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.

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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