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Cootie Catcher Learning Games With Blank Template

November 24, 2014 By Deirdre

Yesterday I shared with you a cool math game that used a paper cootie catcher for the word problems. (Cootie catchers and fortune tellers are the same things.) I know some have already pointed it out.

While you can think of dozens of games you could create on your own, here are some ideas for fortune tellers that I have found on the internet. I know you will love them. Following this list of ideas, I will share with you some of my own.

Cootie Catcher Learning Games

Cootie Catcher Learning Games With a Blank Template

The Country Chic Cottage has created a really fun Dr. Seuss-themed fortune teller or cootie catcher.

Geometric shapes are explored by using this fortune teller created by Bookish Ways.

Autism Teaching Strategies has created a wonderful cootie that works on social skills.

This free printable found on Teacher Pay Teachers works on parts of a story. There are several other available there that are not free.

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Literacy Spark has created a cootie catcher to work on spelling words and one for working prefixes.

One for older kids that works on mean and median on a number.

Teaching Blog Addict made a part of a speech fortune teller.

I even found one that has a Thanksgiving-themed one on DLTK.

Cootie Catcher Learning Games with Blank Template

Kids Activities Blog has a wonderful cootie catcher that works with fractions.

I Heart Teaching has created one that review multiplication facts.

There is a Christmas-themed one on Creative with Kids.

As you can see there are a lot of great ways to use fortune tellers or cootie catchers. They can be used to review concepts, build on concepts, and work on communication skills.

Here is blank fortune teller or fortune teller template that you can use to create one of your own:

I hope your children enjoy exploring these cool math games with a printable word problem fortune teller. If you do try it, please come back and let me know which cool math games worked best for you or leave a comment on my Facebook page.

If you would like to find more early learning math games and activities, please check out my math Pinterest board.

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Halloween Crafts and Activities for Kids

September 27, 2014 By Deirdre

You are going to love this round up of 100+ Halloween crafts and activities for kids. This post has the best Halloween ideas for kids you have ever seen. Oh! There are probably others out there, but these ideas shared on The Sunday Showcase link up last week are really awesome! I hope you will take a minute to check each of the them out. Please pin or share the ones you love with your friends!

When you have finished, looking these over please take a moment and link up your amazingly wonderful posts of the week that relate to kid’s crafts, creations or activities. I would love to come check them out.

Halloween Crafts and Activities

Tutus and Teaparties have created the cutest glitter spider. It would look so cool on your fridge or classroom wall.

If you don’t feel comfortable crafting a spider craft like this with your toddlers, Craftulate has created a step by step video tutorial on how to create some super cute Halloween crafts with spiders.

Capri+3 has to collect really amazing Halloween crafts and activities that feature ghosts, spiders, and pumpkins! You are going to want to check each of them out.

Fall Leaf Activities are featured in a wonderful post from Gift of Curiosity! I think they would be great for Halloween too.

Fun-A-Day took on the mission to find super owl related Halloween crafts and fall activities. They are all something to hoot about!

Halloween hand and foot print crafts are such fun! I just love the ones share in this post from Fun Handprint Art.

These no fuss Halloween crafts from Tutus and Teaparties are super cute and lots of fun. It looks like they like Tutus and Teaparties’ spider too.

A Little Pinch of Perfect has searched out and found 33 Halloween sensory play activities! They sure bring out the eerie coolness of Halloween.

We created a milk jug skeleton a few years ago. He has hung in a tree in our yard on Halloween night ever since then.

Some of the posts shared above are a part of the mega giveaway that I am also participating in. The giveaway is for over $2,000. Four winners will each win $500. If you would like to enter, here is more information on the mega giveaway.

The Sunday Showcase is hosted on the following blogs:

JDaniel4′s Mom

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Here Come the Girls

Inspiration Laboratories

We each feature different posts that have linked up, so be sure to check everyone out! We’ll also be pinning our favorites to our Pinterest board.

If you are here for the first time please read this informational post on Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas’ site for the full details. Anything kid friendly and/or child centered is welcome! You are welcome to share more than one post, but we don’t accept links for giveaways, shops, ordownloads for purchase, etc. They will be deleted.

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Fall Art Activities for Kids

September 13, 2014 By Deirdre

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Fall art activities for kids have started to appear on The Sunday Showcase. I found a number of them as I scrolled through the link up during the last week. Theywere awesomely fun and creative! Your children are going to love working on them.

If you have any fall art activities you would like to share in the link up or a wonderful child focused posts on another topic, please add it to the link up below.

Fall Art Activities for Kids

Fall art activities for kids

Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds walks you through how to create gorgeous fall water color leaves. Some wonderful fall books are also shared in this post. What a wonderful way to welcome fall these will be!

Taking a walk to look for fall colors in the great outdoors and recording what you find in pictures is a wonderful fall art project. Kitchen Counter Chronicles shares more about this wonderful idea for a fall craft in a post called Going on a Colour Hunt with Kids.

Buggy and Buddy shared a wonderful fall crafted paper owl and guessing game they have called Who’s Who? Owl Craft for Kids. I know at least one child that is going to love crafting and playing this owl activity.

Children can craft their own fall garlands using the instructions found in Mosswood Connections Felt Garland’s post. You will love displaying this fall art project.

Mini Monets and Mommies shared a Fall Shaving Cream Art for Kids that takes you step by step through creating amazing fall art trees. The various textures and layers in My Nearest and Dearest’s Fall Art for Kids art project are really beautiful. This post will walk you through creating unique and creative works of art.

Here are two fall art activities from JDaniel’s Mom:

Painting with a corn cob

Cupcake liner eyed owl

The Sunday Showcase is hosted on the following blogs:

JDaniel4′s Mom

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Here Come the Girls

Inspiration Laboratories

We each feature different posts that have linked up, so be sure to check everyone out! We’ll also be pinning our favorites to our Pinterest board.

An InLinkz Link-up

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Apple Learning Activities- Sunday Showcase

September 6, 2014 By Deirdre

Apple Learning Activities

I looked through the treasure trove of posts shared on the Sunday Showcase over the past few years hunting for apple themed learning activities. Boy, there have been a lot of wonderful posts shared through out the years during the months of August and September. I selected eight of them to share with you. It was really hard to narrow down the list of apple posts, but I hope you will take the time to visit my Apple Crafts and Activities Pinterest board to see many of the other posts I found while hunting.

If you have an apple post you would like to share, please link it up below. I would love to stop by and visit it. Several of the posts shared in the link up below will be featured on next week’s Sunday Showcase. Oh! Your post doesn’t have to have an apple theme for you to add it below and have me check it out.

Apple Learning Activities

Apple Themed Learning Activities

Apple Learning Activities

The Painted and Stamped Apple Pie Craft from Off of the Shelf works on a variety of fine motor skills. I just love that it smells like an apple pie too.

Apple Learning Activities

Fantastic Fun and Learning created an invitation to learn with apple play dough. It leaves the door open for kids to create their own apples their own way. The plastic worms in this creation area would be a hit at my house.

Apple Learning Activities