🎃 Halloween projects

🎃 Halloween is on Saturday, 31 October 2026. Get making!

2 projects for age 11 · page 1 of 1

Projects

Ages 7–12⏱ 30 min

Mummified Apple Experiment

Children test how the ancient Egyptians preserved mummies by burying apple slices in salt and bicarbonate of soda for a week. The salts draw water out of the apple, and without water the things that cause rot cannot grow. It is a real fair test with measuring and recording.

Kitchen ScienceNature & Outdoors

Ages 5–11⏱ 45 min

Pumpkin Seed Scientists

Scooping out a pumpkin becomes a science lesson: guess how many seeds are inside, count them in tens, test which ones sink or float, and save some to grow next spring. It covers estimating, counting and how plants make seeds.

Nature & OutdoorsCooking & Edible Makes