Bring storytime to life with a hands on STEM activity to accompany your book. These are targeted to prek-3rd grade and can all be shifted to suite academic needs.
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Iggy Peck Architect
Pout Pout Fish
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
How to Catch a Snowman
Iggy Peck Architect
After reading this book, challenge your children or students to build a structure using the given building supplies. The sillier the supply the better. I recommend a handful of straws, paperclips, Popsicle sticks, and only 1 adhesive. It should be dr...
From building to wind creation, get straws!!
Plastic Straws-building material
Keva is a great building plank and can be used for so many projects.
KEVA Planks
This book is all about an aspiring architect, Iggy. Kids can build their own structures using non-non-typical items listed as well.
Iggy Peck, Architect
Popsicle sticks are so versatile in STEM projects.
Popsicle Sticks
A fun addition to building
Paper Clips
Pout Pout Fish
One activity we did after Pout PouPout Fish was to do Sink or Swim. I printed a worksheet for them to make guesses on what would happen, run the experiment, then what actually happened.
Pout Pout is good for emotional mindfulness but also a great chance to incorporate STSTEM.
The Pout-Pout Fish
Use these gems for the sink or float experiment.
Gems for Sink or Float
Use clear bins filled with water for this experiment (1 plain, 1 salt water, 1 sugar water)
Medium Storage Containers
One solution should be sugar water. Add enough for the gems to float.
Granulated Sugar
Use salt as a solution, add enough salt that the gems float.
Salt - Walmart
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
This is the cutest book and has lots of STEM activities. Building trees from Keva, Legos, or Magnatiles; balancing the alphabet on a tree; painting their own tree and stamping their name on coconuts in the tree; etc
A fun read with lots of hands on activities using STEAM.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Use these stamps for spelling your name in the tree or creating the entire alphabet in the tree.
Alphabet Stamps
Use these for multiple building challenges. CCBB: Build a tree out of tiles. IPA: create a tower with tiles.
Magna Tiles
Use these to stack on top of the tree structure you build.
Magnetic Letters
How to Catch a Snowman
After reading How to Catch a Snowman (i switch between book and read aloud video) we built our own Snowman and wrote about the process).
We love the hard copy but YouTube fofor a read aloud is awesome as well.
How to Catch a Snowman
Freeeeeeee read aloud
How to Catch a Snowman READ ALOUD!
We used these kits to make our own snowman.
Snowman Kit
Free printable for a writing option on story sequencing
