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Ice Cream Sundae: Monkey’s Rainforest Favorites

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Ice Cream Sundae Monkey's Rainforest Favorites

The Olympics being hosted in Brazil this year has lead to my creating a number of crafts and learning activities with a rainforest them. While creating the Rainforest Animals Puzzle Craft, I came across recipe for rainforest cookies. It featured coconut, bananas, chocolate, cashews , and cinnamon Looking over that recipe gave me a idea. I could use Continue Reading

Olympic Torch Craft Ideas for Kids

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Olympic Torch Craft Ideas for Kids

I know you have enjoyed the Olympic torch painting craft I created and the torch we created for the Olympic torch static electricity activity. I want to share with you a variety of other Olympic torch craft ideas I found while searching on Pinterest for craft ideas to add to my Crafts for Kids board. I think you are really going love them. I Continue Reading

Shadow Games – Building Block Numbers

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Shadow Games - Building Block Numbers

This post contains affiliate links. We bought JDaniel a set of building blocks when he was really little. I built towers that he knocked down at first. Then he created elaborate towers and waterways with them. The blocks have been sitting on a shelf in his room for awhile. In the past year we have used them for math activities like creating Continue Reading

Static Electricity Olympic Flame Experiment

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Static Electricity Olympic Flame Experiment

    We just love doing science experiments.  This summer we have made a water wheel, ocean waves in a bottle, and a shot put catapult. A few years ago we did a static electricity experiment that used tissue paper and a balloon to make a butterflies wings flap.  With the Olympics coming up later this summer I thought it would be Continue Reading

Easy Painting Ideas- Gold Medal Printmaking

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Easy Painting Ideas- Gold Medal Printmaking

Links below are affiliate links. I have shared over 17 Olympic themed activities with you over the past few years including a shot put catapult and a printable Olympic passport. (You find all of my Olympic activities and wonderful ideas from others on my Olympics Related Ideas board on Pinterest.) We just love the Olympics at my house. Today I Continue Reading

Water Experiment with Milk Jug Water Wheel

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Water Experiment with Milk Jug Water Wheel

Sometimes you do a water experiment like making water flow high and low, controlling water flow, making waves and making LEGO man float that are done in just one way. This water experiment was done a number ways and in two different locations. We kept coming up new ways to make the water wheel spin.  Actually JDaniel kept coming up with new ways to Continue Reading

Shark Games for Kids – File Folder Fish Hockey

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Shark Games for Kids- Fish Hockey- Great for Shark Week or a part of an ocean unit.

  Shark games for kids are fun to play during Shark Week, as part of an ocean unit or just for fun! I made a shark game space that can be used for playing two different versions of fish hockey. Before playing our shark games for kids, you may want to create our pool noodle shark or make a Safari Ltd Coral Reef TOOBas our fish pucks. Let me Continue Reading

STEM Activities – Making a Balloon Boat Move

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STEM Activities Making a Balloon Boat Move

  It’s a balloon! It’s a boat! It is STEM activities that look at balloons moving boats! Well, I guess I should say the balloon help the boat move. This summer I have shared with you a number STEM activities and science experiments with water. There was the LEGO man sink and float experiment and the learning how to make a wave. This Continue Reading

STEM Fun- Making Waves in a Plastic Bottle

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STEM Experiment- Making Waves in a Plastic Water Bottle

We are having the best time creating STEM experiments in plastic bottles. Earlier this summer we made a LEGO man sink and float and an Olympic shot put catapult. Making waves in a plastic is third plastic bottle science post! Kids can create the making waves bottle and make observations about what happens when waves form. (It is so cool!) This Continue Reading

Gravity for Kids Experiment – Effects of Speed

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Gravity for Kids Experiment- Effects of Speed

This gravity for kids experiment is so much fun! My son keeps taking it out to explore over and over again.  I bet your kids will want to do this gravity for kids themselves and watch other kids do it. I think it may have something to with the spinning eraser and the blurry image that is created while conducting the experiment. My son loved our Continue Reading

Red Eyed Tree Frog Rainforest Paper Plate Mask

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Red Eyed Tree Frog Mask

The red eyed tree frog is one of the coolest rain forest creatures. It bulging red eyes makes it look like it can take in the world.Last summer I shared with you anteater and morph butterfly crafts. They were part of a week long series on hosting a rain forest summer camp. Today's red eyed tree frog paper plate mask and last Wednesday's jaguar Continue Reading

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