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Hooray for Pi Day, an annual celebration observed on March 14! If you’re looking for a fun activity, celebrate with a Pi Day scavenger hunt for middle school students. You can have students scour the classroom or their home environments as they look for circles or objects relating to the number π.
Pi Day scavenger hunt objects
Circular food, toy, game, game piece, blue object, or metal object
Logo with a circle in it
Object beginning with the letters “pi-” (e.g., pillow or pie)
Object that shows the date 3/14
Place containing the number 314 (think about license plates, dates, area codes, etc.)
What about containing 3141, 31415, or numbers within the first 10 digits of π?
Object that weighs approximately 3.14 pounds or 3.14 ounces
Object with a length of approximately 3.14 inches or 3.14 feet
The following words in a book, magazine, newspaper, or elsewhere: diameter, radius, circumference
Objects other than circles (e.g., cones, spheres, cylinders)
Object with area π square inches, or π square feet, or 2π square feet, 3π square feet, etc.
The symbol π (e.g., in a game, book, etc.)
Pi Day online scavenger hunt
If you want to broaden your scavenging horizons, consider a Pi Day internetscavenger hunt appropriate for Grades 5 and up, where students are instead searching the internet for different π-related objects.
Don’t feel limited by our pi scavenger hunt ideas, of course! You can adapt this Pi Day scavenger hunt activity for kids as young as four or five years old by asking them to hunt for 10 real-life circles. Or, you can challenge high schoolers to find another way the symbol π is used in math or science other than representing the constant approximately equal to 3.1415. Also, check out these fun Pi Day activities for high school students for even more ways to celebrate.
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Looking ahead to St. Patrick’s Day, Earth Day, or other holidays throughout the year? Check out our monthly calendar of themes, full of free activities to keep you celebrating all year long.
This blog, originally published in 2021, has been updated for 2025.
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Hooray for Pi Day, an annual celebration observed on March 14! If you’re looking for a fun activity, celebrate with a Pi Day scavenger hunt for middle school students. You can have students scour the classroom or their home environments as they look for circles or objects relating to the number π.
Pi Day scavenger hunt objects
Circular food, toy, game, game piece, blue object, or metal object
Logo with a circle in it
Object beginning with the letters “pi-” (e.g., pillow or pie)
Object that shows the date 3/14
Place containing the number 314 (think about license plates, dates, area codes, etc.)
What about containing 3141, 31415, or numbers within the first 10 digits of π?
Object that weighs approximately 3.14 pounds or 3.14 ounces
Object with a length of approximately 3.14 inches or 3.14 feet
The following words in a book, magazine, newspaper, or elsewhere: diameter, radius, circumference
Objects other than circles (e.g., cones, spheres, cylinders)
Object with area π square inches, or π square feet, or 2π square feet, 3π square feet, etc.
The symbol π (e.g., in a game, book, etc.)
Pi Day online scavenger hunt
If you want to broaden your scavenging horizons, consider a Pi Day internetscavenger hunt appropriate for Grades 5 and up, where students are instead searching the internet for different π-related objects.
Don’t feel limited by our pi scavenger hunt ideas, of course! You can adapt this Pi Day scavenger hunt activity for kids as young as four or five years old by asking them to hunt for 10 real-life circles. Or, you can challenge high schoolers to find another way the symbol π is used in math or science other than representing the constant approximately equal to 3.1415. Also, check out these fun Pi Day activities for high school students for even more ways to celebrate.
***
Looking ahead to St. Patrick’s Day, Earth Day, or other holidays throughout the year? Check out our monthly calendar of themes, full of free activities to keep you celebrating all year long.
This blog, originally published in 2021, has been updated for 2025.
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