UHI STEM

24/12/2025

Day 24: 🎅🛷 Build Santa’s Sleigh!

For our final day, go grab your LEGO bricks and design the coolest sleigh for Santa to ride! ✨Then follow Santa in real time on the NORAD Santa Tracker! 🎄



https://leftbraincraftbrain.com/lego-santa-sleigh-stem-building-challenge/
https://www.noradsanta.org/en/

Challenge the kids to a LEGO Santa sleigh building game. Who can build the best sled for Santa? It's a great Christmas themed STEM activity.

23/12/2025

Day 23: ♻️🎁 Card Builders Unite!

Turn Christmas cards into amazing structures—who can make the tallest or strongest? Find out with the Christmas Card STEM Challenge Little Bins for Little Hands.

Here is an awesome and super easy to set up Christmas STEM challenge. Our Christmas card engineering activity is perfect for the busy holiday!

22/12/2025

Day 22:❄️🐦 Winter Garden Helpers!

The winter solstice is behind us, but the coldest weather is only just beginning! Birds and small animals can struggle to find food.

You can make your own bird feeder and keep it full to help them stay healthy and warm. Bonus: you’ll get to watch them enjoy it too! 🐾

Get outside and enjoy the birds in your area by building a bird feeder. In this STEM project we provide 3 designs perfect for kids to build.

21/12/2025

Day 21: 🧊✨ Build an Ice Lantern!

❄️ Mark the winter solstice with a glowing creation you made yourself!

Engineering A Christmas Ice Lantern - Simple and beautiful STEM activities for the holidays. Add a gorgeous touch to your winter learning.

20/12/2025

Day 20:🎄🧪 STEM Tree Face-Off!

Race with friends and family to stack cups into the largest Christmas tree using just string and a rubber band! Who’s the champion builder?

CHRISTMAS TREE STEM CUP STACKING CHALLENGE FOR CLASS - Recreate this Christmas STEM challenge in your classroom this festive holiday season with materials you might already have at school!

19/12/2025

Day 19: 🌈🍭 Melting Magic!

Candy canes + different liquids = a rainbow of melting fun! Can you guess which melts fastest?

Looking for fun Christmas Science for kids that will keep them engaged and thinking? This simple dissolving candy cane experiment is great for all ages.

18/12/2025

Day 18: ✨🖼️ Pixel Perfect Christmas!

Click the link, find the pixel art project, and build your Christmas picture Minecraft-style, square by square!

Discover budget friendly, low prep and no prep Christmas STEM project ideas you can do in the classroom to celebrate the holiday season.

17/12/2025

Day 17: 🦌🎈 Reindeer Races!

Craft your reindeer racer and send it speeding through the air!

? Kids won't even realize they are learning basic physics with this outrageously FUN Rudolph Race Game! This Christmas Science Experiment is for all ages!

16/12/2025

Day 16: 🧝‍♂️🎄 Pesky Elf Alert!

The elves are causing mischief again! Can you design a clever trap to stop their sneaky tricks?


https://carlyandadam.com/thecarlyandadam/2018/11/2/how-to-catch-an-elf-stem-activity-bk39c?rq=elf%20trap

How to catch an elf by Adam Wallace - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PTq-4UaUB0

One of our favorite ways to increase student engagement during the craziness of the holidays is with STEM. To make it easy for teachers to implement STEM during this busy time in the classroom, we have compiled a list of 12 Days of Christmas STEM activities . Our Day 1 activity is building an elf

15/12/2025

Day 15:✨❄️ Perfectly Symmetrical!

Complete the snowflake symmetry task and watch your winter design come to life!