Pancake Day Activities

Check out our bumper list of Pancake Day activities. We have Pancake Day activities for 1-3 year olds, activities for 4-7 year olds and activities for 8-11 year olds! We have organised them into curriculum areas so that whatever area you are going to focus on you will have lots of Pancake Day Inspiration! Throughout the post you will find links to either useful blog posts we have found online or resources on our website. 

Themed Activities

pancake themed

Here are 10 activities for you to try this February. You’ll find a nice mix of subjects in this list of general Pancake Day learning ideas.

  1. Design a Pancake
  2. Make Pancakes
  3. Research pancakes from different cultures (and make them!)
  4. Learn about the history of Shrove Tuesday 
  5. Pancake Tossing
  6. Write instructions on how to make pancakes
  7. Record a cooking show
  8. Have a pancake café in your living room
  9. Learn about Lent
  10. Give up something for Lent

Maths Activities

pancake maths

This list of 10 activities will give you ideas for how to get in some practical Maths learning.

  1. Set a pancake shopping budget
  2. Go shopping and pay for ingredients
  3. Measure out ingredients
  4. Compare the size of pancakes
  5. Measure a pancake 
  6. Calculate the calories in your pancake
  7. Work out the percentage of your daily allowance
  8. Work out the ratios for recipes
  9. Pancake flipping probability
  10. Weigh the ingredients before and the pancakes after – are they the same weight?

Pancake Day Writing Activities

pancake day writing

At Petal Resources, we love a good excuse for writing. Here are our favourite Pancake Day Writing Activities:

  1. Write a pancake recipe
  2. Make a pancake café menu
  3. Create a poster advertising your pancakes
  4. Write a pancake shopping list
  5. Write a food critique of your pancakes
  6. Create a newspaper article about the largest pancake in the world
  7. Pancake acrostic poem
  8. Learn pancake themed spelling words
  9. Create a pancake origin story comic
  10. Write a fairy tale including pancakes

Pancake Day Craft Activities

Pancake Day Activities: Crafts

Who doesn’t love a good craft? Check out this list of 10 activities to do at home. 

  1. Paper Pancakes
  2. Decorate egg shells https://www.instructables.com/Painted-Eggshells-for-Easter/
  3. Grow cress in the egg shells
  4. Decorate your pancakes
  5. Cut out pictures of pancake ingredients and make a collage
  6. Make salt dough or play dough pancakes
  7. Make a chef’s hat https://www.redtedart.com/paper-chefs-hat-diy-instructions/
  8. Make an apron
  9. Make felt pancakes
  10. Paper plate frying pans

Pancake Day STEM Activities

STEM Activities

Want to try a great STEM activity? Check out this list of 10 activities to do at home. 

  1. Investigate pancakes with missing ingredients
  2. Put lemonade in your pancake batter: what happens and why?
  3. Frisbee pancakes: what kind of pancake is the most aerodynamic?
  4. Baking soda vs. baking powder?
  5. Experiment with quantities of ingredients: what happens and why?
  6. Design a pancake flipper
  7. How tall can you build a pancake tower?
  8. Egg parachutes!
  9. How high can you toss a pancake?
  10. Observe the chemical change taking place as your pancake cooks. 

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