Groundhog Day is the perfect time to let students make predictions, explain their thinking, and create something they’re excited to share. These Groundhog Day crafts and prediction writing activities are hands-on, low prep, and classroom-tested, making them easy to use with young learners. Inside this post, I’m sharing two favorite crafts — a paper plate groundhog burrow and a shapes craft — that pair creativity with meaningful writing and make adorable classroom displays.
Valentine’s Day can be a busy week, so having simple, meaningful math activities ready makes a big difference. These Valentine’s Day color by code math pages help kindergarten and first grade students practice key skills while making differentiation easy and prep time minimal. Bonus candy heart math centers add hands-on learning students enjoy.
Teaching young students how to use scissors and glue takes time and lots of practice—even halfway through the school year. In this post, I’m sharing simple tips for continuing to build scissor and glue skills in the winter months, plus easy winter cutting activities that give practice with straight, wavy, and curved lines. Instead of cutting random paper scraps, students create meaningful winter crafts like snowflakes, snowmen, and Christmas trees they’ll be proud to show off.
October is the perfect time to bring pumpkins into your math block! In this post, I’ll share easy, engaging pumpkin math crafts and centers that help students practice counting, comparing numbers, and even simple addition—all while building fine motor skills. These activities are flexible, differentiated, and a fun way to bring fall excitement into your classroom.
Looking for a fun way to bring math and apple crafts together this fall? These apple worm math crafts and centers are hands-on, easy to prep, and packed with skills. Students will love creating cereal worms to practice counting, patterns, and fine motor skills—and you’ll love how simple they are to set up for Apple Week or Johnny Appleseed Day.
Cutting practice doesn’t have to mean worksheets full of lines. In this post, you’ll find simple tips for teaching scissor and glue skills, plus a fun “Scissor Salad” activity where students cut out fruit or vegetable shapes to build their own salad. It’s a playful way to practice fine motor skills with real shapes that prepare children for future crafts and classroom projects.
Teaching young students how to use scissors can be a challenge, especially at the start of the school year. In this post, I’m sharing simple tips for teaching scissor skills and glue skills that set students up for success, plus easy fall cutting activities that give practice with straight, wavy, and curved lines. Instead of cutting random strips of paper, children create meaningful fall crafts they can be proud of.
This craft and writing combo gives your students the chance to share what they’re looking forward to this summer or what they’ve enjoyed if you’re doing it at the beginning of the school year or wrapping up summer school. Best of all, it’s simple enough for little learners to complete with just a few materials.
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 how decodable sentence scramble activities can boost beginning reading and writing skills in kindergarten and first grade. Learn the benefits of hands-on literacy practice, from improving grammar and fluency to building vocabulary, with engaging, fun activities that support young learners’ success!