Kids absolutely love Minecraft, which makes it the perfect topic for a lesson plan! It is so much easier to get children to practice reading, math and writing when they are excited about the topic! We have put together a huge list of fantastic, free, printable worksheets to practice reading, writing and math. For STEM activities, we will write computer code (because how can you NOT do that?!), as well as build Minecraft chicken coops and do a treasure chest engineering challenge. We will even make Minecraft pencil organizers and kid-friendly recipes inspired by their favorite video game. But, before we begin, join our Facebook Group and “like” our Facebook Page, so you won’t miss out on any of our educational fun!
🧪 Minecraft STEM Challenges for Kids
Minecraft is the perfect topic for fun STEM activities! Pick from the following options.
- Learn how to write computer programs with Code.org’s Minecraft hour of code tutorial.
- Calling all future engineers! You have to do this Minecraft chest building STEM competition!
- Build a Minecraft chicken coop out of any STEM supplies that you have on hand (popsicle sticks, q-tips, plastic cups, small blocks, etc.) and use these printables to see how large your perimeter needs to be for the printable chickens!
🥣 Minecraft Pizza & Rice Krispie Treat Recipes
I love to incorporate recipes and fun food ideas into lesson plans! Make these Minecraft rice krispie treats for dessert, and serve them with pizzas inspired by your favorite video game.
📚 Free Minecraft Reading Worksheets
Take your pick from these free Minecraft worksheets and reading materials!
- Kindergarten – 2nd Grades:
- Work your way through 17-pages worth of free Minecraft worksheets! This workbook includes all of the following activities, making it perfect for reading (but also writing and math!).
- Write a Book
- Alphabetical Order
- Preposition
- Characteristics of a Creeper
- Characteristics of Steve
- Characteristics of a Zombie
- Creeper vs. Zombie Venn
- Minecraft Spelling Story
- Minecraft Word Search
- Pickaxe Venn
- Diamond Acrostics
- Bar Graph
- Work your way through 17-pages worth of free Minecraft worksheets! This workbook includes all of the following activities, making it perfect for reading (but also writing and math!).
- 3rd – 5th Grades:
- Identify the pronouns and antecedents in this Minecraft reading worksheet.
- Here are a couple of great articles to read about Minecraft.
✏ Printable Minecraft Writing Worksheets
- Kindergarten – 2nd Grade:
- Want to practice being an editor? Fix-up these sentences that feature Minecraft characters but have mistakes in spelling, verb tense, capitalization and punctuation.
- Read these “Would You Rather” question cards, and write your answers on this Minecraft lined paper.
- 3rd – 5th Grade:
- Complete these Minecraft writing worksheets to answer questions about how the game can be used to help educate kids. This is an excellent activity to work on persuasive writing skills!
- Want to practice creative writing instead? Here is the Minecraft writing worksheet for you!
- Organize an essay to write about your favorite game using this printable Minecraft Paragraph Graphic Organizer.
🧮 Minecraft Math Fact Cube Game
If you are only going to do one Minecraft math activity today, I highly recommend checking out these free, printable Minecraft Math Fact Cubes! Using paper and a glue stick (or tape), you can make Minecraft cubes that have different math facts on each side. They are so much fun! You can pick from cubes in all of the following math topics.
- Teen number facts
- Doubles and halves to 10
- Addition facts to 20
- Groups to 10
- Addition to 10
- Groups within 5
- Doubles to 10
- Multiples of 100 to 1000
- Multiplication 2,5 and 10s
- Multiplication to 100
- Subtraction facts to 20
- Multiplying by 0, 1 and 10
- Multiples to 100
Minecraft Math Worksheets
If you want even more Minecraft math worksheets, checkout this huge list! Minecraft is the perfect tool for learning math!
- Kindergarten – 2nd Grades:
- If your child needs to work on reading a clock, checkout our How to Tell Time Lesson Plan first! Then, do this Minecraft clock worksheet.
- I love this free, printable Minecraft Math Puzzle for practicing addition!
- Make your own, customized, Minecraft flash cards using this template. You can make them into cards to practice math facts or even sight words, spelling words or vocabulary!
- Practice your addition and subtraction facts with this free, printable Minecraft math worksheet. You even get to color squares based on the arithmetic problems to reveal a surprise picture!
- If you enjoy the one above, here is another Minecraft color by number worksheet. This one is more simple than the one above, so preschoolers can give it a try too (though they may need some parental assistance!).
- Print out this Minecraft Times Table to work on committing multiplication facts to memory.
- For our more advanced math kids, practice subtracting hundreds with this Minecraft Word Problem Worksheet.
- 3rd – 5th Grades:
- Calculate areas and perimeters with these Minecraft math task cards.
- Determine the greatest common factor using these Minecraft Factor Tree worksheets.
- Practice plotting and planes with this Minecraft math worksheet.
- This Minecraft math lesson actually lets you play the game, while learning about coordinate planes. It is compatible with either the free or paid versions of Minecraft!
- Find the slope between two points and practice graphing with these Minecraft linear functions worksheets.
🖌 DIY Minecraft Art Projects
Take your pick from these DIY Minecraft arts and crafts!
- Draw a “Minecraft Selfie” with these fun worksheets.
- Learn how to draw a Minecraft wolf / dog with Art for Kids Hub in the video below.
- Make the following Minecraft desk organizers to hold your pencils and school supplies. Here is the free printable template to put on the empty tin cans.
Minecraft Music Lessons
Learn about reading music notes (half note vs quarter note), adding bar lines and practice writing music on treble clef and bass clef with this free, printable Minecraft Theory of Music workbook!
And the most fun part… share a photo or video of your Minecraft projects, or any of your other fun activities on Facebook! Make sure to include a link to this website or to our Facebook Group and Facebook Page, so that we can see it too! I’ve purposefully added a lot of options for parents who need to keep their kiddos occupied for more time and to allow you to cater to your children’s preferences.
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