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36 Indoor Toddler Activities for Bad Weather Days | Perfect for rainy days and snowy weather, these activities offer the perfect way for kids aged 18 months to 2 years old (and beyond!) to burn off energy when cooped up inside. These at home ideas are fun, easy to setup, and double as great ideas for preschool and daycare. They make for awesome birthday party activities for kids, too! #toddleractivities #indoortoddleractivities

Fun at Home: 36 Easy Indoor Toddler Activities for Bad Weather Days

$Teaching Fractions to Kids | Learning about numerators and denominators is a pretty abstract concept, and can be confusing and frustrating to children. If you want to know how to teach fractions to kids in first, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and/or 5th grade, there are tons of manipulatives and visuals available to help, and we’re excited to share 20 fractions games and fractions activities to keep kids engaged and learning! #teachingfractions #fractiongames #fractionactivities$

Teaching Fractions to Kids: 20 Math Games and Activities that Work

25 Energizing Brain Breaks for Kids | Engaging your students in regular brain breaks in the classroom can help improve attention, focus, retention, self-regulation, and more! We’re excited to share our favorite quick and easy movement ideas to help kids shed excess energy, and have included ideas for children in preschool and kindergarten, elementary school, and middle school. These activities are fun, calming, and perfect for indoor recess days! #brainbreaks #brainbreaksforkids #sensorybreaks

Focus and Control: 25 Energizing Brain Breaks for Kids

11 Problem Solving Activities for Kids | If you want to help build your child’s social, critical thinking, conflict resolution, and anger management skills, these fun and effective ideas are for you! We’ve included worksheets, team building activities, task cards, and other creative challenges for small groups that can be used at home with parents or as a team in the classroom. #problemsolvingactivities #conflictresolution #selfregulation

Critical Thinking: 11 Problem Solving Activities for Kids

38 Summer Activities for Kids | Looking for ideas to keep your kids busy at home this summer that are fun and educational? Whether you have toddlers, kids in preschool or kindergarten, or older kids, there are tons of things to do that are inexpensive and easy to setup. Check out our favorite indoor and outdoor summer activities, as well as summer group games for kids and summer science experiments designed for the mad scientists in your life! #summeractivities #summercrafts #summergames

Boredom Busters! The Ultimate List of 38 Summer Activities for Kids

16 Summer Water Activities for Kids | If you’re looking for fun and creative ways to keep your kids cool and entertained outside this summer, these ideas are for you! From a DIY sprinkler and pool noodle waterfall, to outdoor games like water balloon pinatas and fill the bucket, these summer activities will be turning backyards into awesome summer retreats for kids everywhere on hot summer days! #wateractivities #summeractivities #outdooractivities #summerfun

Get Outside! 16 No Fuss Summer Water Activities for Kids

17 Button Crafts for Kids | Perfect for children of all ages – from toddlers to school-aged kids – this collection of easy DIY art projects is sure to keep your little ones busy. With so many ideas to choose from, like jewelry, magnets, keychains, frames, and bowls you can display with pride around your home, these creative ideas make the perfect gifts kids can make. They also make fun activities you can enjoy in the classroom! #buttoncraftsforkids #buttonactivities #kidscrafts

Fun at Home: 17 Fun and Easy Button Crafts for Kids We Love

16 Pool Noodle Crafts for Kids | If you’re looking for easy DIY projects to do with your kids on bad weather days, need creative classroom crafts you can enjoy year-round, want awesome outdoor activities for summer vacation, or need birthday party game ideas, this post has it all! With 16 games, activities, and crafts to choose from, you’ll never hear the words ‘I’m bored’ again! #poolnoodlecrafts #kidscrafts #poolnoodlefun

Crafting on a Budget: 16 Pool Noodle Crafts for Kids

22 STEM Toys for Kids | If DIY projects aren’t your thing, but you want to find a way to incorporate STEAM learning into the kids activities you and your children do at home, this collection of ideas will inspire you! With ideas for toddlers, kids in preschool, kindergarteners, and for elementary aged kids (ages 6-12), we’ve curated 22 of the best STEM toys for girls and boys! Science, engineering, math, and technology has never been easier – or more fun! #stemtoys #stemactivities #stemprojects

Learning Made Fun: 22 STEM Toys for Kids of All Ages

24 Family Activities for Kids of All Ages | Looking for fun ways to spend quality time with your kids at home? Whether you need ideas for toddlers, kids in preschool, kindergarten, elementary-aged kids, tweens, or teenagers, we’ve got you covered. These boredom busters are perfect for weekends and school holidays, and will keep your family entertained and off their electronics in the summer, fall, winter, and spring! #familyactivities #boredombusters #familygames #familygamenight

Things To Do At Home: 24 Family Activities for All Ages

29 Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Kids | If you’re looking for easy kids activities for an upcoming birthday party, or to enjoy during summer vacation, on lazy weekends at home in the backyard, or while camping, at the park, or at the beach, this collection of scavenger hunt ideas with clues is sure to inspire you! With a selection of both indoor and outdoor ideas to choose from, you can enjoy these during fall, winter, spring, or summer! #scavengerhunt #indooractivities #outdooractivities

29 Indoor and Outdoor Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Kids

32 Felt Projects for Kids | If you’re looking for crafts and activities you can enjoy with your children on bad weather days, we’ve curated 32 ideas to inspire you! We’ve included easy no sew ideas for toddlers and preschoolers, simple sewing projects for beginners, and more advanced DIY ideas for older kids to make. With free patterns and printable templates, you’ll be amazed what you can create with some felt, glue, thread, and a needle! #feltprojects #feltcrafts #nosew #kidssewingprojects

Crafting at Home: 32 Super Fun Felt Projects for Kids

11 Working Memory Games for Kids | Looking for inexpensive (and free!) working memory activities for children with developmental delays like ADHD, executive functioning disorder, and autism, as well as students with learning disabilities like ADHD? With 7 strategies and 11 activities designed to develop a child’s memory, planning, and organization skills, this collection of fun ideas will help make learning fun at home and in the classroom! #workingmemory #workingmemorygames #specialeducation

Don’t forget! 18 working memory games and strategies for kids

11 Scooter Board Activities | Looking for fun occupational therapy ideas to do at home or in the classroom to develop a child’s gross motor skills, improve focus for greater learning, reduce stress and anxiety, and help with self-regulation? From awesome ideas children can do independently, to obstacle course inspiration for teachers and therapists who have access to a gym, these heavy work activities for kids are so much fun! #scooterboard #grossmotor #grossmotoractivities

Gross Motor Play: 11 Super Fun Scooter Board Activities for Kids

14 Team Building Activities for Kids | Looking easy and fun ways to teach team work, inclusion, social skills, communication, and problem solving in the classroom? These cooperative games and activities will inspire you! We’ve included indoor and outdoor ideas, ‘getting to know you’ icebreakers for the first day of school, and activities you can enjoy with your students all year long to encourage ongoing collaboration and team work. #teambuilding #teacherresources #teaching #classroom

14 Fun and Engaging Team Building Activities for Kids

13 Indoor Recess Activities for Kids | If you’re looking for fun classroom ideas to get your kids moving on snowy and rainy days, these brain break ideas will inspire you! Perfect for kids in preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, and middle school, we’ve included a mix of gross motor activities, learning stations ideas, team building games, and other classroom games and movement activities to keep your students engaged and help them blow off steam. #indoorrecess #brainbreaks

Rain rain go away! 13 indoor recess activities for kids

31 Jewelry Crafts for Kids | If you’re looking for simple jewelry project ideas for children, this collection has it all, including how to make friendship bracelets, washer necklace crafts, and other fun DIY jewelry projects mom and dad can do with their little ones, like salt dough and polymer clay necklaces. #jewelrycraftsforkids #jewelryprojectsofrkids #DIYjewelryforkids

Jewelry Crafts for Kids: 31 DIY Jewelry Projects to Try at Home

13 Balance Activities for Kids | If you’re looking for ways to develop your child’s gross motor skills at home, in the classroom, in occupational therapy, and beyond, this collection of fun games and activities are just what you need. Perfect for parents, teachers, and therapists, these core strengthening ideas will help build your child’s static and dynamic balance, while also helping with bilateral coordination. #balanceactivities #coordinationactivities #grossmotoractivities

Gross Motor Skills: 13 Core Strengthening Balance Activities for Kids

Language Arts Games & Activities for Kids | A collection of 37 fun ways to teach language & literature to kids in kindergarten, elementary, & middle school! The ideas are perfect for independent work & literacy centers, as well as for kids working in small groups. Includes letters, beginning sounds, guided reading, grammar, parts of speech, sentence building, spelling, vocabulary, word work, writing prompts, & more! #languagearts #literacy #literacycenters #grammar #partsofspeech

Language and Literature: 37 Language Arts Games for Kids

26 Dollar Store Crafts for Kids | Buttons, popsicle sticks, pony beads, drinking straws, and pool noodles, oh my! If you’re looking for EASY crafts to do with your kids at home, these dollar store activities are for you! Whether you’re the parent of busy toddlers with short attention spans, or older children who can sit still longer, these fun projects will inspire you. Perfect for cold winter weekends, hot summer vacations, and everything in between! #dollarstorecrafts #kidscrafts #easycrafts

Crafting on a budget: 26 super fun dollar store crafts for kids

18 Spelling Activities and Games | Learning spelling has never been easier – or more fun! – than with this collection of teaching strategies, activities, and games. With ideas for first grade (and 2nd and 3rd), for middle school, and for upper elementary, these hands-on activities for kids can be used with any spelling list for meaningful learning that lasts. #teachingspelling #spellingactivities #spellinggames

Learning Made Fun: 18 Spelling Activities for Every Age and Stage