Don’t limit art projects to only the traditional origami, collages, and coloring page. You can introduce a number of off-beat projects to their curriculum that goes beyond the usual!
Crafts
Make Snack Fun with These DIY Butterfly Snack Bags
Whether you need to bring snacks for a crowd or just want something to go along with your butterfly theme unit, these DIY Butterfly Snack Bags are easy and fun to make!
Cute and Fun Chalkboard Notebook Craft
Whether you’re getting ready for “not-back-to-school,” need a group project for scouts or just need a rainy day project, I hope you enjoy making this chalkboard notebook.
Adorable Father’s Day Cards for Kids to Make
Instead of picking up a card at the store, consider having your kids make Father’s Day cards this year. What a great way to bless your dad with a card that you made just for him. You can include his favorite colors or a quote or his saying that he particularly enjoys.
Here are two adorable cards your kids can make!
Sensory Play DIY Recipe – Water Bead Sensory Play
Water Bead Recipe for Sensory Play | Kids LOVE playing with water beads. It’s a great sensory activity. Follow this simple recipe for creating your own water beads!
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Learning About Valentine’s Day
Are you looking for some awesome crafts and activities for your children for Valentine’s Day? Check out these Educational Resources and Activities for Valentine’s Day. They are great for Homeschooling Parents, as well as classrooms at school. They are also great ideas for your children to continue their learning at home.
Valentine’s Day Songs
Valentine’s Day is a great day to celebrate with kids. Here are lots of sweet Valentine’s Day songs and rhymes in this series of free songs and rhymes.
Conversation Heart Printable
There are so many learning activities you can do with those little candy hearts that you see everywhere this time of year. Here are some free printables specifically for use with these conversation hearts.
Heart Box Alphabet Matching
Valentine’s Day is coming up soon and aren’t you excited to receive heart-shaped boxes of chocolate from a friend or loved one? Get these free printable alphabet and shape matching activity for preschoolers and toddlers!
Heart Patterning
For a Valentine’s Day math activity, we suggest using candy conversation hearts to make patterns.
I Love Trucks Valentine’s Day Pack
Is Valentine’s Day also for little boys? Perhaps you have a little guy who would prefer trucks and helicopters filled with hearts, too? This one’s for you! 😉
Pre-K Letter V
Welcome to the Letter V, where we’ll be having fun with Valentines!
Sweetheart ABC Matching Game
These Sweetheart ABC Letter Matching Game will help your Kindergarten aged children work on letter recognition and matching upper case and lower case letters. These pre-reading skills are necessary to help your child become a really prolific reader!
Valentine’s Day Math Printable
Here are some of the Valentine’s math sheets and games that are readily available for download for your kids for free.
Valentine’s Day Addition Pages
Valentins’e Day and math? Why not!
Valentine’s Day Word Pack
There are several different elements in this pack ranging from spelling practice; to hands on word recognition; as well as some vocabulary and grammar practice.
February Tracing Lines
This February Tracing Lines motor skills exercises are perfect to help develop your child’s motor skills and come with cute exercises that are a fun addition to your lessons through the month’s images.
February Writing Paper
These writing papers should be fun for children of all ages, but the February themed images are a great way to tie the monthly theme to your lessons.
Toddler-Pre-K Valentine’s Day Learning Pack
This printable pack is designed for toddlers and preschoolers to practice early learning skills such as alphabet and number recognition, counting, letter sounds, letter cases, size, shapes, patterns, visual discrimination, prewriting, scissor skills, puzzles and more!
Valentine’s Q Tip Painting
Painting with q-tips is a different and fun way of painting, and it’s great for fine motor skills!
Valentine Fine Motor Glue Activity
Here are some fine motor activities with a fun Valentine’s Day twist!
Valentine Syllable Activity
This fun syllable game is always big hit with preschoolers and kindergarteners alike around Valentine’s Day.
Valentine’s Sight Word Printable
Here’s a simple freebie that you can use to help your student practice sight words — a Valentine’s Day sight word activity.
Mardi Gras Crafts, Activities and More For Kids
Mardi Gras is right around the corner. It is my favorite Holiday by far. Check out these awesome Mardi Gras Crafts and More! Enjoy your Holiday by making desserts, crafts, printables, and more. Your children can really work their fine motor skills with all of these awesome ideas.
Printable Mardi Gras Mask craft
Get ready to party with your own DIY Printable Mardi Gras Mask Craft. The kids can color and customize their own mask for Mardi Gras with this free printable activity.
Mardi Gras Candy Necklaces
Let your kids create their own bead necklace from purple, yellow and green Twizzlers. They are definitely not just fun and beautiful, but tasty too!
King Cake Pancakes
These pancakes taste just like traditional King Cake, but in a totally different form! They’re sweet, tart, easy to make – the perfect way to celebrate Carnival.
Mardi Gras Preschool Printable and Sensory Bin
Everything in this Mardi Gras sensory bin may be found at Walmart, Party City or the Dollar Tree. And of course, everything is in purple, green and gold.
Mardi Gras Coloring Pages
What is Mardi Gras all about? Masks, beads and noisy carnival fun – and we’ve got just the colouring pages you will need! Find Mardi Gras coloring pages for all ages here!
Mardi Gras Word Search
Have a go at this fun word search for Pancake Day, and see if you and your kids can find all the words. They can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal, but definitely not backwards.
Mini Beignets
Beignets are like a square doughnut that is covered in powdered sugar. Did you ever see Disney’s Princess and the Frog? That’s the dessert they eat in the beginning of the movie!
Hand Print Mardi Gras Mask Craft
Handprint crafts are simply cute. You can easily create this Handprint Mardi Gras Mask for your kids to play with.
Craft Sand Sensory
Colored craft sand is easy to find in craft stores and small bags are inexpensive and simple to store and reuse! And purple, yellow and green would be a pretty combination for Spring! So get ready for this craft sand sensory bin!
10 Ways to use Left Over beads
Do you have an interesting way to use or display leftover Mardi Gras beads? We have 10 ways to do it here!
Mardi Gras Cake Recipe
Do you know why they hide a baby in the king cake during Mardi Gras celebrations? Find out here!
Mardi Gras Printable
In honor of the festivities coming up this February, get these great Mardi Gras party decorations and printables.
8 Mardi Gras Printables
This Mardi Gras printable pack comes with everything you need to celebrate this fun holiday! It’s perfect for preschool classrooms, homeschooling, or as additional activities!
Painting Mardi Gras Beads
Painting activities are always a hit with kids. Do some painting with Mardi Gras beads!
Mardi Gras Activities for Kids
If you’re ready to celebrate Mardi Gras but are looking for some activities that are fun for kids too, here’s a few using cereal.
Mardi Gras Cup Shakers
Want to produce a satisfyingly loud noise for your Mardi Gras parade? Make these Mardi Gras cup shakers!
Paper Jester Hat
This three-dimensional jester hat can be made with some colorful construction paper. Simply download the free printable template and you’re all ready to get started.
Ready for Talk Like a Pirate Day?
Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th! Want to celebrate in your homeschool? Check out these easy & creative ideas to get in the spirit!
Pirate Treasure Hunt – This is a great activity for pirate fun at home over the weekend! Make your own map, hide pirate treasure, and watch your little ones follow directions to search for the Pirates’ Gold!
Island Adventures Reading Program – Join Pete Pirate and his crew with instruction and practice in advanced phonics skills, sight words, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension! 75 lessons teach fundamental reading skills for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades. Recommended ages 6 to 9.
Treasure Map Pizza – Decorate your homemade pizza with olives, peppers, and a tiny red pepper for the pirate ship!
Meet the McKaws – This is such a fun pirate-themed book for Kindergarteners! Captain Stan and Tiny McKaw are rough-and-tumble pirates. Whether it’s searching for treasure or battling on the high seas, this adventurous duo is up for anything.
Pirates’ Treasure & Crafts
Pirate Math and Literacy Activities – The pirate literacy activities include wall words, syllable sort, picture bingo, and more! The pirate math activities include four math activities that would deb a great addition to any pirate-themed unit.
Pirate Crafts and Treasure Chest – Make a pirate hat, homemade pirate hook, spyglass, treasure chest, gold coins and more!
Paper Plate Pirate Craft – Use household items to craft a happy pirate face! This is an easy activity for kids and parents to complete together at home.
Exploding Treasure Chests Pirate Science – Dive into some pirate science with Exploding Treasure Chests!! It’s a great sensory experience as the solid, freezing cold chests turn to mush and expose treasures hidden within.
Pirate Theme Classroom Mega Bundle – Want to set your classroom in a pirate theme? This package includes pirate-themed word wall cards, calendars, customizable name tags, classroom jobs poster, time telling posters set, and more!
Autumn Necklace: Easy Kids’ Craft for Fall
This is one of my favorite crafts because it is inexpensive, easy to do and not messy at all! It is a great way to bring the family together when you need a low stress activity that will please everyone or a group activity for a classroom or party.
Depending on the ages and capabilities of the children doing the activity, you may want to let them cut the straws and punch the holes in the leaves, or you may want to have these steps already completed so they just do the designing and stringing.
Supplies:
- Paper Straws in Assorted Fall Colors and Patterns
- String, cord or twine
- Scissors
- Paper Hole Punch
- Silk Fall leaves
Steps:
1. Cut the straws into pieces of varying lengths.
2. Take each silk fall leaf and punch two holes (as shown) so that it can be threaded onto a string.
3. Measure the string to the size that you want your necklaces to hang adding approximately 4 inches to allow for tying a bow or knot.
4. String the straws and leaves onto the cord in your own design.
5. Tie the ends together and have fun!