Pokemon Learning Activities and Crafts

Lots of kids love Pokemon, and lots of people have pulled together learning activities, crafts and other fun things to do with a Pokemon theme. This might be fun to do in the classroom around the holidays or before a long weekend, or you can use these ideas at home when kids are home for a break or the weather is lousy and you want something fun to do that’s not playing Pokemon Go.

If you are wanting to use Pokemon (particularly Pokemon Go) in the classroom, Teaching Ideas has some ideas for writing and math activities for older kids, though they need to be players or be teamed up with a player to make these work. Alternatively kids who haven’t played it, could, for example, write about why they don’t or make up a story about someone who does.

Mother Natured has some fun activities inspired by Pokemon critters. I particularly like the classification of Pokemon creatures into different animal types, because it gets kids thinking about the qualities of different critters and how they relate to real-life animals.

Fill in the missing numbers in some basic math equations with a Pokemon card twist with the Pokemon missing number math printable from Mathematic Shed (scroll down a little on the linked page to find it).

Grab some color by number Pokemon printable worksheets from Simple Everyday Mom. Or make Pokemon perler bead patterns with the design templates from U Create Crafts. (The patterns are actually from Kandi Patterns, but all their easy ones are linked on U Create.)

Want to build your own Pokemon? Get instructions to build a couple in Lego from Frugal Fun 4 Boys and Girls, or make your own Pokeballs with this tutorial from And Next Comes L.

Get some wiggles out (like Wheedle) with the Pokemon movement cards from Royal Baloo and your kiddos will be flapping like Venomoth in no time.

Diana Rambles has printable Pokemon bingo cards, while you can get Pokemon bookmark printables from Ruffles and Rain Boots.

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Learning about the Weather with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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