July 4th is just around the corner! Have fun celebrating America’s independence with these cute handprint art templates:
This activity is perfect for any age and is such a fun way to record and treasure those little hands! Final products make for excellent fridge or classroom decorations!
This download comes with various templates to pick from and lots of different phrases and sayings! Click HERE for the instant download or on any of the images! Have a happy Independence Day!
School is out for summer, HOORAY! Now what? I’ve got you covered with some fun, quick, and easy summertime activities, crafts, and games! These activities are perfect for rainy days, taking along on an airplane or car ride or filling time on a laid back summer day.
My son and I have had so much fun with these activities so far this summer! We love to use them with our IKEA flisat table and sensory bins. You can find more images and videos by visiting @SpaidsintheClassroom on Instagram. Below is a preview of the printables included in this instant download:
Activities included in this download are: a memory game, a repeating and extending patterns activity, scissor skills worksheets and a handprint art activity! Continue the fun into the 4th of July weekend with this July 4th bundle, too!
June 8th is World Ocean Day: celebrate the day with these fun ocean themed activities!
This digital download includes a week's worth of SEA LIFE themed activities, crafts, games, and open ended play. Encourage student learning about ocean themes with these engaging lessons.
Kids will practice identifying colors and ordering numbers in hands on matching and sorting activities. Simple sensory bin options encourage student engagement and music recommendations will help to round out your sea life themed week!
We had a great day playing with all these activities. Head to my Instagram account @SpaidsintheClassroom to watch a video of all the fun! Click here or on any image for the link to this instant download!
This is a great activity to have in your back pocket for the end of the school year! These digital escape rooms are a fun way to review grade level math skills just before everyone heads off for summer vacation.
Versions of these games are available for grades 3, 4, 5 and 6! These digital classroom escapes are also a fun and engaging way to review before standardized testing. Skills reviewed by grade level are below:
3rd Grade Skills: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions.
4th Grade Skills: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions.
5th Grade Skills: Multiplication, division, percents, fractions
6th Grade Skills: Rename fractions as decimals, equations, integers
In these games, you and your friends are excited to start summer break but you have one day of school left. To escape the last day of school you must use your math skills to crack the codes and avoid the principal's office, summer school and a massive summer work packet!
Students can work independently or in small groups for these digital activities.
In these activities, students will work through slides that are designed to look and function like a video game. If students can answer all the problems correctly they will escape the game and win!
Grab this bundle or find the links to each individual grade’s game by clicking here or on the image below!
Get a head start on the next school year by grabbing these year long digital escape room math bundles by grade level!
One of my favorite ways to review and practice homonyms: GUESS MY HOMOPHONE or HOMOGRAPH! This fun and very low prep project helps students remember tricky homophones and homographs.
This digital download includes everything you need for this lesson including printable templates, anchor charts in color AND black and white, and teacher samples and instructions. Final products make excellent (and easy) bulletin boards :)
This activity makes a great back to school or end of year review! Click HERE or on any image for the link to this digital download!
Scissor. Skills. SO many kids are lacking the ability to cut using scissors these days but it is such a fun and easy skill to practice! If your kids or students are younger, I highly recommend these toddler loop scissors. My son LOVES them and has gotten pretty good at using them to cut paper, grass, leaves etc. You can see the loop scissors pictured below :)
I have a whole collection of scissor skill printable worksheets. Each download includes three levels for easy differentiation. These worksheets are a wonderful tool to have on hand for a rainy day or when you need a quick filler station or activity!
Grab this growing bundle by clicking HERE or by clicking on any of the images in this blog post. Let me know what you think!
Happy Mother’s Day!! Below are two fun and easy crafts to do with kids in the classroom or at home:
I love, love, love all the handprint artwork I have collected over the past year. This year our theme for Mother’s Day is fruit puns :) Check out these fun templates below:
This activity is perfect for students in grades 4, 5, or 6 but I’ve also included a blank template so you can create your own math fraction flower craft OR let your little one color on a blank flower. Final products make beautiful potted plants that will last forever! In this math craft students will practice finding equivalent fractions, multiplying fractions, adding fraction, simplifying fractions, and converting improper fractions to mixed numbers.
Interested in trying either of these activities? Click on any of the images to take you to the download or click on the links below:
My latest themed week is NOW AVAILABLE and I can’t wait to share some of these activities with you. Each themed week bundle includes around six activities, printable decor, fact sheets and more!
These activities are perfect for toddlers, preschool, prek and kindergarten kids and are great for use year round, when you need a quick and easy rainy day activity, or when you’ve got the kids home for the summer!
Check out some highlights of this new bundle below and head to my store to view the entire product preview.
There are SIX activities included in this instant download! Kids will practice scissor skills, colors, numbers, letters and the alphabet, sorting, matching, counting, and much more!
There are also open-end play options included! Your little construction workers will love “laying bricks” and “building roads” for their own imaginative cities.
In addition to the six activities, this download also includes fact pages, instructions for each activity, and printable construction themed decor! Click here or on any image to take you to this Construction Themed Week download!
Check out some of my other themed weeks by clicking on any image below:
I’m sharing a few fun Easter themed activities that have been keeping us busy over here this week! While I designed these for my toddler, many of these activities will work for a variety of ages so check them out :)
One of the things I love about this activity is how many ways it can be played! I’ve included various levels of play in the instructions included in the download. Pictured below is how I am using the game with my toddler- simple matching. This memory game is also great for Easter vocabulary development!
It’s never too early to start practicing math skills! This download includes pattern sorts using AABB, ABAB, and ABCABC patterns. As with the memory game above, the download includes instructions for various levels of play. Patterns are practiced all the way through elementary school so even your older kids can enjoy this game.
This is a perfect last minute, no prep, good for all ages, activity for Easter. We love to decorate our kitchen with seasonal handprint art!
This is a great day-of activity, especially if you are looking for alternatives to candy for your Easter eggs. These colorful bunnies can make excellent egg fillers!
A classic skill that needs to be practiced regularly! These worksheets are easy to print and use right away.
If you’re interested in trying out any of these fun Easter activities click on any of the images above or below to take you to the download. Happy Easter!
In honor of the weather shifting from cold and dreary to bright and sunny here is a fun springtime themed activity and craft to help students review fractions.
These fraction flowers are perfect for bulletin boards or sending home in beautiful flower bouquets! There are also multiple worksheets in each download so it is very easy to differentiate for all students! Check out what I did for Mother’s Day one year:
The best part about these fraction flowers is you can review almost any fraction skill! Check out the available fraction flowers below. Click on any image to access the download! Happy SPRING!!
