Love Christmas and STEAM? Then you’ll love this surprisingly challenging 3D Christmas tree engineering challenge building a 3D paper tree! At our house, Christmas is about more than just presents and Santa crafts. It’s also all about Christmas tree STEM activities. Our Christmas science experiments have become a highlight of our season each year, and …
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It’s December, which means holidays, candy, Christmas music, and Christmas STEM challenge ideas! I really love doing science experiments in December, because we have a long holiday break with the kids and it’s a super fun time to do festive STEM activities with them. These STEM activities for December fit the bill perfectly! If you …
One of the most popular frog activities for kids are A Spoonful of Frogs activities based on the book A Spoonful of Frogs by Casey Lyall. Although a newer book, it has quickly jumped in popularity with parents, kids, and preschool and kindergarten teachers. After reading the book, try out some of these fun hands-on …
Ready to embark on a colorful and imaginative building journey with your students? The best way to bring fun back into the classroom after a long summer is with this pencil tower STEM challenge and our other STEM pencil project ideas! All you have to do is provide your students with a selection of colored …
We’ve done a lot of classic science fair projects and a lot of quick STEM activities. This time, we thought we would combine the back to school season with the science of light refraction and complete our own bending pencil experiment. When you do this experiment, at first, young kids might think it’s a trick, …
No need to worry about how to do summer camp at home, these summer camp themes for elementary make it easy! Here you’ll find a list of creative summer camp themes that elementary kids will love. My own kids have tested most of the activities in this list and they will attest that they are …