Symbols of Christmas STEM Centers and Activities Craft Lesson Plans

Create the ultimate Christmas party with Christmas STEM centers!
The perfect resource for elementary classrooms, school-wide STEM nights, and STEM clubs. It combines the magic of holidays from all over the world with the excitement of STEM education, fostering critical thinking, art, engineering, problem-solving, and creativity.

This Christmas STEM lesson pack is more than just simple activities. Students learn a variety of building, coding, art, and more! You can pick and choose from 10 different Christmas activities!

Why STEAM centers?

STEM centers expose students to a lot of different ideas, materials, and challenges in a short amount of time. These challenges keep the attention of students and allow them to pick up those valuable STEM skills little by little as they work through each challenge.

STEAM centers also give students the flexibility to work independently or with a partner or small group.

How to use STEAM Centers:

Each center can be used as a whole class STEAM challenge or you may choose the activities you want students to complete and have them rotate through the activities as centers. If you are doing these challenges as centers we recommend students work for 10-15 minutes per center.

Includes:

• Teacher Instructions
• Center Place cards for tables
• STEM Worksheets
• Engineering Design Process Poster
• Examples for each activity
• 10 Christmas STEM Centers
• NGSS Standards
• Common Core Standards
• TEKs Standards

Center 1: Candy Cane Coding

Suggested Materials:

• pipe cleaners
• red and white pony beads
• binary coding key printables (included)
• binary coding recording page (included)

Center 2: Gingerbread Glyph

Suggested Materials:

• printable pages (included)
• glue
• construction paper
• colored pencils, crayons, markers

Center 3: Elf Engineering Tower

Suggested Materials:

• elf printable (included)
• binder clip
• KEVA planks

Center 4: Tinsel Tessellation Tree

Suggested Materials:

• tree printable (included)
• scissors
• colored pencils, crayons, markers

Center 5: Cocoa Cup Catapult

Suggested Materials:

• rubber bands
• large popsicle sticks
• small popsicle sticks
• plastic spoon
• cup
• cocoa printable (included)
• marshmallows (real or foam)

Center 6: Jingle Bell Tower

Suggested Materials:

• large jingle bells
• play dough

Center 7: Ornament Artistry

Suggested Materials:

• holiday mandala printables (included)
• colored pencils, crayons, markers
• string or ribbon
• hole punch

Center 8: Santa’s Lego Landing

Suggested Materials:

• Santa printable (included)
• binder clip
• Lego or Duplo

Center 9: Holiday Workshop

Suggested Materials:

• holiday symbols printables (included)
• Cuisenaire rods or
• Paper pattern blocks (included)

Center 10: Merry & Bright Sweater Design

Suggested Materials:

• sweater printables (included)
• colored pencils, crayons, markers