Groundhog Day Hat

Groundhog and Groundhog Hat Fun! Here is a printable groundhog craft for your students.

Let your students participate in their own Groundhog day festivities this February or during your groundhog science unit. The groundhog hat comes in color and black and white. This is a simple groundhog day activity for all ages. Hope you have fun with your groundhog hats.

Life Cycle Crafts for Kids

Life Cycles* This life cycle sequencing card craft bundle includes seven of my life cycles products. The Life Cycle Craft bundle includes these life cycle crafts: Life Cycle of a Frog Sequencing Card Craft, Life Cycle of a Chicken Sequencing Card Craft, Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Sequencing Card Craft, Life Cycle of a Plant Sequencing Card Craft, Life Cycle of a Flower Sequencing Card Craft, Life Cycle of a Butterfly Sequencing Craft, and The Water Cycle Sequencing Craft. Click {HERE} to locate my Life Cycle Bundle at my teaching resource store.

 You can use all these life cycle crafts during your science lessons, and they work well for science centers too. These spring life cycles can be used throughout the year too in addition to spring. Each life cycle set includes a picture of the final life cycle craft, assembly pictures of the life cycle craft, assembly directions, a printable life cycle poster, a printable life cycle craft pattern, and two versions of life cycle sequencing cards (there are four stages for each cycle) to paste on the craft pattern.

You can use these life cycle crafts as an introduction to your science lesson or as a life cycle assessment. If you wish, you can also buy the life cycle of a pumpkin, life cycle of a frog, life cycle of a flower, life cycle of a plant, life cycle of a chicken, life cycle of a butterfly, or the water cycle HERE .

Click the links below to learn more:

Frog Life Cycle 
Chicken Life Cycle 
Butterfly Life Cycle
Pumpkin Life Cycle
Water Cycle
Flower Life Cycle
Plant Life Cycle

Life Cycles

Presidents' Day Hat Paper Craft

Presidents' Day: Make a three-cornered Colonial hat this Presidents' Day.

This printable Presidents' Day craft includes a three- page George Washington hat printable pattern.

Use these hats for fun classroom pictures or for your students to pretend to be a president for the day.
You can find this pattern {HERE}.

Gingerbread Man Printable Story

Gingerbread Man Story* Printable Gingerbread Story retelling by Robin Sellers. This is a one page gingerbread story that your kiddos can color and then fold to create a Gingerbread book.

This is a simple retelling of the Gingerbread tale and is a great gingerbread activity to add to your gingerbread unit. 

This gingerbread book goes well with my gingerbread man sequencing craft too. {Click Here} to check out that printable gingerbread man.

Turkey in Disguise Project Ideas

Turkey in Disguise : It is Turkey trouble time for your turkey in disguise with this 3D turkey craft complete with 30 turkey disguises, turkey craft patterns, turkey in disguise writing pages for different ages, and a brainstorming page too.

This is a fun Thanksgiving activity that integrates Thanksgiving, a craft, and writing and even topics like community helpers, other holidays, or zoo animals with all the included disguises.

Check out these Turkey in Disguise Ideas. Find this product in my teaching store {HERE}. First, we thought some community helpers turkey in disguise ideas would be fun.

But there was more fun. We combined some clever turkey in disgusie ideas with holidays and create a turkey Claus, a witch turkey, and even a president turkey. Our Talk Like a Pirate Day turkey is one of our favorites.

And did I mention things got a little wild? Yes, our turkeys went to the zoo. We made lion turkeys, rhino turkeys, polar bear turkeys, and frog turkeys too.

This turkey craft includes the 3d pattern (3 pages) in black and white. As an alternative, there is also a one page flat black and white printable turkey pattern to use. There are 30 disguises in color and black and white including the following community helpers: nurse, fire fighter, mail carrier, detective, police officer, and a chef. The next set of disguises for your turkey craft includes zoo animals: a gorilla, monkey, panda, lion, tiger, cheetah, koala, panda, rhino, and polar bear. The last set of disguises includes a witch's hat for Halloween, a bunny for Easter or Spring, a patriotic top hat for the 4th of July, a pirate hat for Talk like a Pirate day, President Washington and President Lincoln for Presidents Day, and Indian headband and a pilgrim hat for Thanksgiving, and if you want to create a Turkey Clause or Turkey Claus at Christmas there is a Santa hat and coat too. You can find the patterns HERE.

Fall Life Cycle of an Apple Craft for Fall Activities

It's apple season, and it is the best time of the year to teach about apples. In fact, just last week I got to visit an orchard and sample many varieties of apples. I was quite fond of the honey crisp apple. You can bring apples into your classroom this fall with my 3D apple craft. This apple craftivity looks great and is simple for students to make. This is a super fall apple activity for children.

The best part is that they are learning about the life cycle of an apple as they create it. My apple is red, but go ahead and add a bit of variety of your own and print the apple patterns on red, yellow, and light green paper. Perhaps your students could pick the color of their favorite type of apple.

You can find this apple teaching resource called Apple Craft: {Life Cycle of an Apple Craftivity} {Here}.

Thanks for taking a look and happy apple picking!

Oh, did I mention that they also had caramel apple cookies in the bakery at the apple orchard too. Now that's what I need a recipe for!

Valetine's Day Glyph -- Valentine's Day Love Bug Craft

Glyphs are great tools to use with your homeschooler and in the classroom. This Valentine's Day, use a bug glyph in your classroom as a craft. You can integrate art, writing, and math in a cinch and have a great take-home project or decoration for your classroom bulletin boards.

Instead of putting together a pre-made product like those foam stickers, students make choices based on how they complete a glyph question form. For example, a question could ask students if they know of anyone who was born on Valentine's Day? If they answer yes, then they would, for example, add long straight legs to their Valentine Bug. If they answer no, then they would add short folded legs to the bug. The questionnaire process continues as the child builds his unique creation!

Students create their own Love Bugs

But wait! Didn't I saw something about math? Yes, now it's time for math, but shh, don't tell the students! Learning should be fun and glyphs are a way to make that happen. Student then use a glyph key to analyze their classmates creations. For example, they could look at the Love Bug legs and create a graph that illustrates how many of their classmates know someone born on Valentine's Day. How cool is that? They can even create graphs of each element on the Love Bug.

You can add more math skills and give students two Love Bugs and ask them to complete a Venn Diagram. Even better, ask them to write about their bug, a classmate's Love Bug, or even compare or contrast two Love Bugs.


You can make your own glyph projects for any topic! It's fun. I also have a 23 page Love Bug Valentine's Glyph Project download available for sale {HERE}