Celebrate World Emoji Day

July 17 is celebrated as World Emoji Day (because July 17 is the day shown on the calendar emoji) and it’s the perfect day to plan a little emoji fun.

Emojis can be a way to talk about emotions, but they can also just be fun!

Do some easy drawing with the printable complete the emoji drawing activity from Look We’re Learning.

How well can you tell emojis apart? Test your powers of perception with an I spy emoji game printable from Paper Trail Design. Create Craft Love has a printable emoji bingo game, or you can make an emotional spin on Twister with this party game idea from The Activity Mom.

Make paper plate emoji masks with this crafty idea from Natural Beach Living. Or grab some fun emoji coloring pages from Cool 2B Kids for car rides and other times you need a quiet activity.

This optical illusion emoji spinner is a lot of fun to make, and you probably already have the supplies you need at home to make it. Grab the tutorial from Jane Hayes Creative.

Use yellow cups (or paint some yellow) and the printable from 10 Minutes of Quality Time to make a spinning emoji cup. You can also draw in your own favorite emojis if they aren’t included on the printable.

Speaking of favorite emojis, another fun activity would be to design your own emjoi. Is there something you love that you think needs a symbol (for me it’s knitting!)? Or a favorite food that’s missing from the lineup? Have kids (and adults!) design their own emoji and write or talk about why they picked what they did. You can even vote on which ones you’d like to see made into real emojis. Teach Simple has a printable on making your own emoji, or you can just draw it on regular paper.

Play guess the emoji! Do you really know what that emoji means? Check out this list from SmartPrix to see if that symbol means what you think it means. There are lots of emjoi quizzes online, but you can also make your own, where you use emjois to describe the name or plot of a book or movie and see if other people can guess what it is. Sort of like Pictionary without the drawing (and you don’t even have to be in the same room!).

Talk about Emotions with Emoji Playdough

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When my daughter was young she loved the PBS show “Peg + Cat,” and if you’ve got a fan of that show in your house this activity will be even better, but it doesn’t matter if your kids don’t already know these characters to learn about fractions with pizza.

There’s an episode of “Peg + Cat” where they are working in a pizza place and have to divide pies to put different kinds of toppings of different parts of the pie (there’s also an online game with the same concept, which I can’t believe still exists because my kiddo played it years ago).

Inspired by the episode and a companion book, Nature Homeschool developed an activity for learning about fractions and entrepreneurship using pizza. They developed a pizza shop and used the printables and teaching guide from Teacher Vision to learn more about fractions using pizza as the foundation. Their post also has a pizza order form printable you can use when you role play a pizza shop.

The Inspiration Edit also has some cute printable worksheets using a pizza to learn about fractions. And Life Over Cs has some fun printable pizza fraction activities, such as the printable fraction memory game shown here.

If you want to increase the pretend play factor with this one, you can make a pizza and toppings out of paper, cardboard or felt. Or use a paper plate as your crust and simple shapes cut out of paper to be toppings. The pretend play pizza making kit from Glued to My Crafts uses an individual slice, but you could do the same thing with a whole pie’s worth of slices.

Kids Craft Room has another fun pizza play food idea, this time using salt dough for the crust. The toppings are made out of felt so you can practice putting different toppings on a fraction of the pizza and learn as you play.

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