Pi Day Activities for Kids

Do you celebrate Pi Day? It happens every year on March 14 (3.14) and is a day to honor the most well known irrational number.

Of course we can celebrate by making pie or eating pie, but let’s look at some other fun Pi Day activities for home or the classroom.

Need to learn more about pi? Grab The Big Book of Pi by Jean-Baptiste Aubin and Anita Lehmann, illustrated by Joonas Sildre. This book is both fun, funny and informative about what pi is, how it was discovered, why its called that, and the historic math geeks who helped us learn more about pi.

It also has activities including how to memorize pi, measuring a soda can, pi paradoxes, how to cut a pizza into 3 equal slices and more. And of course there are pi jokes.

Grab some free Pi Day logic puzzles from Math Geek Mama including sudoku and a logic puzzle to figure out how many digits of pi each child memorized. She also has a fun and easy pi card game where you play cards in order of the digits of pi.

TinkerLab has a cute Pi Day art challenge, to pick three colors to fill 14 grid squares in 15 minutes (for the numbers in pi: 3.1415).

Thrive at Home has a good set of Pi Day printables including pi facts, history, formulas, fractions coloring pages and bingo cards.

Kids Activities Blog has Pi Day facts and a coloring sheet with the beginning digits of pi.

Grab a printable pi activity placemat from All Seasons Printables on Etsy. You can also learn your Pi (pie) name with this printable from The Purple Jellyfish Co.

There are tons of Pi Day activities on Teachers Pay Teachers. To name a few there’s these color by shape and color by missing factor coloring pages from Doodle University, facts and activities for middle schoolers form Teach with Tina, and more coloring pages from JE-Educate.

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Whenever you go to the beach with kids, you’re sure to come home with some seashells and more than a little sand. Let’s use some of those treasures to make fun crafts.

This handprint craft is made with a sand-infused salt dough and some little shells from the beach. It’s a cute way to remember how little your kids were on that beach trip. Find the instructions at From Under a Palm Tree.

Here’s another take on sand dough that was used to make little ornaments and sculptures. Get the details from Pink Stripey Socks.

Moms and Crafters used air dry clay and seashells to make these cute necklaces. She used the storebought clay but you can also make your own air dry clay if you’d rather.

Crafts on Sea used a shell to make a whale, but I’m sure you could take this idea and make lots of different creatures. I love the idea of sea creatures made with shells like fish or a jellyfish or an octopus using the same method. They also have a seashell decoration made with salt dough that’s really cute and would be fun for kids to paint. Poke a hole before it dries for hanging if you want.

Or take a bunch of little shells and decorate a frame like these from Rhythms of Play. They used a handprint instead of a picture but you could also put in a picture from the beach trip.

This is probably one for the mamas to make because it uses epoxy, but I also wanted to share these cute and easy shell hair pins from Thrifty Mama Ramblings, which kids are sure to want for their mermaid pretend play.

Or how about some sensory play straight from the beach? Use store bought sand if you don’t have a beach nearby to make this beach sand slime from The Mama Notes. Thrown in some shells and kids will love playing with this one.

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