Playing with baking soda and vinegar is fun all year, but it adds a spin to it when you make your “volcano” inside a pumpkin.
Living Life and Learning shows how to make a pumpkin into a bubbling science activity… Read More ...
Halloween Learning Centers for Preschool and Kindergarten
Things can get a little crazy in the classroom this time of year, but sometimes it’s good to embrace the madness and turn it into a learning activity.
These ideas for Halloween learning centers from Pocket of Preschool are charming … Read More ...
Make a Button Turkey to Help with Fine-Motor Skills
It isn’t quite time to move from pumpkins to turkeys, but I really like this practical life activity turkey from Natural Beach Living.
This Montessori-inspired project involves buttoning feathers onto a turkey and is a great way to practice using … Read More ...
Roll and Count Game with Spiders
This cute printable for a spider roll and play game from Life Over Cs is a fun way to play with numbers.
Just print out the spiderweb, gather some plastic spiders or little spider erasers and some dice and you’ll … Read More ...
Study Pages for Learning about Bats
Bats are interesting creatures to study any time of year, but it’s especially fun to talk about bats around Halloween.
This brief bat unit study from Royal Baloo features seven pages you can print out for kids who can read … Read More ...
Cool Spinning Tops with a Halloween Theme
This little project would be a lot of fun to add to a center during the fall or just to have to play with at home.
Buggy and Buddy has the full instructions for making these inverted Halloween tops from … Read More ...
Salt Painting Projects for Halloween
There are so many fun crafts and activities you can do with a Halloween theme.
Salt painting is a lot of fun and easy for little kids to do, and you can give it a semi-spooky twist by following the … Read More ...
Try Your Hand at Arithmancy
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Arithmancy isn’t really a school subject like it is in Harry Potter, but using numbers to decode messages is still a fun test of logic for kids at Halloween or any other time.
Teach Beside … Read More ...
Make a Pumpkin out of Legos
I love Lego challenges because they are a really easy STEM activity to do with items that we all already have at home or in our classrooms.
Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls has instructions for making a Lego jack … Read More ...
Patriotic Mazes to Print for Kids
I love seeing the thinking process that happens when kids do mazes. My daughter likes to start at the end instead of the beginning because she swears its easier that way.
I don’t know, but I like doing mazes myself, … Read More ...
Fourth of July Trivia
These fun Fourth of July trivia questions from iMom would be great to use at a gathering of older kids (or little kids who love history) and adults for the holiday.
The trivia is presented as a game, with two … Read More ...
More Easy Crafts for Earth Day
With Earth Day coming up this weekend, you might want to plan an Earth-themed craft to do with your kids.
Crafts on Sea has a great collection of more than 30 Earth Day crafts, which it says are for … Read More ...
Make Tulips for Mom from Plastic Forks
I’ve seen people use forks to make prints (like this version at Fun Littles) but I had never seen the corollary idea until now.
You can also paint forks to make them look like tulips, as is shown in … Read More ...
Print a Scavenger Hunt for Earth Day
When kids are very young the best thing you can do to celebrate Earth Day might be to make sure they spend some time outdoors exploring the natural world around them and learning a little bit about what they can … Read More ...
Ways to Teach Kids about Pollution
With Earth Day coming up, it’s a good time to talk to kids about how precious the Earth is and the things that people do that can be harmful to the planet.
Natural Beach Living has some great ideas for … Read More ...