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A S.T.E.M. Toothpick Constructions | Nanny Anita |My Baba

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February 27, 2023
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This week’s activity was something slightly different; we decided to do something that was related to their development of S.T.E.M. skills, which stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This particular activity was focused on engineering as we were doing a toothpick constructions.

I have seen this activity replicated time and time again over the internet, but have only ever seen it done using two items, toothpicks and marshmallows. For our creations I put out toothpicks and 3 different materials to use for “bonding”. This allowed us to not only work on our buildings, but also experiment with which material was the best one to use during construction.

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For this toothpick constructions you will need:

  • Toothpicks
  • Marshmallows/Corn building blocks/ play dough

toothpick constructions

I set out an invitation to play for when both charges got home, and then explained what we were doing and just let them create. My youngest charge took straight to it and enjoyed just making lots of triangles, my eldest charge had a good long think about what to make before diving in. While we were building, I encouraged him to try making his structure 3D, but other than that I let their imaginations do all the work.

Eldest charge constructing his foundation

Eldest charge constructing his foundation

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Youngest charge enjoying building her triangles

During the process we discovered that:

The best material to stick the toothpicks together was in fact the marshmallows, although the corn building blocks were not too bad. The corn building blocks were bigger so you could put more toothpicks into them, but they did have a habit of coming lose. We all agreed that the play dough was dreadful to use, it didn’t hold anything together and just broke apart.

My charges had such a blast making their structures; it was just a pity that dinnertime got in the way of their discovering.

This activity may help in the development of:

  • Lateral thinking
  • Creativity
  • Fine Motor Skills
  • How to manipulate material for a desired effect
  • Planning ideas out first
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His finished building

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