Winter Games Family STEM Night
Winter Games Family Night: A Done For You STEM Night Plan (With 14 Easy Stations)
Looking for a Winter Olympic Games family STEM night idea that’s fun, organized, and doesn’t require you to reinvent the wheel? Winter Games Family STEM Night is built to help you 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.
Why a Winter Games STEM Night works
This type of STEM night brings families together around hands-on learning and friendly competition. This resource includes a short “Why STEM?” overview you can share with families to explain how STEM learning builds problem-solving, collaboration, curiosity, and real-world thinking.
Planning Made Simple
The planning guide walks through the big pieces that make family nights successful:
Choose a date/time and secure your space/materials
Recruit volunteers, plan activities, and promote the event
Optional: secure raffle prize/prizes
Event-day reminders like set up stations, create a welcome/sign-in area, and do a quick staff briefing
After the event: cleanup, gather feedback, thank volunteers/donors, and reflect for next time
There are also practical printables like a sign-in sheet and station planning pages to help assign locations and points of contact.
A “Passport to the Winter Games” to keep families engaged
To keep families moving station-to-station, this resource includes a Passport to the Winter Games card that can be turned in when complete “for a chance to win in the drawing.”
The Winter Games stations
This event is built around a variety of quick stations that blend making, movement, math, and problem-solving. Here are a few highlights included in the packet:
Champion Medal Creation: families create a medal “worthy of a champion” using medal printables, string/ribbon, and art supplies.
Flags of the Family Nations: design a flag to represent your family using a template, straw, and coloring tools.
Race Around the World: match each country card to its location on the printable map.
Bobsled Math Blast: make a simple spinner with a pencil + paper clip, move along the track, and race to reach 50.
Code the Slopes: a coding station using coding cards, a recording page, and robots.
Balloon Blast Speed Skating: use balloons and a line setup to see if you can make the skater go fast using “air power.”
Cool Curling: Force and Motion: use force to move a “stone” toward a target using curling targets and mini shuffleboard pucks.
Ice Block Builder: build Winter Games creations using snap cubes and printable puzzle cards (with flexible color substitutions if needed).
Get Ready to Have Your Best Family STEM Night!
If your goal is a Winter Games family STEM night that feels exciting for students and manageable for staff, this resource gives you the structure (checklists + station setup) and the fun (hands-on stations + passport) to pull it off without overwhelm. Set up a few stations or run the whole rotation, and you’ll have a STEM night that families actually remember.
Everything You Need—All in One Place
All of the activities mentioned above are included in the Winter Games STEM lesson plans by Carly and Adam, making it easy to plan an engaging Olympic-themed STEM experience without starting from scratch.
STEM Teachers Club Members can download all of these activities for free.
The full resource is also available for purchase on Carly and Adam’s store.
Whether you’re planning a full multi-day unit or just a few special STEM days during the 2026 Winter Olympics, this lesson plan gives you everything you need to bring the Games to life in your classroom.
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