Teaching Number Concepts {Fun Bowling Game}

Teaching Number Concepts, Bowling Game

Becky Spence is a homeschooling mama to four little blessings. She is passionate about teaching, specifically literacy. She is the author of This Reading Mama, where she shares reading and writing activities as well as free literacy curricula and printables.

Funny Games: Silly Songs Family Game {For All Ages}

Funny Games: Silly Songs Family Game

Funny games can bring laughter to your home.  These crazy Silly Songs games will do just that.  We hope you enjoy this fun family game and we’d love for you to come back to Kids Activities Blog and share some silly songs with us.   Silly Songs My family loves to sing.  We aren’t the best [...]

Favorite Game: {Make Your Own} File Folder Game

Make Your Own File Folder Game for Kids

What is your favorite game to play with your child?  Have you thought about trying to make your own game based on holiday theme or simply something your child is really interested in?  Here is a great explanation on how to make a file folder game that your child will love.  We at Kids Activities Blog [...]

Dinner Games at the Table {Family Games}

Fun dinner games for the family

Does your family play dinner games at meal time?  Here is a great idea for fun family games that can liven up meal time in your home.  Kids Activities Blog knows you’ll appreciate that these games can also encourage vegetables to disappear.  Yes, that’s right.  Read on! Dinner Games Dinner time is such an important time [...]

Tuesday: Tell Time Games

Tell time: a collection of activities for kids

Tuesday is a great day for Time!  And these Tell Time games are sure to make your Tuesday a little more fun for your little ones. We try to focus on one area of “extra” math each school day – in addition to our regular math worksheets/homework.  Mondays are more/less statements, Tuesdays we practice with clocks, [...]

Printable Christmas Games {for Kids}

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Printable Christmas games are fun to occupy the kids this season.  Finding Christmas activities for kids is key when OTHER things need to be done by mom!  Today is fun because our friends over at Pre-K Shop have created a fun Christmas game just for Kids Activities Blog. Printable Christmas Games The first step is [...]

Halloween Games: Ghost Bowling {Homemade Games}

Ghost Bowling

Are you looking for fun Halloween Games for Fall parties? Kids love Halloween activities such as this ghost bowling homemade game! The Kids Activities Blog tested out this Halloween game and we hope that you try it out on your kids, too!  For a variation using clear bottles and cotton balls, check out No Time for [...]

Development of Play: 24 Ways to Explore with your Baby

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Help your baby develop by helping them explore and play.  Here are two dozen different activities we and other kids activities bloggers have done with their infants to help connect and interact with them.  Looking for something for the tots?  Check out our post on Activities for One Year olds or our Baby Play board [...]

Homemade Games

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It is another week of, It’s Playtime.  Each Wednesday afternoon you join us in featuring sweet and simple things that inspire us to enjoy our kids.  Wowsers!  There were over 200 great ideas of activities and games that you can make and play with the kids in your life linked up last week.  We love [...]

Matching Game with Textures

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When you’ve lived in your home for a few years, cleaned it hundreds of times, and played hide-and-go-seek more times than you can count, you feel like you know every nook and cranny.  There’s nothing like an indoor photo treasure hunt or an indoor safari though to make you realize that there is more to the interior of [...]

St. Patrick’s Day Activity: Photo Scavenger Hunt

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With both St. Patrick’s Day & Spring break coming up, we like to kick off the break in a fun way…with a St. Patrick’s Day Photo Scavenger Hunt!  Scavenger Hunts are a fun activity to get the kids thinking and working together as a team.  It just takes a little bit of prep work, to [...]

Best Board Games #1

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Playing board games together is one of our family’s favorite past times.  I recently began my review of the top 10 board games every family should play.  This is the list so far: Top 10 Board Games for Families: 10. Streetcar 9.  Empire Builder 8.  Monopoly 7.  Railways of the World 6.  Carcassonne 5.  Puerto [...]

How to Make a Fishing Game

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Let’s go fishing! OK, without the worms and indoors since it is a bit chilly today. Rhett(6) and I are making this game today with supplies that arrived in the ocean Kiwi Crate. Fishing Game for Kids Materials: fish and sea creatures to “fish” blue paper string pipe cleaners crayons sticks scissors Instructions: 1.  Create [...]

Easy Puzzles – Your Kids Can Make

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This easy puzzle craft came to my rescue last week.  I needed an activity I could do with a wide range of kids with different ages, crafting abilities, etc. We had a crowd at our house, the joy of an extra five kids to hang out for the day. Extra kids means extra fun – [...]

A Homemade Game for the Family: LEGO Challenge

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We are a game family.  We are also a Lego family.   Hmmm… how about we combine the two?  That is how our little family Lego Challenge was born.  The point of the “game” is to draw cards with a specific task – ex: use only the small lego blocks or make something you can [...]

Fun with a fan

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Today we learned about air and the effects of wind. We tied ribbons to the fan… hung a cape over the fan… draped toilet paper… let the fan blow us in the face making our hair blow wildly… watched feathers fly when dropped in front of the fan… and threw balloons in the fan… watching [...]

Learning to read games

This is a great collection of games that a kindergarten teacher, Kelly, made to use in her classroom.  She is kind enough to make her instructions, templates, etc. available to us!    Themes range from: Cinderella, Cars, Dora, Sponge Bob, Spiderman, as well as your typical seasonal themed games.  All of them help youngsters with word [...]