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During our study of the human body, we did this fun activity to demonstrate just what an amazing muscle the heart is! I think your kids will love it, too! Materials needed: 2 large dishpans, buckets, or bowls 1 gallon of water (1.3 gallons to be specific!) a 1/4 cup measuring cup watch or timer
Turn pretzels into a fun learning activity with this printable pretzel patterns book. It can be used as a quiet book or a hands-on math activity for kids.
Master the art of building a REALLY tall spaghetti and marshmallow tower. Here’s some tips on how you can build a science prize winning spaghetti and marshmallow tower.
The Montessori method of education teaches reading and writing by isolating each sound/symbol and allowing the child to manipulate them herself through the movable alphabet. So why would we teach …
Kids will LOVE these engineering challenges with craft sticks, cups, and wood cubes. Engaging, open-ended, and creative!
These Sensory Diet Ideas for Sensory Seekers may be helpful if your child struggles with sensory processing disorder and needs extra sensory feedback. Work them in throughout the day to help the child regulate their
What do you do when you have two kids dying to play in the snow , but there isn't any? You make your own ! This snow i...
This U.S. History WebQuest Bundle offers an interactive and engaging exploration of significant periods and personalities in American history. Designed for middle and high school students, this bundle includes 16 Webquest activities. Students will explore the presidencies of Wilson, Roosevelt's New ...
Carter G. Woodson Handout with student questions and KWL activities.
19 activities for kids with ADHD to burn excess energy for improved impulse control, anger management, focus, and concentration.
“Love when I get to tweak an activity from last year! #teach180”
Download high quality ending sounds worksheets and activities on d, g, n, p, t, x for preschool or kindergarten class. Free printable included!
You know what I love even more than when an activity goes exactly as planned? When my kids take the lesson even further than I'd dreamed. That sends this deceptively educational mom over the moon! This simple engineering activity is a perfect example. I got the idea from a local STEM event eons ago, that provided kids with mostly edible building supplies and asked them to build and evaluate which shapes created the strongest, most stable structure. On the table were gumdrops, marshmallows, toothpicks, and uncooked spaghetti noodles. For our experiment, I omitted the gumdrops. Marshmallows would suffice as our "connectors." I started by asking my oldest son to build a cube with toothpicks and marshmallows. What he soon discovered was that it was wobbly, wonky, leaning, and shaky (choose whichever adjective you like best). To stabilize it, he added diagonal lengths of broken spaghetti noodles (essentially X shapes around all the sides). We checked the cube; no more wobbling! He was excited. Now the pace of building REALLY picked up. While he was busy popping marshmallows in his mouth and building his four-story tower, little brother came wandering by. "I want to do that," said my preschooler. "I want to make a triangle." This was when the questions came spilling out of my mouth. "How many sides does a triangle have? How many toothpicks will we need?" In no time flat, he was exercising his fine motor skills to make a triangle. "I want to make an E," he said next. This took a little more instruction from me but boy, oh boy, was he proud when we were done. What started as an engineering activity for my oldest son became that AND a lesson in shape and letter recognition for my youngest son. That made the nominal amount I spent on supplies for this activity WELL worth it!
Creative block is real. Download these Magna-Tiles® coloring and activity pages to get your creativity flowing!
These thirteen activities are the perfect addition to having fun grandparenting. You'll all absolutely love these quality ideas and have a blast!
We decided on a curriculum change. Lily was getting bored with MFW. She didn't like that the worksheets were the same every week. She...
Next time you read The Three Little Pigs, ask you child to make their own house out of straw ... well, rather, straws - drinking straws to be precise! This activity will really bring out your child's inner engineer. Supplies Plastic drinking straws (bendy ones work but others would be better) Chenille stems (aka pipe cleaners) Scissors Prep Cut several pipe cleaners into 2-3 inch long lengths. Design. Build. Play. Create. Challenge your child to build a house ... or anything really. By inserting half of a pipe cleaner in the end of one straw, bending it, and inserting another straw, you can start to make shapes, sculptures, and whatever your heart desires. Note: You can add multiple pipe cleaners into the end of one straw! Our six year old son, who loves to create paper sculptures and build with scrap wood, absolutely LOVED this. It was hard to tear him away at bed time, and I was told multiple times that we would continue to work on our house tomorrow. Who am I to argue?
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Beat boredom blues with this fantastic list of boredom busters! 'I'm Bored'... two words that every parent hears! How many times have you had your children come to you and say those exact words? No matter how many books, toys or movies they have at their finger tips at some point they always say 'I'mmmmm Bored'. We've put together a fun list that is sure to beat the i'm bored blues! These will come in handy on rainy days, weekends and Summertime! So the next time your kiddos tell you 'I'm Bored' break out one of these fun and creative
Archaeology Crafts, Activities, and Snacks for Summer Vacation! Can you believe it’s already June? Summer may have only just arrived,...
Our 50+ STEM activities are sure to keep little scientists engaged & well-prepared for their STEM-filled future. To learn more about STEM challenges, visit us!
Step by step instructions for how to make a pencil catapult for a fun and hands-on STEM activity. What are you going to launch?
My friend Bestbug has two boys that are amassing quite a K'NEX collection that was taking over the living room. After using a toolbox in order to store Ticklebug's Hotwheels , I suggested she use an empty large tackle box that I had laying around the house. She took me up on my offer and this is what she came up with. Isn't she clever? Makes me want to play with all the pretty colors! The box came with several drawers/boxes but I purchased 2 extra at Walmart for a couple of bucks. They come with dividers that you can arrange to fit your pieces depending on how you prefer to sort them. Each has a secure snap top lid. There are many sizes and styles to choose from. I found the best selection of boxes to be at outdoor stores like Bass Pro Shop and Academy Sports. If you only have a small collection you could purchase just the small utility boxes. An added benefit of having them stored and sorted seems to be that the kiddos play more with them once they can see what pieces they need more readily. Anyhow, that works for me. What storage works for you? Head on over to Shannon at Rocks In My Dryer for more great tips!
30+ engineering STEM challenges with simple materials. Kids can tinker with bridges, catapults, boats, and more using recycled and inexpensive materials.
One of our favorite tools for sensory processing therapy at home is our exercise ball. Discover these simple activities and their many benefits!
Learn fantastic activities learning botany for kids. This post will get your learning outdoors and kids energized to want to learn more!
Kids love Post-It notes! They're colorful, sticky and what's a better way to learn math than with these little squares?
Test your engineering skills with gumdrop bridge STEM challenge. Gumdrops and toothpicks are great fun for bridge building ideas or any building play!
This blindfolded maze game teaches obedience to children. My kids loved playing this game, wanting to try completing the maze over and over again. Teaching through games speaks volumes to kids. The concepts resonate with them because kids learn through play. Some people are questioning whether obedience is outdated. They don’t want their children being...Read More
"Look at your hand. Can you see through it?" "Uh ... no," was the reply I got from our 10-year-old (with a hint of attitude, mind you). "What if I told you that you were going to look through a hole in your hand without us harming your hand in the least bit?" (puzzled expression) And thus our experiment began. It took barely any supplies and only a few minutes but the effect was something we were still talking about an hour later. What You Need An empty cardboard paper towel tube (or a rolled up piece of paper) Two hands Two eyes What to Do Place the tube over one eye and look down it. Bring the other hand (the one that isn't holding the tube), beside the end of the tube, palm toward your face, so it touches the tube. As you look down the tube, you'll suddenly see a hole in your palm! Don't see it? Try moving your palm forward and back, closer and further away from the tube. How It Works Your eyes see the same thing but from slightly different vantage points. In order to see dimension, your brain combines these images. With the tube in front of one eye, we are suddenly giving the brain two very different images. When it combines them, it appears that you hand suddenly has a hole through it.
The elephant toothpaste experiment makes a continuous foamy fountain and is a show stopper science project!
Try these fun and educational activities for kids. Make a volcano, a tornado, glitter jars (like snow globes), giant bubbles, dry ice bubbles, and more.
Guess what? It's the weekend! Two glorious days of sleeping in and lazing about (I wish!). And boy, do I deserve them after the week I have had with my precious treasures. :) The first few weeks of Prep (or Kindergarten if you're not from 'round these parts!) are always tough as the kidlets get used to the routines and rules of school. Throw in a handful of boys with 'tricky' behaviour and you've got yourself a recipe for days that feel like they go on forever... during which you use your 'cranky voice' more than once. This week I found myself using a few behaviour management ideas that are truly 'magic' in a slightly desperate attempt to get things in my classroom back on track. Day-to-day I use the famous 'clip chart', known in my room as the 'peg chart', for kidlets to monitor their behaviours. I use the Monster Manners pack from Growing Kinders as a springboard for moving up (to the pink card - Super Kid!) or down the chart. Seriously, you need this pack! So cute and so effective (also helps that it's free)! I refer to my display daily and the kids get it. Within a day, one of my precious treasures said "You sit criss cross, and that's the bottom of the line!" (If you use this pack, you'll understand!) This year, the clip chart was working for about 90% of the kidlets... and those remaining 10% sure were giving me the run around. Bring in the magic tricks! Trick number 1 is a life lesson, as well as a magic cure for some tricky classroom behaviours. All you need are some dollar store bubbles, and you have some 'Self Control Bubbles'! Take your class outside and sit them in a circle. Explain that you are going to blow some bubbles in their direction, and the first time you do they can pop away as much as they want. Go ahead and let them go wild (within reason... I always tell my kidlets their bottoms must stay on the ground). Make sure everyone gets a heap of bubbles to pop. The second time, explain that you are going to blow more bubbles, but this time they MUST NOT pop a single one... even if it lands right on their nose! Explain that the feeling of really, really wanting to do something, but holding back, is called self control. Ask for a volunteer to go first and choose someone you know will resist the bubbles. Praise them for using self control. Then go around the circle and blow more bubbles at each kidlet (I make sure to get right 'up in their face' so they really, really have to control themselves!) - making sure to encourage all of them to think about how it feels to have self control. As the weeks go on refer back to this activity any time one of your kidlets is struggling with those behaviours that require them to practice more self control. They will be able to recall the feeling, trust me! You might like to repeat the bubble activity a few times during the year - my kidlets LOVE knowing that they are pros at something... and self control ain't a bad thing to be pro at! :) Grab this free pack from my TpT store that will help you use this activity in your classroom. It contains an explanation of how to complete the Self Control Bubbles activity, a label for your bubble bottle, and 3 simple recording sheets. And for my second trick... Quiet Spray! All you need for this is an empty spray bottle. I bought mine from Kmart for less than $2. Fill it with water. My spray bottle wasn't clear, but if it was I would have added a drop of food colouring or some glitter to make it look more 'magic'. I also would have taken time to make sure my label was size-appropriate for my bottle... but you live and learn! :) I added a few drops of rosewater to my Quiet Spray... mostly because I wanted lavender, couldn't find it at the grocery store, but wanted my Quiet Spray to smell calming. Here's how it works: Any time you want your kidlets to work quietly (I used mine today before group work), explain that you will use the Quiet Spray to help them work the best that they can. I ask my class to take a deep breath in through their noses and out through their mouths as I mist Quiet Spray over their heads. MAGIC! You could even use Quiet Spray at the beginning of each day along with some relaxation techniques, or for individual students who need some extra magic in their day. :) There you have it folks, some new magic tricks for you to try with your tricky kidlets. :) Please let me know if they work for you! Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! :) Lauren
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