12 Days of Christmas STEAM Activities for Kids

This Elf engineer zip line STEAM challenge for Elf on the Shelf is a fun way to add science to the season and learn about potential and kinetic energy!

In this winter STEAM challenge, we are exploring potential and kinetic energy by observing the changes in position, direction, and speed of an object when acted upon by unbalanced forces.

By changing the angle of our zip line, we are exploring how an inclined plane can be used to change the amount of force to move an object.

This flying elf static electricity balloon STEAM challenge is super easy to set up and a great elf engineer activity for your Elf on the Shelf to bring!

In these Christmas geometry worksheets, kids will plot a series of ordered pairs onto a coordinate plane.

This activity adds a little science to tangrams to make Christmas tangram oil resist art this holiday season! Plus, you can grab some free Christmas tangram printable cards to use to make different Christmas images.

We love to mix math and art activities in order to make complex math concepts a little more tangible and also to explore different ways to make art.

Become an Elf Engineer with these 25 Days of Elf on the Shelf STEAM challenges and free STEAM challenge cards!

Magic reveal Christmas pixel art is a super neat way to incorporate math and technology into a fun learning activity!

Trixie the Elf needs helping searching for the perfect outfit for each day of the week. Learn how to use boolean expressions to narrow down exactly the right outfit in this Christmas Elf boolean logic activity.

Do you think you can communicate like a computer programmer? Test your communication skills by giving another person step-by-step directions on how to build a Christmas LEGO design without them seeing the final result.

These Christmas Pixel Puzzles are a great way to introduce image representation on computers as well as work on number and color recognition.

Computers break pictures down into tiny blocks of color known as pixels. Pixels are organized in a grid and each block contains a single color.

Have you ever stopped to think about the number of gifts that are actually given in the traditional Christmas carol “The 12 Days of Christmas”?

Now that you are thinking about it, there’s an easy way to figure it out using Pascal’s Triangle. Learn about Pascal’s Triangle and make a Christmas tetrahedron with this 12 Days of Christmas challenge!

Learn about Pascal’s Triangle with this fun Christmas math activity! Pascal’s Triangle is a pretty cool mathematical concept that is filled with tons of patterns!

What’s better than patterns during the Christmas season?! We turned Pascal’s Triangle into a Christmas tree to work on some math skills and create some awesome tile art!

It’s the perfect time to make crayon resist Christmas cards! The leaves are falling off of the trees and the days are getting shorter, which means it’s almost winter here in Wisconsin! This science + art activity is a great way to incorporate science into the holidays!

Lately, we’ve been busy working on fun winter STEAM activities designed for preschool and toddlers while my older girls are at school during the day.

This ice lantern winter STEAM activity is a great way to teach young scientists about different states of water. If it’s already freezing outside, you can use your ice lanterns to decorate too!

Sudoku is a great activity to strengthen logical reasoning skills and decomposition skills while working with a simple algorithm, or a series of instructions for solving problems.

This Christmas tree algorithm art activity is an unplugged coding activity for kids K-8 to learn how everyday actions can be turned into a computer program.

This Christmas logic word puzzle activity is a way for kids to use logical thinking and pattern matching paired with spatial recognition and spelling.