Create time in your after school schedule this year with these January Activities and games for kids. It's a fresh start to the new year for your child.

Contact paper is cheap and easy to buy and so much fun! Try one of these easy contact paper crafts and activities with your kids.

These free rocks and minerals printables and Montessori activities are perfect for preschoolers through early elementary in the classroom or at home!

If you want to begin teaching diversity to young kids, then you will definitely want to check out these crafts and activities that are fun and hands-on!

In this Penguin Feathers Science Experiment, children will learn how a wax on a penguin's feathers help keep it dry.

Preschool Printables Humpty Dumpty is a collection of educational resources designed to engage and excite young learners. Created specifically for preschool-aged children, these printables feature the lovable character of Humpty Dumpty, helping little ones develop crucial early learning skills while having fun. From coloring pages to tracing activities, this collection offers a variety of interactive worksheets that encourage creativity, fine motor skills, and familiarity with shapes and numbers. With Preschool Printables Humpty Dumpty, children can embark on an adventure of discovery while reinforcing fundamental concepts in a visually appealing and engaging way.

What Makes Ice Melt Fastest? Use the Scientific Method in this learning activity and figure out how to save the Paw Patrol from the ice.

Get great ideas for star crafts and activities kids will love! These easy projects include origami, paper stars, lights, ornaments, and more.

Fun STEM activity for outdoor play and makes a great science lesson! (Includes a printable rocket template).

If you want to try more science activities and experiments with your kids, one of the best experiments to start with is the magic pepper experiment. This experiment teaches kids about surface tension and what happens if you change the surface tension of water. Little kids especially love to see this experiment and action and will beg to try the science experiment over and over again.

While everyone just finished welcoming in the New Year, my family and I are awaiting another New Year’s celebration. January 28th is the Chinese Lunar New Year and for my Vietnamese family it is Tết . *This post contains affiliate links* I have been talking to my daughter about the upcoming holiday, so over the weekend, we made […]

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Looking for some fun activities to do with your kids in the winter? Check out these hands-on fun for Jan Brett's The Mitten.

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!

Enjoy these fun activities and crafts with Jan Brett books - Author Illustrator Jan Brett brings the wonder and excitement of winter to life.

Our new core vocabulary word is ON. We have found this to be a very functional vocabulary word to target. Here is a handout that gives more ideas on how this word can be used naturally and a home activity. Both of these will be sent home with your student. I also wanted to share a fun song that our kids have enjoyed that targets the core word - ON.

I LOVE January! Not the blustery, freezing cold that has me heavily considering a Hawaiian move or hibernation, but the opportunity for a classroom refresh and the promise that the new year offers each one of us. Even though we are only half way through the school year, January means we are HALF WAY through the school year!!! Semester one down, semester two to go! We've got this!

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Engage your class in an exciting hands-on experience learning the five senses!

Celebrate MLK Day on January 18 with these fun Martin Luther King Jr Activities, Martin Luther King crafts, and land clever ideas for kids.

Want to see if a layer of blubber can really help you stay warm in icy water? Try this arctic animals science experiment to experience it.

Teach preschool prepositions with this easy literacy indoor game! Use counting bears and a simple design for over, under, above, and below.

The Winter Olympics begin on February 6th. Are you ready to cheer on your country and enjoy the experience with your kids? Most of us won't be in Sochi to watch the games but here are a bunch of activities that you can do at home while you watch with your kids. The TipJunkie shares 16 fun idea for the whole family to take part in during the Olympics Free Winter Olympic Pack Great activities for teachers and homeschoolers of K-4 This blogger compiles a great list of books to read with your children during the Winter Olympics This teacher lists some great activites for Kindergarten through Second graders on her Teachers pay Teachers site. This post contains some great crafts that kids of all ages will love to make during the Olympics This FREE activity guides your child with a booklet to design their own Olympic sport FREE Winter Olympic sorting activity This is a FREE DO a DOT activity that is Winter Olympic themed This unit on Teachers Pay Teachers contains everything you need to teach your child about the Winter Olympics This is an adorable FREE Olympic themed graphing activity for early elementary students This is a great character education unit to use during the winter Olympics If your printable was featured in this post, please grab an "I've been featured" button and display it proudly on your blog!

Grab a little reader on penguins here:  When you put this reader together the fold goes on the outside (see picture in an earlier post) so little hands can turn the pages easily. I use a 11/2" strip of construction paper to hold all the pages together on the left side. Often I send these little books home for a parent to put together and I cut the strips ahead of time. I talked to the children about non fiction and hit many kindergarten standards with this piece of text. This is a great way to practice the sight words in context! Click here for this worksheet I finally got my first worksheet up on this blog, thanks to Deanna Jump and Dana Baker. They both have beautiful blogs that are an inspiration to me. Thank you blogging friends for taking the time to help me. I really feel grateful to both of you. 

Help kids understand season changes, what it means to touch a hot oven, and how cold ice feels by teaching hot and cold. lots of temperature activities!

This month’s Kids Art Explorers project is all about trying out painting – but with no paint brushes allowed. This week we set up a No Pain Brush Paint Station and went on a hunt to see what we could find around the house that might be good to paint with. The children found some […]

Persistence activities to help kids and families learn about the power of perserverance. Includes a free printable activity guide!

Print the cute and free "my little book of opposites" with images to color, cut, and glue! This is a perfect companion to Opposites by Sandra Boynton.

1-2-3 Come Do A Little Magic With Me I did a month-long mitten theme in January with my Y5's. They enjoyed all sorts of mitten matching games and activities, so I wanted to feature a few popular FREEBIES today. If you teach the "magic e" spelling rule, I think you'll enjo...

Tacky the Penguin Lesson Ideas with a free file for kindergarten and first grade. Reading lessons with retelling help students's reading comprehension!

Easy Science Activities for Kids - How to Make a Pulley

8 science experiments with ice that will amaze your kids. Enjoy the winter or summer with these fun intriguing experiments! | STEM Science Activities

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Ready for Peep catapults?! My kiddos loved this STEM activity so much they didn't realize they were learning engineering, physics and math!

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This crushing cans science experiment is an exciting way to demonstrate the power of air pressure. Make soda cans instantly collapse.

Winter is here and I'm excited to share that my newest science packet is done and ready to share with you! This packet has 10 really neat science activities for little learners. These activities would be best

Here are 7 Bible Verse Memory Games that are fun, creative, and unique! Plus these Memory verse activiteis work with any Bible verse.

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Draw your dream and write about it. Great Martin Luther King Jr. holiday activity.

A Bug and A Wish Conflict Resolution for Elementary School Children Our school counselor recently employed a great method in...