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Home » Electricity for Kids » Easy Spooky Circuits for Halloween

Easy Spooky Circuits for Halloween

Modified: Oct 2, 2024 · Published: Oct 20, 2018 by Emma Vanstone · This post may contain affiliate links · 1 Comment

It’s almost Halloween, which means we’re in crazy spooky activity mode. I wasn’t sure I’d have time to post much new content this year, but a couple of easy ideas popped into my head, and I couldn’t resist trying them out. Did you see my spider drawing robot?

We’ve built circuits for small light-up houses before and shown you how to make a switch using just a piece of card and a paperclip. You can use the same method to make spooky houses for Halloween.

Spooky Circuits for Kids

You’ll need

Cardboard

Tape

Glue

Halloween decorations

Light bulbs

Battery pack with wire

Crocodile clips and wires

Paper

paperclip

How to make a spooky light up house

First, we built a cardboard house with a wooden frame and decorated it to look spooky. I added coloured cellophane to the windows.

Halloween house with lightbulb circuit

Then, we set up a simple circuit with a switch.

simple circuit with a battery and lightbulb
Circuit with a switch

We tested our circuit, which worked brilliantly and turned off the lights.

simple circuit to light up a card house

If you made a few, these would be great to have on a windowsill at Halloween.

Pumpkin alternative - light up spooky house for Halloween #Halloweenscience #scienceforkids #spookyscience #Halloweencraft

More Electricity Investigations for Kids

Play dough circuits are great fun. Squishy Circuits also has some great kits and play dough recipes for insulating and non insulation dough.

We made a cool play dough circuit snowman one year, but the possibilities are endless.

Last Updated on October 2, 2024 by Emma Vanstone

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