Christmas STEAM Activities for Kids

‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the school, teachers were looking for things to keep kids interested in being in school.

Whether you’re a teacher trying to get through the next week with her sanity intact or a parent looking for easy learning activities to do while the kids are home from school, you’re going to want to check out these roundups.

Red Ted Art has a great list of Christmas STEAM activities, including growing crystals, ice ornaments and pine cone science experiments, fizzing Christmas science, a holiday lava lamp and much, much more. (My daughter’s class is having a Grinch-themed party, so the growing the Grinch’s heart project from Creative Family Fun sounds especially relevant to me!)

If 25 choices is just too many, check out this list of 10 Christmas science experiments from Mom Inspired Life. There’s overlap between the lists, but that just proves these are great ideas.

And of course, there’s Christmas-themed slime. Because it wouldn’t be 2017 without some more slime, am I right?

[Photo: Creative Family Fun.]

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I guess this isn’t exclusively a kid’s craft or learning activity (though cutting and folding are great for developing fine motor skills!) but I think kids would love having some of these printable holiday houses around the house or classroom to play with in the holiday season. Because they’re made of paper, they’re inexpensive to make, and while there is assembly involved the results are well worth the work.

If you have a cutting machine you can use the cut files from Delia Creates to make making your own paper village that much easier. She actually cut out all her buildings in different colors of card stock and used them to decorate a wreath, but you could also put them on the mantle or on a low table for kids to play with. Make a whole small world scene complete with fake snow, little characters and other elements, and kids are sure to start making their own stories to go with the setup.

This set of houses is printed and cut out using a craft knife. It’s meant to be an advent calendar, with each of the buildings numbered and you can stick a treat inside. But you could also just play with the buildings! You can get a free download of four buildings from Little House on the Corner, or head to the post to see where you can buy the whole set.

The Mavelo website isn’t in English, but their printable gingerbread house template is super cute to use as a gift box or to play with. If you need the instructions the website is in Polish but Google Translate seems to do a pretty good job.

Bora Illustrates has an adorable little house to print, cut and assemble featuring a cat, bird and gingerbread person. You could probably print it in black and white and have your kiddo color it, too.

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