Little STEM Club

🌧️ Rain in a Cup 🌧️

We explored how clouds make rain with this simple and magical science experiment!

First, we filled our cup with water. Then we added a fluffy layer of shaving cream to make our “cloud.” Finally, we dropped food coloring on top and watched as the cloud filled up. When it became too heavy to hold all that water… 🌧️ it rained!

This hands-on activity helps our little scientists:
🔬 Learn about weather and clouds
🧠 Build early science vocabulary
👀 Practice observation and patience
✋ Strengthen fine motor skills

Science is even more fun when you can see it happen! 💙

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☃️ Week 3 of Holiday STEM Lab ☃️
Science met winter wonder this week as we turned a polymer powder into snow using water! The kids learned how absorption works while exploring the texture, movement, and magic of instant snow. Curiosity was sparked and imaginations were flying! ❄️🧠

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🎄✨ Holiday STEM Lab – Week 2: Binary Coding Ornaments! ✨🎄

This week in Holiday STEM Lab, our little engineers turned into holiday coders! 💻🎅
Using binary code, students created Christmas ornaments that spelled E-L-F using patterns and logic.

🔴 Red beads = 0
🟢 Green beads = 1
⚪ White beads = spaces between letters

By following a code and stringing their beads just right, our students practiced sequencing, pattern recognition, and early coding skills—all while making a festive ornament to take home!

STEM + holiday magic = learning that sparkles! ✨
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🎄 Holiday STEM Lab – Week 1! 🎄
This week our little engineers became Christmas tree designers! 🌟

Using green cups to build the tree and colorful pompoms as ornaments, our kiddos practiced engineering skills, balance, problem-solving, and creativity. They experimented with different ways to stack, support, and decorate their trees — and each one turned out uniquely adorable! 💚✨

Hands-on holiday STEM is the best kind of magic! 🎁🔧
We can’t wait for next week’s festive experiment! ❤️💡

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🍁 Fall Into STEM – Week 3!
This week our Little STEM scientists became engineers! 🧠⚙️
We designed and built our very own acorn catapults, then tested how far we could launch our acorns! 🎯🌰

We explored:
🔧 Engineering design (build & adjust)
📏 Force and motion (push harder = fly farther!)
🌟 Problem solving (fixing and improving our catapults!)

Every launch taught us something new — and every giggle meant learning felt fun! 🤩🍁

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🍁 Week 2 of Fall Into STEM! 🍁
This week our Little STEM Club friends became coders! 🤖✨

We practiced giving step-by-step commands to our robots and helped them travel through a taped maze on the floor. The mission?
🦃 Find the turkey!

The kids worked together, planned their paths, and tested their code to see if their robot could turn, move, and navigate all the way to the finish. So much problem-solving, teamwork, and excitement!

Coding at this age helps build early logic, sequencing skills, and confidence—and they had a blast doing it! 💛

💡This week in Little STEM Club, we explored the magic of light!
Our young scientists learned about refraction — what happens when light bends as it travels through water. ✨ When we placed our colored picture in water, it completely disappeared! 😮 But it wasn’t magic… it was science!

Through hands-on discovery, we learned that light can change direction when it passes through different materials, making things look different (or even vanish before our eyes!). 🌈🔍

🎃💥 Week 4 of STEM-O-WEEN was an explosive good time!
Our Little STEM Club scientists created their very own Pumpkin Volcanoes using baking soda and vinegar — and watched a real chemical reaction happen right before their eyes! 🌋🧪

We saw bubbling lava, heard the fizz, and even made a gas! 💨✨
Science + Halloween fun = the perfect spooky combo! 👻🧡

🎉 Welcome, Spanish Grove Academy! 🎉

We’re so excited to welcome our newest Little STEM Club members from Spanish Grove Academy! 🧡 Get ready for a month full of spooky science, creative building, and hands-on fun!

This week, our young engineers built Spider Houses using toothpicks and pumpkin candies. 🕸️🕷️ They explored balance, structure, and problem-solving while creating the perfect homes for their little candy spiders!

We can’t wait to see what our curious scientists will build next! 💡✨