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Gingerbread Cookie STEM Activities

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As you may know, STEM is an acronym and it stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. STEM activities comes in a shapes, sizes and use all kinds of materials, as long as you apply all four pillars of knowledge. In this post, we will make some creative gingerbread cookie STEM activities to try at home this holiday season.

Science anyone? Try these creative gingerbread cookie STEM activities at home this holiday season. Fun with your holiday cookies. The kids will love it.

Gingerbread Books and Cookies

For any activity we do in our homeschool, we like to read books about that topic. Here are some fun gingerbread cookie books to read for this topic. The Gingerbread Pirates and Ten Tiny Gingerbread Men are a lot of fun because they have several gingerbread characters. Also, for our STEM activities, you will need at least 4 dozen gingerbread cookies for each child.

 Try this creative gingerbread cookies STEM activity at home this holiday season. Fun with your holiday cookies. The kids will love it.

Gingerbread Cookie STEM Activities

For the STEM activity, I introduced the kids to gingerbread cookies, we tasted them and we read some books about them. Then we started off easy. We made a vertical stack of the cookies. The key was to keep it balanced so it doesn’t tip over. Once my daughter built the tallest tower she could before it tipping over, we measured it with a ruler to include Math in our activity.

We used Science (physics) and Engineering for the building part and patterns. Lastly, we used technology (our DSLR camera) to have the kids take pictures. They photographed their creations to compare the ones they made first to the ones they made after they got more confident and more familiar with this STEM activity.

Try this fun gingerbread cookies STEM activity with your kids

My son made the horizontal row instead of a tower. This one was a challenge for him at first because he had to figure out how to keep the gingerbread cookies vertical.

Then he got it: he stood two back to back and then built the row on either side of them! This took some testing and some thinking, but it was worth it.

Critical thinking, Logic and Problem Solving skills are some of the most important and some of the most lacking skills in these newer generations. Activity like these are not only a lot of fun, but they are very beneficial for kids!

Recommended Gingerbread Man Books for Kids

Read about these Gingerbread man or girl adventures with one of these books. Then go ahead and bake your own gingerbread man cookies. That’s always fun.

 The Gingerbread GirlThe Gingerbread Girl The Gingerbread ManThe Gingerbread Man Tough Cookie: A Christmas StoryTough Cookie: A Christmas Story Gingerbread FriendsGingerbread Friends

Fun STEM activity with gingerbread cookies - a must-try with the kids

Once my children got more confident, they enjoyed coming up with many amazing creations and designs!

They had such a great time and the fun really started when they began challenging each other with things like “who can build a support to carry the most gingerbread cookies?” and “who can build the tallest gingerbread cookie pyramid?”

Thank you for visiting our Gingerbread Cookie STEM Activities post!

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Tanya is the owner and writer for the The Natural Homeschool and a homeschooling mom to two children, a son and daughter. She focuses on following their particular learning interests and in building a strong Christian foundation in their hearts.
To cater to their high giftedness, she uses eclectic teaching approach, which complement each other and maximize the fun in learning. Tanya has a degree in elementary education, a minor in French and a Master's degree in school administration. Her training in the Montessori Method is in the ages 3-6. She is happily married to her best friend and enjoys sharing her life and experiences in her blog to provie inspiration and bring new ideas.

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  1. Kristen says

    December 23, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    What a great way to use those extra gingerbread cookies after the holidays! In my house we always make cutout sugar cookies – the cookies aren’t as thick, so I imagine that would alter the physics of the activity as well.

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