Easter
November 12, 2022
Grow an Easter Egg Science Experiment and Activities

Grow an Easter Egg Science Experiment and Activities

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Looking for outrageously fun and EASY Easter Science Experiments? This easter activity for preschoolers combines art and science for an educational and beautiful Easter STEM Activity. All you need are a few simple materials to try this Easter Science project for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders.

Looking for outrageously fun and EASY Easter Science Experiments? This easter activity for preschoolers combines art and science for an educational and beautiful Easter STEM Activity. All you need are a few simple materials to try this Easter Science project for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders.

Easter Science Experiments

This grow an Easter Egg activity is a MUST TRY for kids of all ages this april. This Easter Science Experiments allows kids to grow their own crystals that will actually decorate a pretty egg. Hang the finishes easter activity for preschoolers, toddlers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students in a window or decorate an outdoor bush. Either way this easter science activities is fun for parents, teacher, and homeschoolers alike!

Easter Science

Making crystals with borax is super duper EASY! It only takes a couple simple materials and 1 day to grow your own crystals! This fun science project is simple so kids can enjoy the wonder of exploring and trying new things. In this fun Easter STEAM activity you will combine science, engineering, and art for a truly educational and FUN learning activity!  First, make your saturated solution by mixing water with as much borax as will dissolve – we heat the water so it can absorb as much borax as possible.  As the solution cools, the borax particles will settle on the pipe cleaners and form pretty crystals. TADA!

Easter STEM Activities

Grow your own Crystals

To make this simple spring science experiment all you need are a few common supplies you might even already have on hand!

Materials:

  • pipe cleaners in assorted colors (yelow, blue, green, pink, etc.)
  • 3 cups of boiling water
  • 9 Tablespoons Borax (found with laundry detergent)
  • large jar
  • popsicle stick
  • yarn to hang the pipe cleaners

Easter Science Activities

Easter Activity for Preschoolers

The first step is to form an egg shape out of your pipe cleaners. Make as many as you like, just remembe they each need a jar to soak in to create crystals. If you put two-to-a-jar they crystals will end up joining the two eggs together.

Now cut some pipe cleaners in half and use them to create the accents to decorate your egg. You may make them wavy, zig zag, straight, or wiggly. Just loop the small pipe cleaner around the side of the egg to hold in place.

Outrageously fun and EASY Easter Science Experiments! This activity combines art and science for an educational and beautiful Easter STEM Activity. 

Easter STEM Activities

Now boil 3 cups of water in the microwave or in a saucepan.  Carefully mix in 9 Tablespoons of Borax (found in the laundry detergent aisle)  and stir until dissolved.  Pour the HOT mixture into a jar that is large enough to fit the egg pipe cleaner. Carefully lower the pipe cleaner rainbow into the solution so it is hanging in the solution, but is not touching sides or bottom using a stirng attached to the top of the egg. The borax and water solution must cover the entire egg craft. Now wrap end around a craft stick and set on top of the jar to hold in place.

Easter Activity for Preschoolers

Easter Science Activities

Resist the urge to check on or touch the jar for 24 hours. Now carefully pull out the beautifully decorated Easter eggs. Can you see all the pretty borax crystals that have formed! Allow the gg to dry on top of the jar or on a cardboard box. THen hang and enjoy this pretty easter craft for kids.

NOTE: If you have young children make sure you hang this out of reach as it is NOT EDIBLE! It is made from laundry detergent and is a chemical 😉

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Spring Math

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Spring Math for Preschoolers

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Kindergarten Spring Math

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Free Spring Printables

Your kids love mazes, but they've never seen something as incredibly COOL as this  maze potato! This potato maze will blow kids away as they watch potatoes grow, learn about plants and their need to head towards the light. This plant activity for kids is perfect for spring or summer learning. All you need to try stem activities are a few items you probabaly have around the house to try this plant experiments for kids from preschool, kindergarten, pre-k, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too! Make teaching kids about weather fun and EASY with this free weather unit. These Weather Worksheets help kids explore a variety of weather topics as well as some weather themed worksheet for early math and literacy too. Use these free weather printables as preschool, 1st grade, 2nd, grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade and kindergarten weather worksheets. Simply print pdf file with weather worksheets for kids and you are ready to learn! Kids are going to love this crazy cool bouncy egg experimert! Children will be amazed by this egg experiment where they will literally dissolve the shell of a raw egg to create a bouncy egg. This bouncy egg vinegar project is fun for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students. Plus our version of this egg in vinegar experiment has a fun, colorful twist! Have you ever tried making a Rainbow in a Jar project? If you haven't tried this classic density experiment, I'm going to show you how easy it is to make with a few common household items! This rainbow science experiment is so pretty and will amaze your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. Try this rainbow experiment as part of a weather theme, St Patricks Day activity, a rainbow theme or a spring activity for kids. 

Spring Science Ideas

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Spring Crafts for Kids

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Spring Craftivities

These fun ideas are a combination of spring crafts and spring activities:

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Flower Crafts

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Fun Spring Activities for Kids

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Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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