I am thrilled to be back hosting Saturday Science after a whole summer away from blogging! My co-hosts are Stir The Wonder, Lemon Lime Adventures, Little Bins For Little Hands, P Is For Preschooler, and Suzy Homemaker.
It coincides with our garden's gourd explosion - seriously, if you planted even one pumpkin or zucchini seed this year you know exactly what I mean. We are shredding, pureeing, cooking and still we have more pumpkins than we know what to do with.....until now.
Here are the 5 most fantastic, disgusting, or spectacular pumpkin science experiments for kids that I could dig up on the internet. D, 6, wants to do them all...preferably several times over!
1. Exploding Pumpkins. So incredibly entertaining! Not for the unsupervised or faint of heart!
2. Glowing Pumpkins. A harvest moon and a bunch of kids running around in the dark? Yes please.
3. Oozing pumpkins. Yet another reason I love Steve Spangler's site.
4. Rotting Pumpkins on Kids' Activities Blog. Definitely an "outside project". Great for practice recording observations. If you also have a scavenger dog, put it out of reach!
5. Erupting Pumpkins from Growing a Jeweled Rose. A classic with a twist. We tried this and also Diet Coke and Mentos. The dogs got so excited that they had to be banned from the entertainment.
Someone may have been sampling the revolting carbonated drink during the experiment. What you don't see is him off camera spitting it out dramatically.
If you do this, try to straighten up and jump back BEFORE it sprays up your nose. I'm just saying.
Make sure you check out this week's posts by my co-hosts, too (Little Bins For Little Hands looked at pumpkin sensory science, if you want to extend your activity while using up lots of pumpkin):
Exploring Motors from Suzy Homeschooler
How Temperature Affects Solids Science Experiment from Little Bins For Little Hands
Building Structures with Candy Pumpkins from Lemon Lime Adventures