Following this simple recipe you can make your own colorful pumpkin seeds that glow-in-the-dark!
My kids had a lot of fun with this activity, and we have found tons of fun ways to use our neon pumpkin seeds! Are you ready to make your own?
How to Make Rainbow Pumpkin Seeds that Glow-in-the-Dark
Materials
- Pumpkin seeds
- Neon paint
- Zip-seal bags
- Water
- A cookie sheet/paper towels
- A blacklight
Note: For the best effect you will want to use a blacklight for this activity. My girls love using these super cool flashlights. We also have a blacklight fixture that we use.
Method
- Begin by adding the desired amount of pumpkin seeds to a zip-seal bag, using one bag for each color of pumpkin seeds that you wish to make.
- Add 1-2 tablespoons of neon paint to each bag along with a bit of water (we used roughly 3 tablespoons)
- Seal the bags tightly.
- Then, have the kids mix and shake them until the pumpkin seeds are fully saturated in color.
- Leave the seeds to sit in the bags for roughly 20 minutes.
- Then, lay them out on a cookie sheet or similar to dry.
- We used paper towels for drying, but I would use a cookie sheet next time to prevent sticking.
- Once dry you will have super vibrant neon pumpkin seeds!
They turned out so fantastically colorful, and we have found all sorts of fun ways to use them!
- Rosie and Jewel began by making fall trees.
- Then, they used the seeds for counting, sorting, and sensory play.
Other Fun Ways to Use Neon Pumpkin Seeds:
- Make pumpkin seed mosaics.
- Practice name recognition with this seed activity.
- Use neon seeds to make alphabet letters.
- Make paper plate pumpkins using neon pumpkin seeds.
- Make Indian corn.
- Practice counting with pumpkin seeds.
- Add pumpkin seeds to Fall play dough play.
- Make glowing pumpkin seed necklaces.
Tips & Storage:
- Store your neon pumpkin seeds in a zip-seal bag between activities, and they can be used again and again!
- If you do not feel like cleaning and drying seeds from real pumpkins you can buy pumpkin seeds online.
- The neon paint that we use in our activities can be found online here.
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