We are huge board game lovers at our house. We have always played quite intensive board games since I was a child (actually, farther back than that, my dad was a board game geek since college with the likes of Diplomacy). When my husband joined the family, he embraced the board game culture and jumped …
Christmas STEM Activities
Love The Nutcracker ballet? You won’t want to miss these adorable Nutcracker popsicle stick puppets for kids. One of the cutest nutcracker craft ideas! Every year, our family tries to see a production of The Nutcracker. Sometimes we go to a ballet (my favorite are small ballet company productions) and sometimes we only manage to …
Find out why packing presents is important in these fun Christmas-themed STEM enrichment activities where kids try not to break egg “presents.” We’ve tried an egg drop before, but this time, I thought it would be fun to give it a little Christmas STEM twist. I challenged the girls to make packages for their eggs …
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 …
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 …
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 …