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PE Games for Elementary Homeschoolers
Getting PE time in as a homeschooler is difficult. Sometimes, you have to get creative. Kids love to play tag! These physical education games for elementary focus on old favorites, but each one has a new twist. Learn the country of origin of many pe activities for kids. Kids will love to play these fun PE games indoors or outdoors. Enjoy!
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| Fun PE Games for Kids: PE Activities Gym Exercise. |
Plan the Best Sleepover Ever with These 5 Cool Games and Activities for Teens
These five, easy party ideas for teenagers will help you plan a fun sleepover or even the best slumber party ever! Click the links to find more great birthday party ideas for both teen boys and girls. Enjoy! |
| 5 Best Sleepover Games and Activities for Teens. |
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| Have all the guest wear all of their clothes backward. |
- Who's in the Bag?
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| Play, "Who's in the Bag?", at your next sleepover. |
Before the party, mark straws with the number of party guest minus
one. On the last straw, write "it" with a Sharpie. Have each guest
choose a straw. Get everyone's sleeping bag and roll them out on
the floor in a large room. Send "it" into the bathroom or a closet.
Now, everyone else climbs into a random sleeping bag (not their
own). Pull the bag over your heads so "it" cannot see who is who.
When "it" comes back, he taps the foot of a bag and asks one question.
For example: "What is your favorite color?"
The person in the bag, disguises his voice to answer but answers truthfully.
Now, "it" guesses who is in the bag. If he guesses wrong, he moves to the next bag. If he guesses right, the player gets to come out of the bag and watch the fun!
Play continues until all player's identities are revealed.
- Cool Sleepover Game for Girls or guys, just change the sex of the hotties you choose to share :)
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| The guys from One Direction. |
Before the party, find photos of cute guys. Make a Pinterest board
just for the party. Pin as many cute guys as you can find, then pull
them up on the television screen with Chrome Cast. What would
you do with him? Make Out, Marry, or Dump?
- Whip Cream Fingertips
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| Sleepover prank: place whipcream on a sleeping beauty's fingers, then tickle her nose. |
Put some whip cream on the fingers of the first one to fall asleep.
Unlike peanut butter, which is sticky and can be deadly if anyone
at the party has a peanut allergy, whip cream is an innocent
slumber party prank. Now, gently tickle sleeping beauty's face.
Watch what happens! For the record, I hate pranks. I'm opposed.
If you are the first one to fall asleep, you probably won't be a fan
of sleepover pranks either, so keep this in mind when choosing
activities for your party.
- Cell Phone
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| Play "Cell Phone", a sleepover game similar to 20 questions, but better! |
Gather the party guests and pick one to be "it". Send it to the
bathroom with loud music or headphones. Now, the rest of the
group chooses a noun for the game.
For example: Cat, Car, Flower, Food.
Now, bring "it" back to guess the chosen word.
"It" has to ask questions about the unknown word. So, she replaces
the unknown word with Cell Phone. She asks each player a
different question.
For example: "Is the Cell Phone purple?" or "Does the Cell Phone
breathe?"
Like Twenty Questions, the other players (in on the secret word),
say yes or no until "it" gets the answer correct.
The last player to answer the question before she guesses correctly
becomes the next "it".
Recommended Reading:
Sleepover Party Mad Libs*
Group Games Played in a Circle*
The Everything Girls Ultimate Sleepover Party Book: 100+ Ideas
for Sleepover Games, Goodies, Makeovers, and More!
(Everything® Girls)
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The Unofficial ONE DIRECTION Big Sleepover Trivia Party
Game: Find Out Who Loves One Direction The Most! - Star
Version (One Direction Trivia Party Game Book 2)
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say yes or no until "it" gets the answer correct.
The last player to answer the question before she guesses correctly
becomes the next "it".
Recommended Reading:
Sleepover Party Mad Libs*
Group Games Played in a Circle*
The Everything Girls Ultimate Sleepover Party Book: 100+ Ideas
for Sleepover Games, Goodies, Makeovers, and More!
(Everything® Girls)
*The Unofficial ONE DIRECTION Big Sleepover Trivia Party
Game: Find Out Who Loves One Direction The Most! - Star
Version (One Direction Trivia Party Game Book 2)
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Here are 9 fun New Year Activities for Kids for a night of family fun and games! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Are you staying home with the kids? Looking for fun games and activities to play on New Year's Eve? Try these 9 ideas to celebrate and have a great party with kids. Enjoy!
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| New Year's Activities for Kids. |
- Marshmallows and Straws
- Monsters, Wizards, and Elves in a Rec Room
- Balloon Drop Pop and Printable
- New Year Rocket Popper
- Whip Cream and Gummi Worms Party Game
- Midnight Care Package or Fortune Gifts
- New Year's Noisemakers
- Chinese New Year Dragon Template Printable Stencil
- New Year's Day Bagel Breakfast Sparkler
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Looking for Classroom Curriculum or Fun After-School Activities for St. Patrick's Day, find them here!
If you are planning Saint Patrick's Day curriculum for an after-school program, homeschool, or early childhood and preschool classes, we've got everything you need from educational games to free printables to easy crafts for kids. Rather than make you search all over our site, we've rounded 12 of them up for you, and it includes some of our very first posts from way back in 2007. Enjoy!
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| Games, Activities, and Printables for St. Patrick's Day. |
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Baby Shower Ideas
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of HotRef Party Favors for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.
Do you know someone who has a bun in the oven? Chances are you will want to throw a baby shower for them. This is a time to celebrate life, enjoy each other's company, and have fun. We've got some cute ideas to help you plan a baby shower. We found baby shower games, baby shower free printables, and fun baby shower favors. Enjoy!
To plan a great baby shower, you need a fun theme. Traditional baby shower themes include ducks, teddy bears, or pink or blue baby carriages.
We found adorable baby shower favors in various themes at HotRef.com. So, here are some cute baby bottle theme ideas for a baby shower.
This baby bottle key chain makes an elegant gift for guests. Use it in a goody bag of favors for all attendees or as a prize for winning a fun, baby shower game.
To continue with the baby bottle baby shower theme, start with baby bottle invitations. They come in blue or pink and make perfect keepsake mementos.
For the baby shower decor, add baby bottle placecard holders. These are fun to use as place settings or to display baby shower snacks. You can also use them to hold questions for a get-to- know-baby card game.
These baby bottle shape cookie cutters also come in pink or blue. Sure, you can add them to a goody bag, but to make it extra special, make your own cookies for the baby shower with this baby shower sugar cookie mix.
If they haven't decided on a name for the baby, decorate each cookie with their top name choices and have the guests vote for their favorites.
Don't forget the Mom to be, display this baby bottle bank on the gift table with a placecard holder asking the guests to spare a dime for new baby!
Fun Baby Shower Games
We mentioned some ideas for baby shower games above, but here are more fun game ideas for baby showers including a free printable baby bottle theme baby shower game.
Fun Baby Shower Games from Buzz Feed.
Baby Shower Game Ideas from Parents.com.
Free Printable Baby Shower Games from Temecula Blogs.
To help plan the perfect party, the baby shower party favors at HotRef Party Favors can be personalized to include the event name, date, and a little phrase if you like. See, planning a baby shower isn't so hard. You can do it!
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Homeschool Science Ideas for Projects, Experiments, and Lessons
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| Homeschool Science Online Activities: Lessons and Games. |
Homeschool Science Projects, Experiments, and Lesson Ideas:
- Science of Bread: Changes in Matter
- Corn Muffin Baking Lesson
- Printable Companion Bread Coloring Page
- Make Bread in a Crockpot
- Albert Einstein: Physics for Kids
- Build-a-tech Kits for Kids 12+
- Celery Science Experiment: How do Plants Drink Water?
- Fun Genetics Lesson with Punnet Squares
- Science Cave Shoebox Diorama
- Cave Study Online Lesson
- Simple Machines Lesson and Experiments
- Science Classifying Plants and Animals
- Gemstone Identification and Mining
- Ornithology Lesson: Bird Study
- Science Field Trip Idea: Visit a Bird Sanctuary
- Preschool Fish Lesson: Microbiology
- Make a Terrarium in a Jar
- Earth Science: Water Supply and Cycle
- GMO vs. Non-GMO Lesson
- Science Lesson: Varun's Quest: Homeschool Resources Discount
- Universe Planets Lesson with Games
- Futuristic Printables and Activities
- Take a Field Trip to Outer Space
- Electric Circuit Lesson
- Egg Science Experiments: Make a Rubber Egg
- Ameila Earhart: Airplanes
- Preschool and Early Elementary: Microbiology Fish Study
- Preschool and Early Elementary: Plant Investigating Study
- Online Homeschool Science Resources
- Recycle a Bottle into Something Beautiful
- Experiment: Make your own Play-dough
- Balloon Science Experiments
- Study Fall Leaves by Collecting to Make a Wreath
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11 Minecraft Games and Activities for a Birthday Party, After School Activity, or Summer Camp Program
These Minecraft activities are fun and easy, plan a party or a theme day for summer camp or even an after-school program with these hands-on, tech-off Minecraft games for kids. You know we used marshmallows for our minecraft building. Enjoy! |
| Craft a Minecraft house from Marshmallows and design your own skins too! |
- We decided to get in on the Minecraft crafting fun with Marshmallows! These days marshmallows come in all different sizes and colors We used the giant ones to build houses and walls. We painted "glued them together" with a dab of water and colored them with markers and paint. We have recipes for edible paint if you'd like to keep your minecraft characters edible for toddlers.
Does Minecraft have any Educational Value? Well, we sure hope so. What a great way to turn our kids into zombies... if only I were an evil, super villain from Batman.
Looking for Minecraft Printables?
Minecraft Squares Sheets
Minecraft Paper Cube Printables
How about a Minecraft Birthday Party Theme?
These Minecraft Creeper Lanterns from Play Dr. Hutch are my favorite birthday party decoration! She also has a roundup of Minecraft gift ideas for boys and girls, but don't forget our Minecraft Wood Puzzle. Dr. Hutch's Minecraft construction paper masks are an easy preschool activity.
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| Minecraft Creeper Lanterns for a birthday party. |
Parties4ever blog has some great Minecraft birthday party ideas! I love the idea of play parody songs, and her food is spectacular!
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| Edible Art: Minecraft Snacks and Appetizers. |
Games and Activities for a Minecraft Party
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| Minecraft Birthday Party Target Game from Housing a Forest blog. |
Minecraft Creeper Target Practice Game
Make your Own Minecraft T-shirts
How to Make Glow-in-the-dark Minecraft Creeper Shirts
Make Minecraft Creeper Bracelets
Recommended Reading:
Minecraft: The Official Construction Handbook: 4
*Make Homemade Clay and Craft Pigs
Where to Find the Best Minecraft Skins
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Indoor Activities To Do With the Kids
When we leave summer behind and approach the colder months, kids want to stay inside. That means, it’s time to pull out the indoor activities to keep the kids entertained after school and on the weekends. Just because you’re stuck inside doesn’t mean the day has to be wasted! There are loads of great family-friendly activities to do indoors.
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Be sure to click through the links to find all the fun indoor kids activities we've discovered.
If you're looking for great ways to keep kids entertained when the weather’s got you stuck indoors, look no further! Some or these activities, you might do regularly, others you may never have tried before, but they’re all great ways to keep the kids entertained while encouraging them to learn new skills.
Baking
How can you not love an indoor activity where you and the kids get to eat a tasty treat at the end? When the weather isn't very nice, baking is a great way to bring the family together, and you can learn some amazing new skills while you’re at it.
Don’t worry if you’re not a great cook, the fun is in learning the new skill, and there are some great recipes for beginners out there. Even if you are a beginner, these recipes will have you baking up a storm!
Everyone wins when you get to do a fun family activity and eat some tasty baked goods at the end of the day.
Arts and Crafts
Keep everyone entertained for hours on end with a few well-planned arts and crafts projects. These might take a little bit of pre-planning on your part, but they’re sure to give your family an amazing day of creating things with their hands and bonding with each other.
Any project with epoxy resin is bound to get the kids excited, and the results you can get with this product are awesome and perfect for a cold or rainy day.
Don’t worry if you’re not an arts and crafts pro, there are plenty of beginner projects to get you going like a pro.
Kids CRAFTS from our blog.
Board Games
In the modern world of ultra-realistic video games, the old-fashioned board game still has its place. In fact, the classics are often the best, and there’s no better time to pull out the board game collection that when it’s raining outside.
No matter how much technology moves on, the likes of Monopoly, Cluedo, Jenga, and Uno are always family favorites for a good reason. Once you get everyone together and involved in a game of Monopoly, you’ll find the time just flies by, and you won’t even remember that the weather is terrible outside. Make sure you’ve got a trustworthy banker, and you’ve got an afternoon of fun indoor activities for everyone.
Rainy Day – Don't Worry
As we approach Fall, the weather might not allow for as many outdoor activities as usual, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to end. There are lots of fun indoor activities that you can enjoy with your family on a rainy day. For more inspiration, check us out on Pinterest!
What looked like a boring weekend stuck inside, might just turn out to be a weekend full of joy and family fun. You can eat, drink, create, and play games with your family and friends while bringing everyone closer together. Just do a search in our blog for games, crafts, kids recipes, family field trip ideas, and fun indoor activities for kids. Stick with us, and you'll never run out of fun things to do!
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What is Active Learning?
If you're an early childhood education director, teacher, or a homeschooler of a preschooler, you will benefit ChildCare Education Institute's CCEI122: Active Learning in Early Childhood course. This course is a great way to get continuing ed course credit for any ECE program, but it is also a wonderful tool for parents of toddlers and preschoolers to educate themselves for homeschool learning. So, what is the definition of active learning in early childhood education?
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Wikipedia describes active learning as:
Active learning is a form of learning in which teaching strives to involve students in the learning process more directly than in other methods. Bonwell states that in active learning, "students participate in the process and students participate when they are doing something besides passively listening."
Sensory Play = Active Learning
As a childcare professional, I am well versed in sensory play and its connection to cognitive learning. Here on the blog, you'll find many sensory play activities and other movement games for early childhood educators. However, I wasn't aware of much of the proven science behind these preschool activities until I took CCEI's online professional development course CCEI122: Active Learning in Early Childhood.
This course presents practical methods for integrating movement and active involvement across all curriculum areas, including art, language arts, mathematics, music, science, and social studies.
The course only takes about an hour of your time. Be sure to print out the handouts or save them as pdfs so that you'll have access to note taking and a record of some of the valuable ideas and knowledge base taught in the class. At course completion, you’re issued a certificate showing that you've successfully completed the 1 hr. course. Here's mine:
Through the years, I've taken many continuing education courses. The courses offered by ChildCare Education Institute are by far the most convenient. The courses are also very informative. They not only include valuable information and recent studies in the childcare industry, but they also include sample activities that you can try with your own students.
ChildCare Education Institute® provides high-quality, online training courses and programs, applicable to those who work in an array of child care settings, including center-based care, Head Start, family child care, prekindergarten classrooms, after school environments and more. Over 150 English and Spanish training courses are available to meet licensing, recognition program, and Head Start Requirements. CCEI also has online certification programs that provide the coursework requirement for national credentials including the CDA, Director and Early Childhood Credentials. CCEI, a Council for Professional Recognition CDA Gold Standard℠ Comprehensive training provider, is nationally accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) and is accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
ChildCare Education Institute® provides high-quality, online training courses and programs, applicable to those who work in an array of child care settings, including center-based care, Head Start, family child care, prekindergarten classrooms, after school environments and more. Over 150 English and Spanish training courses are available to meet licensing, recognition program, and Head Start Requirements. CCEI also has online certification programs that provide the coursework requirement for national credentials including the CDA, Director and Early Childhood Credentials. CCEI, a Council for Professional Recognition CDA Gold Standard℠ Comprehensive training provider, is nationally accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) and is accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
● 99 percent of students say they would recommend CCEI to others
● Over 4.4 million online course hours completed
● Graduated over 12,000 early childhood professionals from CDA and other certificate programs
● Web-based coursework, available 24/7/365
● 30 hours of new content added each year
● IACET CEUs awarded for completed coursework at no additional cost
During the CCEI122: Active Learning in Early Childhood course, I had many aha moments. There were so many things that I've done in my early childhood programs where I missed valuable opportunities to incorporate movement and music in daily lesson plans for language arts, science, social studies, math, and art. The course lists out many different ideas and further explains how these activities aid in cognitive development and increase brain synapses.
After taking the course, you’ll want to add more movement activities to your daily active learning activities. Here's a list of our most popular posts on early childhood games and sensory play ideas for preschoolers.
● Circle Time Games for Active Learning in Early Childhood
● Physical Activity Movement Games for Early Childhood
● Marshmallow Movement Game
● Sensory Tactile Alphabet Activity
● Group Cooperation Games for Preschool and Early Childhood
If you're in need of continuing education for your career in early childhood, start here with our review of ChildCare Education Institute. CCEI offers many amazing continuing education courses for professional development in early childhood education. The extensive course list is sure to please even the most hard to please daycare providers and program directors. I encourage everyone involved with childcare and early childhood education to sign up for a course or two. It’s such a convenient way to expand your knowledge in early childhood education. Be sure to check it out!
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