Our Family Code is a STEAM educational blog with a commitment to teaching kids to code. We offer various coding activities as well as STEAM resources and activities in effort to make STEAM accessible and engaging for everyone.
Spooky STEAM Activities!
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Halloween Conditional Code Worksheet for Elementary
Learn If Then code with Halloween conditional code worksheet for elementary by pairing outfits & conditional statements to help a witch pick clothes.
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How to Make Sticky Spider Webs STEAM Activity
In this Halloween STEAM activity, we are learning how to make sticky spider webs and exploring proteins!
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Rubber Chicken Bones Science Experiment for Kids
In this rubber chicken bones activity, vinegar, an acid, will slowly dissolve the calcium in the bones, making the bones weak and bendable.
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Brain Slime: How to Make Zombie Food
Learn how to make brain slime without glue with this easy guar gum slime recipe that you can use for a fun Halloween sensory bucket or game!
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Find a wealth of unplugged coding activities for kids designed to encourage computational thinking and logical reasoning while developing early coding skills.
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Halloween Conditional Code Worksheet for Elementary
Learn If Then code with Halloween conditional code worksheet for elementary by pairing outfits & conditional statements to help a witch pick clothes.
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20+ Coding Apps for Kids
We put the best coding apps for kids to the test to see how they engage and teach kids to code! Read this and get your kids started coding!
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Easter Bunny Egg Hunt Coding for Kids
This elementary egg hunt coding activity is a great Easter-themed way to introduce the basics of computer programming to kids in Kindergarten through 5th grade.
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Earth Day Coding Recycling Sorting Activity
This Earth Day coding recycling sorting activity teaches children how conditional statements work while learning how to sort recyclables!
Javascript Activities for Kids
Learn how to use the JavaScript programming language, p5.js, for creative coding purposes.
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Code Fibonacci Rectangles in JavaScript
Are you ready to code Fibonacci rectangles and make some cool digital Fibonacci art? You don’t want to miss this math + tech + art kid coding activity!
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How to Code a Rectangle with JavaScript
Teach your kids to code a rectangle in JavaScript with this hands-on, interactive coding activity!
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How to Code a Circle with JavaScript
Turn drawings into code with this coding activity for kids and code a circle with JavaScript and ProcessingJS.
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Optimal Javelin Throw Angle Measurement & Graphing
Learn about optimal javelin throw angles, height of throw, and the relationship between the two with this Summer Olympics optimal throw javelin angle measurement activity.
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Map the Olympic Host Cities World Geography Activity
This world geography activity challenges kids to use technology to map the Olympic host cities since the Summer Olympics started in 1896.
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Frozen Baseball Experiment Sports STEM
Find out how temperature impacts a baseball and learn the history of how a baseball is made with this sports STEM activity for kids!
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Plastic Bottle Butterflies Recycled Art
Make plastic bottle butterflies with this easy recycled art activity and learn about Monarch butterfly migration!
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20+ Coding Apps for Kids
We put the best coding apps for kids to the test to see how they engage and teach kids to code! Read this and get your kids started coding!
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Make Digital Mondrian Art in Google Sheets
Make Digital Mondrian art using Google Sheets with this Math + Art + Tech activity perfect for upper elementary students!
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Coral Reef Virtual Dive Digital Scavenger Hunt Activity
Go on a coral reef virtual dive around the world and use the sights you see to complete the digital scavenger hunt!
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Seven Wonders of the World Virtual Field Trip
Explore the seven wonders of the world and complete a latitude and longitude challenge with a Google Earth scavenger hunt!
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25+ Elf on the Shelf STEAM Challenge Cards
Become an Elf Engineer with these 25 Days of Elf on the Shelf STEAM challenges and free STEAM challenge cards!
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60+ Maker Activities for Kids
You and your kids are going to love these maker activities! Find design builds, tinker trays, invitations to play, and more to get started with STEM today!
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100+ Exciting Summer STEAM Activities for Kids
Summer of STEAM activities for kids! 100s of projects for Math Monday, Tinker Tuesday, Wonder Wednesday, Techie Thursday, & Foodie Friday!
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Stone Age Tools Engineering Challenge
Learn about Stone Age tools, animals, and people by downloading this free Stone Age STEAM challenge cards activity!
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Make Digital Mondrian Art in Google Sheets
Make Digital Mondrian art using Google Sheets with this Math + Art + Tech activity perfect for upper elementary students!
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Fibonacci Activity for Kids: Fibonacci Flowers
This Fibonacci activity for kids is a hands-on way to teach the Fibonacci sequence and make some math + art Fibonacci flowers!
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4 Free Spring Graphing Coordinate Plane Worksheets
Plot ordered pairs and reveal Spring graphing coordinate plane pictures! Four free graphing worksheets for grades 4–6 + printable PDFs.
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Plastic Bottle Butterflies Recycled Art
Make plastic bottle butterflies with this easy recycled art activity and learn about Monarch butterfly migration!
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Find Tech + Art, Science + Art, Resist Art, Recycled Art, Directed Drawings, and more!
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Fibonacci Activity for Kids: Fibonacci Flowers
This Fibonacci activity for kids is a hands-on way to teach the Fibonacci sequence and make some math + art Fibonacci flowers!
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Finding Pi with Math Sun Catchers
The goal of this activity is to explore the number Pi and prove that it is a mathematical constant by making math sun catchers out of fuse beads for a fun math + art STEAM activity!
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Make Fibonacci Art: Hands-on Math Art Activity!
This hands-on math art activity presents this would-be complex mathematical concept in an easy to understand, tangible way with Fibonacci art and is ideal for elementary-age kids through tweens!
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First 100 Digits of Pi Color Wheel Activity
Learn the first 100 digits of Pi with this color wheel activity that helps kids to visualize numbers of Pi in the first 100 digits and learn about color wheels!
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Pilish: How to Write a Poem for Pi Day
The number Pi, inspired it’s own language known as “Pilish”. Pilish is a challenging form of writing. Learn it today and write a piem!
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Pi Day Activities: 14+ Ways for Kids to Celebrate Pi!
Check out these great STEAM Pi Day activities for kids that pair math with technology, art, engineering, and science!
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Finding Pi with Math Sun Catchers
The goal of this activity is to explore the number Pi and prove that it is a mathematical constant by making math sun catchers out of fuse beads for a fun math + art STEAM…
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Measure Athlete Angles in Olympic Sports
Athletes use angles to analyze their performance. This sports STEM activity challenges kids to measure athlete angles in Olympic Sports.
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Optimal Javelin Throw Angle Measurement & Graphing
Learn about optimal javelin throw angles, height of throw, and the relationship between the two with this Summer Olympics optimal throw javelin angle measurement activity.
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Team USA Medal Tracker Hundreds Chart to 130
Use this Team USA medal tracker to record each medal that Team USA wins during the Olympic Games and complete a hundreds chart to 130.
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Olympic Hundreds Chart: Fill in the Olympic Rings
Practice number recognition and counting within 120 by placing the correct number inside the empty rings on this Olympic hundreds chart!
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Olympic Medal Ten Frames Worksheets for Kids
These Olympic medal ten frames math worksheets are a great way to work on basic number facts with a fun Olympic Games twist designed for Preschool, Kindergarten, and 1st grade kiddos!
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Make Digital Mondrian Art in Google Sheets
Make Digital Mondrian art using Google Sheets with this Math + Art + Tech activity perfect for upper elementary students!
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Free Shark Worksheets for Kids for Shark Week Fun!
Grab these free shark worksheets for kids that are perfect for Shark Week!
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Grab these Free Summer Fruit Worksheets for Kids
Grab these free summer fruit worksheets for kids while avoiding some of the extreme heat this summer!
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Preschool Easter Worksheets for Kids
Grab these free Preschool Easter worksheets with Easter I-Spy, Letter Recognition, Number Recognition, and Less Than Greater Than Jelly Bean Math!
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5 Clean Science Experiments for Autistic Children
5 clean science experiments that are quiet and don’t require children to get their hands messy, since these can be typical triggers for autistic children.
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100 Science Activities for Kids
You and your kids are going to love these science activities for kids! These 100 science activities for kids are paired with other STEAM disciplines for some great hands-on learning opportunities!
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Ice Lantern States of Water Winter STEAM Activity
Explore the states of water with this ice lantern winter STEAM activity great for toddlers and preschoolers and create winter decorations!
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Thanksgiving Salt Painting: Learn about Absorption!
Learn about polar molecules and absorption with this Thanksgiving salt painting activity! This is such an easy art project for kids with science that is great for preschoolers through tweens!
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Easter Ten Frames Jelly Bean Math Activity
Learn addition and subtraction concepts by composing and decomposing the number 10 with this jelly bean Easter ten frames math activity.
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Grow a Rainbow Chromatography STEM Activity
This growing rainbow chromatography pots of gold activity is a super low-prep STEM activity that demonstrates capillary action, cohesion, and adhesion!
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Candy Heart Math Worksheets: Valentine’s Day Math
These free worksheets are a great way to incorporate math into Valentine’s Day for some hands-on candy heart math!
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Circus Count and Trace Numbers 1-10 with Ten Frames
This activity includes 10 Circus Count and Trace number practice pages for numbers 1-10 and is ideal for kids in Preschool and Kindergarten!
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Candy Heart Ten Frames: Valentine’s Day Math
This candy heart ten frames math activity is a great way to work on basic number facts with a fun Valentine’s Day twist!
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I Spy ABC Worksheets for Letter Recognition
These free I Spy ABC worksheets are perfect for working on recognizing words that start with certain letters!
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Find preschool math, preschool science, free preschool worksheets, and preschool process art!
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