A fun and easy properties of matter cracker lab where students use their senses to observe, describe and then taste the physical properties of crackers.
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Doctor's office with kids? Car repair shop? We have a list FULL of activities for when kids have to wait. And the best part? No materials required!
Hmmm... I'm almost so late to the Five for Friday linky that I should perhaps just wait until the next one! But since I have a spare moment or two I wanted to share some of the fun we've had in the past week or so. :) 1. We've been learning all about 2D shapes in Maths! We counted and graphed with this Piggy Shape Graph (a freebie from Kinderglynn!). Then we cooked up a storm by making Shape Pizzas. I know, I know... the base should not be white. But we flat ran out of time to paint them a more pizza-y looking colour! 2. Here's a super quick round-up of the Literacy activities that have been keeping us busy: Our focus book was 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar', so we worked on some fine motor skills by hole punching a leaf to make it looked like it was nibbled... ...by our paper chain caterpillars! This guy needs his antennas put on! :) We played ABC Ninja - works on letter recognition in the same style as the Fruit Ninja game. Lots of fun! We searched for pictures in shredded paper to sort into the pocket chart. This week the pictures revised short vowel sounds. Shredded paper is a free and fun sensory element! We continued to use Spring into Phoneme Segmentation to practise sorting words by the number of sounds they have. This activity is super cute sorted into little flowerpots, but I like to have it laid out like this so that while they are waiting for their turn kidlets can be looking over the pictures and thinking about why they were sorted the way they have been. Another free and fun activity - sight word painting! All you need is a paint brush, some water and a patch of concrete. :) I just love this photo. One of my kidlets independently reading a big book that we had previously used as a shared text. He was so pleased with himself when he got to the end! Nothing like success to motivate readers. 3. Our painting last week had a few extra sensory surprises! Sand in the finger paint... ...and scented colours to paint ice-creams! We added vanilla, peppermint and coconut essences to the paint. Our phonics focus was long i, so we let them free paint an ice-cream and enjoy the yummy smell. Although, one kidlet thought that the paint smelled more like an ice-cream that had been left out in the sun than a tasty treat! How rude. :) 4. Snakes alive! One of my treasures found this snakeskin in her backyard and brought it in for Show & Tell. It was about 2m long so was not too big. The kidlets loved it, me not so much! 5. Holidays on the horizon: Two more weeks and I will be in Canada with my lovebird! Have a great week everyone! I promise not to be so late with my next Five for Friday. :) Lauren
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These super-fun Craft Stick Exploding Boomerangs can be easily made with just 4 craft sticks in about 10 seconds or less. They "explode" on contact!
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Discover how to make sun prints with construction paper. Construction paper sun prints are just one of the fun sun STEM activities for summer.
Teaching your preschooler about shapes? Try this fun, hands-on geometry activity by building shapes with playdoh!
Community Helpers activities and centers for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Plus FREE community signs & fire finger painting printable.
These free printable addition activities are perfect for your kindergarten or first grade math centers! Make learning to add a fun and engaging experience!
Every once in a while, I create a product for my classroom or my TPT store that I get just giddily excited about. Products that are unique and that I know kids and teachers will both love. I felt this way when I released my escape rooms for early childhood, and I'm feeling it again with my latest project: STEM Safari! I've been working on it for weeks, and I am thrilled that it is finally live! STEM Safari is an organized approach to implementing STEM in your classroom, and so much fun! Each STEM session, a student picks a challenge card to complete. There are 5 different types of cards: 1. Elephant Engineering (engineering challenges) 2. Cheetah Challenge (challenges with specific parameters in place) 3. Rhino Riddles ("How can you...?" challenges) 4. Warthog Wonderings (reflection questions and challenges) 5. Buffalo Building (free choice building). I wanted to prevent students from always picking the same type of card, such as the free choice building, which is, of course, valuable, but doesn't do as well with developing problem-solving skills. To do this, and to encourage my students to try new things, they each have an Animal Checklist. Every time they complete a specific type of challenge, they check it off. When they have completed all 5 of the different challenge types, they color in one country in their STEM Safari Africa map. Then they "journey" to a new country and start again with a new animal checklist! This way, the fun just keeps going, but they have a way to track how many challenges they have completed. There is also a STEM Safari Journal included, which helps build their reflection skills. Any of the Warthog Wondering cards that say "write about it" can be completed in their STEM Safari Journals. There are also a few "design" challenges in the Elephant Engineering cards that can be completed in their journals. As they continue their STEM Safari journey, the reflections they have completed in the journal will help them polish their problem-solving and engineering skills. I love doing STEM projects with my students! It is amazing to see what they can accomplish with a few basic supplies and some open-ended directives. However, storing all of these supplies can be a challenge. Included in the STEM Safari kit are tons of supply labels with photographs, to help keep everything neat. Here's a close-up example of a supply label. I even included some editable labels so that you can customize them for any supplies you have on hand! I really hope that your students enjoy STEM Safari as much as mine do! Click here to purchase in my shop, or here to purchase in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. There's just something about open-ended, hands-on learning that gets kiddos excited. I would love to hear how you use STEM in your classroom; drop me a comment below! Happy teaching!
Community Helpers activities and centers for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Plus FREE community signs & fire finger painting printable.
Here's a fun graphing game printable that is perfect for an insect unit or to use when students are learning to graph. Students move around the game board, collect bugs on their hunt, and graph their results! Materials: Going on a Bug Hunt game board game pieces (buttons, coins, etc.) paper clip pencil bug hunt
Toilet Roll Knitting is fun for kids of all ages. Learn how to make your own loom and knit with it with our easy step by step and video tutorial.
Between the ages of 6-12 months, you can expect your child to be learning a lot and really engaging in activities with you! It is a blast! I am a play therapist, so I love working with kids birth-3 (my own children included!). They are amazing and they quickly catch onto things! Be creative in your play with your child! Here are a few things to try while enjoying those moments with your baby…
Do your kids love dinosaurs? This is the best and most fun printable game for kids because it is dinosaur-themed! Your kids will love it!
Preschoolers will love this super simple craft stick bridge building activity! Parents will love the extra fine motor practice and creative play!
Farm Animal Printables For Preschool | These worksheets are a fun way for kids to learn! Find puzzles, color by letter & more. Use with pre-k, & kindergarten.
This resource on auditory processing activities can help with kids that are sensitive to sounds or need help with auditory processing skills.
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Check out these clever ways to entertain your baby using five activities for one year olds that can all be done in a high chair!
Here are some great activities for your 12-18 month old! Whether indoors or out, rain or shine, there's some fun things here that your child will love!
This Ocean Sensory Bag is a fun way to experience the deep blue sea for little hands. Babies and toddlers will delight in the squishy sensory bag
10 fun science experiments for kids to learn about the Sun, the light, the solar power, the relationship with the earth,... Wonderful STEM activity ideas.
Check out these 45+ awesome alphabet activities for kids. A collection of fun & easy sensory-based, indoor, and outdoor alphabet activities.
Here is a fun camping puzzle for your little ones to practice number skills and number order. Print and use as a busy bag or quiet time activity!
Looking for the best toys for kids? Turn toys into activities with these three open-ended toys from Lakeshore (sponsored by Lakeshore)
Five more worksheets, fresh off the press! Last week I did an Alphabet Worksheet and Activity Pack, so this week is numbers. Mostly 1-10 but a few things through 20. This is NOT a math worksheet pa…
Follow us on Pinterest This quick and easy to set up activity uses a few basic materials and is fabulous for practicing number writing, counting, subitising and more. It can be a great independent activity that promotes self checking and self correction. Ages: 3+ (Maddie was 4 here. See the bottom for Handy Tips to simplify or extend to meet your child's needs) Materials: Table Salt, Dish, Cardboard squares, marker, paintbrush On one side of each card, write a number and on the other side draw the corresponding amount of dots. The invitation to play The child counts (or subitises where possible) the amount of dots on the card. They then write the number in the salt. Flip the card to see if you got it right. If not, shake your salt tray a little and then copy the number correctly. For Maddie I did numbers up to 30. As the numbers got larger it was harder for her to subitise them (automatically recognising the amount shown without counting), but we worked on seeing them in chunks. She noticed that the 9 was 3 rows of 3 dots. It was then also easy to automatically see 6 dots and 3 more. She loved attempting the numbers and then flipping the card to see if she got it right. The self correction aspect meant that this would be a great independent activity and perfect for a literacy station in schools. Capturing pride through accomplishment. All children need the opportunity to experience success and to feel proud of their achievements. Activities such as these allow for children to practice and self correct until they succeed. Always time for some free play as well. Using the end of the paintbrush was great for a pen but it's also fun to write with your fingers. Maddie made up her own little game of find the number. The paintbrush is perfect as a little palaeontologist tool. Rather than number writing you could focus on counting and one-to-one correspondence as shown above. Handy Tips: - Simplify this activity by providing numbers 1-3 to begin with and then slowly expanding on the numbers. Try out some of the ideas directly above. Rather than number writing, focus on counting and corresponding amounts to the dots shown. - Extend this activity by: Focusing on teen numbers or higher. Having the children make the number cards themselves Mixing up the number cards and having children order them from smallest to largest or largest to smallest. Playing "Which comes next?" or "What comes before?" where whichever number is chosen from the pile, the objective is to write the number that comes before or after that number. You can make varying number cards to suit this specifically if you like. - Mix it up by doing the activity the other way around. Have the written number side up and encourage children to recognise the number and draw in the corresponding amount of dots. - Here are some of our other activities that help us practice number writing. Click the following pictures to take you to the activities. - Practice Literacy skills using a Salt Tray as well. (click the picture to go to the post) Happy playing, Debs :) We like to play here as well. Come play with us :) New Here? Subscribe to get all activities sent directly to you Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner
Six sensory activities for kids to celebrate Canada Day.
Free printable upper and lowercase letter match cards with a cute sandcastle theme. Perfect activity for preschoolers and kindergartners to work on matching and sequencing!
Turn a few simple household ingredients into an amazingly scented jello and vinegar experiment! Your little scientists will love all of the Jell-O fun.
Learn how to make a square bubble that mimics tensile structures. This bubble cube can also be made in other geometric shapes!
It's not every day that you can take your kids to another continent to explore the wildlife. Okay, maybe on the "next to never" plan of events. I'm so thankful for our zoos that allow our kids to learn about animals and animal habitats right close to home!
Teaching rocks for kids can be fun, interactive and even yummy with these creative ideas. These 15 activities and ideas are perfect for teaching science about rocks that includes the rock cycle, the types of rocks and more!
No blocks? Try these clever ideas for building towers with your kids using everyday supplies you already have at home.
Download this wedding activity book for kids and help entertain the children at your wedding reception! A perfect activity for little ones.
