Moana-Inspired Learning Activities

We don’t go to the movies that often, so we haven’t seen Moana, but I’m a huge Lin-Manuel Miranda fan so I’m super excited that he might win an Oscar for a song he wrote for that movie.

Of course Oscar season is not the only time you can use Moana-inspired learning activities, but it’s a fun reason to pull out the volcanoes, seashells and ocean study materials.

Bambini Travel has a nice collection of Moana-inspired learning activities including books, field trip ideas, creative invitations, a recipe and, of course, volcano activities.

This is such a fun idea, to tie your curriculum, or even just some fun activities you do at home, to a movie your kids already love. Crank up the soundtrack and have fun learning!

Do you have any favorite ocean, island or volcano activities? I’d love to hear about them.

[Photo via Bambini Travel.]

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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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