Planet Earth: Clay Craft for Earth Day & Earth Study

Planet Earth: Clay Craft for Earth Day & Earth Study

Celebrate Earth Day with kids by making this Earth craft from air-dry clay! I always get excited about trying new art and craft supplies! Our latest discovery was in the sculpting department and, after a few tries, turned out to be my favourite air-dry clay to use...
Famous Women in History: Printable Paper Dolls

Famous Women in History: Printable Paper Dolls

Famous Women in History Dress-Up Dolls feature printable costumes of twenty women who have changed the world. Print, cut, and learn about twenty inspiring heroines. One of the many reasons I like using paper dolls for teaching is because they make it easy for kids to...
20 Famous Women Colouring Pages

20 Famous Women Colouring Pages

Print these free famous women colouring pages and posters and learn about women’s history! Throughout history and across the globe, whenever women wanted to do something daring, they always had to face two kinds of challenges. One challenge was naturally...
Famous Women in History: Guess Who Game for Kids

Famous Women in History: Guess Who Game for Kids

Using this educational game, dedicated to famous women in history for kids, you will learn about twenty amazing heroines who changed the world. Includes Marie Curie, Frida Kahlo, Florence Nightingale, Rosa Parks, and many more!   Do you know who wrote the first...
School Uniforms Around the World: Printable Dress-Up Paper Dolls

School Uniforms Around the World: Printable Dress-Up Paper Dolls

Explore cultural diversity with kids by getting our printable paper dolls ready for school and dressing them up in a variety of school uniforms around the world! It is always fascinating to learn what is different about life in other parts of the world. Ever since I...
Map Study Watercolour Painting with Children

Map Study Watercolour Painting with Children

Are you doing a map unit study with kids this year? Make your own map with different types of landscapes, using a simple watercolour technique! I love maps. Actually, everyone in our family does. If there is a map in a book, it automatically gets a bonus point from...
Countries & Capitals of the World: Memory Matching Game

Countries & Capitals of the World: Memory Matching Game

Countries & Capitals of the World is a printable memory game designed to help children and adults with learning the countries of the world, their capitals and their flags.  Every country in the world has a flag as a symbol of their nation, and every country also...
How to Make a Castle from Cardboard

How to Make a Castle from Cardboard

Learn how to make a castle from cardboard, paper rolls and other recyclables!  Chances are, you have a lot of packing tubes, paper towel and wrapping paper rolls, potato chip or nut containers in your recycling bin. We sure did. At least, until we decided to make...
Printable Board Game for Kids to Learn about Emotions

Printable Board Game for Kids to Learn about Emotions

EMOTIONS is a fun printable board game for kids and adults to play together! Players will be challenged to act, discuss and imagine, while learning all about emotions and each other. Now that my kids are of the board game playing age, and we have begun our collection...
Emotion Paper Dolls for Teaching Kids about Emotions: Boy Edition

Emotion Paper Dolls for Teaching Kids about Emotions: Boy Edition

Make a printable dress-up paper doll that will teach children about emotions and the way they’re expressed through body language. Instead of costumes, this paper doll changes faces.  This version features a boy doll, specially designed for boys, who would look...
Flags of the World Bingo: Printable Game for Kids

Flags of the World Bingo: Printable Game for Kids

Flag Bingo is a printable educational game that challenges children to learn and identify the flags of the world. Featuring the flags of 120 countries and with several ways to play, Flag Bingo is a fun supplement to teaching geography in preschool, kindergarten and...
Moon Chinese Legend Shadow Puppet Show for the Mid-Autumn Festival

Moon Chinese Legend Shadow Puppet Show for the Mid-Autumn Festival

Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival by staging a shadow puppet show based on the Chinese Moon legend that explains the origins and traditions of the festival. Falling on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival happens in...
Canadian Dress-Up Paper Doll with a Printable Template

Canadian Dress-Up Paper Doll with a Printable Template

Get an introduction to Canada for kids with these printable dress-up dolls! Four Canadian costumes include Anne of Green Gables, a hockey player, an Inuk and a Mountie. Since realizing that this year celebrates the 150th anniversary of Canada, I wanted to do something...
DIY Peg Doll Kings, Queens and Knights

DIY Peg Doll Kings, Queens and Knights

When our latest project, a cardboard castle, was nearing completion, we realized that we didn’t have anyone to settle it. That would never do, so out came the wooden peg dolls, paints and felt. In no time, we had wooden peg doll knights, kings and queens in the...
Recycling Sorting Game

Recycling Sorting Game

This recycling sorting game for kids is a fun way to introduce them to the basics of re-purposing waste. It is great either as an Earth day activity or to get them acquainted with the recycling program in your neighbourhood! Also check our new Recycling Games...