Get your kids excited about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics while they’re young!
These Fall STEM Ideas for Kids are a great way to get your kids engaged in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical concepts and make it seem like play. They’re going to love exploring, playing, and testing these ideas and you’re going to love watching them learn! Have Fun!
Fall STEM Ideas for Kids
Use acorns as a mathematical counting tool and your kids will a blast.
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Tracking animals is a great way to learn about their behaviors and how they engage with nature.
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Your child is going to love watching this apple create bubbles!
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What do apples look like inside? How do they change colors? Why are the seeds shaped like a star? Investigate apples from the inside out with this project!
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Your child is going to love observing how apples rot under various circumstances.
Via Gift of Curiosity
This autumn nature table is a great way to explore the natural changes of autumn.
Via The Imagination Tree
Your kids are going to love building this apple structure using toothpicks and apple pieces.
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Let the fun fly when your kids build their own candy corn catapult.
Via Frugal Fun for Boys
This candy corn volcano is a blast!
Via Growing A Jeweled Rose
What will your kids find when they dissect an owl pellet?
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Your kids will explode with laughter when they watch the cork pop out of this exploding apple!
Via Little Bins for Little Hands
This exploding play dough is so much fun to play with and explore.
Via Housing a Forest
Create fall sensory jars so your children can explore nature all season long.
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Your kids are going to love exploring how pumpkins can grow inside other pumpkins.
Via Life With Moore Babies
What are some of the hidden colors in a leaf? Did you even know colors were hiding? You’ll find out with this fun experiment!
Via Share It Science
This fun experiment will examine why corn ‘hops’ in certain conditions.
Via One Time Through
Learn all about pumpkin life cycles with these fun printable worksheets.
Via Itsy Bitsy Fun
Create geo designs using a pumpkin, rubber bands, and various ‘points’.
Via Fun A Day
Your child is going to love exploring leaf structures when they color-trace the leaf veins.
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Learn about photosynthesis with this spotted leaves experiment.
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Preserve leaves in glycerin and see how long they’ll last!
Via Tinker Lab
What are the different parts of leaves and seeds and how do they change in the fall?
Via Inspiration Labs
Learn about photosynthesis by forcing color change in this leaf experiment.
Via How Wee Learn
How do pinecones open and close? Why do they open and close? These questions are great to ask with this pinecone experiment.
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Use a corn cob to teach your child how vegetables grow and take root.
