This Christmas sweater symmetry STEM challenge invites children to create and color a Christmas sweater. The directions children will need to follow displayed in a Blockly block algorithm. The set is one of many Offline Coding Academy printables available here and at my TPT shop. The set contains three different versions of the Christmas Continue Reading

Line plots can be hard for children to understand. This button STEM challenge set invites children to sort, collect data, and create line plots with buttons. This set contains two sorting pages and one that focuses just on building a line plot. The set also includes sets of button printables. This will give you the option of having your children Continue Reading

Button STEM challenge cards invite children to create shapes and objects with buttons. The cards purposely don't display what they invite children to create. Each child can decide what that object or shape will look like. Then they will select what shapes and colors the button they will need to look like. Despite picking the same card to work on Continue Reading

This Thanksgiving STEM activity invites children to create a turkey hideout. Turkeys like the one found in the book A Turkey for Thanksgiving get nervous around Thanksgiving. They don't want to be served on a table to a family or group of friends on Thanksgiving. The turkey will need a hideout to stay safe.The instructions of a turkey hideout Continue Reading

I Spy Candy Corn with Feelings Activity Pages explore a number of skills and concepts. The most obvious is identifying and sharing feelings. However, children will also be looking for like objects on a page or using visual discrimination. After children have talked about feelings and counted how many each feeling is displayed, they still have more Continue Reading

Around Halloween, children end up with bags filled with candy. After collecting candy, there have to be some things children can do with it other than inhaling it. Earlier this week you learned they could sort the candy in a variety of ways. Today let's look at using candy to build shapes and objects!This free set of challenge cards offers several Continue Reading

This set contains two pages of Halloween secret code words. After reading a clue a, children will search for the word or words in the word box that fits the clue. They might be fun to explore this set during a Halloween party or on the day of Halloween. When children have finished finding all the words, they can decide if they can think of Continue Reading

This set of candy learning challenge cards focuses on sorting candy into groups. Children can use candy they have collected on Halloween or from a bag of candy you give them. Before starting this activity you will want to make sure you have a variety of types of candy to sort.The challenge cards invite children to sort the candy by one or two Continue Reading

Halloween Tens Frames can be used to explore a variety of math concepts. A number of basic skills like number recognition and counting can be introduced and reviewed using ten frames. However, more challenging skills like addition, subtraction, place value, and even symmetry can be explored. The small wrapped candy your children get while trick or Continue Reading

The November holidays on the calendar are:1st National Brush Day2nd  Day of the Dead3rd  National Stress Awareness Day4th  National Candy Day5th American Football Day7th Daylight Savings Day8th STEM/STEAM Day10th Vanilla Cupcake Day11th Veterans Day13th World Kindness Day15th American Recycles Day16th National Button Continue Reading

October is filled with tons of wonderful holidays. You will find a number of them on the October 2021 STEAM Activity Calendar. These sets of fun free printables for October focus on candy. You will find math, STEM and secret coding activities shared in the set. One set of fun free printables for October with candy will be shared each day this Continue Reading