Super Mario Learning Activities

It’s a little funny to me that the Super Mario Bros. movie has been such a huge hit, since I was a kid when the video games first came out. But if you’ve got a kiddo (or a classroom) that’s into these fun characters, now would be a great time to introduce some Super Mario learning activities.

Blooming Brilliant has a great collection of Mario related printable learning activities she made for her son when he was 6. This set includes everything from prewriting and handwriting practice to cutting, coloring, math, matching, I spy and more. Best yet, you can download the whole pack for free when you sign up for her emails.

TotSchooling has a great collection of printable Mario character color by number worksheets, where the pictures emerge as you color in the pixels of the grid.

Rock Your Homeschool has another set of Super Mario learning activities, including printable bookmarks, line tracing, mazes, an I-spy and a graph based on that game.

Grab some Mario coloring pages from Activity Mom, or 15 Mario-themed writing prompts for kids from And Next Comes L. Paper Trail Design has another printable I-spy page, and don’t miss the Super Mario cootie catcher download from Rock Your Homeschool.

Did you know there’s actually a Mario Day? I didn’t know until just now! Apparently, it’s March 10, which is Mario’s birthday. Learn more Mario related trivia and get some ideas for your own Mario Day celebration any time of year from Homeschool Super Freak.

And of course, a celebration needs some crafts if you ask me, so be sure to check out these Mario Day craft ideas collected by Artsy Craftsy Mom. There’s an awesome board game, a printable 3-D garland, and this cool knock ’em down game from Instructables, which might remind parents of a certain age of another throwback game we used to play!

I don’t know why Pinterest just suddenly decided I needed to see all the content about task cards and task boxes for kids, but these ideas are great for the classroom to keep in centers or have on hand for early finishers. You can also use them at home as quiet bags or boxes for kids to use when younger siblings might be sleeping, or in the car for a non-screen activity.

Let’s take a look at some fine motor skill task cards and how you can use them to teach kids skills while they play.

Pre-K Pages has a nice set of playdough task cards you can use in boxes or bags with a little tray (or they can just work on the table if they are sitting at a table). Working with clay or play dough is a great fine motor skill exercise, or you can add these to your playdough center if you have one to give them a little bit of direction while they work.

Teaching Mama has a bunch of great ideas for fine motor task boxes, from practicing working a glue bottle to threading beads, using clothespins or scissors, dropping water, finger painting and more. There’s a free printable that shows all the task options she talks through in the post if you want to make your own little boxes, or just keep these ideas on hand when you’re ready to add some fine motor fun to your days.

One of the ideas she mentions in that post is working with a hole punch, and Early Learning Ideas has a whole bunch (the urge to write “hole bunch” is strong) of ideas for printables that help kids practice hole punching, whether it’s a strip with circles on it for them to punch or pictures that include circles for punching, these ideas make it a little more fun to practice this important skill.

My Happy Place Teaching has a whole post about using fine motor task boxes in kindergarten, and her paid resource includes more than 100 task ideas with printables. But if you don’t need 100 boxes you can still get some good ideas from this post about different tasks to include and why and when you can use them. She also mentions using them in the morning while you’re busy with kids coming in at different times, which is a great idea.

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