10 Christmas Chemistry Activities

It’s hard to concentrate on academics during the holiday season. Kids have gifts, cookies, and parties on their minds, and often, parents do, too. We all just want to relax and enjoy time together.

These Christmas chemistry activities have all the fun of the holiday season, plus your kids will learn as they do them. They will explore how molecules react to one another, how heat affects molecules, and more. Enjoy!

Christmas Chemistry

Learn about solubility and chemical reactions by Dissolving Candy Canes. We have included a printable lesson that is appropriate for a wide range of grade levels.

Mix creativity with science and make Shrinky Dinks. We have included a printable lesson about monomers, polymers, and copolymers. The printable can be used with a wide range of grade levels (even MS and HS). We have included 28 different Shrinky Dink templates for all occasions.

Make a crystal snowflake ornament

Make “Candy Cane” Slime/Floam – super-easy and it a good activity to pair with the Shrinky Dinks or at least download our printable on polymers and use it with this slime activity.

DIY Christmas gel clings

The chemistry behind Christmas cookies, plus a sugar cookie recipe . Here’s a free PDF from Oklahoma 4-H about the chemistry of cookies.

Make color changing fire pinecones

Fake Snow Experiment

Make Poinsettia pH Paper from Bowling Green State University

Create peppermint oobleck

Bend candy canes

Make copper-plated Christmas ornaments

Keep scrolling for information about our big listing of chemistry activities!