Celebrate World Emoji Day

July 5, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Learning Activities with Snap Cubes

A classic manipulative in the preschool and early elementary classroom is the snap cube, also known as math cubes, unifix cubes or unit cubes. These little one inch cubes often come in a set of 100 in 10 different colors, and they snap together so they’re easy to use for all sorts of math learning, measuring and more.

No Time for Flashcards has a cute robot printable to use with cubes to measure the height of each robot. That one is free but they also have other printable cube mats that are a paid resource.

Catherine & Co uses math cubes to teach kids about measuring volume. They make a letter from cubes and then measure the volume (there’s a printable worksheet in the post).

Pattern recognition is another fun and easy activity you can do with the cubes. You can use printables like these from Planning Playtime, or just make a pattern from cubes and have kids repeat it or figure out what comes next. There’s another good set of pattern printables at English Created Resources.

Because there are 10 sets of 10 cubes in a pack, these are great for teaching one to one correspondence, counting, sorting and basic addition and subtraction. English Created Resources has great printable number mats you can use to form the number from cubes and count out the number of cubes that corresponds to that number.

ParenTutor has a great collection of snap cube activity ideas, most of which are just pictures, but it’s work taking a look through the post for ideas for using them at home or in the classroom.

To give just a few of their examples, you can match linked blocks to the corresponding number of pieces, use blocks to find different ways to add up to 10, compare numbers and determine which one is more or less, skip counting and weighing different numbers of blocks.

You can also use unit cubes to learn letters, like with these super cute alphabet mats from Fun Learning for Kids. Kids can trace the letter, make it out of cubes and practice writing a word that starts with that letter.

Of course you can also use them to build things, since they are blocks, and there are tons of pattern mats on Teachers Pay Teachers. I also love these dinosaur themed mats from Lets Go to Learn on Etsy.

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