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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With summer coming on in the Northern Hemisphere, I feel like we all need some fun activities we can do with one kid at home or a bunch in a classroom when it’s too hot to go outside (I guess you can say the same for if it’s too cold to go out in the Southern Hemisphere, too).

This disaster island Lego challenge from Lego Librarian was designed to be done with a Lego club, but you can do it in a classroom if you have bricks handy, or at home with one or two kids.

The idea is that first the kids each design their own island, with a given amount of time where that is the only prompt.

Then each person draws a disaster card. You can use the ones from Lego Librarian or make up your own. These are things like there’s a storm coming so you need to build a strong shelter, or there’s a rescue plane so you need to build something so they will see you.

There’s a whole bunch of ideas, which should get kids thinking creatively about ways to alter their islands for whatever situations you throw at them.

If you’re doing this with just one or two kids, the idea is the same, or you could have them draw several cards over a session if they want to keep the fun going.

This is a great low prep STEM activity for kids that should get them thinking creatively about how to solve problems. It’s a great idea to have the kids explain what they did to solve their particular problem, too, and why they think that will help.

Even though it won’t be a surprise what’s going to happen after the first time you play it, this is one you can do again and again because the kids will probably draw different cards.

Get all the details and a printable list of challenge prompts at Lego Librarian.

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