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Star Wars Day
Happy Star Wars Day! Our family loves Star Wars and we look forward to this annual celebration of the pun and all things Star Wars. My son’s class is also celebrating today and he is excited to get to dress up for school. I made a few printable activities to add to the fun. There is a Yoda and Vader suncatcher craft, printable banner, coloring page, and Star Wars math worksheet, all free to download below. This file is best printed out and used as a template to trace onto black cardstock. You will need to cut out the outline of the shape, then the middle, leaving a border of…
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Kentucky Derby Printable Activities for Kids
Here are a few easy and fun activities to help celebrate Derby Day! There is a paper Derby hat to color, cut, and create as well as a free coloring page. I also made some pool noodle horses for the kids to race with (see brief tutorial below). I hope it can be helpful to you in celebrating Derby Day in your home or classroom! This file is best printed out onto cardstock, given to your child to color, embellish as desired, cut, and pasted together to form a wearable and totally fashionable paper hat for Derby. One of the funnest things about Derby is seeing all the outrageous hats…
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Earth Day Printable Activities for Kids
Here are a few simple and fun activities to help kids observe Earth Day. There is a free coloring page, continents suncatcher craft, and felt board activity. Everything is free to download below. Hope these printables and ideas can also be useful for your home or classroom. My kindergartener always requests coloring sheets to pass out to her class so I made the above coloring page for them. The kids colored and we discussed how they propose we can help our planet. This year, in an effort to create less waste as a family, we moved to using cloth towels instead of paper towels. We talked about the importance of…
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Unicorn Printable Activities
My girls are nuts over unicorns. Even when my 18 month old says, “I want corn”, she means a unicorn. As today happens to be National Unicorn Day, I thought I would run with this day and create some themed learning fun. I made a free coloring page as well as a printable template for a unicorn craft that can also double as a playdough mat for early math. This file is best printed out and given to your child to color and decorate. You can use ribbons or thin strips of construction paper as unicorn hair. We have also used leftover Easter grass before. This activity is similar to…
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Easter
Are your kids getting excited for Easter? To say my kids are excited would be an understatement. They love waking up to see what the Easter bunny left in their baskets for them. After quickly eating their special breakfast (usually bunny shaped pancakes), they race around the house inside and out, hunting for plastic eggs filled with treats. I like to save all these plastic eggs for later use as they make great scoopers for sensory play and can be used in so many ways to help my kids with their math and literacy skills. We’ve written sight words on them for my kindergartener to find. We’ve filled them with…
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April Fools’ Day
They say laughter is the best medicine and it is so true. Studies have shown that laughter has many benefits including increasing endorphins (chemicals released by your brain that help you to feel good, be less stressed, and feel less pain). Laughter helps your immune system to perform better fighting off infection and may even help you live longer. Having a good sense of humor has also been linked to greater confidence, optimism, and happiness in kids. Those are all great reasons why we should celebrate and observe this silly day. This occasion is also a great opportunity to discuss with kids the difference between creating jokes, making people laugh…
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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…
