Projects that involve natural materials are great to do any time of year, but they’re especially fun if you’re looking for summer camp crafts or things to do with kids while they are home for the summer.
These nature resist … Read More ...
Scrape Painted Poppies for Memorial Day
This pretty poppy craft is great for kids to make for Memorial Day, Remembrance Day, ANZAC Day or any other day to honor and remember fallen members of the military. You can also make it when poppies are in bloom … Read More ...
Printable Summer Activity Calendars
If you’re a teacher looking for resources to send home with parents with ideas for educational and fun things to do with kids over the summer or a parent looking for the same, these printable activity sheets from Growing Book … Read More ...
Roll and Race Shape Games
Sometimes turning something into a game makes kids learn it — or show that they have learned it — way faster than doing regular worksheets or quizzes does.
These roll and race shape games from This Reading Mama cover the … Read More ...
Science Project Ideas for Kids
I think my daughter’s school is unusual in that she’s in sixth grade and has never had to do a science fair project. I never really did when I was a kid, either, but it seems like most schools these … Read More ...
Pressed Flower Craft for Kids
This is a project that little kids might not be able to do on their own, but older kids can do it without much trouble.
These pretty pressed flowers would make lovely Mother’s Day cards, or make them at home … Read More ...
A Super Easy Way to “Paint” with Yarn
“Painting” with yarn is a classic activity that usually involves a fair amount of mess because you usually do it by coating the yarn with glue or putting down a glue line and smooshing the yarn into the glue. Either … Read More ...
How to Set up a Nature Exploration Station
If spring is starting to happen where you live, now is a great time to go on a nature walk and collect some fun things to observe in the classroom or at home. With Earth Day
this week, it’s even … Read More ...
Cloud Spotting Learning Tool Craft
Now that the weather is getting warmer in the Northern Hemisphere (and we are getting closer to the end of the school year) it’s great to have some learning opportunities available that can be done outside.
Whether you do this … Read More ...
How to Draw a Daffodil
One of the most common flowers of springtime is the daffodil, and this easy drawing tutorial will help your budding artist to draw one.
It takes just seven steps (plus coloring) to make this flower. This would be a great … Read More ...
Printable Spring Counting Puzzles
Puzzles that you can cut apart and that have numbers on them so they can be put back together are an easy way to introduce number sequencing to kids.
These printable puzzles from The Craft at Home Family have spring … Read More ...
Color by Number Spring Coloring Pages
These sweet color by number coloring pages from In the Playroom are great to have on hand for the art area this time of year, or to print out for use at home.
Color by number is a great way … Read More ...
Easter Bunny Letter Search Printables
Learning letters is an important part of getting ready to learn to read and write, and this activity puts an Easter twist on learning by placing the letters in the Easter bunny’s belly.
The printables from ABCs of Literacy include … Read More ...
Easter Themed Sight Word Game
This easy sight word activity is a fun way to bring a spring or Easter element into learning.
The Soccer Mom Blog used paint chips to make her egg-themed sight words, but you could also cut them out of construction … Read More ...
Fun with St. Patrick’s Day Poetry
Poetry is not really associated with St. Patrick’s Day, but you can use the occasion as a fun way to learn about limericks, which are fun and easy to write rhyming poems.
This idea from Rock Your Homeschool has links … Read More ...