e line, then up to the middle of the line above it, and then back down to the end of the first line as shown below.
Supplies You Need to Make Crayon Resist Art
I always try to use supplies that I have on hand or that I’ve used for other projects. Crayon resist art is super easy and can be done with some basic art supplies that you probably already have at home.
It’s Super Easy to Make Resist Art with a Crayon and Bingo Markers
Use your white crayon to draw an image of a spiderweb or trace your hand. You won’t be able to see what you are writing because of the white crayon on white paper, which might be challenging for a young child. It’s okay to make mistakes! My 10yr old gave herself 6 fingers!
To make our creepy optical illusion handprints, we drew lines across our fingers and hand with a slight arch. Draw horizontal arches all the way up the hand and fingers.
Use your bingo markers to color over the image. You may need to wipe any excess ink off of you push too hard, but we found that our markers dried super fast.
The girls colored until they revealed their drawing. It was so fun to see Science at work in our resist art! Our final results turned out beautiful!
Find More Halloween STEAM Activities
Find some more Halloween STEAM activities for kids!
Halloween Binary Code Joke Cards
In today’s digital world, binary code is perhaps one of the most important number systems.
Check out one of the easiest ways to learn binary code and grab these free Halloween joke cards!!
We Put the Boo in KaBOOm with this STEAM Activity
We set out to use items around the house to observe how a chemical reaction produces a new substance. Just kidding, we set out to make something EXPLODE.
To do that, we sat down and learned all about acids, bases, and chemical reactions and applied what we knew to our daily lives. I bored the kids with chemical equations and talked their ears off until surely they thought we weren’t doing anything exciting. Then, things went kaBOOm and they were thrilled!
How to Make Spooky Ghost Sounds STEM Activity
We paired a book with a simple physics activity for kids to make a spooky ghost sounds STEM activity! This Spooky Ghost Sounds STEM Halloween Activity is a fantastic way to incorporate a simple physics experiment with some Halloween fun!
Pumpkin Balance Stack STEAM Challenge
This pumpkin balance activity is great for kids of all ages! Can you complete the Balancing Pumpkins STEAM Challenge? How many pumpkins can you stack?
Silly Pumpkin Faces Activity
Learn about faces and emotions with this silly pumpkin face activity! These are pretty darn fun to play with! My little Thea calls them her “funny pumpkins” and she’s been playing with them throughout the last two days!
This is such a fun way to get into the holiday spirit and involve your toddler in some G-rated spooky fun!!
Exploding Pumpkin STEAM Challenge
Fall is such a fun time for STEAM activities from pumpkins to potions and every spooky thing in between, I love how many great projects fall into the season!
My kids really wanted to make a pumpkin explode. We’ve been talking about it since this Summer and we were super excited to try out some chemical and physical reactions to create some exploding and erupting pumpkins!
Preschool Pumpkin Investigation - Learning About Scientific Inquiry
Fall is a great time to investigate some of our favorite seasonal things — like pumpkins!! We’ve been doing so many activities with pumpkins that the employees at our Walmart keep asking me what I am doing buying so many!
This preschool pumpkin investigation is fantastic for young learners like my little Thea who isn’t quite ready for any of our other pumpkin activities. From exploding pumpkins to painting pumpkins, we’ve already done a fair share of pumpkin activities this year!
It's Not Magic, It's Pumpkin Paper Circuits!
My girls are super artistic. I love trying STEAM activities that incorporate their artistic side to teach them scientific concepts. This is a great STEAM activity to learn about simple circuits and parallel circuits and then apply that circuitry knowledge 