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25 Snow Day Activities for Adults
101 activities to help you survive a snow day with kids. Activities, crafts, free printables, outside games, recipes and more!
Too cold to go outside? Are you stuck inside this winter? Challenge your kids with these simple, low-prep STEAM activities for kids. STEAM is the combination of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Integrating STEAM based play is an easy and innovative way to enrich your child’s learning. You do not need a lot of […]

S-Snowy Day

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Ways to Grow Wings with the Power of Words
Words and Your Heart is a simple but beautiful read aloud that explains how words have the power to heal and the power to hurt. This is one of my favorite books for teaching connections, theme, and onomatopoeia. I’m sharing five activities that you can use in your classroom to help students understand that their words can inspire others but can also hurt others if they aren’t careful. Click the pin to learn more and to find out how you can get a free guide for using this book in your classroom!
Ever wondered how to make vocabulary lessons more exciting for your students? Our blog post shares fun and engaging board games perfect for teaching vocabulary to upper elementary students. Say goodbye to yawns and hello to enthusiastic learning with these game-based strategies. Discover how to transform vocabulary practice into an exciting part of the day. Read the post and save this pin for creative vocabulary teaching ideas!

P-Power of Words Day

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F-Flight

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Make Makey: Make everyday objects do amazing things.:

M-Music and Movement Day

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5 DIY Kites Kids Will Love To Fly. Learn how to make 5 fun kites.
Coding can be cool, and is becoming more and more accessible, especially for younger people.  Check out these ideas on how to teach kids to code.  You’ll be amazed at the number of free coding resources to help get started. Click to find more coding resources, kids activities, STEM challenges, STEAM projects and science experiments at STEMtropolis.com

K-Kid Coders

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Looking for a fun way to keep your kids entertained? Why not print out this free Dinosaur Museum Kit for pretend play! This printable comes with everything you need to set up your very own museum, including labels for each exhibit, signs, and more. Pretend play is a great way to engage your children. Your... The post A Fun Free Printable Dinosaur Museum for Pretend Play: Kids Will Love It! appeared first on A Storybook Day.
Take learning outside of the classroom with a free dinosaur scavenger hunt. This dinosaur activity for preschool and kindergarten gets kids moving throughout the school as they learn a little bit about dinosaurs.

J-Jurassic Explorers

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Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit.  Lets begin our entrepreneurial careers today!    Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.    Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience: 	Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled. 	Construct a prototype o
Looking for a creative twist to the normal "invention convention" or "science fair"? Do you want a cross-curricular project that incorporates science, language arts (especially persuasive writing), social studies, critical thinking, and math? Then you've found what you are looking for!
This activity is a super fun, real life project that can be used as a multi-day lesson. Students make up a business or product they want to present. The pdf contains 5 pages that ask about the Business Idea, Marketing, Employees, Competition, and Finance. Once they have completed the packet, they will present their idea to the "Sharks". There is a final evaluation page that will be used by the teacher to calculate the final grade. My students LOVED this activity and were engaged from start to fi

I-Invention Day

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spring minute to win it
Kids will have so much fun making and playing with these glow in the dark crafts. Add these crafts and activities to your Summer Fun list!

G-Game Show Day

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Have students create and design their own superhero! They can also name their hero and describe their superpowers, attributes and what makes their hero special. Download includes 2 worksheets (male and female templates) Great as an early-finisher activity or sub assignment.

H-Heroes

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N-Neighborhood Give Back

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Olympic themed minute to win it party games for kids; easy; fun; funny; list; summer; winter
Neighborhood Olympics for Kids 2
5 Olympics activities for kids that are easy to do at home. Kids will connect and learn with these STEM activities while learning about the Olympics!

O-Olympics

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This collection of 15 brain games are perfect for kids in upper elementary and middle school classrooms. This games make kids think and plan in new and creative ways. Each game is low-prep and easy to implement. Check out this set of 15 kid-approved brain games perfect for the classroom!
Critical Thinking Games - Your Therapy Source

Q-Quick Thinking

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Simple Homemade Robot Car - ResearchParent.com

R-Robotics

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End Of The Year Activities - Host A Talent Show! - Firstieland

T-Talent Show

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Create a model of Ocean Zones - layers of the ocean - using a jar and several household ingredients! Perfect ocean activity for an under the sea unit. #oceantheme #oceanactivites
Dive into our collection of 'Under the Sea' activities for kids! Discover a world of creativity and learning with crafts, games, and experiments that transport your little ones beneath the ocean waves. #UnderTheSea #OceanActivities #MarineLife #SeaCreatures #OceanCrafts

U-Under the Sea Day

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Paper stingray craft for kids. a fun under the sea animal craft idea for preschoolers! #oceancrafts
My most popular post is the “Mini Guide to Hosting the Ultimate 1950s Themed Party” and on this post I have a section about Party games for 50s parties, however I don’t really go into too much detail . Today that will all change!Now some of these party games can be adapted for kids parties or adults parties, just depends on how silly you want to go. I personally like to go silly. Pin the tail on the donkey! Count me in! Spoons like the ladies below..lets do it!

V-Vintage Day

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Make a tornado in a bottle! Learn how tornadoes form with this simple sensory STEM activity for kids. A perfect STEM experiment for toddlers, for preschool, for kindergarten, and up! Plus get more weather science activities to keep your kids busy at home. #homeschool #weatherscience #preschoolactivities #preschoolscience #learningactivity #STEMactivities Team-Cartwright.com

W-Weather Watchers Day

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So, you're having a career fair at your school? You know the presenters will be be engaged, but how do you keep your visitors invested? This career passport is the perfect solution!   Visitors can visit various career booths for information and then determine whether or not it's a good fit for them, placing a sticker in the appropriate column. My students were required to visit at least 10 booths in a 40 minute period.  The back page includes a reflection, which can be used as an exit ticket.
The Career Day Conversation Card is the perfect complement to a career fair or career exploration activity in the high school setting. High school students can carry around this card of example questions to ask representatives at a career day about their educational experiences and soft skills to meet their future career goals. This PDF with "education" and "soft skills" questions is not editable. It comes with a sheet that can be cut in half to make two cards.A digital, Google Slides format has

C-Career Fair

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Fourteen Food Science Projects | Science Buddies Blog
Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids - 50 Awesome Experiments
Have fun in the kitchen with these cool kitchen science experiments for kids. Think magic milk, walking water, oobleck, food science, and more!

Y-Yummy Science

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A-Astronomy

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Use my free template and instructions to make this simple art robot together with kids. It spins a paper disc to help kids make awesome spiral art! 🌀 😍 This is a simple STEM activity and all you need is a solar motor, two button cells, and some conductive tape! #STEM #Robotics
TUTORIAL: MAKE GLOW SAND FOR ARTS, CRAFTS, & PLAY (this is SO COOL!)
Terrific Absolutely Free Ceramics design flower Thoughts #Absolutely #Ceramics #design #flower #Free #Terrific #Thoughts

X-Xtreme Art

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Origami Crown- Easy Paper Craft For Kids.  Simple Japanese paper folding, suitable for kindergarteners or early elementary.  Great for fine motor development!
How to Make a Paper Party Hat | Easy DIY Party Hat Tutorial
Party Hat

B-Birthday

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D-Disney

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L-Lego

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Building a conductive dough circuit will not only ignite your child's imagination but also help them grasp fundamental concepts of electricity and circuits. You only need a few supplies to build a simple circuit today, so grab them and let's get going!

E-Experiments

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