Find fun lessons and ideas to captivate & motivate your young learners!
Find fun lessons and ideas to captivate & motivate your young learners!
Find fun lessons and ideas to captivate & motivate your young learners!
Teaching the true meaning of Easter is so important, especially with young children. In this post, I’m sharing five meaningful Christian Easter crafts that help students understand the Easter story in a hands-on, age-appropriate way. These art projects combine faith and creativity and are perfect for classrooms, Sunday school, Christian schools, or homeschool.
Here is a simple, fun way to practice number bonds in your math groups – use dominoes! Not only do students love using the dominoes, but they also get practice with subitizing, counting, and addition as well as number bonds.
Engage young learners in meaningful Earth Day activities with hands-on science experiments, crafts, and interactive lessons that teach the importance of caring for our planet. From water and air pollution experiments to solar oven s’mores and Earth Day crafts with writing prompts, this post is packed with engaging, easy-to-implement ideas. Create a stunning bulletin board, sing an Earth Day song, and inspire students to make a difference. Perfect for classrooms looking to celebrate Earth Day!
Make Easter math fun with these engaging jelly bean math activities! Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, these hands-on Easter math craftivity activities help students practice counting, comparing numbers, addition, and graphing in a playful way. Students decorate Easter eggs with jelly beans and complete fun math activities!
Discover fun and engaging Easter science experiments and STEM challenges that make learning hands-on! From egg stacking and rocket races to floating Peeps boats and sink-or-float experiments, these activities build problem-solving and critical thinking skills while celebrating the Easter season. Perfect for classrooms and home learning, this post includes step-by-step instructions, print and digital recording options, and creative ways to integrate STEM into your Easter lessons.
Digraphs are two letters that make a third letter sound when combined, for example sh and th. The digraph sound is different than the individual
Young learners need to move—but that doesn’t mean losing instructional time! In this post, I’m sharing how I combine brain breaks with purposeful, standards-based learning activities to build focus, boost retention, and make lessons more fun.
Spring is the perfect time to spark curiosity and hands-on learning with plant science experiments! In this post, I’m sharing engaging activities and classroom-tested investigations that help young students explore how plants grow—from testing which liquids work best for seeds, to watching bean sprouts take off in sunny windows, and discovering how water travels through a plant’s stem. These simple, meaningful experiments encourage observation, patience, and wonder—all while teaching important science concepts in ways little learners can understand.
Make the Easter story come to life with engaging Resurrection Eggs activities! This post includes a fun around-the-room Resurrection Egg hunt, a printable student-made book, and a cut-and-paste activity to help children review and retell the story of Jesus’ resurrection. These hands-on, interactive activities keep students engaged while reinforcing the meaning behind each egg. Perfect for Christian classrooms, Sunday school, or homeschool Easter lessons!
Keep young learners engaged this spring with fun, hands-on rainbow math activities! From counting with colorful cereal to addition craftivities and interactive math games, these engaging ideas are perfect for kindergarten and first-grade classrooms. Explore creative ways to reinforce number sense, sorting, and addition while bringing vibrant spring energy to your math centers!
The Colors of Easter Jelly Bean Poem is one of my favorite ways to help young students understand the Easter story. In this post I’m sharing several meaningful activities we use in the classroom including a student-made book, an around-the-room activity, a simple art project, and a classroom display. These hands-on activities help children connect the colors of the jelly beans to the story of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection in a way they will remember.
Find three simple water cycle experiments and a fun water cycle wheel craftivity! These activities use common household items and help students visually understand evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. Learn how to make a water cycle wheel and engage students in hands-on science.