A Sweet Way to Capture End of the Year Memories

Every kid in every classroom is special and different and the other kids in the class have special memories and feelings about them.

You can capture some of that with a special personalized book for each child in your class, which the other kids in the class help to make.

This activity is based on The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. Read the book with your kids, then you can talk about the important things about each person in the class. Use printables from The K Files to personalize the book for each child, and then another student can write the book for that child.

You can learn more about this activity at The K Files, and purchase the 85 page printable (which includes 38 templates with kids with different features) at Teachers Pay Teachers.

[Photo: The K Files.]

Looking for end-of-school teacher gifts? check these Teacher gifts out on Amazon.

When my daughter was younger she had a ton of LEGO bricks, and I’m honestly a little sad we got rid of most of them because there are so many fun things to do with LEGOs outside of the kits you bought them in.

I love seeing all the ideas people have for LEGO building challenges, and I have shared some ideas for LEGO games before, but I saw one on Pinterest the other day that I felt was worth a mention.

This one is for those ’80s and ’90s kids who spent sick days home from school watching “The Price is Right”: LEGO Plinko!

For those who don’t know about Plinko, the original was a giant peg board set up at an angle and the contestant would drop a flat disc at the top of the board. As it moved down the board it would hit the pegs and change the way it moved, and there would be different prizes in the slots at the bottom where the piece would land.

This version from Play Party Game works on the same principle, using LEGO bricks to make the game board and marbles in place of the Plinko disc since your game board isn’t flat.

You can really use whatever bricks you have for this build, and while it shows all the pegs the same size and evenly spaced, you can play with different configurations and see what happens. It’s engineering and a game!

And while you’re playing with your LEGOs, make sure to check out this post from Kids Craft Room that includes minute to win it style games you can do with LEGO. From speed sorting to tower building as fast as you can, these ideas are sure to get you thinking about different ways to play with LEGO.

And if you need even more ideas, check out my post with LEGO building challenges you can print out for kids (and adults!) to try.

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