Monday, November 4, 2019

STEM Activities for Winter and Holiday

STEM activities for winter and holidays can be fun and engaging. Kids will love these STEM challenges for winter and Christmas! Students can practice their science and engineering skills while learning about electrical circuits, making predictions, troubleshooting, and completing fair tests on a prototype. Here are some ideas:


1.   Dissolving Candy Canes in different liquids
Dissolving candy canes science experiment
2.  Light Up Ornaments
Students will make ornaments that light up with simple circuits!

Making a light up ornament for Christmas

Making a light up ornament for ChristmasMaking a light up ornament for Christmas




Making a light up ornament for Christmas
3. Snowball Launchers (I used ping pong balls or large marshmallows) Great design thinking as students test and retest and redesign their ping-pong ball launchers.
making a snowball launcher stem challenge

making a snowball launcher stem challenge

making a snowball launcher stem challengemaking a pingpong ball launcher stem challenge

making a pingpong ball launcher stem challenge
Students love making electrical circuits out of paper, copper tape, and LED lights. My resource has templates and directions that make this activity easy!
Electrical circuits with copper tape Christmas Tree

Light up Christmas Tree Copper Tape
Light up  paper snowman Copper Tape
STEM challenge Christmas


6. Build an Igloo out of Sugar Cubes
Great building activity. It is harder than it looks!


STEM challenge Winter

7. Chemical and Physical Reactions- Expanding Snowman This one is super fun!  Students put snow in the baggie and add a mystery substance.  Wow!  it blows up big!
STEM challenge Winter

8. Light Up Snow Flake Ornament
These beautiful ornaments are easy to make and the students love them!

Making a light up snowflake ornamentMaking a light up snowflake ornament
Making a light up snowflake ornament

9. Building with gumdrops and toothpicks
This STEM challenge is great for small groups. 
STEM activity Christmas

So many ideas for holiday STEM and Winter STEM

These ideas and more, with detailed instructions, step by step, science background and follow-up pages are available in my store. I have done the hard part of planning it out and providing the directions.

STEM Christmas Activities
STEM Christmas Challenges

STEM Christmas Challenges

Winter STEM Activities and Challenges
STEM Winter Challenges

STEM Winter Challenges

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