tack
Battery operated tea lights
What you do:
- Draw your design on black card or paper.
- Cut it out.
- Add the windows and cut them out.
- Use see-through sweet wrappers or tissue paper as window panes.
- Add finishing touches (we cut out bats and ghosts!)
- Use sticky tack to stick to a window. Add battery operated lights to make your scene glow!
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3. Dancing Franken-worms
Turn the contents of those overflowing trick or treat buckets into a fun learning opportunity. Find out how to use bicarbonate of soda and vinegar to make gummy worms dance over at Playdoh to Plato’s blog!
4. Ooey gooey oobleck
Find out how to make the freaky non-Newtonian fluid, oobleck! It’s a great Halloween science activity (and it’s easy to clean up!)
You will need:
Mixing bowl
Spoon
Cornflour or custard powder
Water
Food colouring (optional)
What you do:
1. Place four heaped tablespoons of cornflour or custard powder into a bowl.
2. Add a splash of water and stir the mixture. Keep adding water a little at a time, until the mixture is about the same consistency as honey.
3. If you add too much water, add some more cornflour or custard powder.
4. Add a little food colouring if you like and mix it in.
Watch the video to find out more about the strange properties of this special substance.
5. Puking pumpkin experiment
You’ve carved a pumpkin – now use science to make it even more fun with this brilliant idea from Little Bins for Little Hands! Click here for step-by-step instructions
Looking for more spooky science? These issues of Whizz Pop Bang have some simple Halloween science ideas inside!
🎃 Craft a scary skull mask, experiment with brilliant bendy bones and build your own model skeleton in Whizz Pop Bang 27: Spectacular Skeletons
🎃 Make an upcycled bat garland in Whizz Pop Bang 63: Sweet Dreams
🎃 Snip and stick a spooky street scene and craft light up ghost decorations in Whizz Pop Bang 87: Starry Skies
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Jo Bird says:
Very entertaining fun magazine with lots of science content. My 10 year old granddaughter often feel too sophisticated(!) these days to do some of the activities but I do find her reading the magazine in quiet moments and this leads to good discussions and plenty of laughs . Highly recommended .