Customized List Based on Your Child’s Interest

If you have taken our Activity Archetype Quiz, look below under the title of your result to find your customized list of fun STEM-based activities that can activate and nurture your child’s unique genius.

Not only do the below activity archetype and resource lists offer engaging and fun ways to boost your child’s STEM skills by providing children opportunities to think and reason while being creative, these activities also provide children with ways to see themselves accomplishing cool things! While also providing parents with opportunities to celebrate the child’s accomplishments, and to highlight methods the child applied to solve problems during the activity. This in turn grows the child’s confidence in their ability to tackle more difficult problems all throughout their lives.

STEM activities allow your child to simultaneously adhere to the type of activities that they love and feel most comfortable with while also providing a natural extension of, and chance to explore, exercise, and grow different abilities nurturing the whole child.

These are by no means exhaustive lists, and many kids have varied interest across multiple or even all the activity archetypes which is awesome, the intention here is to provide ideas that will in turn prompt others that continue to spark others to keep the exploration and growth ongoing.

Additionally, we send more activities ideas in our emails, newsletters, and notes, and in taking our quiz your email has been added to our list that will be receiving them. We do not send a lot of emails, and even though everything we do send will be chock full of value to make sure you never run out of engaging activity ideas, you are welcome to unsubscribe at any time.

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READER / WRITER

A big part of STEM involves taking things that are theoretical, hypothetical or imaginary and making them visible and real. If your kid loves reading or writing, they can use STEM to bring things from their favorite stories to life. The activity of bringing something off the page of a book into the three-dimensional space is a powerful way for kids to learn that ideas become things—a fundamental building block in developing STEM skills that work in the real world.

Write a story about something that happened in that day, but make up a different ending

Write dialogue for your pet

Make up a/Learn a new language

Listen to an audiobook

Write about your day

Make up a story about a farm, clubhouse, forest, castle or other playscene and post it in the Playgineering Live Community

Read your favorite story and extend the ending

Create a new word

Create a diary or journal

Create backstory to dolls or action figure, make up family tree or history /Learn family history

Make a list your favorite things

Read a different genre of books

Read about where a meal you ate came from

Take an online tour of something

Name all the plants in your yard

Watch cartoons from different countries

Make a story with a puzzle

Follow step-by-step instructions to build a LEGO model that moves (windmill, mixer, car, etc.), then make up a story about the world it lives in

PERFORMER / PRODUCER

It might be surprising to learn that family dinner can be full of STEM activity, but if your child loves talking or performing, dinner time is a great time to put on a show in front of an audience. In addition to creating great memories, the child has to think through to plan the production in advance, and make decisions about every detail. This type of thinking develops the sequence detection part of the human brain structure which is crucial for problem solving.

Have a photoshoot, set up a pretend studio, walk the catwalk

Wear your least favorite color for a day and pretend it’s your favorite color

Learn your favorite songs on an instrument

Build a LEGO dancer who spins around, and make a stage to put on a show

Take pictures of your show and post them in Playgineering Live Community

Pretend to have your future job

Set the table for a fancy dinner at home

Facepaint/Do someone’s makeup

Dress up as a favorite character

Make up a new sport /Learn a new sport

Make a puzzle and tell part of a story with each piece

Eat a new food and give a review of it

Have a family karaoke night

Make lemonade, apple juice, or orange juice

Make a video reenactment of something fun that happened that day

Act out a story without speaking

Pretend to be an alarm clock without making any sound

MAKER / TINKERER

Blocks and modular parts and toys – items that are comprised of independent parts – can be put together and taken apart in any number of combinations, and empower kids to observe things and deconstructing them into parts, question the relationships between the parts, how they work together, and the sequences of steps that bring those parts to take a certain form that brings ideas to life, all while instilling strong feelings of accomplishment when things come together for them.

Play store with monopoly money counting

Sort something for the household like laundry into lights and darks

Play a simulator

Create a new candy

Make playdough

Put a puzzle together

Learn how germs form

Put together or take apart an old device/ computer

Learn how something in your meal is made /grown

Make a dollhouse from recycle boxes

Design a new toy

Sort photographs into folders or made up categories

Make a game out of matching socks clean from the laundry

Make instruments guitars out of boxes and rubber bands, shakers with tube boxes, rice and beans

Build over 20 different mechanized Technic LEGO models with Playgineering PlaySystem

Join Playgineering Live Community to build with other makers and tinkers and get inspiration and help from STEM teacher and LEGO masters

Make a jigsaw puzzle

ARTIST / CRAFTER

Artists are able to see things that the rest of us don’t easily see. STEM activities give artists the opportunity to take ideas from their imagination, and their two dimensional drawings and bring them to three dimensional life. The opportunity to look at, think and reason through ways to use things in remarkably different ways than they are usually seen is at the core of innovation, and sparks a type of thinking that gives kids the confidence to tackle more difficult problems later in life

Paint with leaves

Draw a comic of something that happened that day

Make a flipbook simple stick figure drawing

Design a poster

Use an erasable marker and draw a tattoo

Design new shoes

Draw while listening to a story /fan art

Draw a portrait of a family member, friend or pet

Create a cartoon character

Build a helicopter with Technic LEGO and draw cities, forests, and other scenes that the helicopter can fly through

Exhibit your scenes by posting them in the Playgineering Live Community

Make a puzzle from a drawing or painting

Sew clothes, costumes, or plushies

Draw all the trees or bushes you see from your window

Design your dream home

Draw an idea for a new toy

Create a new shape

Make a sculpture with playdough

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