19 Best Pi Day Activities For Kids – With Printable

Unbox math magic with Pi Day activities for kids. These fun and educational activities will gamify math and help your kids understand the relevance of Pi in the real world.

Sure to make your celebrations extra fun, this list of 12 Best Pi day activities for kids are perfect for classroom as well as home learning. 

National Pi Day Activities

1. Pi Day Facts

Kick start your celebrations with fun Pi day facts! These fun facts about Pi are a great way to get kids to understand what Pi really is and the history behind pi day.

A perfect Pi day activity for kids of all ages, this one is a must for every math lover.

2. Pi Day Word Search

Build math vocabulary through this exciting Pi inspired word search. If you are working with a group of kids or looking for Pi day activities for the classroom, make it into a game by setting a time limit.

Pi Day Word Search

3. Pi Jokes

Celebrate pi day by cracking pi jokes all day long! What can be better at getting kids’ attention than silly jokes centred around the mathematical wonder Pi.

4. Pi Day Dice Game

Get kids to learn the pi digits with this fun dice game that sneaks in math. For kids in grade 5 and below use a regular dice and for older ones you can use ten faced dice. 

Sure to get fun started, this pi day activity for middle school and high school will get everyone’s competitive spirits racing to win the pi day dice game.

Pi Day Dice Game

5. Circles Minute to Win It Game

If you are planning pi day activities for elementary kids, this one is just perfect! It will encourage kids to analyse their surroundings to find circular objects and in turn understand the relevance of Pi in everyday life.

Pi Day Circle Challenge

6. Pi Day Poster

An easy way to involve younger students in Pi day celebrations is to make a Pi day poster. Encourage kids to colour the boxes of the pi symbol in varying colours to make an eye-catching art work.

Pi Day Poster

Middle school & high school kids can get more creative by making a paper collage or using a pattern to fill in the squares.

7. Pi Day Word Game

This is a super fun Pi day activity for kids as well as grown-ups. The challenge is to make as many words as possible starting with ‘Pi’. But that’s not all, there is scoring as well to reward longer words. 

Pi Day Word Game

8. Find The Value of Pi

For kids learning the basics of number Pi, this is a great starting point. Not only will they learn to measure and divide but also be baffled with this interesting irrational number!

Finding Number Pi

9. Pi Day Workout

Get into math mode with this pi day activity for middle school. It promises a fun way to get them to practise math without being stodgy.

Pi Day Workout

10. Pi Day Haiku

Encourage kids to pen their very own haiku for national pi day celebrations! Sure to get kids crafty with their words, this activity integrates creative writing with math activities. Haiku is a Japanese form of short poetry consisting of only 17 syllables arranged in three lines in the format of 5-7-5.

Pi Day Haiku

11. Pi Day Unscramble

Boost your kids’ cognitive skills with this Pi day inspired word unscramble! This non-numerical pi day activity for kids will have them thinking hard to find the word hidden in the jumbled letters.

Pi Day Unscramble

12. Pi Day Race

If you are struggling to get kids to remember the digits of pi, give this activity a try! Let the children have a deep look at the value of pi printed on printable and then race to fill in as many digits of pi as possible.

Pi Day Race

This simple pi day activity for high school will help students memorise the digits of pi without making it boring.

13. Bubble Math 

How about making bubble art for pi day and discovering pi through it! This simple pi day activity for elementary kids requires construction paper and bubble solution.

Each child blows bubbles on construction paper and lets them pop. Once the bubble marks are nice and dry, let the kids measure the circumference and diameter of the bubble and then calculate the value of pi. 

Pi Day Bubble Math

14. Pi Day Trivia

Play a quick game of Pi day trivia to see who knows their facts the best. These fun quiz questions make for a fun game to play on Pi day.

Pi Day Trivia

Related: Fun Math Trivia for Kids

15. Pi Day NASA Activities

Did you know NASA is a big fan of the number Pi and for the same reason has curated a list of Pi day activities for high school and middle school for kids to try. 

16. Bake a Pi

A fun activity for elementary kids, it is only fitting to bake a pi on Pi day! And if you are up for it, organise a pie eating contest to finish off the pies kids baked.

17. Read Pi Day Books

One of the most loved ways to celebrate pi day is to read books about this fascinating ratio. Pick from the list of books and read them along with your kids.

18. Make Circle Art

Take inspiration from Yayoi Kusama – the Japanese artist who loves to paint with dots or use a Spirograph to make fascinating circle patterns.

Related: Learn about Yayoi Kusama with this kid biography of the artist.

19. Memory Pi Game

How many digits of pi can you recall? Play this fun pi game to find out and see how much you can score by typing in as many correct digits of pi as possible within a set time.