Mardi Gras Printable Learning Activities for Kids

Mardi Gras is a fun holiday that you can use in the classroom even if you don’t talk about what it is really about. Bringing in beads and the colors of purple, green and gold is great if it’s winter where you are, and there are lots of fun printable Mardi Gras learning activities for kids out there to use in the classroom or at home.

Play a printable memory game as part of a Mardi Gras party or just for fun any day around Fat Tuesday with this free printable from The Purple Pumpkin Blog. These images are so fun!

Learn more about Mardi Gras with this word search printable from Rock Your Homeschool. It includes words like Shrove Tuesday, Rex and doubloons, so get ready to explain some Mardi Gras lore if you use this one.

Homeschool Preschool has a great printable activity set for Mardi Gras that includes color and trace pages, matching, handwriting practice, color by number, color and count and more.

In the Playroom has a downloadable activity mat for Mardi Gras that include a word search, tracing, coloring and more.

Or grab the coloring pages from Homeschool of 1. These include some facts about Mardi Gras icons like masks, beads, king cake and the baby that goes into the cake. The Artisan Life also has a fun collection of do a dot coloring pages.

It’s not Mardi Gras without some fun masks, so grab the printable masks from Kitchen Table Classroom and have kids color and decorate them. You can even have your own indoor parade to get some movement in.

Speaking of getting some movement in, you’ll also want to download the Mardi Gras motor activity cards from Pink Oatmeal. These include things like marching around the room, standing on one foot or jumping from side to side, which kids are sure to have fun with.

Need more ideas for Mardi Gras activities to do with kids? Check out my list of Mardi Gras activities and class party ideas from years past.

When my daughter was younger she had a ton of LEGO bricks, and I’m honestly a little sad we got rid of most of them because there are so many fun things to do with LEGOs outside of the kits you bought them in.

I love seeing all the ideas people have for LEGO building challenges, and I have shared some ideas for LEGO games before, but I saw one on Pinterest the other day that I felt was worth a mention.

This one is for those ’80s and ’90s kids who spent sick days home from school watching “The Price is Right”: LEGO Plinko!

For those who don’t know about Plinko, the original was a giant peg board set up at an angle and the contestant would drop a flat disc at the top of the board. As it moved down the board it would hit the pegs and change the way it moved, and there would be different prizes in the slots at the bottom where the piece would land.

This version from Play Party Game works on the same principle, using LEGO bricks to make the game board and marbles in place of the Plinko disc since your game board isn’t flat.

You can really use whatever bricks you have for this build, and while it shows all the pegs the same size and evenly spaced, you can play with different configurations and see what happens. It’s engineering and a game!

And while you’re playing with your LEGOs, make sure to check out this post from Kids Craft Room that includes minute to win it style games you can do with LEGO. From speed sorting to tower building as fast as you can, these ideas are sure to get you thinking about different ways to play with LEGO.

And if you need even more ideas, check out my post with LEGO building challenges you can print out for kids (and adults!) to try.

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