STEM Activities on Classic Fairy Tales

Who doesn’t like classic fairy tales? Snow White, Cinderella. There truly is nothing like these stories that have been faithful to us as children for generations. I love the idea of meshing these fairy tale classics with STEM activities.

This collection of STEM ideas go along with our favorite fun and engaging Fairy Tales from Candlewick Press. The STEM challenges focus on math concepts, engineering, and design.

Combining STEM challenges with common fairy tales will really make learning fun and interesting. This FREE download includes 5 different ideas that will help your homeschool kids learn new math and engineering concepts for kids in Kindergarten to Fifth grade.

These are some of the fairy tale STEM challenges for your kids:

• Build the 3 Little Pigs’ Houses
• Shapes, Counting, and Fractions
• Design Cinderella’s Castle
• Mapping Skills and Coordinates
• Fairy Tale STEM Search and Find

These resources will be awesome for yoru fairy-tale STEM activity:

Candlewick Press- Storytime 12 Favorite Read-aloud Books! [Audio Cassette]Fairy Tales: A Beautiful Collection of Favorite Fairy TalesGoldilocks and Just One BearCinderella: A Pop-Up Fairy Tale (Classic Collectible Pop-Up)Hans Christian Andersen’s Complete Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics)Beauty and the Beast

Check out this resource for a fairy tale STEM activity, literature-based math, and engineering from Math Geek Mama.