Math is one of those things that is so important because it’s all around us, and yes you can make it fun and colorful. Holidays are the perfect opportunity to put a fun twist on a simple math concept. Add our jingle bell shapes Christmas math activity to your calendar this season. Grab the jingle bell printable to get started with this fun hands-on Christmas STEM activity.

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Explore STEM This Festive Season

Our Christmas STEM activities include one or more pillars of the acronym STEM. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.

Generally, a good STEM project will combine these pillars and call on many different skills! Read more about the engineering design process below.

Many of our Christmas STEM activities are quite easy and use just a few simple supplies. Don’t be intimidated! Look around your house or classroom for suitable and inexpensive supplies. Think cups, Christmas cards, straws, playdough, and more…

I am always amazed at how much we learn from creative STEM challenges. Christmas STEM projects are perfect for budding engineers and scientists. They are also terrific, frugal, screen-free ideas that will encourage imagination, free-thinking, and curiosity in kids!

Set them up at home or in the classroom with kids this holiday for hands-on scientific fun! Great for elementary age and beyond!

Check out our list of Christmas STEM activities for all ages!

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Helpful STEM Resources To Get You Started

Here are a few resources that will help you introduce STEM activities and challenges more effectively to your kiddos or students and feel confident yourself when presenting materials.

You’ll find tons of free printables, templates, and journal sheets throughout all of our activities or join us in the Library Club for instant access all year long!

Get your free jingle bell shapes printable!

This is such a fun and simple activity to set up for the kids. Plus, it has lots of room for open-ended engineering play, too. All you need is a few items and our free printable to get started.

Feel free to laminate the cards to use with all the holidays! Look below for your free download of our jingle bell shapes Christmas math and STEM challenge.

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Tips & Tricks For Making Christmas Shapes

  • You will want to cut pieces of pipe cleaner or have your kids do the cutting if applicable! Or they can make really big shapes with full-size pipe cleaners. My son enjoys the cutting part!
  • You can also have kids trace the shapes for extra fine motor skills practice.
  • Of course, there is also a space on the printable to write in the name of the shape and how many sides it has!

Extend the activity: Estimate and then measure the length of pipe cleaners you need to make the shape. Being able to estimate is a great skill to use when you need to figure something out but don’t need to be exact either.

Jingle Bell Shapes Activity

Here is a fun way to teach young kids about shapes this holiday season. Get them to make their own 2D shapes with jingle bells and pipe cleaners. You can find more shape activity ideas here!

Supplies:

Instructions:

Hand out a number of jingle bells and pipe cleaners to each student, along with the printable shapes.

Then have a go at making each one! See our tips and tricks above for ways to extend the activity.

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Have fun with jingle bells and our Christmas shapes math activity! Check out this Christmas STEM challenge for another way to use jingle bells. Have you ever tried to quiet a jingle bell, hint it’s a STEM challenge!

There’s also another fun jingle bell STEM challenge in our printable Christmas STEM Challenge Cards! Are you up for it? What a fun way to play with math and enjoy a Christmas activity too.

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Printable Christmas STEM Activities

Printable Christmas STEM Project Pack

200+ PAGES OF HOLIDAY THEME STEAM, STEM, Science, and Art!

  • 25+ Christmas theme science and STEM activities with printable sheets, instructions, and useful information all using easy-to-source materials perfect for limited-time needs. Includes a holiday theme engineering pack with fun, problem-based challenges for kids to solve! NEW observation sheets included.
  • Try a Santa’s Letter airplane challenge or take the gingerbread house-building challenge! 
  • Explore the five senses with a specially designed Santa’s Lab pack.
  • Try a mini nature study with your favorite type of Christmas tree.
  • Try your hand at building shapes with gumdrop structure challenge cards or build shapes with jingle bells. Or try the Christmas-themed paper chain challenge!
  • Christmas Screen-free Coding activities include algorithm games, binary code ornaments, and more!
  • Explore 6+ Christmas Art Projects with famous artist-inspired activities that combine art history, process art techniques, and more with simple to-do ideas. 

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