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Saint Patrick’s Day
Are you looking for some easy and low prep activities to help celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day? I have some free coloring pages, a writing activity, and a fun leprechaun craft. They are all free to download below. Hope it can be useful and fun for your kids too! These simple coloring sheets features a giant rainbow, some clovers, and giant lucky horseshoe. Grab a bowl of Fruit Loops and your child can use this as a guide to make a Fruit Loop rainbow. You can also encourage your child to color the rainbow using the colors in Ireland’s flag. I also make a larger set of personalized ones here. My…
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Dr. Seuss’ Birthday
Are you looking for some activities to help celebrate Dr. Seuss’ Birthday? I’ve got you covered in this post! There is a free coloring page as well as writing activity and math mat. Hope they can be useful and fun for your kids as well! We have been celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday every year for almost a decade now and my kids have really grown to look forward to this day as another holiday. We usually eat green eggs and ham and when I say ham, I mean I actually will cook a whole ham. We used to buy Honey Baked Ham until I found this wonderful and easy copycat…
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The Best Chili Ever
It has been a while since I posted a recipe but as today is National Chili Day, I thought it would be a great occasion to share our family’s favorite chili recipe which we have enjoyed many times during this colder than usual winter. It is a mild recipe that is packed with great nutrition that will be sure to please your kids, especially if they enjoy Mexican food… as this recipe was born from leftover taco meat. My kids love corn and so I have made it a habit to add corn to their ground taco meat. We usually buy ground beef in 3 pound packages and I will…
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Presidents’ Day
Today we honor 45 men (as Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States) who have served as the leaders of our great country. My husband loves presidential history and trivia so we like to take this opportunity to talk to our kids and teach them as much as we can about our current and past presidents. We also pull out all the books the kids have in their library about presidents to read and we make a sweet family treat called Cherry Delight in honor of George Washington. Even though the whole cherry tree chop down was a myth, we still appreciate the story about…
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Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today is all about hearts and spreading love. I plan on making these pancakes for breakfast, dropping them onto the griddle with a spoon to make hearts. For lunch we usually enjoy this chicken noodle soup with heart shaped carrots or heart shaped sandwiches, and for dinner, we are going to order a heart shaped pizza. I wanted my kids to understand that the hearts inside their bodies actually look a bit different from the heart shaped confections and treats we will be enjoying today so I made a coloring sheet out of my doodle of an anatomically correct heart and turned it into a cut and…
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Lunar New Year
Today is the Lunar New Year also known as Tet which is the biggest holiday for Vietnamese people. It is like everyone’s birthday, Christmas, and the Fourth of July all rolled into one. Today is also celebrated by other Asian countries such as Korea, Tibet, and China. In Vietnam, it is celebrated for weeks. I am the first person in my family to be born in the United States. My parents (who met in ESL class in America), grandparents, aunts, uncles, and a few of my older cousins fled Vietnam when Saigon fell in April of 1975. My father was a paratrooper who had to leave his family behind and…
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100th Day of School
Last week, my kids celebrated their 100th day of school. Even though they usually love dressing up, my daughter (in kindergarten) and son (in second grade) refused to dress up as 100-year-olds or to even wear a shirt with 100 pasted things on it so… I made some printable photo props because kids love making silly faces for the camera as well as anything on a stick. This file is best printed out onto cardstock, cut, then taped to a wooden dowel, skewer, or chopstick. We used a mix of large craft sticks and chopsticks. Your child can enjoy posing with their gray hair, glasses, hearing aids, and dentures. Also…
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Super Bowl LV Printable Activities for Kids
Happy Sunday! Whether you are gearing up to root for Kansas City or Tampa Bay today or are just in it for the commercials and snacks…(that might be me), here are some printable activities I recently made to share with the kids so that they can join in the fun as well. This file includes five pages of coloring fun and while the game is playing, your child can get a little geography lesson focusing on the Chiefs’ and Buccaneers’ home states as well as learn their roman numerals 1-55. This file is best printed out onto cardstock, given to your child to cut out, color, and piece together with…
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Groundhog Day
I made a few printable activities to help the kids observe this fun superstitious day. They are all free to download below for personal, single classroom, or library use. There is a groundhog popsicle stick puppet printable that kids can cut out, dress for a longer winter or early spring, and use for shadow play as well some free coloring pages. This file is best printed out onto white cardstock and given to your child to cut out. This is what the pieces look like all cut. Kids can either use regular school glue or glue sticks to paste their puppets together. Then attach to popsicle sticks using some tape.…
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A Little Mermaid 6th Birthday
My daughter was born just a few weeks after Christmas. It has always been a challenge getting her birthday all ready and special for her. In the past, I got lucky using many Christmas decorations we already had up for her Frozen 4th, and even last year… using a lot of Christmas lights and lanterns for her Tangled 5th. But this year, little miss no nonsense wanted an Ariel birthday. I scoured what we already had… Christmas ornaments and ribbon, tissue paper, plastic tablecloths leftover from past parties, shells from our vacation at Siesta Key once upon a time, and this is what I came up with for her party…
