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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‘Tis the season for celebration and creative exploration in the classroom! In this set-up for our Christmas tree STEM activities, kids will use STEAM skills to create a yarn-wrapped Christmas tree. This hands-on project brings holiday fun to the classroom while building fine motor skills, engineering skills, design skills, and more! This Christmas tree lesson …
Seasonal STEM activities are tons of fun, including fall chemistry experiments! This fun hands-on dancing cranberries experiment shows kids how a chemical reaction can work in real time. Inspired by the iconic Thanksgiving food of cranberries, the dancing cranberry science experiment allows students to explore chemistry in a new and seasonally-appropriate way and is perfect …
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 …
If you love STEAM activities as much as we do, you’re always looking for new STEM activities to try! And when you’re searching for STEM gifts, you can’t forget books! If you’re looking for the best STEAM books, this list of the top 11 STEAM books for kids will give you and your children tons …
If you love Christmas science experiments, this is the list for you! Kids will have a blast completing these Christmas science projects. One of my biggest passions is bringing “boring” subjects like science and math to life for kids like we do in these Christmas science projects! When I was a child, I HATED those …