Winter Games Family Night: A Ready-to-Run STEM Night Plan (With 14 Easy Stations)

Looking for a Winter Olympics family night idea that’s fun, organized, and doesn’t require you to reinvent the wheel? Winter Games Family Night is built to help schools run a smooth, high-energy event with prepped stations, straightforward directions, and common materials—so teachers, parents, and volunteers can jump in and lead activities confidently.

Families typically spend 10–15 minutes at each station, using included exploration cards to help manage time and keep everyone moving.

No Prep Winter Games Activities

Need a quick way to get students thinking creatively before a STEM build or design challenge? These Winter Games Creativity Challenges are fast, no-prep warm-ups that build the creative thinking kids need for real problem solving—without turning into a big lesson.

Why use creativity warm-ups?

This printable set of quick, Winter Olympics–themed creativity warm-ups helps students practice fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration as they sketch, imagine, and “finish the picture” in fun new ways.

Perfect for K–5 bell ringers, brain breaks, early finisher work, or STEM warm-ups, these low-prep pages train students’ “creative muscles” in just 3–10 minutes a day.

Want an easy way to capture that Winter Olympics excitement in your classroom?

These 12 Winter Games STEM challenges are organized by grade band (K–2 and 3–5), so you can pick an event, run one challenge at a time, and keep the “Winter Games” theme rolling all week.

Start with a Winter Olympic Games FREEBIE for tracking medals, learning about the history of the Winter Olympics, and creating country reports!

The Winter Olympics are full of events where athletes glide, spin, and jump with incredible control—and figure skating is one of the most iconic.

In the Olympics, skaters perform solo or with a partner while judges award points based on what they see, and the skater or pair with the highest score wins.

This classroom STEM challenge brings that same “on the ice” feeling to K–2 learners by having students design a skater and rink, then use magnetism to move their skater through a course—without touching.

Downhill Skiing Winter Olympic Games STEM Activity for Kids by Carly and Adam

Need an easy Winter Olympics STEM activity for Kindergarten through 2nd grade?

This Skiing STEM Challenge turns your classroom into the Winter Games as students build a simple skier and test how far it slides on different materials—an engaging way to explore friction.

Start with “The Global Journey of Winter Games” timeline to build excitement and context.

Students can track how the Winter Olympics began in 1924 in Chamonix, France, then notice how world events shaped the Games—like 1940 and 1944 being canceled because of World War II.

The Winter Olympics are full of speed, strategy, and incredible engineering—and that makes them the perfect theme for STEM in Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade.

If you’re looking for a way to bring the excitement of the Winter Games into your classroom without needing complicated supplies or long prep, these Winter Olympics STEM activities are exactly what you need.

Each challenge is designed to be developmentally appropriate for K–2, easy to run in a classroom or STEM lab, and built around the Engineering Design Process (Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Test, Improve, Share).

Best of all: these activities are available inside Carly and Adam’s STEM Teachers Club and also in Carly and Adam’s Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) Store, so you can use them however you prefer.

If your students love ramps, racing, and just one more try, a Skeleton Winter Games STEM Challenge is the perfect way to bring Winter Olympics energy into your classroom—without needing fancy supplies.

Using Carly and Adam’s Skeleton Winter Games STEM Challenge (K–2) lesson plan as your backbone, you can run an engaging engineering experience where kids design a sled that races head-first down a ramp. Skeleton Winter Games STEM Chal…

Bring the Winter Olympic Games into your K–2 classroom with a hands-on engineering challenge that feels like a real event. In this Bob Run Design STEM Challenge, students become Winter Games engineers and design a bob run (a bobsled track) that can carry a marble or LEGO minifigure from start to finish.

The build is simple to understand but surprisingly rich. Student teams construct a track that includes one straight section and a section with three turns in a row, then test by sending a marble down the run and watching what happens. The best part is that the first test rarely goes perfectly—which is exactly what makes this such a great STEM moment.

As students revise, they start noticing the real science behind the sport. The included reading supports kid-friendly understanding of how bob runs include straightaways and sharp turns, how walls help keep the sled on the track, and how gravity pulls the sled down fast. It’s an easy way to connect building to forces and motion without turning it into a long lesson.

Want a Winter Games STEM day that feels like science + play but still stays calm and purposeful? In the Speed Skating STEM Challenge, students engineer a speed skater that can stand up, stay balanced, and travel across a tabletop “rink” using only magnetic force—no touching the skater with hands.

This challenge is available in Carly and Adam’s TpT Store and is also a FREE download for STEM Teachers Club Members.

Students start by exploring how magnets attract and repel, then build and test their skater on a simple track (an oval track makes it feel extra “real”!). They’ll quickly discover that tiny choices—like where the magnet is placed or how wide the base is—can make the difference between a skater that zooms and a skater that flops over.

The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan–Cortina, Italy are the perfect opportunity to bring hands-on STEM, collaboration, and global learning into your classroom. Instead of just watching highlights, students can design, build, test, graph, and compete—just like real Olympic athletes and engineers.

Looking for an engaging Winter Olympics STEM activity for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan that works for K–2 students and uses simple materials?

The Luge Winter Games STEM Challenge by Carly and Adam is a hands-on engineering experience that introduces young learners to speed, friction, gravity, and the engineering design process—all through play.

Here’s how to implement this STEM challenge step by step in your classroom.

The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan–Cortina, Italy are the perfect opportunity to bring hands-on STEM, collaboration, and global learning into your classroom. Instead of just watching highlights, students can design, build, test, graph, and compete—just like real Olympic athletes and engineers.

With a little planning (and the right resources), you can transform your classroom into a full Winter Olympics STEM experience your students will remember long after the torch is extinguished.

Here’s how to plan a meaningful and manageable Winter Olympics STEM unit using a ready-to-go lesson plan that does the heavy lifting for you.