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.

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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