Educational Crafts for Kids

General Crafts and Activities 

Folded Paper Easter Bunny

All you need is paper, scissors, tape, and cotton ball. Just print out the patterns, color, cut out and fold. To finish glue a cotton ball to the back for a tail. This pattern is available to members only. Go to the members only section..

Easter Bunny Learning Activities

1. Make five or more bunnies and hide a piece of candy underneath one of the bunnies. Let your children take turns picking up a bunny to see if they can find a piece of candy. Make the game educational by writing letters, numbers, words, math problems etc. on each bunny. Have your children read the letters, numbers, words, or do the math problem before they can turn it over to see if there is candy underneath.

2. You can also have your children practice placing the bunnies in alphabetical order or in numerical order.

3. Have your children name their bunnies and write a story about them.

Train Craft - You can use this train to help your children learn many things.  Overtime they learn something new they can add another car to their train. For instance, if your children are learning words, each time they learn a new word, they can write the word on a train car and add it to their train.

What you will need: Different colors of paper, scissors and markers.

What to do:

1. Print out the patterns for the engine, cars, and caboose onto colored paper.
2. Cut out the patterns.  Use the wheel patterns and window patterns to cut shapes from black and yellow paper.

Animal Tracks Match Up Color Sheet - Here's a great craft activity and work sheet for animal and nature lovers of all ages.

Animal Track Match Up Color Sheet - Print out the sheet, color the animals and draw a line from the animal to the kind of track it would leave. If you need help with this sheet you can use the links below to find the answers.

Animal Tracks Plaster Casts

What you will need: Plaster of Paris (found at crafts stores), a bottle of water, plastic spoons, paper towels, a plastic container or paper cups to mix the plaster, a small trowel or something to dig with, paint, and a backpack to carry everything in.

What to do:

1. Find a good animal track in soft mud that has dried enough to keep it's shape when you press on it lightly.
2. Lay out all your supplies. Depending on how big your track is, pour about 3/4 cup of plaster into the plastic container, quickly stir in water until the plaster is thin enough to pour yet not too runny. Tap on the edge of the container to get out most of the air bubbles. Do this quickly because the plaster begins to set with in a few seconds.
3. Carefully pour the plaster mixture into the track. Let the plaster set for at least 1/2 an hour.
4. When the plaster in firm, carefully dig under the cast and lift it up. Take it home and let it dry overnight.
5. When the plaster cast is completely dry clean it off with a brush. You may want to paint the cast to make the tracks stand out better.

Links to Animal Track Sites:

Beartracker's Animal Tracks Den - This is a great site with lots of close up pictures and information.
eHow to Track an Animal - Eleven steps to help you track an animal plus other links.

Great Books:

"Tom Brown's Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking" by Tom Brown, Jr.- You can probably find this book in the Library

Other Educational Craft on Danielle's Place

Math Crafts and Activities - Spinner review games, candy corn math, graphing, Battleship review game, Baby Ants addition and subtraction, rainy day math fun, balancing math game, and math games to play with dice.

Language Arts: Reading, Writing, and Spelling - Spelling games, learn to spell helps, learn to read games, learn to read helps, reading crafts and activities, writing games, and writing activities.

ABC, I Believe - Bible lessons for home school. Children learn Bible stories and concepts using animal themes. Each thematic unit contains crafts, games, and activity ideas to reinforce the lesson and integrate it into other areas of study such as math, reading, writing, spelling, and science.

Teaching Children with Special Needs - On this page you will find techniques I've learned while homeschooling my special needs child. Also techniques and advice from teachers and parents who teach special needs children.

United States Crafts and Learning Activities - Learn about each of the United States of America through crafts and activities, internet sites, and great books.

Start your homeschool day right with this fun and engaging Bible study
curriculum for preschool through third grade.

1. Each lesson in this curriculum is a thematic unit based on a letter of the alphabet, an animal starting with that letter, and a basic Bible truth.

2. Each thematic unit in this curriculum is used for one week reinforcing the main Bible truth and integrating it into every study area through games and activities. Areas include: math, reading, writing, science, physical fitness, and more.

3. The Bible lessons and activities in this curriculum are great for children who have special needs, such as children with ADD, ADHD, or other learning disabilities because all areas of study are reinforced using active learning and lots of sensory stimulation. Children learn while having fun!

4. The lessons and activities in this curriculum were designed for children preschool through third grade. You can use the same lesson for all these levels. The games and activities are made so you can adapt them to your child's needs and academic level.