Star Wars STEAM Challenges for Kids

Star Wars lovers, it’s time to get your STEAM on!! Test your knowledge of the movies while you have fun with some science, technology, engineering, art and math! It’s a perfect way to celebrate May the Fourth or any other day of the year.  And to make it easy for you, we’re celebrating with these FREE printable Star Wars STEAM Challenge Cards. These activities are easy to set up and most use supplies you already have on hand (if you’re a Star Wars fan, that is!!).

Star Wars STEAM Challenges for Kids

I worked with my resident Star Wars mega-fan to make sure these activities were truly Star Wars worthy. Here are a couple of my daughter’s (i.e. my husband, the Star Wars Geek’s) favorites… 

Film a Star Wars Stop-Action Movie: We just started playing around with stop-action (or stop-motion) movies at our house. We love the Stop Motion app for iPhones. So easy to use and to make something that looks great. So have the kids pull out their Star Wars figures and give it a shot!

Make BB-8 Out of Playdough: We love this one because it’s basically a chance to tinker with play dough. Grab some white, orange, and grey dough (here’s a great recipe) and some parts like paper clips and screws and buttons and let the kids build away!

Write Your Favorite Star Wars Character’s Name in ASCII Code: Are you on the light side or the dark side? Pick a side, and a favorite character, and use the handy ASCII Code handout that comes along with the challenge cards to write in code.

Compare the Size of the Super Star Destroyer to Your City: We were totally inspired by this picture of the Destroyer compared to Manhattan on Reddit from movielover278 to get calculating our own city. It’s a really fun math problem and you could even turn it into a mapping activity with some graph paper, too.

How to get Your Star Wars STEAM Challenge Cards

The first step is to simply fill out the form on this page to have the cards emailed to you. Print out the cards and the STEAM force will be with you ;)

 

More Hands-On Projects for Kids

Want a more advanced Star Wars STEAM Project? Try this May the Fourth Be With You Circuit Card!

There’s a May the Force Be With You version, too, for all year round use.

Or give STEAM Explorers a try!! The kids will love this one…

Looking for some more STEAM inspiration that you can use right now? Instant gratification style? Check out STEAM Explorers!! The coolest creative experience for kids is here! It's a digital book of the month club filled with tons of fun stuff for the kids to do and learn. All engineer, teacher, and mom-approved. And most definitely KID APPROVED!⁣

What’s included?⁣

• A monthly digital magazine with cool themes that are fun to read
• Hands-on, exciting projects the kids will love.⁣
• Science, tech, engineering, art, and math learning YOU’LL love.⁣
• Delicious recipes the kids can make.⁣
• Fun printables and games⁣

Have fun as we reduce, reuse, renew, and recycle in April with the STEAM Explorers Recycle Issue! The kids will love upcycling old shirts into tote bags, building litter bug bots, making bioplastic, eating garbage cookies, renewing plants, making Earth sculptures, and so much more!  You'll love the helpful standards-based learning, printables, and tools that make STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, & math) exploration easy!

We’ve split the issue into four weekly themes:

• WEEK 1: PAPER POSSIBILITIES
• WEEK 2: TRASH OR TREASURE
• WEEK 3: MATERIAL SWAP
• WEEK 4: NATURE'S RECYCLERS