Christmas STEM Projects – How to Catch an Elf

There’s a naughty elf on the loose! Can your students develop a plan to catch this mischievous elf? 

Provide pupils with sustainable or recyclable materials, like cardboard rolls, tissue boxes, shoe boxes, paper, craft sticks, string, etc.
Pupils will use their supplies to design and build a simple trap to catch this naughty elf. 

In addition to STEM learning, through this activity, students will: 

🎁 Exercise critical thinking skills

🎁 Explore creativity

🎁 Strengthen verbal and motor skills

🎁 Consider cause and effect and

🎁 Have fun

Differentiated STEM Activities for Kids

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Assist students with learning challenges by participating in brainstorming and listing conversations with them. Discuss the different features and how those features might contribute to their overall design idea.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Encourage fast finishers to come up with another concept for a trap, create an advertisement for their elf trap or write a newspaper article about the naughty elf and what he has gotten up to.

Easily Download & Print

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or editable Google Slides version of this resource. 

Additionally, project the worksheet onto a screen and work through it as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks.

This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a Teach Starter Collaborator.