Math Art STEAM Activities

Looking for a STEAM activity to do?

I recently found a great site called What Do We Do All Day?

It has ALL kinds of activities for kids from toddlers to teens.

My favorite are the Math Art activities.  
In these activities children (and adults) can create artistic pieces using math concepts.

One activity is called Pi Skyline.
For this activity you only need graph paper and something with which to color.  Kids graph the digits of pi in order to create the skyline.  This is also a great counting and graphing activity for kids too young to understand pi.

Another Math Art activity for older kids is Spirolaterals.

Pi Skyline with Spirolateral (4) Sun

Still need more STEAM activities?  
Try these other websites and activities.

Left Brain Craft Brain

How to Make a DaVinci Bridge

Emoji Traupes

Red Ted Art
Origami Boomerang
Paper Helicopters

Raising DaVinci (Youtube Channel)
10 Candy Science Experiments
10 Easy Rainbow Science Activities

Rube Goldberg Contraption Challenge

A Great Way to Spend Spring Break

The Middle School students had a great time designing and building a Rube Goldberg contraption last year so when I saw this challenge I thought it would be perfect to pass along to our families.  

Rube Goldberg was an engineer who became a cartoonist and his cartoons often included complicated contraptions to do simple tasks.

Self Operating Napkin Contraption

The contraptions used every day items found around the house making them perfect for this Spring Break.

The link in the graphic above does not work.  Here is the video.

You can find more videos at Rube Tube. 

You can also build virtual contraptions with the Rube Works App.

If you build a contraption (to enter or just for fun) please email me a picture or a video.  I would love to see them.  Have fun!