Learn American Geography with a Scavenger Hunt

Even though the Olympics are not in the United States this year, now is a great time to teach kids about geography of all sorts (and I’ll be sharing lots of fun Olympics-related activities later this week).

Whether you tie it to the Olympics or not, these printables and ideas for a geography scavenger hunt from Little Bins for Little Hands are great.

They ask kids to do some research to find and label different states and include questions about your home state. There’s also a printable for learning about another state, which is great if the grandparents live in a different state or you go on vacation somewhere else in the country.

There’s also a printable specific to the Olympics so you can talk about where in the United States the Games have been held before and which events they are most excited about.

If you live in a different country or want to do this for a different country, many of the questions related to the states could be completed for different countries or regions of a country if you like.

Do you have fun ways to teach geography to kids? I’d love to hear your ideas!

[Photo via Little Bins for Little Hands.]

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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