Collagraph printmaking with kids using wooden blocks and foam shapes to create stamps and make prints with a repeat grid pattern that resembles a quilt.
If you have blocks in your house, you need to try out these STEM building challenges with kids! Printable challenge cards available.
Learn the alphabet the hands-on way - by building letters with wooden blocks! Use our free printable cards for inspiration.
Collagraph printmaking with kids using wooden blocks and foam shapes to create stamps and make prints with a repeat grid pattern that resembles a quilt.
Lady Brayton here. Today I'm going to show you how to make a Perpetual Calendar from blocks of wood. This tutorial will als...
Collagraph printmaking with kids using wooden blocks and foam shapes to create stamps and make prints with a repeat grid pattern that resembles a quilt.
Let's look at the stages of block play. By offering the best blocks to support your child's current stage will ensure a successful block play experience.
This collagraph printmaking project had all the makings of a the perfect art experience! Big heavy blocks, movement, color theory, texture, & pattern! Not to mention the end result was totally frame-worthy! In fact, one student’s grandpa came flying in a few days later with one of these finished masterpieces. He was hoping we were […]
Kids are abuzz about our new Bugs Wooden Alphabet Blocks where nature meets design! These bright wooden blocks are as vividly colored as nature itself and feature 28 different insect illustrations along with the insect name prominently featured below. If you think bugs aren't beautiful, think again! The detailed close-ups of each featured insect allow children to explore patterns in nature and etymology. These durable blocks also feature both upper case and lower case alphabet letters in the Art Nouveau style. The set includes 14 insect related graphic patterns for extra visual and artistic stimulation. Little entomologists will love getting to know their new crawling, hopping, and flying friends while learning their letters and developing fine motor skills at the same time!
Let's look at the stages of block play. By offering the best blocks to support your child's current stage will ensure a successful block play experience.
Students investigate vertebrates and invertebrates with this engaging, hands-on science activity to determine the purpose of the backbone.
Lots of block activities for preschoolers and even toddlers using common blocks that are found in most homes - wooden blocks, Legos, and ABC blocks.
Ideal block center activity with wooden blocks to improve fine-motor development, problem solving and STEM skills. There are 15 construction task cards included in this set and children will love the challenge of building the various items including: bridges, towers, horse, flower, umbrella, trucks, aeroplanes, house, ladder and patterns. THIS PRODUCT IS PART OF A MONEY SAVING BUNDLE and MEGA-BUNDLE. These cards are to be used alongside standard colored wooden blocks as shown in the pictures. This would make an ideal independent activity station or morning center for a Pre-School, Kindergarten or Prep class. There are varying levels of difficulty which students can select from. Alternatively, they could work alongside an adult to work on a more challenging building task. This is an excellent task to develop: Fine-motor skills Problem solving and reasoning skills Hand-eye co-ordination Language development – following oral directions, asking questions etc. Mathematical understanding – geometry, counting, size, space, classifying etc. Describing the location of objects – above, below, infront, beside etc. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) Due to popular demand I have created 6 additional sets of construction challenge cards: Set 1, Set 2, Set 4, Set 5, Set 6 and the original set or you can purchase a BUNDLE of all 7 sets which includes 105 cards to keep your students entertained in the block center all year long!!! In addition, I have created cards for NATURAL Wooden Blocks. There are 3 levels: BASIC, INTERMEDIATE, CHALLENGING or a BUNDLE of all 3 sets. You will also love my LINCOLN LOGS and WOODEN BLOCKS Construction Challenge Cards for K-2 and my NEW POPSICLE STICK Building Cards! Print the 4 pages in colour, laminate & cut into individual cards. NOW AVAILABLE IN 2 FORMATS – A4 SIZE and US LETTER SIZE (8.5” x11”). PDF’s in both sizes are included when you purchase this product. Thank you and I hope you enjoy this activity Copyright 2020 Kangaroo Tracks By purchasing and/or downloading this electronic file, you agree to the following Terms of Use; For personal use only. Your purchase entitles you to one (1) non-transferable single-use license for one classroom or home. No part of this document may be distributed, sold, copied, edited or displayed digitally for public view. Violations are subject to the penalties of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).
Kids can print with heart shaped potato stamps and then string them together to make a garland.
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This beautiful building block play set, consists of basic and familiar shapes that allow for endless designs and constructions. As with all of the building block sets in our Kubi Dubi collection, imagination is the only limit! Building blocks in general, are an excellent educational tool for children and their development. They encourage them to create while continually learning important skills along the way. Through the exploration of cause and effect and constant experimentation, children develop their problem-solving skills, test hypotheses and practice scientific reasoning. Wooden blocks help them to familiarise them with the concept of balance, weight, spatial awareness and gravity. Each set comes with 100 wooden blocks in their own wooden box for easy storage. Measurements: L: 16.5CM W: 17.5CM H: 9CM Weight: 1.4kg Material: Linden Wood Age Guide: 3 years+
Add your own personal touch to a child's toy collection by making toys yourself. This article provides instructions for making everything from play dough to jigsaw puzzles, rocking horses and sandboxes.
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How strong is spaghetti? Challenge kids to invent a way to find out! This STEM challenge is a lot of fun, and you won’t need much in the way of materials! Here are the materials we used: 1 package of spaghetti 2 sheets of styrofoam – purchased at Hobby Lobby Books Wooden blocks We started our […]
My kids love to build. Last year I bought them some wooden blocks. They like building more than they like sharing. So I made more. They are getting them for Christmas, so alas, I cannot
Activities for children which are fun things to do during spring break. These boredom busters include crafts, games, printables for kids, coloring pages , outdoor and indoor activities, as well as educational activities. No need for your kids to be bored during Spring break. Go through this list of fun things to do that are guaranteed to keep them busy the whole week through. Spring break is around the corner and its time to start planning some fun boredom busters and crafts to do together! Therefore, I created a mega list of kid crafts, sewn activities, and boredom busters all complete with pictures tutorials. Happy
60 pages of block center STEM challenges with real pictures of famous landmarks to add more STEM learning opportunities into your day.
I'm unveiling a treasure trove of Minecraft cherry blossom build ideas that will ignite your imagination and whisk you away to a world where pixel-perfect petals dance gracefully in the breeze.
Let's look at the stages of block play. By offering the best blocks to support your child's current stage will ensure a successful block play experience.
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
Include these animal themed pattern block puzzles in your preschool unit study! This listing is for 49 printable animal themed patterns that you can use the available cutout tangram to make the animals. 1 page of tangram shapes to cutout and if you like laminating would make them very nice and reusable. There is also 3 pages that have the solutions to all 49 animals. If you have the wooden blocks in tangram shape those are also very fun to make all these awesome animals. To make your puzzles more durable, I suggest you print on card stock and laminate them. Block pattern puzzles are a classic math manipulative and learning activity. Great for spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, and problem solving. They also teach children three and older matching and sorting skills, color recognition, geometric shapes, counting, and beginning math skills. Fitting the pieces onto the puzzles helps develop fine motor skills, concentration, and memory. Animals that are included are camel, swan, bird, cat, pig, dog, penguin and a lot more that your child can have fun making. Blacked out animals are how the puzzle looks . The colored animals are the solved version of the puzzle. Blacked out and Colored animals are for reference and are not the same size as the puzzle pieces. Shapes include triangles, trapezoids, and squares. Also included is my newest version of the animal tangrams that are in black and white so printing will be a lot friendlier and tangram pieces that are closer to size of the animals. Print as many times as you'd like!
Here are a several free printables from Building Blocks Patterns and Games. These free sample patterns are full size, ranging from simple to more complex patterns. The full size patterns make it easier for children to match up the blocks exactly if they need a little extra help to complete the cards. You will need DUPLO […]
Having a little boy opened my eyes BIG TIME to a world of books we'd been mostly neglecting. Sure, we read a few truck books when Sophie was little, but when Milo came on the
Another year has come to an end! This last week we just enjoyed the friendships that were cultivated this year. As they played, here are some explorations that started popping up! If only we had more time so that we could inquire about them further! Transient Art: The patience and thought process behind some of these designs were awesome! A "Can You Build It?" Challenge: I loved their interpretations of some of these structures! Exploring Balance: I have been encouraging this exploration all year, but they just became interested in it this past week! Dancing: This was a very spontaneous interest that popped up that could have been a very fun inquiry! They were ballroom dancing, ballet dancing, and break dancing! The kids started giving each other lessons! They had to give and follow multiple step directions with each other. And it was also adorable to watch! Oh the things we could explore if we just had more time! These kids had so much curiosity and looked at everything as something to explore further. The room is packed up for another group of kids to add their personal touch. I wonder what it will look like next year? It always makes me sad when the personality the room had from our group is gone and it is all so bare. I will miss them so much but it is time to let them go and become first graders at new schools. I know that they will be successful because of all of the 21st Century Skills they have developed this year! They are super! Parents, I hope you all enjoy the video! We watched it together no less than 10 times in our room. I wish you could have heard all 30 of them belting out that song! It was their favorite....even more than "Let it Go!" I will miss you all. Have a wonderful summer!
