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Christmas STEM Activities

From engineering Christmas trees to fun Christmas STEM challenges, we have been having a great time with Christmas STEM activities! Who said you can’t do STEM with a fun holiday twist! Explore science, engineering, technology, and mathematics with these easy-to-do ideas. Simple materials, simple play but big opportunities for learning, creating, and exploring with our Christmas STEM ideas for kids!

CHRISTMAS STEM PROJECTS FOR KIDS

CHRISTMAS STEM IDEAS FOR KIDS

Many of the following Christmas STEM activities include one or more of the different components of STEM learning. However, I tried to break them up into different sections to give you a better idea of how to include that component of STEM into the activity!

These Christmas STEM activities below are really quite easy and use just a few common kitchen and laundry ingredients. Don’t be intimidated! Look around your house or classroom for suitable and inexpensive supplies. Think cups, cards, straws, play dough, and more…

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

Use these at home or in the classroom with kids this holiday season for some hands-on scientific fun!

Christmas STEM Activities

Bending Candy Canes

A fun science experiment using candy canes! Is it a physical or chemical change?

Dissolving Candy Cane Experiment

Will these candy canes dissolve?

Christmas Coding STEM Challenge

This is such a fun way o teach binary coding!

Gumdrop Bridge STEM Challenge

Use these fun Christmas candies to make this Christmas STEM activity!

Santa's Christmas Laboratory: 5 Senses Experiments

Use all five senses to work your way through these Christmas experiments!

Christmas Gingerbread Man Ornaments

Make your own crystallized ornaments!

Christmas Cup Tower Challenge

How high will your tower be?

Christmas STEM Challenge Cards Countdown Calendar (free printable)

Countdown to Christmas with these fun Christmas STEM challenge cards!

Melting Christmas Tree Baking Soda Science Activity

Watch these fizzy trees bubble with this fun Christmas STEM activity!

Christmas Skittles Science Activity

Use this fun science experiment to make some Christmas-themed learning!

Printable Christmas Science Experiment Cards

A ton of fun holiday science projects to try!

Jingle Bell STEM Challenge

Can you quiet a jingle bell?

Peppermint Water Science Activity

Easy Christmas water science!

Printable Santa STEM Activity Challenge: Build a Sleigh

Build Santa's new sleigh with this printable activity!

Icy Christmas Tree

This is a fun and CHILLY Christmas building activity!

Mini Christmas Baking Soda Eruptions

Make mini versions of erupting science with a Christmas theme!

Christmas Magic Milk

Make Santa's magic milk!

Free Printable Christmas Coding STEM Activity

Fun Christmas coding game for kids!

Christmas Crystal Candy Canes Science Activity

Make your very own crystallized candy canes!

Christmas Bow Stacking

Use everyday Christmas supplies for this fun STEM activity!

Christmas Gift Bag Bridge Engineering

Use holiday gift bags for this fun STEM challenge!

Gingerbread Man Chemistry Experiment and Cookie Science

Learn about how ingredients react with this good-smelling activity!

Growing Salt Crystals Gingerbread Man Science Activity

Make your very own Gingerbread men salt crystals!

Santas Frozen Hands Ice Melt Science

Make this cold science experiment!

Magnetic Ornaments Christmas Science Activity

Experiment with magnets with this fun Christmas activity!

Christmas Science Bottle

Learn about liquid density with this fun experiment!

Melting Gingerbread Man

Fun hands-on Christmas science activity!

Christmas Candy STEM Challenge: Chimney for Santa

Can you make a chimney for Santa using candy?

My Christmas Tree STEM Activity {FREE Printable}

Investigate your own Christmas tree with this printable activity!

Christmas Magnet Science Sensory Play Activity

This fun sensory magnet activity is great for little hands!

Christmas Card Engineering Activity and STEM Challenge

Use Christmas cards to make this fun tower!

Christmas Baking Soda Science Erupting Ornaments

Use baking soda to make these fun erupting Christmas ornaments!

DIY Christmas Science Light Box Color Mixing

Have fun experimenting with colors and Christmas lights!

Dissolving Gingerbread Men Cookies

Who says you can't play with your food?

Track Santa For a Fun Christmas STEM Activity

The whole family can participate in this activity!

Jumping Tinsel Christmas Static Electricity Science Experiment

Use Christmas tinsel for a fun Christmas STEM activity!

Christmas STEM Activity Simple Catapult for Kids

This catapult activity is so much fun!

Christmas Tree Engineering Project

Turn a Christmas tree into a fun science project!

Gumdrop Dissolving Science

Learn about dissolving science with gumdrops!

Melting Gumdrop Science

Explore changing heat with gumdrops!

Christmas Color Mixing Plastic Ornaments

Use plastic ornaments to have fun with colors!

Christmas Candy Science Experiment

Christmas candy is good for more than just eating!

Fizzing Christmas Baking Soda Science Experiment

Fizzy foaming Christmas fun!

MORE CHRISTMAS FUN…

  • Lego Advent Calendar for Kids
    Lego Advent Calendar
  • Gingerbread Play Dough
  • DIY Christmas Ornaments
  • Christmas Printables

FUN CHRISTMAS STEM ACTIVITIES FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON

Click on the image below or on the link for more fun STEM projects for anytime of the year.

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