Indoor Family Activities

Making rock candy is a really fun activity for kids that doubles as a great lesson in science .

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This is a game I created to revise some vocabulary about sports, daily routine, house, school and free time activities.I used Kifissia's template with some changes. Thank you Kifissia! - ESL worksheets

This Paper Castle is a fun paper craft project fit for a king or queen. Learn how to create your own Paper Castle with these instructions.

Well, I think you can see how thrilled this 2 year old was to hear about the cardboard box challenge we received from TinkerLab this week! We are thrilled to have been invited to take part, along with 20+ other bloggers, to celebrate TinkerLab’s anniversary and I can’t wait to see the range of creative...Read More »

My third graders are doing simple machines in science class, which matches up perfectly with the next unit I wanted to do with them! I've been wanting to build castles with a grade, so I figured this would be the perfect class to do it with...we could incorporate simple machines in our draw bridge! I've seen numerous examples of these floating around Pinterest, but most of them use just cardboard tubes of different sizes to create a princess-like castle. I did a little research on castles…

Making rock candy is really easy and lots of fun for kids.

Some months ago, the Australian company Makedo sent me a free kit to play with. They wrote and mentioned the words "cardboard" and "play"...

The series board games should be a funny, playful way to practice vocabulary and grammar orally. The instructions for the teachers are included.If you like this game, you can find more board games here:https://en.islcollective.com/mypage/my-creations?search_key=Board+games&type=printables&option=published&id=5163&grammar=&vocabulary=&materials=&levels=&studentTypes=&skills=&languageExams=&dialect=&functions=&page=1&sorting_type=most_newest&filter_type=filter_all&view_type=list&view_length=12…

Here’s a fun science experiment that will definitely get a “wow” from the kids. Combine baking soda and vinegar to make sodium acetate, or hot ice! It crystalizes instantly when you pour it, allowing you to create a tower of crystals. Since the process of crystallization is exothermic, the “ice” that forms will be hot […]

This is a double sided conversation and speaking board game. Questions are different on both sides, so if the students finish before the rest of the class is done, they can start a new game with different questions on the other side.

A full tutorial on how to make DIY cardboard box cars from our Retro Drive-In Movie Party. Step-by-step instructions of our car assembly line!

Xander aspires to be a spy someday. Months ago, he told me that he wanted a Spy Birthday party. Ben jumped on the bandwagon and helped make this birthday party something to remember. THE INVITATION Ben was the mastermind behind the creative invitations. We put the invitation in a manila envelope labeled, " Agent (and then the child's name)". On the backside, we put "TOP SECRET". Inside was a minature file folder labeled, "Top Secret" with papers in the file. When you opened it, it had the…