Of course, your STEAM activities don’t need to be edible to be a ton of fun. Food is just a super awesome bonus. So tell me, vị you enjoy hands-on STEM activities in your homeschool?
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Top 11 Edible Science Projects và Experiments
Why Engage in Edible STEM Activities?
STEM và STEAM activities, whether they are edible or not, are so important và it’s a good idea khổng lồ regularly schedule them into your homeschool. (Use your own definitely of regular – ours is once or twice a week but once or twice a month or every single day are also appropriate, depending on your homeschool dynamics.
So Why STEAM? STEAM stands for Science, technology, engineering, art, and technology. A good STEAM or STEM activity will include at least 2 or 3 of these aspects and a great one will include all five.
When you focus on these subjects in your homeschool, you are molding & developing your children into well-rounded, highly-educated, leaders of tomorrow. Kids who are interested in STEM grow up to be:
DoctorsScientistsProgrammersWeb DevelopersInnovatorsBusiness LeadersArchitectsEngineersWeldersMachinistsComputer TechniciansElectriciansGeographersAccountantsCartographersPsychologistsFinancial AnalystsEtcEtcThe jobs in STEM are numerous và kids are grow up focusing on these topics will have that much more of a head start in life.
So let’s get started with our collection of the best edible science experiments & edible STEM projects on the internet. Enjoy!
Top 11 Edible Science Projects & Experiments
These đứng đầu 11 edible science experiments have all been enjoyed in our homeschool over the last few months. Click on one khổng lồ learn more about it! Many of them even include không tính tiền printable worksheets or lesson plans if you click through.
Tin Can Ice Cream
When you homeschool, ice cream is no longer just a summer afternoon treat. Now you can learn about physical reactions with your very own homemade ice cream activity!
Using a simple tin can and a water bottle, your kids will learn about heat transfer & how salt turns your creamy concoction into a frozen treat, all while getting some physical energy out!
Or you can do the same experiment using baggies instead of tin cans. The choice is your and the instructions are all here in the tin can ice cream STEM activity. Kids of all ages will love this activity. When you’re done, now try experimenting with homemade sherbet. Enjoy this yummy treat all year long!
Edible Slime
While slime is typically considered to be a sensory activity for preschoolers, older kids can learn a lot about Non-Newtonian fluids with slime, và of course, there is always the scientific method.
Especially when using an edible slime recipe, kids can test và experiment with various ingredients to lớn see what works, what doesn’t, and how each ingredient reacts. If your experiment wasn’t a bust, you have a fun và delicious activity to lớn enjoy for an even longer amount of time.
You can make edible slime out of marshmallows, starbursts, gummy bears, candy corn, và so much more. Learn the food science behind these everyday treats. Can your kiddos make slime out of an Oreo? You won’t know until you try! Enjoy this fun edible science experiment & try some edible slime today.
Edible Stained Glass
While most STEAM activities involve mostly science, math, engineering, etc, this edible stained glass activity turns the art up a few notches. Learn about how stained glass works & try your hand at your own edible glass using homemade candies or by melting jolly ranchers.
When you’re done, learn a little about famous historical stained glass pieces and the artists behind them. Now try and duplicate a famous work of art in your kitchen. Edible stained glass is an awesome edible STEAM activity that ends in a yummy treat!
Edible DNA Model
What better way to learn about the complexities of sciences than with an edible DNA model? Using delicious candies, your kids can build their own candy DNA mã sản phẩm while learning about the basics of DNA structures and genetic codes.
Use the free printable DNA worksheet lớn take the learning even further. Go get the step-by-step tutorial for learning with an edible DNA model now!
Pop Rocks
Pop rocks are a fun way to bring edible fun into an earth science lesson. Make your own DIY pop rocks và learn about what happens when air pockets get trapped inside other materials.
This project is perfect for preschoolers và elementary students, but older students will enjoy it as well. Learn how to lớn make homemade pop rocks an edible science experiment your kids will never forget.
Fizzy Lemonade
Fizzy lemonade is a simple science activity that teaches kids about acids and bases. Using a simple cup or a jar along with a few other basic ingredients, your kids can make their own edible explosion & watch the chemical reaction of solids & bases at work.
Knowing about acids và bases is an important lesson to lớn teach & for so many reasons. Learn the basics as well as how khổng lồ apply these concepts to your everyday life with this fizzy lemonade experiment.
The Science of Cookies
This is one of my absolute favorite edible science experiments. The science of cookies turns an everyday activity into a full-on kitchen science experiment, all with the scientific method.
Use a basic chocolate cpu recipe as your starting point. Then, changing one variable at a time, manipulate things until you have learned what part each và every ingredient plays in the overall cookie recipe. Do you know how to lớn make a cookie crispy or chewy? vì chưng you know what melted butter vs softened butter does? Learn all of this & more with a science of cookies STEM activity.
Butter Churning
What can you learn from homemade butter? From the history of the Pilgrims or prairie pioneers to lớn the science of fat molecules and how they react when manipulated, there is so much to be learned!
Of course you can’t forget the art of making a delicious treat. Go learn about using homemade butter as an edible STEM activity now.
Toothpick Bridges
Toothpick bridges are another example of fun kitchen science activities và edible STEM projects. You can build these bridges using toothpicks, spaghetti noodles, gumdrops, marshmallows, or whatever else you can think of.
Model your bridges after real-world designs và structures and learn about engineering, math, history, geography, and more, all at the same time. Go read more about how we use toothpick bridges in our homeschool.
Gingerbread Structures
Gingerbread structures are not just for Christmas. You can enjoy the science, engineering, & math behind these fun activity all year long just by changing up the structure you are building!
Bring in some real-world history or architecture by making a famous monument or landmark. The scientific method comes into play again as you experiment with various materials and learn what works best together. Find out more about how we turned gingerbread nativities into a full-on educational adventure!
Homemade Rock Candy
Homemade rock candy is a traditional kitchen science experiment và a good way to lớn enjoy yummy STEM fun with preschoolers, elementary students, middle school students, and even high schoolers.
The concept is simple. Kids learn how khổng lồ make sugar crystals using a supersaturated solution made from sugar & water. They can experiment with variables and test how each variable affects the final product. And at the end, they get to eat! For extra learning fun, use this same concept khổng lồ try your hand at rock candy geodes!
For more information on how khổng lồ enjoy this edible STEM activity and make your own rock candy in your home, read this article on homemade rock candy science.
Edible STEM Experiments Book
Like what you see? Want to learn more? kiểm tra out our Edibles Edition of our STEM Made Easy Book. It includes very involved projects that are perfect for kids ages 3 – 19. Some families even use this book as their complete STEM curriculum.
Want a không tính tiền chapter sample? Sign up khổng lồ get a complete project chapter from a STEM Made Easy book sent to lớn you so you can see exactly what’s inside.