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Fish Tessellation Art
June 8, 2025
Make fish tessellation art with kids! If you've followed this site for very long, you know that we love tessellations. A tessellation is a shape that can be repeated over…
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Teaching Mathematical Patterns and Combinations with Ice Cream Flavors
May 28, 2025
Teach patterns, combinations, and permutations with ice cream flavors! Let's do some ice cream math! This hands-on math activity is interesting for kids and really leads to some great thinking…
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Paper Airplane Test Lab
May 22, 2025
Set up your own Paper Airplane Test Lab and challenge kids to create a plane that flies the farthest! This is an excellent STEM challenge (and the materials are SO…
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Sidewalk Chalk Word Games
May 6, 2025
Sidewalk Chalk Word Games for Elementary School Get outside and try these sidewalk chalk word games! These activities are so much fun and truly feel more like play than learning.…
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STEM Challenge with Play Dough, Popsicle Sticks, and Pipe Cleaners
April 30, 2025
Here's a fun STEM challenge with play dough, popsicle sticks, and pipe cleaners! What can you build with these materials? All kinds of things! Use play dough, popsicle sticks, and…
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Printable Star Wars Writing Prompts
April 27, 2025
Print these Star Wars writing prompts! There are 16 cards to print. Writing is much easier to do when you get the chance to write about something you're interested in.…
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LEGO DNA Activity
April 21, 2025
Here's a super fun DNA activity for middle school that uses one of our favorite materials... LEGO bricks! You can actually use this activity for kids in 5th grade up…
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Crazy Egg Tricks {Wacky Center of Gravity Science}
April 13, 2025
Here's a super cool science experiment to do with plastic Easter eggs! By adding modeling clay to plastic eggs in strategic places, you can make your eggs do all sorts…
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Inertia Science Experiments with LEGO Bricks
April 8, 2025
Kids will love these inertia science experiments with LEGO bricks! These activities are a great way to learn about Newton's first law of motion, which states that an object in…
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Magic Math! (And more ideas for addition fact practice)
April 7, 2025
Let's do some magic math! This is an idea for a FUN way to spice up addition practice. And it actually works for any math facts practice including subtraction, multiplication,…
