DIY Kids Coins – Lesson Plans

Kaly, from Ode to Life and Loves, created these two-sided coins for her boys to play with while learning counting, sorting, and matching. To make the container, she simply covered a cocoa can with scrapbook paper and then cut a hole in the top that was big enough for the coins to fit in. The coins are made using wooden disks and numbers and pictures she printed out.

There are many games she encourages her boys to play with these coins. She sometimes have them sort the coins by number, color, and even theme (depending on the picture). Sometimes they arrange them in numerical order and sometimes Kaly will ask for specific designs that her kids then can hunt for. There are so many possibilities!

Learn how to make your own DIY Kids Coins.

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I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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