Spooktacular STEM DIY Paper Lightup Halloween House Electricity Activity

STEM electricity project for learning electric circuits and makerspace projects! Educational Halloween activity designed for teaching electricity on a budget. STEM activity includes printable card templates for students to easily make a paper circuit inside a light-up house that pops up when opened! Step-by-step instructions make this a perfect DIY (Do It Yourself) paper craft project for middle school science students to learn about electricity and circuits in an interactive lesson.

Includes:

• Card templates: both pre-decorated Halloween theme AND a blank decorate-your-own template
• Step-by-step illustrated instructions
• Video demonstration instructions
• Instructions on Google Slides™ for use with Google Classroom™
• Reading passage—students learn by doing and also read about electric current, closed circuits, potential and kinetic energy, conductors and how those concepts apply to this project. Written in kid-friendly language.

Here's a short video showing the popup house.

For each card, you will need to supply: one LED, one 3V button battery and about 12 inches of copper tape. Students will also need glue, scissors, and tape. This product was designed for teachers on a budget! It's possible to supply an entire class with materials for every student to make their own light-up card for less than $20 in all.

This is a really fun STEAM project and students delight in making and taking this home to their families. It's perfect hands-on science for a unit on electricity and magnetism and fun Halloween-themed STEM. The pre-decorated version is a sweet spooky theme (jack o'lanterns, skeletons, witches, black cats, bats, haystacks, and a roaring fire inside) so it's suitable for all students. The LED inside represents the bubbly cauldron in the fireplace! It's perfect for October or any slightly scary-themed lesson and when finished, display as Halloween decorations! It also comes with a template and instructions for a blank house which can be decorated however you like—whether for Halloween or not.

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