Pi Day Activities MEGA Bundle Math STEAM Crafts STEM Challenge

This activity set is only for DIE HARD Pi Day fans! Please view all of the resource previews to see what is included (it's a LOT). There's everything from math problems, hands-on pi exploration, STEAM art projects, logic puzzles, to STEM challenges with circles and more! Please note that Pi Day Pop Art is included in the Pi Day Activities download, too.

⭕ PI DAY FOR K-4 ⭕

✅ What You'll Get ✅

• What is Pi? Explains pi in a kid-friendly way!
• Hands-On Pi Experiment with Recording Sheet
• Pi Day Fun Facts: Read it together while students color the page.
• Color by Code (2 options): Comparing numbers and number sentences, and color by shape
• Get creative with circles! What can you create with 12 or 30 circles?
• Pi Day Color and Cut Activity
• The Symbol Pi - Check out the Greek alphabet!
• Mystery Spiral: A measurement math activity
• Digits of Pi: Can you find any repeating numbers in these digits of pi? How many digits can you memorize?
• Pi Day Art (5 pages)
• Pop Art (7 pages)
• Pi Day Dot Chain Craftand bracelet projects
• Kandinsky style art project (4 options, or create your own)
• I Spy Pi (2 pages)
• Circle Search (2 pages)
• Pi Rhyming
• Logic Puzzles with Pie and Circles (8 pages)
• Pi Day Crown Craftivity: 5 options based on cutting and measuring abilities.

⭕ PI DAY FOR 5+ ⭕

✅ What You'll Get ✅

• What is Pi? (2 pages)
• Pi Day Fun Facts (1 page)
• Get creative with circles! What can you create with 30 circles? (1 page)
• Color by code (2 page): Using the formulas for area and circumference of circles, find the answers then color the mystery picture.
• Digits of Pi (2 pages): Students search for repeating digits, and try to memorize as many as they can!
• Hidden Picture (PI-cture) (1 page)
• The Symbol (1 page): Greek alphabet page.
• Best Approximation (1 page): Which is closest? Students evaluate 3 popular approximations of pi to see which is the most accurate.
• Mystery Spiral (1 page): measurement activity
• 100 Digits: Graphing the frequency (1 page)
• STEAM Art Projects (8 pages)
• Pop Art
• Pi Words, Crossword, and Word Finds (2) (1 page each)
• Award Certificates (2 pages)
• Logic Puzzles (4 pages)
• 32 Area and Circumference of Circles Task Cards with QR Codes (10 pages), also included are the same task cards without QR codes (not included in page count). Please note: these task cards are also listed here, so please do not purchase both! If you want just the task cards, please go to that listing.
• Answer Keys (5 pages)
• Credits (1 page)

⭕ PACKAGING ENGINEER STEM ⭕

Students will be packaging engineers for the day as they determine the best arrangement for a set of circles in the various packages! This 2D STEM challenge is a scaled-down, paper version of what real packaging engineers must accomplish with 3D objects and products. This activity ties in well to Pi Day because the objects are all circles! In a 3D version, these objects could be something like batteries, soup cans, straws, etc.

✅ What You'll Get ✅

• Teacher instructions and background information - vocabulary includes pi, area, tangent, radius, cross section, packing density
• Printable and digital STEM activity both elementary and secondary versions are included - elementary version has students calculate a point value for their arrangement, while the secondary version has students calculate packing density. All formulas are provided, including a reminder of how to find the area of the shapes included. Note: if you are working on mastering the use of a compass, you may opt to have students scribe their own circles.
• Guided recording sheets for students to record their results
• Background page on Packaging Engineering and discussion questions
• Printable circles - these are the "products" students need to package
• Printable "packages" - students need to determine the best package for the products

⭕ TECH INTEGRATED ART WITH CIRCLES ⭕

✅ What You'll Get ✅: 3 Options to learn about famous works of art...through circles!

Option 1: Print and Go!

If you don't have time to work through the lesson with your students or would prefer to just color in the pages, this is the option for you. Six pages are provided which are my own interpretation of famous paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Johannes Vermeer, and Gilbert Stuart.

Option 2: Some technology

Editable files are included if you would like to modify them in any way. Make copies of the files and your students can digitally edit them - add more circles, remove circles, add color/shade, etc. This is a great way to access the technology without starting from a blank canvas.

Option 3: Create new circle art

A 20-page instruction manual is included for creating new circle art using Inkscape (a free and open source program, please check compatibility with your devices to make sure you can use this software or something similar (see suggestions above). The guide gives step-by-step instructions with screen shots so that you or your students can take any picture and create circle art from it. Once you have gone through the process, it is very straightforward.

The artwork I have chosen to transform is all in the public domain (due to each country's law based on the year of the artist's death), however for your own personal use you could choose more modern art or even photographs the students have taken themselves. A follow up page is also included (UK English version included for follow up page only).

⭕ PI DAY DOODLES THINK AND INK ⭕

✅ What You'll Get ✅

Pi Think and Ink! Introduce the concept of pi with an interactive activity. This is perfect if you like incorporating doodling, drawing, or coloring into your math lessons.

This is also the ideal activity if you don't have a lot of time to allocate to Pi Day but still wanted to recognize it in some way. There are several options to choose from so that you can pick from either a more open-ended activity or one that is more defined. Want to go digital? You can complete this fun pi activity either on paper, digitally, or both ways!

Because each student is completing the page their own way, they will end up with something totally unique. As you only need one page per student, you also won't have a lot of copying to do. While this activity is very interactive, there is not cutting, gluing, and no paper scraps. For the digital portion, your students can use their creative side to make a fun tribute to pi!