Mardi Gras Learning Activities

Mardi Gras maybe isn’t a holiday you automatically think of as relating to learning activities, but with its bold colors and great music it’s a great theme to attach to other lessons or a chance to learn about Louisiana culture.

I found some great printable resources at Teachers Pay Teachers if this is something you’d like to incorporate into your plans for the next month (Mardi Gras is March 5).

CreativeCOTA has a collection for younger kids (pre-K, kindergarten and first) that includes writing activities, word searches, counting worksheets, number puzzles and more. It’s 33 pages and runs $6.50.

For older kids check out the Mardi Gras reading comprehension and more pack from Mia McDaniel. In 10 pages it shares 22 short nonfiction passages about Mardi Gras complete with reading comprehension questions. It also includes an art activity, a game and more and costs $4.50.

Do you have any Mardi Gras learning activities you like to use in the classroom or at home? I’d love to hear about them.

[Photo: Mia McDaniel via TPT.]

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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