Celebrate Halloween with our creative digital activities that inspire fun while learning new cognitive skills. Our curated spooky content is all DIY using household items and developed by our team of scientists, teachers and subject matter professionals. Projects that engage critical-thinking skills and creativity! Get all 12 activities for $5.99!  Celebrate spooky season with UpBrainery.

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Art meets Engineering!  Where else can you child learn to paint a canvas with a super cool Alien and then learn all about Engineering and Design Thinking by creating a lightup circuit which lights up the Alien's eye.

BUILD YOUR BOO BOTS! Create a series of 3 spooky brush bots and use them to paint your own Halloween cards. Watch as Mr. Pumpkin, Witch of the West and Skully the Skull create the coolest Halloween art. It's BooBotics. BOO! EEK! YIKES!

Ages: 6 - 14

Skills:   Robotics principles - Balanced motors - Rotational motors - Polarity - Electrical Engineering - Design Engineering

Build a working arm muscle model and learn about hydraulics and the human body in this informative and unique model. Learn that muscles only pull and why hydraulics work so much better than pneumatics.

Hydraulics - Muscular Skeletal System  - Levers. - Water pressure

Using a simple digital sensor is one thing but displaying that data is another. Learn how to do both with this exciting kit that explores weather through the sensors with microcontroller circuits. Using LED displays your will learn about converting from centigrade to farenheit as well as how humidity is calculated. Best of all - once you are done, you will have your very own desktop version to proudly show off.

Learn how to build you own classic arcade basketball board with a digital counter that updates every time you make the basket. In this amazingly exciting kit you will learn to build with three simple electrical components. Once done, set a timer on your phone and challenge yourself and friends to a shoot-out. Do you accept the challenge?

A picture frame is worth a thousand words - right? What if you can have a picture frame where you not only display your picture but also share an animated message. Your picture frame bill board displays a scrolling message such as “I Heart You” or "Friends Forever” and shows off your favorite picture. Design and build the frame and the digitized message board for an ultimate gift. Coding, Engineering and Design Thinking!

Create a board with a catapult, marble run, and a flexing muscle. Try to catapult anything you want before the muscle is flexed again. Grab your favorite marbles and watch them roll. Discover the engineering behind every part of the board.

You’ll know how people use science to make vehicles that are powered by eco-friendly fuels.⚬ You’ll know how people organize factories and work together to build lots of vehicles.You’ll also explore how vehicles can help solve problems and how you can have a job to make cars that are safer and better for the planet.

Create your own airplane launcher using construction paper and a rubber band. You decide how far to launch your airplane by changing the angle of the launching board. Your next challange will be creating a motorized robot, try and aim for your robor using your airplane launcher. Challange yourself and friends.

EEEK! Get ready to scare your friends and neighbors! Design and build a ghastly ghost with moving eyes and screeching sounds. Learn about design, microcontrollers, and engineering concepts while you build your motion activated yard sign. Be creative by painting and decorting your haunted ghost.  With moving eyes and a screaming shrill, your friends and neighbors will surely scream as they walk past your ghostly yard sign.  BOO!

Skills

Sound waves  -    Servo rotations -  Optical Science - Engineering and Design

Boost your imagination by creating your own marble maze, but not before you are challanged by building the side pieces. Spin the wheel to challange yourself and friends.

HAUNT YOUR HOUSE! You design, engineer and build this spooky haunted house to make it come to life! Paint and design the scary exterior. Create a floating phantom that glides across the window. Watch the eery flickering lights provide the perfect scare. Fill your haunted house with bats, black cats and everything else spooky! ENTER IF YOU DARE!

Ages:  8 - 14

Skills:  Microcontroller Coding -  Levers -  Light frequency - Design thinking - Design Engineering - Structural Engineering

How many people can say they built their own electronic pet that walks and responds to touch by wagging it's tail!  Learn all about the electronics and motors that make your electronic dog move, circuitry design and capacitance touch that makes the circuit complete with simply the touch of your finger and wags the tail.  Have fun taking your pet on a walk and showing off your handiwork with obstacle avoidance challenges.