Summer STEAM – Sand Castle Engineering Activity with tp rolls

April 7, 2021
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Summer is almost here and that means it is time for fun Summer learning! This summer steam project is loads of fun! Kids will design and build a sandcastle from cardboard rolls. This castle activities allow students to work on engineering, creativity, design, art, science, and more. This tp roll projects is a must with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grdae, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. So keep those toilet paper rolls to try this fun summer activity for kids.

Summer is almost here and that means it is time for fun Summer learning! This summer steam project is loads of fun! Kids will design and build a sandcastle from cardboard rolls. This castle activities allow students to work on engineering, creativity, design, art, science, and more. This tp roll projects is a must with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grdae, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. So keep those toilet paper rolls to try this fun summer activity for kids.

Castle Activities

This engineering activity is such a frugal and fun activity that only takes minutes to prepare. Older kids can even help to cut the sandcastles and work on planning and cutting skills while doing so. This Sandcastle Engineering using cardboard rolls is sure to be a new favorite activity to recycle in your house.

You will only need:

  • cardboard/toilet paper rolls
  • colored craft sticks
  • colored craft foam/cardboard
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Summer Steam

To make this fun educational, summer activities Cut a variety of sizes of “sandcastles” using the cardboard or toilet paper rolls, the more the better. The edges of the sandcastles don’t need to be perfect either. Make a few flags- using the craft sticks and triangles from craft foam/cardboard, to add to the challenge and to add a bit of color too!

Let the challenge begin: see how many rolls you can use to make a sturdy structure. How high can you go?

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Add flags as finishing touches, but be careful, it might just make your structure unstable or it will just fall through…

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Summer Activity for Kids

Building sandcastles from cardboard rolls is the perfect STEM Activities for Kids of all ages, for a large group or party and also to work in teams! Have frugal fun this Summer engineering sandcastles!

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History Lessons for Kids

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Summer Fun

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Summer Activities for Kids

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Fun Summer Activities for Kids

Nadia is South African mom to two littlies, a former preschool teacher and currently working as a reading therapist at a remedial school. She blogs over at teach-me-mommy.com about easy and playful activities inspiring you to be your child's first teacher.

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