19 December 2016
Paper Chair Challenge
4:15 PM
Can you build a paper chair that can hold the weight of a stuffed animal? This STEM challenge is always one of my students' favorites! There is a lot of opportunity for variety in this challenge depending on whether you restrict the supplies and/or the size(s) of the stuffed animals.


For our version of the challenge, students were restricted to only 12 inches of masking tape and 2 sheets of copy paper. This restriction in supplies provided an added challenge for my students. In past years, I had students bring in their own stuffed animals and then use tape and paper to build a chair to hold their stuffed animal. Either way works great!
Here are some of our solutions:


These little stuffed animals were from Amazon. They were really inexpensive. Students who were successful in the challenge got to keep an animal as an added bonus. This challenge was a lot of fun!

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