Bring engineering skills to life with this fun engineering activity for kids with this create your own monster activity for kids! There are no rules for this Halloween STEM activity, which makes it the perfect way for kids to tinker with invention and creativity without fear of failure. Engineering has never been so fun! STEM …
Engineering Activities
There are so many engineering activities for kids that have engineering design challenges for younger kids, but what about older elementary students? What engineering design activities can third through fifth graders do? Well, with this paper plate STEM roller coaster design challenge, elementary students will learn all about forces and motion, physics, and types of …
Hearts, hearts, and more hearts! With Valentine’s just around the corner, it’s making everyone feel the love all around us and it’s the perfect time to try out Valentines STEM activities! These directions for how to build a LEGO heart are easy for beginning engineers. It’s a fun and creative way for kids to express …
When it comes to STEAM projects, my kids love activities that involve a wide range of skills. For example, we used engineering to make a perler bead rainbow! We love making our STEM activities so much fun that kids don’t realize they are learning while having fun! In this project, kids can boost their engineering skills …
A big part of STEM activities in elementary are engineering activities for kids. Constructing bridges out of various materials like this q tip bridge and testing them has long been a staple of the classic bridge building engineering challenge, but for this version, I used cotton swabs because I was out of toothpicks and it …
There are a lot of engineering activities for kids out there, but not all of them are easy. If you have spaghetti in your house (or any dried, long noodle), then you already have everything you need to create the spaghetti engineering project! Today’s project is extremely simple, yet teaches some important information about engineering, …