Pi Day Activities for Kids

February 28, 2026 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Beach Crafts Kids Can Make — No Vacation Required

Last month I shared a collection of beach crafts that used items from the beach like seashells and sand. This month’s collection is all about beach animals and things you might see at the beach that don’t require beachy materials to make. In fact you’ve probably got what you need to make most of these beach crafts in your house already.

How about paper plates? With a paper plate you can make this cute watercolor seashell from The Educator’s Spin on It, or an adorable seagull like this one from Glued to My Crafts.

Add some white beans and you can make paper plate sand dollars like Crafts by Amanda. Or use a paper plate as a frame for a sweet beach scene like this crab and turtle one from Artsy Craftsy Mom, which includes a downloadable template and instructions to make it super easy.

Or grab a paper plate and some bubble wrap to make a jellyfish like this one from Happy Toddler Playtime. If you have paper bowls instead of plates, you can also make a jellyfish from one of those, like Natural Beach Living did.

Use your stash of craft sticks and googly eyes to make crabs, fish, sharks and more with this craft idea from The Keeper of the Cheerios.

I love this little crab made with a cardboard tube from Hunny I’m Home. With this same idea I’ll bet you could make lots of different creatures.

Grab some construction paper to make the loopy tentacles on this watercolor jellyfish from Craftsy Hacks. Or make a stained glass jellyfish like this one from Life Anchored.

Make easy puffy paint to make these fun fluffy starfish from I Heart Crafty Things, or use cupcake liners to make cute little crabs (also from I Heart Crafty Things).

Turn an old pool noodle into some super cute fish with this tutorial from Happy Toddler Playtime.

And if you’ve got some leftover yarn lying around, make pompoms and turn them into turtles like these from Craftsy Hacks. (And check out my post on different ways to make pompoms if you need a refresher!)

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