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April Holidays on a 2022 STEAM Activity Calendar

March 26, 2022 By Deirdre

April holidays are varied and many are celebrated around the world. Holidays that can be celebrated and explored through STEAM activities have been placed on this month’s calendar. (If you are new to the monthly STEAM activity calendars, please explore the calendar from previous months.)

There are activities for each day in April. Your family may decide to celebrate all or only some of the April holidays. A holiday was not selected for each day. Several days have activities that tie to the weather and other spring themes that fit this month.

Here are the April Holidays Explored This Month

April Fools Day on April 1st

National Picture Book Day on April 2nd

Find a Rainbow Day on April 3rd

International Carrot Day on April 4th

Read a Road Map Day on April 5th

National Walking Day on April 6th

National Zoo Lovers Day on April 8th

National Unicorn Day on April 9th

National Submarine Day on April 11th

National Make Lunch Count Day on April 13th

National Look Up at Sky Day on April 14th

Titanic Remembrance Day on April 15th

National Bean Counter Day on April 16th

Easter on April 15th

National Animal Crackers Day on April 18th

National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day on April 19th

Lima Beans Respect Day on April 20th

National Kindergarten Day on April 21st

Earth Day on April 22nd

St. George’s Day on April 23rd

Hug a Plumber Day on April 25th

Ritcher Scale Day on April 26th

National Tell a Story Day on April 27th

National Super Hero Day on April 28th

National Arbor Day on April 29th

National Raisin Day on April 30th

Downloading the April Holidays 2022 STEAM Calendar

The calendar is a PDF. Once you have downloaded, the set you will need to open it with a PDF reader like Acrobat Reader.

April Holidays 2022 STEAM Calendar Download

Exploring the Activity Calendar

You will be able to access the directions needed to explore each activity when you click on each of the April hyperlinks. After you get to each activity’s blog post, you will find a supply list and step-by-step activity directions.

Many of the activities offer free worksheets or recording sheets. You can use what they have for you to download or create your own versions of the activities if you like. The idea is to inspire you to explore STEAM activities with your children. You know what they can handle and how they like to explore concepts and activities.

A variety of different types of STEAM activities have been included on the calendar. You may find that some are more appropriate for older children while others are great for children of all ages. I think that some of them could be done with a partner or parent. However, some of you may have children that want to complete them on their own.

Books Based on the April Holidays

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More Spring Themed Activities

After exploring the April activities, you will want to check out these spring activities. Each of the activities has a spring theme. However, not all of them are STEAM activities.

Plastic Egg Greenhouse

Seed Germination Will the Color of the Egg Affect Seed Growth

Seed Germination Activity- Will the Color of the Egg Affect Seed Growth

Building a Fence to Keep Peter Rabbit out of the Garden

April Fool’s Day Graphing Activity

March 29, 2019 By Deirdre

Last year I share with you a set of count, color and graph worksheets with a Christmas tree theme. You really seemed to enjoy them. I thought your children might enjoy graphing April Fool’s Day prank items on April Fool’s Day or maybe after reading a book that featured fun pranks kids can pull on each other.

Below you will find some of my favorite April Fool’s Day books for kids.

April Fool’s Day Graphing Activity

Count and Graph

This graph invites your children to count how many of each type of April Fool’s Day prank item is displayed at the top of the page. Once your children have counted the items, they can start their bar graph. Children will need to color one bar above each prank item to represent how many of each item they found on the top of the page.

It might be fun to compare each of your children’s graphs to see if one type of prank item came up most often on each of their graphs.

Getting the April Fool’s Day Graph

You can download your April Fool’s Day Graphing Activity and open them up with Acrobat Reader. Then you can print out one or both of the graphs for your children to explore.

If you like this Christmas printable, here are some more you will love:

Polar Express Coloring Page

Stickman Algorithm Activity

Christmas Coding Coloring Pages

April Fool’s Day Craft for Kids-Woven Strawberries

March 25, 2016 By Deirdre

Last year for April Fool’s Day JDaniel and I made brown E’s to serve as a joke. This year we have make “straw”berries for April Fool’s Day. They will be served in a plastic berry container. Neither of these crafts for kids is supposed to make someone feel like a fool. Both of them are thinking jokes filled with lighthearted fun!

How We Put These April Fool’s Day Craft Together

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Supplies:

Pink plastic drink straws
Red and green construction paper
Scissors
Glue sticks

Putting the “Straw”berries Together

We cut out a bunch of strawberry shapes out of red construction paper. If you have young children, you may want to create strawberry shaped patterns for your kids to trace on to red construction paper. They can then cut them out.

Then we folder each strawberry shape in half horizontally so we could cut vertical lines into them. At first we tried to cut really straight slits into the strawberries. Then we decided that we could cut more lines if we cut slightly diagonal lines from the berries. We also found that even numbers of slits ended up looking better when used for weaving than the berries with an odd number of slits.

The pink straws were cut into pieces that were about 3 inches in length. You could have your children weave using full length straws and cut them to fit if you like.

Next we wove the straws through the slits. We had bendy straws on hand so we tried to line the bendy sections of the straws up behind paper between the slits.

When the straws were in place, we lifted up each the ends of the straws and glued them in place.

Then we cut the green stems and caps for the strawberries. We cut them out as one piece. You could have your children cut out stems and caps separately or you could cut them out of them.

When the stems and caps had been glued onto the “straw” berries, we were done with our April Fool’s Day craft.