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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Explaining Dia de Los Muertos to kids can be difficult because most of us don’t generally talk about death or what happens when we die a lot with our kids. But Dia de los Muertos is actually a happy, not scary occasion that allows us to remember loved ones, share stories and come together as a community.

While it is mostly celebrated by people of Mexican heritage, the day has become more well known thanks to movies and other media representations. And there are some great children’s books to help explain and allow you to celebrate the holiday if you want.

Dia de Muertos by Jaque Jours, illustrated by Alejandra Ruiz (48 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by words & pictures, suggested retail price $14.99) tells the story of a family getting their ofrenda (altar for the dead) ready and how they remember people who have died through decorations, food and sharing stories.

It covers the classic decorations and rituals of Dia de los Muertos including using cempasúchil (in English we call them marigolds) and papel picado (cut paper banners), pan de muerto and la catrina, the elaborately dressed, skull faced women that are a common site at Dia de los Muertos gatherings.

The back of the book explores how the day is celebrated throughout Mexico as well as the meanings of different symbols. There’s a recipe for pan de muerto, a tutorial for making papel picado and tips for doing makeup to look like like la catrina/el catrin.

Want to try more traditional foods? The Dia de Los Muertos Cookbook is a companion to The Dia de Los Muertos Story, both of which are by Andrea Jáuregui de la Torre and illustrated by Laura González (52 pages, hardcover paper over boards, published 2026 by becker & meyer kids!, suggested retail price $19.99).

The book opens with some discussion of the meaning of Dia de los Muertos and why food is an important part of the day. The recipes included are easy enough for kids to make with minimal help, and all based on food memories from her childhood.

There are recipes for hibiscus iced tea, Mexican corn and salsa, tortillas, molletes (open faced sandwiches with beans and cheese), jicama fries and sugar skulls to name a few.

Other activities in the book include papel picado, coffee filter marigolds, making your own playlist and making an ofrenda.

Together these books give young readers insight into this holiday that might be new or confusing to them, while also giving you a chance to get in the kitchen together and make your own Dia de los Muertos memories.

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