Bring your next read-aloud to life with The Smart Cookie STEM Challenge!

This toothpick tower activity combines literacy, engineering, and team building as elementary students work together to create a standing structure. It’s a hands-on way to encourage creative thinking while helping students recognize that everyone brings valuable ideas to a team.

Pair the challenge with The Smart Cookie to start a conversation about different strengths, learning through challenges, and discovering what makes each person unique. Then give students an opportunity to put those ideas into practice as they build together.