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Bring this festive scene

to life in your own way.

Santa’s STEM
Workshop
Activity Sheet
We’ve put together a whole range of fun Christmas
activities for you to enjoy in the classroom, at
home or whilst the Christmas dinner is cooking!
Seasons Greetings from the IET.

Word search puzzle Hot chocolate science experiment

Make it yourself
Which words from the list can you find in the grid?
Why not try these Christmas activities for yourself and challenge your friends too? Materials needed: Instructions:
CHRISTMAS We’d love to see how you get on so please ask your parent / guardian to send in
– Two mugs
RUDOLPH any photos of your makes to ieteducation@theiet.org or tag us on social media 1. P
 our 6 ounces of 5. Next, place the same
S T N E M I R E P X E H (microwaveable)
water into one mug number of marshmallows
ELF @IETEducation #SantasSTEMworkshop #SantaLovesSTEM.
– Water and 6 ounces of milk in each mug and start
T E T A R B E L E C L P STEM 1. Make a model with wheels and race it against your friends. – Milk into the other mug. the timer. After set time
S R B A K I N G B E S L HOLIDAYS 2. Create a marble run/bauble run where the run time is over 30 seconds. – Hot chocolate mix intervals, record how
SNOWMAN 2. Ask an adult to many marshmallows
T S E M S A T A H A Y O 3. Build Santa a new sleigh from an empty cereal box. – Spoon microwave both mugs have dissolved. (Hint:
ANGEL
4. Create a Christmas scene from LEGO®. – Thermometer for 1 minute 30 seconds the marshmallows in the
N N T E S L U S M R A D CRAFTS each, or until the water
5. Make a reindeer sock puppet. – Marshmallows hot chocolate made with
E O M T A B T T F W D U SANTA CLAUS and milk are hot. water should dissolve
– Timer
CAROLS more rapidly because the
S W E S L F S E F C I R 3. Ask an adult to remove the water should be hotter.
CELEBRATE mugs from the microwave, The hotter the liquid,
E M B E A I S E A A L T BAKING Anagrams be careful, the mugs will the quicker the sugary
be hot. You will then need marshmallows will dissolve).
R A S R R T L R O D O F PRESENTS
Can you unscramble the Christmas words? to add the same amount
FESTIVE
P N C H I R O E E V H A of hot chocolate mix to 6. Time for you to plan your
EXPERIMENTS a) rats e) kyruet i) lsleb m) listen_ listen each mug and stir until it own extension to this
E M C V E L F A G E C M FAMILY is completely dissolved. experiment! Why not
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use different liquids,
S C E L S L U A U N M I BAUBLES
b) acrcrke f) niderere j) eret n) ticksong 4. Measure the temperature different mugs, different
SLEIGH of each mug and record sweets, different hot
H G I E L S F S M T A L ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________
ADVENT the data. (Hint: the hot chocolate powder, etc.
S U A L C A T N A S A Y TREE
c) manswon g) tsana k) persntes o) dingdup chocolate made with Remember to record your
____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ water should be hotter). results and then you can
compare and evaluate.
d) carlo h) yohll l) dluhpro
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For more fun activities visit:

theiet.org/santa
@IETeducation The Institution of Engineering and Technology is registered as a Charity in England and Wales (No. 211014) and Scotland (No. SC038698). #SantasSTEMworkshop
Futures Place, Kings Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2UA, United Kingdom. #SantaLovesSTEM

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