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Want to play a fun little prank on your students? Here are a few easy and harmless pranks that your students will get a laugh at! 1) A Tootsie Roll Surprise/Chocolate Eggs Use leftover tootsie roll wrappers to wrap with baby carrots. You can give them a "treat" for doing a good job on a piece or showing good behavior. They'll be surprised when they open it to find a carrot on the inside! Chocolate eggs work the same way as the tootsie rolls. You can wrap colorful tin foil in

It wasn’t until I taught in China that I even had to think about why we do April Fools’ Day. My Chinese students thought this was a pretty funny idea, and were amazed that so many peopl…

This free April word search printable worksheet is fun for kids of all ages and families! With 20 April-themed words, it is perfect for the classroom or as a fun activity at home.

Discover the enduring impact of YMCA's Healthy Kids Day, a pivotal initiative promoting children's wellness and physical activity. Learn how this event, enriched by Peanuts Worldwide, inspires families across over 1,400 YMCAs each April 20th, fostering lifelong healthy habits.

Can you complete this faster than your kids? Have some family fun with this April word search puzzle. It is a free printable PDF word search.

April is the perfect time to add some hands-on STEM fun to your classroom curriculum. The following activities are some of my favorite Earth Day and spring inspired STEM activities that are sure to get students engaged!

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April Fools Day writing and reading activity worksheets for 3rd through 6th grade.

2 free printable spring word scramble puzzles for kids or adults. Unjumbled spring words reveal answers to spring jokes. Pdf with answer key.

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Happy April! A new month has begun, which means it's time for a...Currently! I think most of my Currently is pretty self-explanatory, but I do want to share my April Fools' prank! I found this awesome word search from Sweet Rhyme & Pure Reason. A word search with words that you will never be able to find! Classic. PLC meetings were today. My grade-level's PLC meeting is 15 minutes after our morning recess, so I figured I would have just enough downtime to pull this prank. I told that kiddos that in the spirit of a new month, I had a new word search for them to complete while we wait for the substitute to arrive so I can go to my meeting. I told them that this word search was going to be more challenging that the ones they get to do during Daily Five time, but to work with partners and try their best. Watching the kids try to find a word was pretty hilarious, especially the commentary that came with it. "This is really hard!" "I wish I had glasses so I can see the words!" "This must be a trick!" "I found the word fun! But fun isn't on the list!" You would have to be there, but it was pretty funny to watch. Once the substitute arrived, I asked the class if anyone was able to find a word. No one raised their hand, of course. So right before I left, I was like "well everyone....APRIL FOOLS!!!" The classroom just erupted after that! The kids were especially excited when I told them to take the word search home to use as a trick at home. And then I left for my PLC meeting. :) If you had school today, did you play any pranks at school today? What were they? Leave a comment and share! I would love to hear your April Fools story! :)

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Every year, we hunt for the best April fools day pranks and jokes for parents to play on the kids. These are perfect for teens too!

April is the perfect time to add some hands-on STEM fun to your classroom curriculum. The following activities are some of my favorite Earth Day and spring inspired STEM activities that are sure to get students engaged!

Love April Fools jokes for kids? This silly joke teller (fortune teller) is full of mixed up jokes and answers that will have kids of all ages laughing! Grab the free printable for a fun April Fool's prank!

Here’s a simple, quick, easy-to-use prank you can play on your students that doesn’t cost money, won’t hurt feelings and is still pretty fun (especially to watch). We did this to our students last year and the response was fantastic! Our students rarely get to do puzzles just for fun, so they were excited about getting to do this activity. We challenged them to see how long it would take for them to complete it. It’s a maze, but there's no way out. We’ve made two versions: one is for younger students and one is a little more "mature." There are no real answer keys because there are no solutions. Be sure to take some photos of your kids enjoying the prank and tag us on Instagram @brainninjastpt so we can laugh along with you. Happy April Fool's Day! Need another prank? Try the Wordless Search Be sure to check out more of our holiday and seasonal resources. FOLLOW US TO GET THE LATEST! Please let us know how this resource works for you by rating it or providing comments. You'll get TpT credits to use toward future purchases. Find us on social media: Instagram, Facebook or our website. What our ninjas have said about this resource: ***PERFECT for April Fool's day! My kids loved it! (Thanks Christina!) ***Great trick and not a traumatic trick. (Thanks Jojo!) Thank you for your consideration! Happy pranking from the Brain Ninjas!

Discover the enduring impact of YMCA's Healthy Kids Day, a pivotal initiative promoting children's wellness and physical activity. Learn how this event, enriched by Peanuts Worldwide, inspires families across over 1,400 YMCAs each April 20th, fostering lifelong healthy habits.

April is the perfect time to add some hands-on STEM fun to your classroom curriculum. The following activities are some of my favorite Earth Day and spring inspired STEM activities that are sure to get students engaged!

Spring has officially sprung! Include this word search in your lesson plan to help your kids learn the words associated with this fun season. All words are either left to right, or top to bottom, and there is an answer key on page two for your kids to check their work! There are 25 words included in the word search: April, baseball, blossoms, bunny, butterfly, candy, chick, Earth Day, Easter, eggs, flowers, garden, kite, lamb, March, May, Mother's Day, nest, rain, rainbow, spring, sunshine, tulip, umbrella, and windy.

There’s a monkey on your head! You shoe is untied! Knock, knock…!!! You guessed it. April Fools day is a comin’ to the primary classroom and the kids are going to be dishin’ out all sorts of high quality jokes. With this said, why not turn the tables on our little babes and play the

I never actually liked April Fool's Day when I was growing up. I'm so trusting that I often am the one who gets fooled on April Fool's Day. So I don't like pulling pranks that might make someone feel embarrassed or hurt someone's feelings. But I have learned to embrace the silliness of this holiday with my kids. Below are some lighthearted April Fool's tricks and activities that we have done. *Brown E's: Trick your child by asking them if they want brownies. Then, pull brown paper E's out of the oven. (I got the inspiration for this trick here). My kids were definitely fooled with this trick last year and were sad that they weren't actually getting treats--but after a few minutes, I consoled them with some real brownies I had made as well. *Jell-O Juice: Serve your kids "juice" with a straw. They will be very confused when they try to drink it and find out that it is actually Jell-O. See this trick and fun April Fool's pranks and party activities on our previous post here. *Canned Treats: Fool your kids into thinking they are getting a can of fruit, only to have them open it up and find a treat inside the can instead. See how to do this can trick here. *Mixed up Dinner: Serve "dessert" for dinner and "dinner" for dessert. One year, I served my children "cupcakes" that were actually meatloaf with mashed potato "frosting." Then we followed that up with a dessert of "grilled cheese sandwiches" which were actually slices of pound cake with orange-tinted frosting as the pretend cheese. I originally got the recipes from Family Fun. Meatloaf Cupcakes (Makes 12 "cupcakes") Ingredients: 1 lb. ground beef 1/2 c. seasoned bread crumbs 1 c. grated Monterey Jack cheese 3 T ketchup 1 egg 1/2 t. celery salt 1/4 t. pepper Potato frosting: 3 c. mashed potatoes food coloring Instructions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees and line muffin tin with foil cups Mix together meat loaf ingredients until well combined and divide mixture among cups (the cups should be about 3/4 full) Bake for about 15 minutes or until all cooked through Divide mashed potatoes into different bowls and add food coloring to create different colors of "frosting." Spread a generous amount of mashed potatoes on each meatloaf cupcake. If you want to add to the illusion you could also throw on a few sprinkles (you will hardly taste them but they did add to the effect). These are actually so delicious and easy that we like eating them all year round--not just for April Fool's Day. "Grilled Cheese" Pound Cake Ingredients: 1 Pound Cake 1 c. buttercream or white frosting food coloring Instructions: Cut the pound cake into thin slices and toast them in a toaster oven until they just start to brown. Cool the slices of cake and create sandwiches with orange-tinted frosting in the center (use food coloring to tint your frosting) *April Fish: Decorate fish and put them on each other's backs. This is an April Fool's tradition from countries such as Italy, France and Belgium. Children and adults traditionally tack paper fishes on each other's back as a trick and shout "April fish!" in their local languages. You can easily search for coloring pages of fish online to use as a starting point such as I did for my toddler last year. Or, older children can design their own fish from scratch. I love of all the varieties of fish that kids designed here. *Silly Hat Parade: When April Fool's was near Easter one year (as it will be again this year), We had a silly Easter Parade. We danced around to the song "Easter Parade" but instead of fancy Easter bonnets, we wore all sorts of silly hats. *Moving Dinner: My friend actually does this for Valentine's Day with her kids, but I think it is perfect for a silly and fun April Fool's Day dinner. Each person chooses one food and one game/activity--whatever they want! They each get to choose one different room to do their activity in (i.e., living room, bath room, bedroom, patio, whatever). You move from room to room in the house and eat that person's food and play that game in their chosen room--some of our minute to win it games would be great ideas for games. You could also just do something as simple as dancing to Ring Around the Rosy, playing a quick game of pictionary, or having horsey rides from Daddy--whatever the child in charge decides! *Silly Books: Read some silly books such as the following: April Foolishness by Teresa Bateman and Nadine Bernard Westcott--This is a charming story about kids trying to fool their grandpa on April Fool's Day. Previously by Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman--This book tells classic fairy tales--in reverse. April Fool's Day is all about being silly and backwards, so this backwards book is a perfect fit. Silly Sally by Audrey Wood--Another silly book that is perfect for toddlers--Silly Sally always walks on her hands instead of her feet.. While going to town, she meets and plays with different animals. *Foolish Dinner: Have a Silly April Fool's Dinner as Andrea shared with us last year! The kids had a "menu" to order from--but they never quite knew what they were getting. *April Fool's History: If you want to sneak in a little learning on this holiday, you can also read about the history of April Fool's Day with your kids here. You could type of some of these fun facts on little notes to put in your child's lunch or snack just as Teach Mama did here with St. Patrick's Day lunchbox notes. For more April Fool jokes and pranks, see all of our April Fool's activities here and check out my April Fool's Day Pinterest Board. -->

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I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to the weekend! Here are 7 things you can do with your kids! Enjoy! 1. Healthy Kids Day at the YMCA of Central Ohio When: Saturday, April 30, 2016 Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Times vary by location) Location: Your Local YMCA Healthy Kids Day …

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Do you work with children at a church? Are you a Christian Educator? check out some of the other blogs I've written specifically for Christian Educators, my Religious escape rooms, and over 50 faith-based games I've created! FOR AGES PRESCHOOL AND UP!!! Ok. So the hubby is planning a retreat for our church and he put the two of us down to lead an hour of recreation. To help him out I said I'd take this on (I love doing this kind of thing anyway, but lets just say I did it out of love ;). Since we are scheduled right after worship and right before lunch I figure we need some active games - everyone is going to need to move around after sitting for an hour and work up an appetite for lunch! :) So I got on pinterest and starting searching. I wanted something different...and something we could do with 50 people of all ages. We have children from age 6 up to older adults - so we have a wide range to plan for! After searching for about 10 minutes I saw a hula hoop game I liked. Then I happened across another one. Then I got to thinking - could I plan an hour's worth of activities just using hula hoops? Challenge accepted! I searched for a little while longer, put on my creative hat and the ideas started flowing. Fun!! So, here it is - our Hula Hoop Hour of Fun. this is the lesson plan I used and I included some pics of my group :) setting: gym/large enough space to accommodate your group materials: 1 HH for every pair (in our case 25) # of people: we have 50 but can be played with 10 or more Time: depending on how many people you have 10-15 minutes Icebreakers 1. Like I said we will have around 50 people and you need about one HH for every pair. In this game, start with 25 HH laid out all around the gym. Start the music or have someone play guitar while everyone walks around. When the music stops, they have to find a HH and join whoever else is at that HH. There can be any number 2 or higher. Then they have to tell the other people their favorite something (team, color, book, movie, ice cream flavor, subject, weather, sport, animal, etc.). Pick someone to take away 5 HHs and then do it again. Keep going (taking away 5 HHs) until there are only 5 HHs left (and close to 10 people at each one). 2. Have someone add in enough HHs so there are three people at each one. In our case we need 17. turn on the music once more and tell them when the music stops to get in groups of 3. Have them share with everyone their full name. Do this a few more times, then have them sit down in the HHs with their feet outside the hoop (and their rear inside). (This game can be found in this video). Tell one person in the group to raise their hand. Tell another person to raise a foot. The one with their hand raised is number 1, the one with their foot raised is number 2 and the one sitting normal is number 3. They have to remember their numbers! (make sure the trios are sitting pretty far away from each other so they don't run into one another) The leader is going to call out 1, 2 or 3 and that person has to get up and run around their HH and sit back down first. Start in order then mix it up getting faster. Then, stop the game and tell them they now have to learn their left from their right. The leader will now call a number with a direction - ex. "number 3, left!" and number three has to stand up and run around the HH going left or counter-clockwise :) The younger kids may need help with this. After 3-4 rounds stop the game. Their next direction is to join 2 other groups of 3. setting: gym/large enough space to accommodate your group materials: 1 HH for every 9 people (or however big you want your circle) # of people: 5-10 (much more than that and it would take too long) Time: 10 minutes PASS THE HOOP So you ended the last game in groups of 9 at one hoop. Have them join hands around their hoop in the form of a circle. Have one person pick up the hula hoop and put their hand through it...then join hands again with the circle - so the HH is now stuck hanging from a pair of hands :) This game is everywhere on pinterest, but I found it here. When the leader says GO!, they will start passing the HH around the circle without letting go of their hands. First one around wins! Do it a few times - going different directions. Stay in your group of 9 for the next game. setting: gym/large enough space to accommodate your group materials: 3-5 HH for every 9 people # of people: 5-10 if you want to do groups or this could be a large group activity Time: 10-15 minutes HULA HOOP CONDUCTOR I thought about doing this as a whole group activity, but I thought it would be fun if everyone got a chance to be the conductor! So, I went with small groups. It went well as most wanted to be the conductor :) In our case, everyone will still be in a group of 9 with one HH. They will need 3-5 HH total - depending on how brave you are ;) I got this idea here. I'm going to do this slightly different so that everyone will get a chance (if they want to) to be the conductor. I think I will have the group sit in a line instead of a circle. Have them pick someone to start as the conductor...explain to them everyone will get a chance that wants one and that it will get increasingly harder...this may change the order of volunteers :) The conductor stands in front and starts with one HH on the ground. When the conductor stands in the HH, everyone in the group sings the ABCs. When the C jumps out, they stop, when he jumps in they start over. Simple, right? Practice it a few times and then switch conductors and add a HH. Now, when the C jumps in the first HH they sing, but in the second they clap. Let them practice this a few times (if the C jumps out of both HHs they are silent). Now change conductors and add a 3rd HH! The third one will be stomping. Let them practice this a few times. If the group wants to be challenged even further let them add a 4th (the could snap or think of their own) and then 5th (humming jingle bells...or something else). If the group doesn't want to keep adding, let them switch conductors until everyone has had a chance to try. Once you decide the game is over, tell them to leave the HHs on the ground and walk around the gym with the music. When they hear the music stop, tell them to find a HH and make a group of 5. While they are walking around, pick up enough HHs so that you leave enough to make the groups of 5 (in our case, with 50 people, we need 10 HH). I had one from each group take a video on their phone and send me their best "conductor" (if they wanted to) and I told them the best one would go online :) Here are two! :) You can see they got adventurous and made up their own motions/sounds and then started jumping into two hoops at the same time :) lol Some of the conductors overestimated the skills of their orchestra ;) setting: gym/large enough space to accommodate your group materials: 1 HH for every 10 people # of people: no less than 6 to as many as you want Time: 10-15 minutes BUILDERS AND BULLDOZERS This game sounds awesome. I found it here. But I love the spin that the video I posted above put on it. Now my large group of 50 has been divided into 10 groups of five. Once they are in their groups, have them spread out all over the gym (the farther away they are the more they will run :) Have one person in each group come up to you and get 3 items from your box. You can use bean bags, blocks, the little plastic thingamajigs from the link...basically anything that you have at least 30 of and doesn't roll. Have them put their items in their HH. When the leader says "GO!", they are to run around and grab other groups' items and bring them back to their own. Rules: you can only pick up 1 item at a time. 2. NO guarding your HH. The leader will call time and whichever team has the most items in their HH wins. Play a few times for about 1-2 minutes, then have two groups join (we'll then have 5 groups of 10) and play a few more times. Hopefully everyone will be on a winning team at least once :) The pic is a little blurry cause everyone was running so fast! :) After these four games you probably won't have much time left. Even if they all only take 10 minutes (which they won't) and you count all the "in between" times of changing games and explaining instructions you are still up to around 50 minutes. HOWEVER, I always like to over plan so here is one more game "just in case"... setting: gym/large enough space to accommodate your group materials: 1 HH for every 2 people # of people: 4 to as many as you want Time: 10 minutes PARTNER GAMES If you are following my plan, then everyone is divided up into groups of 10. To get them into pairs, tell everyone to think of their favorite Disney Movie. When the leader says Go!, they are to yell out their movie and find someone else who is yelling the same thing. Once they have a partner, tell them to line up on the sideline. Give them one minute and then stop them. Tell them to pick a color, yell it out, and do it again. Anyone left standing tell them to pair up and line up. Give each pair a hula hoop. Tell one person to throw/roll the hula hoop as far as they can and the other person tries to catch it before it stops rolling. I got this idea from the video I mentioned above :) Let them do this for a few minutes and then have them time each other and see which of the partners can HH the longest. Once they have their winner - tell the 25 people left (the "expert hoopers") to stand out in the middle and you can do a final HHing contest to see who is the best hooper :) We ended up doing the contest and it was hilarious! Well, maybe hilarious isn't the right word...it was unbelievable! :) We had 3 girls who went 15 minutes and wouldn't stop! They could've gone forever! I had to make it harder for them - walk 5 steps forward, 5 steps backwards, turn in a circle...but they still didn't stop! So I declared a 3 way tie :) You can see that 2 of the girls didn't even stop for the group photo we took after we had all finished playing :) They did stop for lunch though! Here's a pic from when we I told all the "expert" hula hoopers to get a hoop and get in the middle! group pic! The two girls on the right were our winners! They got to take home the fancy, sparkly, water filled hula hoops :) The little boy on the left was very good too!! I hope you have a great time Hula Hooping!! If you are looking for other group games, I write religious escape rooms! check them out at my teachers pay teachers or Etsy store :) Laurie

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60 unique spring break boredom busters for kids! Be equipped with some fun ideas for those moments when your kids declare they are bored. A little boredom is good for kids, it helps them develop independence and problem-solving skills, but flag this list for those times you want to make a few memories!