Engineering activities for kids

30+ engineering STEM challenges with simple materials. Kids can tinker with bridges, catapults, boats, and more using recycled and inexpensive materials.

You and your kids will love putting together these simple helicopters and watching them fly! *Video below

Engineering activities for kids that will get their brains and bodies moving! Grab a free engineering challenge printable for even more STEM fun.

These engineering activities for kids are excellent ways to enjoy STEM projects and more. Help your students learn and enjoy all sorts of cool building projects, creativity, and thinking outside the box.

Keep your kids busy and having fun inside on rainy winter days with this selection of 50 fantastic indoor activities for kids. Easy crafts + games.

Try this easy engineering and science project making a Popsicle Stick Catapult! This STEM project for kids uses materials you have at home.

Discover some fascinating, no prep, STEM activities and challenges you can do with your students using paper! Engineering, math and science.

STEM Challenge: Making a Balloon Car is so much fun and has students using the Design Process for Engineering!

This toilet paper roll balloon car is a fun STEM challenge using recyclables! It’s a perfect budget-friendly engineering activity for the classroom, homeschool, and scouts. Kids will learn about simple machines and the science of forces and motion.

If your kids love engineering, they will love this fun engineering challenge that combines engineering in two ways, structural engineering and demolition engineering. In orange wrecking ball engineering challenge, I challenged my kids to come up with a system where an orange could knock some plastic cups over without them throwing it or rolling it.