🌞 Week 3: STEM-sational Summer Camp ✨🧪🔬🚀
Get ready to blast off into a week of science, technology, engineering, and math fun! Each day we’ll dive into hands-on experiments, brainy games, curious crafts, and out-of-this-world activities your little Einstein will love. No lab coat required—just a few everyday supplies and a healthy dose of wonder. 💡✨
Whether you’ve got a junior geologist, future astronaut, or mini mathematician, this week is packed with screen-free, budget-friendly fun that makes learning exciting and approachable. So grab your goggles, line up the slime supplies, and get ready for a week that’s equal parts messy and magical! 🤓🧰
🤬 Theme: A fun-focused celebration of STEM with science, engineering, coding, and experiments!
🔊 Buzz Level: Easy prep 🐝 Budget-friendly 💲 Brain-boosting 🤯
🏡 Where: Right at home—kitchen table, driveway lab, or backyard observatory!
📊 Daily STEM Schedule
🔮 Monday – SCIENCE DAY
Craft/Activity: Make-your-own slime lab! Stretchy, squishy, and totally cool.
- Supplies: White glue, baking soda, contact lens solution, food coloring
Snack: Rock candy (store-bought or homemade!)
Game: Sink or Float water bin challenge
Book: “Ada Twist, Scientist” by Andrea Beaty
Movie: Magic School Bus Rides Again: The Frizz Connection
🚀 Tuesday – ENGINEERING DAY
Craft/Activity: Balloon rocket races! Whoosh!
- Supplies: String, straws, tape, balloons
Snack: Pretzel stick & marshmallow structures
Game: Tallest tower using only cups, paper, and tape
Book: “Rosie Revere, Engineer” by Andrea Beaty
Movie: WALL-E
🤖 Wednesday – TECH & CODING DAY
Craft/Activity: Code a maze for your stuffed animal or toy robot
- Supplies: Masking tape, paper coding arrows, or Bee-Bot if you have one
Snack: “Binary Bites” (graham crackers with 0s and 1s drawn in icing)
Game: Simon Says Coding Commands
Book: “How to Code a Sandcastle” by Josh Funk
Movie: Big Hero 6
📈 Thursday – MATH DAY
Craft/Activity: Shape building with toothpicks and mini marshmallows
Snack: Graph your snack (M&M or cereal sorting & charting!)
Game: Math scavenger hunt around the house
Book: “The Grapes of Math” by Greg Tang
Movie: Peg + Cat Save the World
🌌 Friday – STEM MASH-UP DAY
Craft/Activity: DIY lava lamps ✨
- Supplies: Clear bottle, vegetable oil, water, food coloring, Alka-Seltzer
Snack: “Mad Scientist” snack mix (mix your own fun combo of pretzels, cereal, gummies, raisins)
Game: Spaghetti & marshmallow bridge challenge
Book: “The Most Magnificent Thing” by Ashley Spires
Movie: Meet the Robinsons
– STEM-sational Summer Camp
📃 White glue 📃 Baking soda 📃 Contact lens solution 📃 Food coloring 📃 Clear plastic bottles 📃 Alka-Seltzer tablets 📃 String, straws, tape, balloons 📃 Marshmallows (mini) 📃 Spaghetti noodles (uncooked) 📃 Construction paper 📃 Toothpicks 📃 Pretzel sticks 📃 Graham crackers 📃 Frosting or icing tubes 📃 Measuring cups 📃 Snack mix items (cereal, raisins, gummies, pretzels) 📃 Masking tape 📃 Paper plates or cups 📃 Scissors, markers, glue, crayons 📃 Printable coding arrows (optional)
📃 Coding or STEM toys if available (Bee-Bot, robot toys)
Ada Twist, Scientist
Rosie Revere, Engineer
How to Code a Sandcastle
The Grapes of Math
The Most Magnificent Thing
🎥 Movie picks for STEM week fun:
Magic School Bus Rides Again
WALL-E
Big Hero 6
Peg + Cat Save the World
Meet the Robinsons
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