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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Music Break | Black History Month Activities
By Agee and Row Classical Music Appreciation
Just print & play! Do you need engaging classical music activities or music sub plans? Each page offers creative ways for students to learn more about the music of this composer! The music of Duke Ellington is featured in this Ella Fitzgerald mini activity pack! Ella was born on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. She is known as "The Queen of Jazz!"
Themes: USA, American composers, Women's History Month, Black History Month
What's Included:
1-page Resource Guide - This guide will get you started quickly! Just print and play.
Listening Sheet Star Rating Guides - A reference sheet illustrates the five-star rating system included in most listening sheets. Each frame has a description, with one being "okay" and 5 stars as "Wow!"
Listening Sheets - There are no wrong answers! Students can note how they feel and what they imagine while listening to a selected piece of music. Choose from the musical instruments, nature scenes, colors, and more. There is a space for drawing and several non-musical elements to consider, such as animals and nature.
Weather and Emotions Listening Sheets
Weather is a recurring theme in classical music. Does a musical piece remind the listener of a snowy day or a cheerful sunny afternoon? Students can select the weather symbols that come to mind. Is the music happy or sad? A set of emotional characters allows your group to pick the feelings that best relate to a piece of music.
2 Biography Pages - Fact sheet (1 or 2 facts are already provided, a box to paste/draw the composer's portrait, and a birthday box to color in and decorate cupcakes! A duplicate blank page is included for students to do their own research.
Composer Research Sheet - Students can use their favorite reference materials to compile a full page of facts about the composer's home country. Some of the research options include capital, continent, population, food, and more.
Composer Rating Activity - There are more options to profile the composer on the rating sheet, including which season and musical style they belong to. This can also be used as a listening sheet or as a bulletin board display.
Word Composer Activity - The classic letter puzzle, students can use all the letters from the composer's full name to create new, shorter words and record their scores. Add a timer for an extra challenge.
Musical Selections (two pages per piece)
Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬
Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!
Sensory and Messy Play Activities for Parents to do With Kids at Home
By SEN Resource Source
24 ideas for sensory and messy play activities parents and children to do at home together.
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Playdough Gift Tags (Holiday Theme) - Editable
By Michellecurtis
These dough-lightful and fully editable playdough holiday/Christmas present tags are a must-have for teachers looking to add a unique and thoughtful touch to their students' gifts. Whether you're preparing holiday treats or organizing a fun class gift, these tags are the perfect way to bring a personal element that will delight both students and parents. The tags are designed to save teachers time while still providing a memorable experience, which is always a win during the busy holiday season.
What makes these tags truly special is their versatility and ease of use. Simply print, cut, and hole punch the top of the ribbon, then attach the tag around a plastic treat bag or directly to the playdough container. The tags come pre-designed with cute, festive fonts, but you can also customize them to your liking with the PowerPoint editable version. This flexibility allows teachers to personalize each tag for their students, adding names or special messages, making every gift feel extra special.
For greater durability, the tags can be printed on either standard copy paper or cardstock, ensuring they hold up well as part of a gift. These tags are not only practical but also a creative way to show your students you care. They’re perfect for teachers who want to make their gifts stand out without spending hours on preparation.
Brain Breaks - Doodle Inspirations
By Joyful Explorations
Doodling is great fun, but it also provides many developmental benefits for children. Doodling helps kids of all ages to develop and refine their fine motor skills, which is essential for writing, cutting and many other activities that children will do throughout their lives. In addition, doodling encourages visual analysis, increases the ability to concentrate, and boosts creative thinking. And of course, it’s just plain fun!
This packet includes 50 pages of doodle starters to inspire children.
Some ways to use these pages:
Give children a doodle page when they need a brain break.
Print just the pages you want to enhance a classroom theme or concept that you are studying.
Have the pages available for students who finish a lesson early.
Put them in your sub tub.
Use these in your “calming corner” for children who need help with self-regulation
Pipe Cleaner hands-on activity, shape the uppercase and lowercase Letters
By Chirp Chirp Education
This Alphabet worksheet consists of 2 sections. First section allows student to trace the uppercase and lowercase with marker. Students can use pipe cleaner or playdough to make the letters. Student is required to draw an object starts with the assigned letter.
This is perfect for alphabet literacy center! This 26 page alphabet activity packet gives students the opportunity to recognize their upper and lowercase alphabet letters. This would make a great literacy station or morning work activity.
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Winter Arctic Animals Crafts | Editable Winter Name puzzles | Crown hat Template
By KidCraftable
Celebrate the winter season with this fun and engaging Winter Crafts , kids will customize their own winter hats with their names Also children assemble their own winter-dressed character.
This Bundle is Perfect for winter-themed lessons, bulletin board displays, or seasonal crafts in preschool and kindergarten classrooms.
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Pete the Cat I love my white shoes craft
By Patricia
Introducing our vibrant and engaging Pete the Cat I love my white shoes back to school craft, designed exclusively for teachers like you! Pete the Cat is not just any cat; he's the coolest cat around.
Our craft and bulletin board set brings Pete the Cat I love my white shoes charm and charisma straight into your classroom, making back to school craft a breeze while igniting your students' excitement for learning.
Engage students with color vocabulary through this enjoyable Pete the Cat activity! This resource is perfect for whole-group instruction, small-group work, or literacy centers for pre-k and kindergarten students. It complements the story "Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes" wonderfully. After reading the story, have the children color the shoe in their favorite hue and then complete the worksheet about colors and the worksheet about empathy.
Getting ready for the new school year has never been more fun! Here's what our Pete the Cat I love my white shoes craft set offers:
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By Creative Soul Printables
Bring dinosaurs to life while building fine motor skills with these engaging Dinosaur Themed Play Dough Mats—a roaring good time for young learners!
Contents:
This Dinosaur Themed Play Dough Mats set features a collection of exciting dinosaur shapes for students to create using play dough. Each mat includes a clear visual of a dinosaur in the center and a motivational "I Can" statement at the bottom to inspire independence. From stegosaurus to T-rex, these mats offer fun prehistoric objects for children to shape while working on their fine motor skills. The 8.5x11 mats are available in color or black and white, and teachers can easily print them out and laminate for repeated use.
How the Product is Used:
Simply print the 8.5x11 mats, laminate for durability, and hand out play dough to your students. Each student will take their play dough and mold it into the shape of the dinosaur shown on the mat. The "I Can" statement serves as an encouraging guide, giving students a sense of achievement as they complete each shape.
Why You’ll Love This Product:
Teachers will love how these mats provide a fun and creative way to build fine motor skills. Whether it's as part of a dinosaur unit or a sensory play activity, these mats keep students engaged and learning through hands-on play. Students love working with the play dough to create their favorite dinosaurs, fostering imagination and focus.
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Coloring Pages Growing Bundle - Seasons, Vocabulary, Holidays, Writing & Tracing
By Kimberly
❤️Looking for a fun and engaging way for your students to learn through play all year round? Learn literacy, math, social studies, and fine motor skills with this growing coloring bundle!
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✏️This low prep resource is jam-packed with learning! Color puzzles, crafts, bookmarks, coloring sheets and more! Complete math, literacy, social studies, art, seasonal, and holiday activities!
✏️Your learners will enjoy getting creative and proudly showing off their work to classmates, and family members! You can also display on bulletin boards and around your room!
✏️Perfect for your beginner English, ESL, ELL, preschool, kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade students!
✏️This is a growing bundle and the price will increase as new resources are added!
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✅ Topics included:
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☑ opposites
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☑ winter
☑ Women's History
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Hispanic Heritage Elementary Cactus Art Lesson | Cross-Curricular Art
By Down in the Art Room
This hands-on set of 3 lessons has multiple variations to provide your elementary students with engaging multidisciplinary lessons. These lessons will engage even the most reluctant learners in the Art room while bringing geography, social studies, and science into the Art room while meeting your Art standards for all your students from Kindergarten through 5th grade.
What is included:
Step-by-step instructions with pictures for 3 cactus lessons plus instructions for variations
Visual arts standards for Kindergarten through 5th grade
Cactus fact sheet
Cactus research worksheet
Cross-curricular and literacy connections that can be used with all lessons
This lesson is in a PDF file.
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A-Z Animal Alphabet Handprint Art | Alphabet Handprint Template
By Jennifer Arnold
this Handprint Alphabet Book Template offers 26 cute animal handprint designs perfect for preschoolers, toddlers, and babies to make as gifts or keepsakes.
Handprint crafts are a fun, hands-on way to engage toddlers and preschoolers while building important skills. They help children strengthen fine motor control as they paint, press, and decorate, which supports early writing skills.
These crafts also offer a great sensory experience, letting kids explore textures and colors with their hands. Plus, handprint projects make for memorable keepsakes that capture a moment in time, perfect for sharing with families or displaying in the classroom.
This A-Z Animal Handprint art bundle is a simple but meaningful way to combine creativity with learning!
What's Included:
1 file- 52 pages total.
Each design comes with one blank template and one example design.
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Paper Recommendation: For best results, use cardstock.
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Christmas Bible Lesson Kids Christan Christmas Curriculum Nativity Sunday School
By Kaylor Creations
The Ultimate Christ-Centered Christmas Bible Lessons Bundle!
This comprehensive, money and time saving bundle is your ONE STOP SHOP for teaching the Christmas story to children, with engaging, Bible-based lessons and activities that focus on the true meaning of Christmas!
✨Each lesson and activity pack includes:✨
This bundle is designed to last throughout December as you celebrate Christmas and Advent with your students. PERFECT for:
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✨What’s Included in the Bundle:✨
Part 1: Mary & Joseph
This lesson covers Mary, Joseph, the angel, and Elizabeth, and how God worked through them to bring His Son to earth.
Part 2: The Birth of Jesus
This lesson tells the story of baby Jesus’ birth, the shepherds’ visit, and the role of the prophets Anna and Simeon in recognizing the Savior.
Part 3: The Magi Seek the King/The Wise Men
This lesson focuses on the wise men (Magi) following the star to find and worship the newborn King, Jesus.
Bonus Resources:☝️
Perfect for Busy Teachers!
This bundle will keep your class engaged and focused on the Bible all December long with easy-to-use lessons and fun activities.
⭐No Fluff, Just Bible Truths!
I’m committed to providing Bible stories told in a simple, child-friendly way, with no unnecessary fillers—just pure Biblical truths. Watch your little ones grow in their faith and excitement for God's Word!
Thank you and Merry Christmas!
You may also enjoy my other Christmas Resource--> THE JESSE TREE
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Emotions & Feelings : Draw to Express Feeling & Emotions on Plain Face
By Thachakorn Kokong
"Explore Emotions Worksheet: Have fun while learning about 12 emotions and feelings! Draw different expressions on plain faces - Happy, Sad, Afraid, Excited, Angry, Silly, Scared, Shy, Surprised, Proud, Worried, and Content. Practice tracing the letters to spell out each emotion & feeling. Let your creativity and learning shine!"
Color Sorting Mat | Coloring Worksheets, Sorting Jars, & Differentiated Activity
By TaughtOught Homeschooling
Are you looking to have your preschooler learn color matching? This collection of color identification worksheets and sorting games will turn your toddler into a color pro!
Includes:
✏ 12 Color flashcards
✏ 12 coloring worksheets
✏ 12 color-sorting jars with items
✏ Game board with dice and game pieces
✏ 7 Differentiated color-matching worksheets
These sheets work perfectly to laminate and reuse over and again. Don't waste precious printer ink for printables that can only be used once!
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Static Electricity Winter Science Experiment
By Science and STEAM Team
This is super fun and easy science experiment for elementary grades. This aligns to the NextGeneration Science Standards. There are directions for the experiment as well as recording sheets .
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Sunshine Q Tip Painting Summer Printables Low Prep Crafts
By Kyla McHenry
Q-Tips are for more than just ears! Sunshine Q-Tip painting is a great way to celebrate summer and work on fine motor skills too.
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Farm Animals BARN Craft Bulletin Board Hallway Art Activity NO PREP
By April S Bash
Farm Animals BARN Craft Activity, for Bulletin Board or Hallway Art. Color & draw, cut, and paste! Great for summer, NO PREP substitute plans, etc.
2 Pages Total Include:
1. Barn Craft : Color, Cut the barn, cut along the door
2. * * * Barn Craft, Page 2 : Paste page 1 onto page 2. Draw animals inside.
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Yoga Game: Roll The Dice (includes Yoga Cards)
By Lara Hocheiser
With a blend of yoga, breathing and fun, the Roll the Dice Yoga Game is an entertaining way to teach your students yoga and breathing and to test their memory. This instructional packet gives you the tools and instructions to play this game and with your expertise, adapt the rules to suit your unique population of yogis.
The download gives you the game instructions and 5 highlighted yoga poses one breathing activity to challenge and engage children. The diverse characters help children see themselves as natural yogis. The Roll the Dice Yoga game is an 8 page PDF download which you can view on your phone, tablet, computer or print out onto paper.
• Designed for kids ages 5-10
• Includes printable yoga deck
• Learn 5 yoga poses
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• Perfect for classrooms, clubs, summer camps, parties, kids' events, and yoga classes.
Hands on Roll and Draw a Friendly Monster For Halloween Art Activity Template
By Creative Discoveries Online Academy Printables
Make Halloween learning fun with this engaging, hands-on monster roll and draw activity! This includes a roll and draw monster chart, 1 instruction sheet with a fold up die, and 2 pages to print with boxes to draw your monsters that are perfect for exploring mythical monsters or creatures that exist that are like monsters such as vampire bats or sea creatures. Be creative. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these activities perfect for centers or substitute days, too!
Lead your students to discover the art of drawing funny looking monsters that they randomly create using different body parts and art utensils. Explore through drawing, coloring, decorating, and if you want to keep going, have them cut their monsters out and decorate with various materials. Students will love exploring how to put the monster together by using their critical & problem solving skills through this fun activity, and won't even realize how much they're learning! Use it after you talk about real or mythical monster facts/opinions or read a story about silly monsters. Pull out crayons, markers, colored pencils, regular pencils and gel pens. Be as creative as possible. Make it spooky or cute.
Here's what you'll get:
Your students will love making a friendly, silly monster with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be concentrating in their seats, engaged, and exploring the make up of a their own funny monster creation.
This craft activity uses materials readily available in classrooms and homes and includes a printable template to create the whole project.
Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student monster chart, die and drawing papers, gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class!
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Real-Life Math fun Resource/activity! Plotting Points - A Fun Exercise
By Daniel
This fun exercise helps students become very good at plotting points on the coordinate plane. The exercise combines a love middle school students have for drawing with an essential mathematical skill.
Students learn to write down the coordinates of simple drawings accurately. They also learn to plot the coordinates of their friends accurately onto the coordinate plane.
X-coordinate, Y-coordinate, ordered pairs, coordinate plane, Cartesian Plane
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