STEM Activities

For first grade teachers and parents, it doesn’t get more fun than these low-prep Christmas STEM activities for first grade! The holiday season is a fun time to bring STEM to life with fun themes like Santa, holiday trees, and holiday lights! We’ll get to the Christmas STEM activities for 1st grade in a bit, …

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 …

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 …

If you really love Christmas, then you’ll love these STEM activities using just red and white beads and green play dough. If you love Christmas, then you’ll love this play doh Christmas tree! It’s so festive and fun even for the youngest Christmas lovers! We did this experiment as part of our Christmas STEM activities …

Inspire your kids to grow up to be engineers, innovators, and creators with this kids engineering gift guide. This gift guide has picked the best for all ages. I don’t know a single kid who doesn’t love building, inventing, and creating on some level. If I had my way, the only presents my kids would …

While Thanksgiving crafts for younger kids can be tons of fun when kids are smaller, there are far fewer crafts that are aimed at tweens and teens in middle school! And why is that? Middle school kids often love crafts just as much as any other kid, so today, I am celebrating the big kids …