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Coloring Halloween Candy Numbers with an Algorithm

October 18, 2023 By Deirdre

This set of coloring pages invites children to color Halloween numbers with an algorithm or set of directions. There are Blockly blocks that display each of the directions on the coloring pages . Children will use Blockly blocks when they code on Code.org and many other coding programs. The Hallowen numbers with an algorithm pages help children visualize how online blocks will be arranged to complete a task.

Getting the Halloween Candy Numbers with an Algorithm Pages

First, you will need to download the set.

Halloween Candy Numbers with an Algorithm Pages Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, you will need to go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open right after you download it. If you are, you won’t have to hunt for it in your download file.

Finally, when you open the calendar you will find hyperlinked activities. When you click on them, you will be taken to each of the activity’s locations on the web.

Understanding the Directions on the Coloring Page

If you are having a non-reader work on the pages, you may want to help them highlight the number they need to color for each step.

Building Background

You many want to explore a Halloween candy themed counting or number book before starting this activity. Below you will find some wonderful ghostly number books.

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Harriets’s Halloween Candy focuses on whether you should share your Halloween candy or not.

Trick or Treat by Bill Martin Jr. shares a story about a boy whose candy changes as he is trick or treating.

More Halloween Activities for Kids

Halloween STEM Challenge Mats

Halloween Words on Algorithm Game Boards

Ghostly Cup Stacking STEM Challenge

Code and Color Polar Animals

January 19, 2023 By Deirdre

Children will have fun as they color polar animals. There are two types of pages available. The first set displays the color that your children will need to color each section. The second set leaves the color the sections will need to be colored up to your children. If you are worried they will need guidance with colors, you could just put out the colors you want them to use.

Getting Ready to Use the Code By Color Polar Animal Pages

Downloading the Coloring Pages

First, you will need to download the set.

Color By Code Polar Animal Coloring Pages Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, you must go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open right after downloading it. You won’t have to hunt for it in your download file if you are.

Building Background

If your children don’t know a lot about polar animals, you may want to read a book or do an activity that features them before you start these pages.

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This book is part of a series that explores animals that live in various habitats around the world.

Children will learn about the animals that live in the arctic as they put together this polar bear-shaped puzzle.

This cool set of Magna-Tiles features characters from the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You See?

Exploring the Color By Code Monster Pages

If you are having a non-reader work on the color-by-code polar animal pages, you may want to help them highlight what they need to do. First, you can have them underline the number they are focusing on for each step. Next, children will need to place a line that matches the color mentioned in that step over or under that number.

Some children will be fine with just highlighting the directions. However, there will be some that need to draw a dot near the number in each section that matches the assigned color. They can go back later and color in the whole section.

Thanksgiving Table Coloring Page for Kids

November 7, 2022 By Deirdre

This Thanksgiving table coloring page invites children to color the elements on the table and add them to the picture. It will be fun to see what their tables look like when they are done.

Decorating the Table Legs and Chairs

Some children may decide to add simple legs and chairs with straight lines. However, others will add ornate legs and fancy chairs. Still, others will try to duplicate the table and chairs that they use when they are celebrating Thanksgiving.

You could show children pictures of various tables and chairs. The pictures may inspire children to add more details to their pictures.

Adding Food to the Thanksgiving Table Coloring Page

The Thanksgiving table coloring page invites children to add a turkey and vegetables to the table. It will be fun to see if they draw a whole turkey or turkey slices. It will probably depend on how it is served in their family.

What vegetables or vegetable they add to the bowl will also be interesting. Some families may serve vegetables that relate to their culture. Others may serve foods they know everyone will enjoy.

Things to Color on the Thanksgiving Table

Children can simply color the elements on the page or add designs to them. My grandmother loved plaid tablecloths. If I were the person coloring this page, I would have created a plaid design on the tablecloth. Before your children start coloring, you may want to discuss what their table usually looks like. It may inspire them to add more details to the page.

Getting the Thanksgiving Coloring Page

First, you will need to download the set.

Thanksgiving Table Coloring Page for Kids Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, you must go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open right after downloading it. You won’t have to hunt for it in your download file if you are.

More Thanksgiving Printables

Thanksgiving STEM Challenge Building Mats (Available on my TPT site.)

Color By Code Turkey Pictures (Available on my TP site.)

Cat Shape Coloring Pages

October 26, 2022 By Deirdre

Children will have fun exploring this set of shape coloring pages. The pages have a cat theme that will be fun to work on them around Halloween or after reading a book about cats. Each shape has a page that displays a large version of the shape. There is also a version that features a smaller version of the shape.

It will be up to you to decide which shapes and versions of each shape you want to use with your children. The idea was that young children would be able to color the larger shapes. The smaller shapes would be better for older children.

Getting Ready to Use the Shape Coloring Pages

Downloading the Shape Coloring Pages

First, you will need to download the set.

Cat Shape Coloring Pages Download

Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader you will need to download it. The algorithm page is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.

Third, you must go to your download file and open the page. You may be asked if you want the file to open right after downloading it. You won’t have to hunt for it in your download file if you are.

Building Background

Before starting the coloring pages, you may want your children to explore shapes. Below you will find some shape puzzles that could be used to introduce or review shapes.

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Exploring the Color By Code Monster Pages

While each of the coloring pages features a particular shape, each of the cat shapes has other shapes that are a part of it. You may want to go over the shapes that make up its ears and facial features. Some of the facial features resemble basic shapes but have curved lines like the nose.

Some of the pages have shapes that are formed between the cats. You may want to point that out to your children. However, you may have children that notice them on their own.

Before they start coloring the cats and the spaces between them, you may want them to count how many of the shape there is on the page. If you have not discussed the shapes created between the cats, now would be a good time to do that.

What Shapes are Explored?

Trapezoid
Diamond
Square
Hexagon
Rectangle
Triangle

More Shape Activities

Exploring Bee Shapes

Bird Shape Activity Pages

Geometric Shapes for Kids Snow Globe Puzzles

Geometric Shape Puzzles

Christmas Tree Tessellation STEM Challenge

November 20, 2021 By Deirdre

This Christmas tree tessellation challenge is a great way to introduce children to tessellations. The set features large trees. It was created for younger children. However, older children will enjoy building a tessellation with trees too.

What is a Tessellation?

A tessellation is a pattern of shapes that fit together and don’t overlap. Many times the shapes are all the same.

Reading About Tessellations

Before you start this STEM challenge, you may want to read about tessellations with your children. Below are some books that feature tessellations.

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Getting the Christmas Tree Tessellation Challenge Sets

The challenge sets are in a PDF. When you download one or both of them, you will need to open them with a PDF reader. Acrobat Reader is a popular reader that you can download to use. You probably have it on your computer already.

Christmas Tree Tessellation STEM Challenge Set Download

Exploring the Christmas Tree Tessellation Challenge

While most children can cut out the trees on their own, some may need you to cut them out.
The directions ask children to cut out the trees and then color them. You may decide that it is easier to color the trees before cutting them out. That is perfectly fine.
Children may need to arrange the trees inside the frame or square before they start to glue them in place.

Create a Card with the Christmas Trees

The Christmas tree tessellation can be used to decorate a card. Children will need to fold a piece of cardstock in half hamburger style. Then they can glue the tessellation and the frame around it to the front of the card.

More STEM Challenges

Cool Science Projects -Ski Jumping Straw Rocket

Ski Jumping STEM Challenge

Ski Lift Paper Plate Craft

Pi Day Coloring Pages

March 12, 2021 By Deirdre

Pi Day coloring pages can be explored on March 14th to celebrate Pi Day! They could also be explored when you are introducing your children to pi. This set of Pi Day coloring pages contains two different designs. The first design features the pi symbol, circles and some of the numbers in pi. The second design features all of the elements of the first page and lines have been added that appear to cut the circle into pie slices. Your children will have fun color one or both of these pages. After downloading the set, you can decide which one you want them to do.

What is Pi Day?

Pi Day is the celebration of the first three numbers in pi. They are 3.14. It is celebrated on March 14th. Pi has a long string on never ending numbers that come after the four.
Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. People celebrate this special number and the symbol that represents it in a number of ways.

Other Ways to Celebrate Pi Day

First, people love to make and eat pie on Pi Day. They may have a pizza pie or a fruit pie or both.
Second, crafts that feature circles are created.
Third, students try to write as many Pi numbers as they can in three minutes and fourteen seconds.
Fourth, children explore the diameter and circumference of circular objects.
Fifth, coloring pages that feature pi and circles are colored.

Building Background

Your children may need you to read them some books about circles and/or pi before you have them work on the Pi Day coloring pages. After reading the book or books, they will have a better understanding of pi.

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Downloading the Coloring Pages

Pi Day Coloring Pages has been saved as a PDF. After downloading it, you will need to open it with a PDF reader. Many people like and use Acrobat Reader.

Exploring the Pi Day Coloring Pages

The Pi Day coloring pages can be explored in a number of ways. Below you will find a list of some of the ways you can have your children work on the pages.

First, you can have your children explore the pages to just let them color the pages. Before they start coloring, you may want to talk to them about the numbers, the Pi sign and the circles on the page.

Second, children color all of the circles that are the same size the same color.

Third, you can have your children color each section of the coloring page with slices a different color.

If you like these printables, here are some more you will like:

Gross Motor Egg Carton Algorithm Activities

Drawing a Cat with a Looping Algorithm

How to Draw a Leprechaun with an Algorithm

Chinese Dragon Mask Printable Coloring Activity

January 3, 2021 By Deirdre

This Chinese Dragon mask will be fun to color and wear at any Chinese New Year celebration. Yes, 2021 is the year of the ox and not the dragon. (There is a cow mask that you can download right here on my blog if you like.) When many people think of Chinese New Year, they think of a Chinese dragon dancing down a parade route. What fun it would be to have your children decorate their own masks and create their own parade.

Getting the Dragon Mask

First, you will need to do is to download the Chinese Dragon Mask Coloring Printable.

Next, you will need to open it with a PDF reader. Acrobat Reader is a very popular one.

Finally, you will need to print it out on bright white cardstock. Most cardstock labeled white will have a slightly gray tint.

Preparing the Mask for Your Children

You can have your children cut out the mask before or after they decorate it. If you plan on cutting out the mask for them, you may want them to decorate the mask after it is cut out. Then you can attach the way they will wear it and they can wear it right away.

Deciding What Coloring Tools to Use

You can put out a variety of coloring tools for your children to use or choose just one. Below you will find a list of fun ways to color.

Magic Markers give the mask some texture. They also give you a brightly colored mask. The colors don’t fade much.
Crayons also give a mask texture. They aren’t messy and are easy to color over if you make a mistake. They don’t create bright vividly colored masks.
Color pencils give a mask a soft and fuzzy look. They aren’t messy!
Watercolors give the mask a sheer layer of color. They are messy and colors can run from one area of the mask to another. We used watercolors to paint this mask!

Wearing the Mask

There are a number of ways you can wear the mask.

First, you can punch holes on either side of the mask. Then you can attach yarn to both of the holes. You can tie the two pieces of yarn in the back.
Second, you can attach a strip of cardstock to both sides of the mask. Your children can then slip the mask over their heads.
Third, you may have children that don’t want to wear the mask on their face. You can attach a wooden craft stick to the mask. Children can hold the mask over their faces.

Here are some more masks available on my blog:

Bear Mask

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Mask

Cute Shark Mask

There Was An Old Lady Printable Mask Template

Using Blockly Blocks to Color an All About Me Worksheet

July 24, 2020 By Deirdre

This All About Me worksheet was designed to use at the beginning of school. However, you could use it with your children whenever you like. The worksheet is part of a series of sneaker printables designed to go along with the book Pete the Cat: Rocking My School Shoes.

The directions for what your children need to write or draw on the shoes are displayed on Blockly Blocks. They will need to follow them to complete the algorithm or series of steps needed to complete the worksheet.

Wait! What are Blockly Blocks?

Blockly blocks are a visual drag and drop programming language. The blocks connect to form an algorithm or series of steps needed to complete a task. The command or step you need to complete is displayed on each block.

Getting the All About Me Worksheet Ready

Getting the Worksheet

Before you download a copy of the Offline Coding Academy – All About Me Sneakers you will need to make sure you have a PDF reader on your computer. This worksheet is a PDF document it will not open without a PDF reader on your computer.

Reading About Coding

This activity is based on a Pete the Cat book. While you will want to read that book to them, you may also want to read your children a book about coding. Below you will find some wonderful children’s books about coding.

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Working on the Worksheet

First, you will need to walk your children through the algorithm or directions of the Blockly Blocks. You will notice that almost all of the directions ask you to decorate or write on the side one shoe first.
Next, your children may need you to remind them to color the same number of shoelaces on both shoes. They can color the laces in any order or pattern they want to. If you would prefer for them to color from the top down or every other lace, you could have them do that.
Then they can work through the direction blocks on their own or with you. There are a number of words on each block. If after reading them once with your children they seem overwhelmed, you could read each step to them.
Finally, you can have your children share their shoes with you. They can share with your what they have written or drawn on the sides of the shoes. You can learn a lot while listening to your children share out loud.

Here are the other sneaker-themed worksheets in this series:

$Free Printable Sneaker-Themed Math Game Boards$

These free printable sneaker-themed game boards can be used to review a number of math skills. One of the game boards is editable. It can be used to work on any skills you need your children to review.

Next, there is an Offline Coding Academy – Algorithm Game Boards set. Your children can create a path or algorithm around the sneakers to get from the start to the end.

Finally, a great way to learn about binary numbers is to spell with them. This worksheet invites children to spell parts of a sneaker in binary code.

While it is not a part of this series, your children may want to color a cat mask. I created the mask to look like Pete the Cat. It is not a perfect match to the pictures of him in his books.

Color By Binary Numbers Shark Coloring Pages

July 7, 2020 By Deirdre

Did you know your computer knows only two numbers? Those numbers are one and two. Those two numbers translate every letter, number, and symbol you click on the keyboard into an eight-digit number. That eight-digit number is called a byte. Each of the numbers or a bit in the byte is a one or a two. You can introduce your children to the binary numbers for the numbers 1,2,3 and 4 as the work on this set of shark coloring pages.

While they don’t explain how the bytes for each number is created, it does let them see how a computer sees that number. The hope is by exposing them to binary numbers they will start to build a foundation of what they are.

Why Sharks?

I am working on a series of Shark themed coding activities that could be used during Shark Week. This is one of the sets in the series. You will find other shark-themed coding pages on the Shark Week kick off-page.

Getting Ready to Explore the Binary Number Coloring Pages

After you download the Color By Binary Numbers 1,2,3,and 4 Shark Pages, you will need to open them up with a PDF reader. Acrobat Reader is a good one to use. Then you can decide if you want to print out one or both of the coloring pages.

Introducing The Binary Numbers Worksheet to Your Children

The worksheet can be explored in a number of different ways. You can come up with your own steps or follow the steps I have below.

First, you will want to tell the that a computer only knows the numbers one and two.

Second, you will want to tell them that what they type into a computer is understood by the computer as a byte. A byte is made up of a combination of eight 0’s and 1’s.

Third, the binary codes for the numbers 1,2,3 and 4 are displayed at the top of the coloring page.

Fourth, a color is been assigned to each binary number.

Fifth, everywhere your children see that binary number in the picture they will color its space with the assigned color.

Sixth, the spaces without numbers will be left blank.

Reading About Sharks

Before you start the coloring pages or after your children have completed them, you may want to have them read about sharks. Below you will find some fun books about sharks.

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More Binary Activities

These binary activities are a fun way to introduce your children to how binary code works. Not all of the binary activities are found on this blog. If they are from another blog, you will find the name of the blog after the activity.

The first activity is binary countdown rockets.

Spelling 4th of July Words in Binary is the second activity.

The third activity is Pool Noodle Ideas – Building Letters in Binary Code.

Finally, Valentine’s Day Coding STEM Activity from Little Bins for Little Hands is a great activity to try.

This is part of the Shark Worksheets for Kids (Five Days Worth) event.

How to Draw a Raccoon with an Algorithm Worksheets

July 20, 2019 By Deirdre

You can expose your children to Blockly blocks and following the steps needed to complete a task with these How to Draw a Raccoon with worksheets. Each worksheet features a stack of puzzle looking pieces called Blockly blocks. They are used in coding sites like Scratch and Code.org to teach children about coding online. Your children can learn about coding offline as they follow the steps on the worksheets. It is a great way to introduce them to the tools they can later use online.

Wait! What is an Algorithm?

A kid-friendly definition is that an algorithm is a series of steps needed to complete a task. Computer programmers or coders create the series of commands needed for a computer to complete a task. Your children complete algorithms or a series of steps to complete tasks every day. ( You will find an everyday example of an algorithm on the How to Draw an Astronaut post.)

Learning about Raccoon with Books

You may want to read your children a book about raccoons before starting this activity. It would be fun to learn about them before creating one on the How to Draw a Raccoon worksheet. There is a collection of my favorite raccoon themed books below.

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Let’s Get the How to Draw a Raccoon Worksheets

First, you will need to click on the Drawing a Raccoon with an Algorithm Coding Set link.

Second, you will need to print one or both of the worksheets out. One of the worksheets features the algorithm in pictures only. The second worksheet features algorithm with words and pictures.

Exploring the Worksheets

You will want to explain that the puzzle pieces stacked on the left-hand side of the worksheets are called Blockly blocks.
Next, you will want to tell your children that Blockly blocks are used by computer coders to tell a computer what to do. The Blockly blocks on the worksheets will tell them what to do.
Then you will want to point out that the blocks arranged in an algorithm or series of steps. If they follow the series of steps, they will draw a raccoon.
Finally, you can guide your children step by step through how to build an algorithm or have them work through it on their own.