Activities for Children
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Fun Valentine’s Day Math Activities for Kids
Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to give your kids a fun and engaging math activity. There are a number of themed activities and math worksheets available through a quick Internet search. Here’s how you can use these resources to give the kids a math lesson that they’ll enjoy.
Tags: Indoor, Individual, Group, Educational and Enrichment, At Home, Valentine’s Day
Walk In the Woods — Scavenger Hunt Game Fundana
Take a walk in the woods with children using a scavenger hunt game printed on a large bandana! Playing this game is a great way to educate and engage kids about the wonderful world of forest life.
Tags: Outdoor, Individual, Group, Family, Educational and Enrichment, Environment and Nature, Green and Sustainable, Summer, Games and Puzzles, Spring, Fall
Six Fun and Easy Kid Math Activity Ideas
Math is a part of everyday life. We use math when go shopping, calculate distance when traveling, cook a yummy recipe, plant a garden, and play games. Kids can learn math concepts such as estimating, word problems, time and distance, measurement and basic addition and subtraction when playing games.
Tags: Individual, Group, Travel, Educational and Enrichment, At Home
Kid Reading Activity - Books and Puppets
A fun kid reading activity includes acting out your story as it is read. Puppets are a wonderful way for kids to learn to enjoy books and reading. Just about every story and book can be used with puppets.
Tags: Group, Family, Arts and Crafts, Educational and Enrichment, At Home, How-To
Two Kid Science Activities Using the Kitchen!
The kitchen makes a wonderful laboratory for a kid science activity! It contains water, heat, and refrigeration. Instruments such as glass jars, bowls, measuring utensils and other tools are readily available. Basic kitchen science experiments include making an acid or base indicator (dye) from red cabbage and creating electricity through a lemon.
Tags: Individual, Educational and Enrichment, At Home, How-To
Tips on Introducing a School Age Child to Art
As Pablo Picasso once said, every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. A school age art activity can help develop the child’s concentration, creative-thinking, artistic, organizational and manipulative skills.
Tags: Indoor, Individual, Arts and Crafts, Educational and Enrichment, At Home
Making Predictions are Fun During Reading Aloud with Kids
A special type of question are prediction questions that ask children to make an informed guess about what will happen next in a story. Prediction questions develop children’s logical thinking skills.
Tags: Individual, Group, Educational and Enrichment, At Home
Create a Story Book or Diary
For this you will need a drawing pad, notebook or you can create your own by stapling or sewing lots of sheets of paper together. Just tailor this kids craft idea to suit whatever materials are available to you.
Tags: Indoor, Individual, Arts and Crafts, Educational and Enrichment, At Home
Nature Hiking At Home With Your Child
Backyards, they are where individuals of all ages go to relax and have fun. While many people enjoy being in their backyards, they are not the only ones. In fact, when you are in your backyard, you are rarely ever alone. At any given time, your backyard is filled with amazing, living things. If you are the parent of a young child, you may want to use this opportunity to explore nature with them. Not only will it be a fun experience, but it will also be a learning experience.
Tags: Outdoor, Individual, Educational and Enrichment, At Home, Environment and Nature
Ten Fun Projects With Magnets
Summer, fall, winter or spring, if you have young children with time on their hands you need to have some activities planned. Every child benefits from fun that is also educational, and ten fun projects with magnets fill the bill nicely.
Tags: Indoor, Family, Educational and Enrichment, At Home, Special Interest
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