Description
Celebrate the holidays with this Christmas STEM project pack for Grades 2–5. These holiday engineering challenges and science crafts explore design, problem solving, and creativity through engaging, hands-on STEM activities.
Students apply engineering and scientific thinking to festive challenges, building, testing, and improving their designs. Through structured activities, worksheets, and creative tasks, learners develop problem-solving skills while connecting STEM concepts to real-world applications.
With printable worksheets, project guides, and reflection activities, this resource supports applied learning across science, engineering, and creativity. Ideal for holiday lessons, STEM enrichment, and hands-on classroom activities during the Christmas season.
Students Will Learn To:
- Explore the origins and meaning of Christmas.
- Compare global traditions and reflect on cultural diversity.
- Repurpose old materials into new holiday gifts.
- Design and build structures (e.g., edible Christmas tree models).
- Reflect on their learning and design process.
What’s Included:
- Word Cloud Activity (Christmas Vocabulary & Themes)
- Word Search Activity
- Fact Sheet: History of Christmas & Traditions Around the World
- Reading Comprehension Activity
- Christmas Tree Decoration Worksheet
- STEM Project 1: Edible Christmas Tree (using gummy sweets & toothpicks)
- STEM Project 2: Repurposed Christmas Gift (art & recyclable materials)
- Reflection Activity: “Be the Designer”
- Teacher’s Guide
Expected Outcomes:
- Students will learn about Christmas. Students will understand how we can talk about Christmas traditions from around the world.
- Students will use their hands to create a personal edible-Christmas-tree and repurpose old materials to create a Christmas gift.
- Students will demonstrate their skills through graphical and verbal tasks to reflect upon their knowledge.
Cross-Curricular Links:
- Social Studies: Global culture and traditions
- Engineering/Design: Hands-on model building and creative repurposing
- ELA: Reading comprehension and personal reflection
- Art: Holiday crafting and gift decoration
Designed for classes, distance learning, and individual study.
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Perfect For:
STEM lessons.
STEM projects.
Homework assignments.
Assignments given at the beginning of the week and returned at the end of the week.
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STEM Project: Christmas STEM Projects | Holiday PBL Activities & Crafts
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Description
Celebrate the holidays with this Christmas STEM project pack for Grades 2–5. These holiday engineering challenges and science crafts explore design, problem solving, and creativity through engaging, hands-on STEM activities.
Students apply engineering and scientific thinking to festive challenges, building, testing, and improving their designs. Through structured activities, worksheets, and creative tasks, learners develop problem-solving skills while connecting STEM concepts to real-world applications.
With printable worksheets, project guides, and reflection activities, this resource supports applied learning across science, engineering, and creativity. Ideal for holiday lessons, STEM enrichment, and hands-on classroom activities during the Christmas season.
Students Will Learn To:
- Explore the origins and meaning of Christmas.
- Compare global traditions and reflect on cultural diversity.
- Repurpose old materials into new holiday gifts.
- Design and build structures (e.g., edible Christmas tree models).
- Reflect on their learning and design process.
What’s Included:
- Word Cloud Activity (Christmas Vocabulary & Themes)
- Word Search Activity
- Fact Sheet: History of Christmas & Traditions Around the World
- Reading Comprehension Activity
- Christmas Tree Decoration Worksheet
- STEM Project 1: Edible Christmas Tree (using gummy sweets & toothpicks)
- STEM Project 2: Repurposed Christmas Gift (art & recyclable materials)
- Reflection Activity: “Be the Designer”
- Teacher’s Guide
Expected Outcomes:
- Students will learn about Christmas. Students will understand how we can talk about Christmas traditions from around the world.
- Students will use their hands to create a personal edible-Christmas-tree and repurpose old materials to create a Christmas gift.
- Students will demonstrate their skills through graphical and verbal tasks to reflect upon their knowledge.
Cross-Curricular Links:
- Social Studies: Global culture and traditions
- Engineering/Design: Hands-on model building and creative repurposing
- ELA: Reading comprehension and personal reflection
- Art: Holiday crafting and gift decoration
Designed for classes, distance learning, and individual study.
➯ Be sure to follow my store to be notified of new products. >> CLICK HERE
➯ Don't forget to leave feedback.
Perfect For:
STEM lessons.
STEM projects.
Homework assignments.
Assignments given at the beginning of the week and returned at the end of the week.
You may also like:
STEM Project | Building Bridges | Project-Based Learning
STEM Project | Exciting Experiments
Follow Inspiring STEM Supplies & Eduettu:
TPT | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Website
Disclaimer:
All rights reserved by the author. This product may only be used by the original purchaser. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school district is prohibited. You may not post this product online including classroom websites, school networks or file sharing sites. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
