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.

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Download Your Star Wars STEAM Challenge Cards

First step is to download the cards and print them out. Then the STEAM force will be with you ;) To help you get going on your challenges this month, we’ll send these free printable cards to your email. To have the cards emailed to you, simply fill out the form below.

 

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⁣

Get ready to have fun with hands-on STEAM this Halloween! Join us this October as we investigate bats, brains, spiders, candy, and pumpkins through hands-on STEAM!The kids will love building a spider bot, getting grossed out by delicious spider egg cookies, and learning about the brain with hands-on play.

We’ve split the issue into four weekly themes:

• WEEK 1: SENSATIONAL SPIDERS
• WEEK 2: PUMPKIN PROJECTS
• WEEK 3: SPOOKY STEAM
• WEEK 4: TRICK OR TREAT