STEM challenge task cards with a food alphabet theme for beginner builders! These are basic tasks for building materials like hashtag blocks, building bricks, play dough, pipe cleaners, or interlocking cubes. If you do a letter of the week theme, this is another way to get hands on with your ABCs!

✅ What You'll Get ✅

• Overview and teacher notes with building tips
• 40 A to Z food building cards! There are several letters with more than one building idea (X is excluded) as well as a free build card. These are provided in both full page and 4 per page layouts (task card size).
• Recording pages for students to write down their ideas or recreate their design on paper.
• STEM Decor (S T E M posters, plus engineering design process poster)
• Award certificate

Sometimes students just don't know what to build and this helps give them a basic idea to get started. Students may wish to build 2D designs or 3D designs. These challenge cards don't have constraints and criteria on them like my more advanced STEM Matsbut are meant to be an introductory activity to building. Perfect to add to your makerspace!

✏️ Materials Needed ✏️

You will want to provide a variety of building materials available, as some of the builds will be more difficult with one material than another. I suggest LEGO bricks and playdough, but pipe cleaners, interlocking cubes, plastic flake toys, hashtag blocks, and magnetic blocks are all good options.

If you are using building bricks it's also helpful to have base plates available for students as an option!