20 STEM Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids
20 STEM Valentine’s Day Activities for Kids
If you are looking for a fun and educational way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, check out these STEM Valentine’s Day Activities for kids!
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and if your kids are anything like mine, then they are looking forward to the sweet Valentine’s and the influx of candy that will fill our home.
If you are looking for a way to incorporate a little bit of learning in the midst of all the candy and Valentine’s fun, you can incorporate these STEM activities for kids! They are all Valentine’s-themed, and they’re so fun, your kids won’t know they’re learning! STEM is so important for young kids, and I’m always on the lookout for any way I can incorporate them into my home!
1. Valentine’s Day Oobleck
Don’t know what Oobleck is? I didn’t either.. but it’s pretty cool and this post has a great science experiment you can do with it!
2. Heart Rate Investigation
Wow. This is such a cool STEM activity for Valentine’s Day. Why not measure a real heart rate for a real heart, right?
3. Light-Up Circuit Valentine’s
This activity gives the song, ‘You Light Up My Life’ a completely new meaning! Do you having a budding electrical engineer? Check this activity out!
4. Fizzy Hearts
Seriously. Anything that ends up with a messy mess will go over super well with your kids. Pop Pop Fizz Fizz… equals fun!
5. Homemade Bouncy Ball
Use the ingredients for slime to make an actual Valentine’s Day themed bouncy ball. Awesome!
6. Floating Ice Hearts
This is a super cool ice and oil density experiment that is heart themed.
7. Valentine’s Day Polygon Shapes Building Activity
Mix it up with some Valentine’s Day themed math fun!
8. LEGO Heart Engineers
Create hearts out of LEGO pieces!
9. Enchanted Rose Slime
Ahhhh, Valentine’s Day slime. And this one is gorgeously themed off of Beauty and the Beast!
10. Flying Cupids
How about some static electricity experiments with your Valentine’s Day festivities?
11. Peeps Catapult
This is such an awesome idea. Flinging heart Peeps. Ha!
12. Design a Love Bug
Part craft. Part engineering. Totally fun!
13. Valentine’s Day Coding Activity
Do you have a budding computer programmer in your house? They will love this activity!
14. Valentine’s Bubble Science
How can you argue with bubbles? I love the Valentine’s Day twist on this activity!
15. Dissolving Skittles
There are so many variations on this fun science experiment. This is a heart-themed one.
16. Sprinkle Math Activity
A great fine motor activity and a great way to practice math skills.
17. Heart Candy Structures
For any young engineer whom you love. Making heart structures out of candy!
18. Valentine’s Day Math Activities
Who says math has to be tedious. Get your kids excited for math with these Valentine’s Day math activities.
19. Building Structures with Paper Hearts
This is a really cool and surprisingly simple STEM heart activity!
20. Valentine’s Thaumatropes
I didn’t know what a Thaumatrope was until I checked out this post.. now I want to do this activity with my daughter as soon as possible!
Interested in Valentine’s Day Crafts too? Check these out!
- Heart Paper Wreath Craft
- Pom Pom Love Bug Craft
- Melted Bead Heart Suncatchers
- Cotton Ball Heart Painting Craft for Kids
- Craft Stick Love Bug Craft for Kids
- Valentine’s Day Cork Painting Craft for Kids
- Bee Mine Valentine’s Day Card for Kids to Make
- Sparkly Bow Band
- Ladybug Toilet Paper Roll Craft for Kids
- Easy Heart Suncatchers
- Love Bug Egg Craft for Kids
