Hispanic Heritage Month Activities for Kids

October 2, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, and it’s a great time to learn about Hispanic artists, scientists and others who have influenced the world.

My daughter’s Spanish class is doing all sorts of fun projects (she’s highlighting murals in our area painted by Hispanic artists) and project based learning is a great way to learn about different Hispanic figures.

For example this collaborative poster project from Easy Fun Science at Teachers Pay Teachers has kids learn about different Hispanic scientists and share information that’s put together into a display.

Srta Spanish has a virtual field trip built into an interactive Google Map showing different figures from around the world. The videos and readings are in English, though it would also be great for a Spanish class. Kids can just use the information in this project (there are comprehension questions included) or pick a figure from the presentation to learn more about.

For kids who do speak Spanish, the resources from The Llearning Llama are a lot of fun for the classroom. There’s a would you rather game, a quiz to determine which famous Hispanic person you are, foldable books about 24 Hispanic figures and more. You can learn about the resources on the blog and find tons of paid resources at Teachers Pay Teachers.

Real Life in the Classroom has a nice breakdown of how to research people and has some free printables (and more at Teachers Pay Teachers) to make it easy to make a display of their reports. Of course you can also have kids draw and write their own reports if you want to cover people who aren’t included in her list.

Woo Jr. has some good basic information you can build a lesson on, such as definitions of Hispanic and Latino, a country list and word search of country names, and a few biographies of Hispanic people in different fields. There’s also a notebooking page for learning about different countries if you want to include that in your lessons, as well as other ideas.

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Fine Motor Task Cards for Kids

I don’t know why Pinterest just suddenly decided I needed to see all the content about task cards and task boxes for kids, but these ideas are great for the classroom to keep in centers or have on hand for early finishers. You can also use them at home as quiet bags or boxes for kids to use when younger siblings might be sleeping, or in the car for a non-screen activity.

Let’s take a look at some fine motor skill task cards and how you can use them to teach kids skills while they play.

Pre-K Pages has a nice set of playdough task cards you can use in boxes or bags with a little tray (or they can just work on the table if they are sitting at a table). Working with clay or play dough is a great fine motor skill exercise, or you can add these to your playdough center if you have one to give them a little bit of direction while they work.

Teaching Mama has a bunch of great ideas for fine motor task boxes, from practicing working a glue bottle to threading beads, using clothespins or scissors, dropping water, finger painting and more. There’s a free printable that shows all the task options she talks through in the post if you want to make your own little boxes, or just keep these ideas on hand when you’re ready to add some fine motor fun to your days.

One of the ideas she mentions in that post is working with a hole punch, and Early Learning Ideas has a whole bunch (the urge to write “hole bunch” is strong) of ideas for printables that help kids practice hole punching, whether it’s a strip with circles on it for them to punch or pictures that include circles for punching, these ideas make it a little more fun to practice this important skill.

My Happy Place Teaching has a whole post about using fine motor task boxes in kindergarten, and her paid resource includes more than 100 task ideas with printables. But if you don’t need 100 boxes you can still get some good ideas from this post about different tasks to include and why and when you can use them. She also mentions using them in the morning while you’re busy with kids coming in at different times, which is a great idea.

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