This time of year is all about sprouting seeds and watching them grow, making observations and having fun with growing things.
This Jack and the Beanstalk activity from Sun Hats & Wellie Boots adds a fun spin to growing a … Read More ...
Book Review – 50 Art Lessons For Kids
Fifty K-12 Art Lessons: Deluxe Color Edition
: Creative Differentiated Explorations In Art
This FULL COLOR book contains fifty differentiated art lessons for K-12 students, with extensions for advanced classes. Many include links within lessons that will connect to mini-video … Read More ...
Upcycled Nature Explorer’s Kit
This upcycled nature exploration kit from Barley and Birch is supposed to be for kids, but if I’m being honest I’d love to have one for myself.
It starts with a shoebox that gets lots of embellishment and additions so … Read More ...
How to Make a Barometer
It seems like a lot of classes do a weather unit in the spring (at least where I live, where spring weather can be, shall we say, interesting with tornadoes and other severe weather). Making your own weather observation tools … Read More ...
Logic Roots Monster Sock Factory Multiplication and Division Game
HAVE FUN WITH MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION: Monster Sock Factory
is a super cool math board game. Kids help cute little monsters dispatch warm socks to everyone in a snow-filled valley. They will develop multiplication and division skills along the … Read More ...
How to Grow Chia Egg Heads
The convergence of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the celebration of Earth Day later in the month makes it a perfect time to bring out some projects that involve growing things and creative reuse.
Chia seeds Egg Heads are … Read More ...
Easy Preschool Climate Experiment
This time of year in the Northern Hemisphere we’re all about activities that have to do with sprouting seeds and how plants grow. This one brings in the idea of having the right kind of conditions for a seed to … Read More ...
Easter Egg Sudoku Puzzle
Sudoku is a fun logic puzzle for kids and adults that usually uses numbers but it can also be done with pictures. The idea is to fill the grid without having a number or shape repeat in the same row … Read More ...
Easter Counting and Coloring Worksheets
If you have a kiddo who is working on counting to 100, these easy Easter math coloring sheets are a fun way to practice.
The numbers are shown in a chart with a code at the top to show which … Read More ...
Learning about Holi
Holi is a holiday that I never heard much about until a few years ago, but it’s a great one to celebrate with your kids. Holi
is a Hindu festival that celebrates spring and the triumph of good over evil.… Read More ...
Easter Bunny Puppet
Puppets are a lot of fun in the classroom or at home for storytime or just creative play with little kids.
This Easter bunny puppet from Red Ted Art is super cute and simple to put together. The only sort … Read More ...
Easter Bunny Letter Recognition Activity
Here’s a fun holiday spin on learning letters for little kids.
ABCs of Literacy has a cute Easter bunny letter recognition game that involves feeding the bunny paper jellybeans with the different letters on them.
The printable includes the bunny … Read More ...
Easter Kitchen Science: Can you Dissolve an Eggshell?
This is an experiment that is both really cool and frankly creeps me out a little bit. It’s fun to do experiments with eggs around Easter but of course you can do this any time.
Go Science Kids has a … Read More ...
Pot of Gold Math Craft
Use a St. Patrick’s Day theme to help kids practice their math skills with this pot of gold math craft from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.
The pots of gold show the answer to a math question, while the gold pieces … Read More ...
3-D Paper Shamrock Craft
Paper folding crafts are a lot of fun for building motor skills, patience and the basic skills of engineering (aka following instructions!).
Red Ted Art has a fun paper folding project with a St. Patrick’s Day twist in her 3-D … Read More ...