If you love The Nutcracker ballet, you will definitely want to make these Nutcracker crafts for kids with your children! The ballet has never been so fun! We’re a bit obsessed with The Nutcracker. Going to see the ballet is one of our favorite Christmas traditions. This year, we thought we’d take the ballet home …
Christmas STEM Activities
Simple engineering projects like the DIY kids Christmas hat engineering challenge and Christmas STEM activities are the perfect way to introduce engineering concepts to young kids. Kids will especially enjoy designing a new hat for Santa! Now that Christmas is just around the corner, we’re diving full into the holiday season. My kids absolutely loved this …
No science is more fun than candy cane science. But you don’t have to have candy canes to make these salt crystal candy canes for a super fun candy cane experiment! Making salt crystals is a fun way to explore candy cane science even if you don’t have any in the house! We loved this …
We like to tie our holiday STEM activities into the traditional elements of Christmas. One of our favorite holiday stories is How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This year, we brought slime and STEM together in one by making a Grinch science experiment! Use it to round out your How the Grinch Stole Christmas lesson plans …
Become a Christmas engineer with this simple sleigh building challenge using egg cartons! Kids will love this Santa sleigh STEM challenge! We have conducted many amazing Christmas STEM challenge ideas already, and the girls are having a blast! In this engineering activity, I challenged my kids to create a new sleigh design for Santa using …
We love the countdown to Christmas and always celebrate with Christmas tree STEM activities (because we are us). For many years, Monkey had her own Christmas tree advent calendar that she would hang an ornament on each day from December 1st to the 25th. But since Bo has been mobile, that system was no longer working. …