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Colouring for Adults
It’s never too late to start integrating mindfulness into your everyday routine. It’s a great way to reduce stress and anxiety and enjoy your life more by staying present in the moment. One of the most popular ways to practice mindfulness over the last few years has been colouring in.
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Learning Resources: Super Sorting Pie
One of our favourite incredibly versatile educational toys is this Super Sorting Pie. It is incredibly cute and can be used in a variety of ways to help kids build sorting skills, counting skills, math skills, and fine motor skills.
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Play-Doh Inspiration
We all have fond memories of playing with playdough as kids. If you gave me some now, I’d probably still have fun making things and even just squishing it between my fingers. Playdough allows your imagination to run free.
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Fun with Glue
Glue is a staple of every craft supply collection. It is used in just about every project under the sun. To say thanks for its many years of faithful service, we thought we’d share some project where glue is the star.
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Fidget Toys
The fidget spinner craze is dying down which makes it an excellent time to take a step back and assess the place of fidget toys in your classroom. At the height of the craze, many teachers banned the spinners, and we can all admit they could be distracting, but for some students, there are genuine advantages to using a fidget in class.
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Craft Ideas! Newspaper Piggy Bank
Learning how to write a simple story is an essential skill that children will use throughout their school years. Story writing is one of the most common ways that we teach children to stretch their imagination.
read moreHow to Write a Simple Narrative
Learning how to write a simple story is an essential skill that children will use throughout their school years. Story writing is one of the most common ways that we teach children to stretch their imagination.
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Educational Craft Activities
Kids love to craft, and there is proven value to including craft in the learning process. But with so much to cover it can be a good idea to integrate other educational elements into craft time.
read moreShould We Have Ability-Based Maths Groups?
Maths is a complex subject to teach. It is made even more difficult by the spread of ability levels in classrooms. Some studies suggest that in most primary classrooms there can be up to a seven grade spread in ability levels. So what do you do?
read moreEasy Games to Help Reinforce Multiplication
Group your students in a circle and ask them to count by multiples. For example, you might ask them to count to 50 in multiples of 3. You can adjust the complexity of this game by picking larger numbers to count by or asking students to count backwards.
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