Do you need a hands-on, sensory lesson to teach about kind words? You will love this! Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even older kids! Also part of the Virtual Book Club for Kids!
Spring is a wonderful time of year to enjoy, explore and learn about the natural world, from new growth, buds and blossom of plants to animals nesting and raising young. Here are 30 fun and easy sp…
Fun Empathy Activities for Kids + (Printable) KINDNESS Challenge. Emotional and Cognitive Empathy / Empathy for children
Learn how to make a Snowstorm in a Jar, one of the best science activities for kids. Perfect for winter or weather preschool curriculums.
Effective homeschooling will bring tremendous result in the long run…You Can Do it right with this free resources.
Buzz through spring with the Bee Pollination STEAM Activity! Now that more and more bees are coming out after the cold winter, it's the perfect time to teach children about how bees and flowers help each other out to accomplish each other's goals: Flowers getting pollinated and bees gathering nectar for honey. Children will enjoy flying their little bee buddies around and helping them gather pollen to deliver from flower to flower.
Learn how to make a kaleidoscope in this fun STEM/science activity and craft for kids. It’s such a fun way to explore light, reflections, and symmetry! Follow our Science for Kids Pinterest board! *This post was originally published 2/2/16 and has since been updated. Last week I made these super fun kaleidoscopes with my …
Developing empathy in children has never been more fun than with this collection of 19 simple empathy activities for kids!
Help kids learn about different kinds of friendships with this Bullseye Friendship printable to let them evaluate their friendships.
Free printable I spy shapes activity to help kids identify and match shapes such as square, circle, diamond, rectangle, polygon, pentagon, & star.
Straw Maze Activity
Looking for a fun kids ghost activity? Create vanishing ghosts with this simple Halloween activity that will amaze the kids. It's a super easy Halloween STEM activity they'll beg to do again and again.
Planting lifelong foundations in early childhood
Leaf rubbing activity - a STEM project for kids from preschool to teens! Make leaf prints with tracing, foil, wax paper, crayons & pastels!
Add elements of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell to your preschool centers to integrate science and play while students explore their senses.
Hi Friends… I hope this post finds you well and enjoying your summer break. I just returned home from a relaxing vacation in Punta Cana! It was a ton of fun and I really needed the R & R 🙂 I actually wrote this blog post on the plane there…BUT… the flight didn’t have any … Science FUN with Interactive Notebooks! Read More »
Learn about fingerprinting for kids & play detective! Fun ideas for a CSI or spy party or science activity for preschool & elementary ages!
Use these ten kindness games to teach kindness and kindness concepts in a fun, silly, hands-on way that kids will love to play.
Teaching drama to kindergarten students can be challenging, especially if you don't have drama experience. These kindergarten drama activities are easy and fun.
Make a life-size printable human skeleton with kids! The printable skeleton template comes as a PDF file, which is easy to cut and assemble.
This quick and easy way to teach positional words is super engaging to students! All you need is a solo cup, a bear manipulative, and a permanent marker! To prep this activity, you will need to draw a “door” on the solo cups. We call the cup “Mr. Bear’s House,” so it has a playful ... Read More about Positional Words
Just a simple sort I made to reinforce respectful actions/gestures. This can easily be added to your Citizenship unit, or beginning of the year activities to set a tone of spreading kindness in the classroom. I have listed 12 scenarios/behaviors, and students must decide is the actions "respectful" or "disrespectful", by gluing the sentence under the correct header. Hope you like and find this resource useful! Be sure to follow me: IG (Beached Bum Teacher) TikTok (Beached Bum Teacher)
Human Body Printables – Homeschooling Learn about the organs and where they belong. Cut out the organs and arrange where they belong. See more of our Human Body Printables and Activities for Kids. Human Body Systems for Kids Free Printables for Homeschooling. Free Learning Games for Kids – Homeschooling…
From teaching tips and parental strategies, to anti-bullying activities and games, these ideas offer great inspiration to help kids stand up to bullying!
Outdoor learning is a great way to connect with nature and have fun. Forest School activities can incorporate art, craft, science, sensory play, and s
With Sam not feeling well earlier today, we decided to spend our afternoon close to home and out of the sun. I love setting little play invitations out for the kids to discover after school, but since I hadn’t gotten a chance to set something up during nap time, I quickly pulled together a classic…
Joseph is a major character in the Old Testament stories of the early patriarchs. His faithfulness to God in the midst of his hardships is an example for all of us and a reminder that God is in control. These Bible lesson activities feature Joseph, his hardship, his endurance, his faith, and God’s blessing upon him.
This nature walk collection printable activity sheet idea was written as part of my Let’s Play Ambassadorship. Let’s Play is an initiative by Dr Pepper Snapple Group that provides kids and families with the tools,
What a year it's been! I published 77 deceptively educational activities, games, and ideas in 2015. Here are the 15 most popular. No. 1 Equivalent Fractions Missing Numerator Game No. 2 Roll and Make Whole - Adding Fractions Board Game No. 3 Color Theory for Kids (free printable color book) No. 4 Button it Up - Beginning Addition Practice No. 5 Climbing Mountain Climbers (Learning about Everest) No. 6 Mean-Median Match-Up (free printable game) No. 7 Simple Machines: DIY Pulley No. 8 DIY Parachutes (and the Science Behind How they Work) No. 9 DIY "Cave Paintings" (a Lesson on Lascaux) No. 10 Why You Need to Use Soap (a Germs Simulation Experiment) No. 11 Complete-a-Caterpillar (Phonics Game) No. 12 Butterfly Garden (a Comparing Fractions Game) No. 13 Egg Drop Experiment (Newton's First Law of Motion) No. 14 Magic Linking Chain (the Science of Force) No. 15 Beginning and Ending Sounds Word Elimination I can't wait to see what deceptively educational ideas and activities await us in 2016! Thanks to all who continue to follow our journey!
Kids will be WOWED with this hands-on, fall science experiment where they will explore Why do Leaves Change Color for kids! Fun Leaf Activity!
Use these ten kindness games to teach kindness and kindness concepts in a fun, silly, hands-on way that kids will love to play.
No matter what season you are currently experiencing, one thing is for sure, weather is all around us! Preschool is the perfect age to begin learning about weather, because it is a concept that kids experience first hand on a daily basis. If you’re planning a weather themed unit, or just looking for some engaging weather activities, you have come to the right place! We have compiled a list of our favorite art, math, literacy, STEM, sensory, and fine motor skill weather activities that are sure to be a hit with learners of all ages!
These STEM activities for preschoolers are perfect for young learners. Preschool STEM activities help kids develop early math skills, as well as problem-solving & communication skills.
500 science activities for each month of the year, with season themes, for kids from preschool kindergarten to high school. Making teaching STEM easy.
How can you support the development of self-regulation in kids? This huge resource is full of self-regulation games, information, books, and more!
I just love this color changing flowers science experiment! It is really easy to do and the kids love watching the flowers change color. We think it is the perfect science activity for spring! I even created printable recording sheets that kids in preschool and early elementary can use to show their observations.
Find out how I had fun practicing rounding with upper elementary students with hands-on rounding activities and games! Freebies included.
Target all kinds of developmental skills with these low-prep, low-maintenance Teletherapy Activities in your next virtual therapy session!
Study the human body anatomy with kids by making an anatomy model with these free printable life-size human body organs!
