Continuing with our back to school theme this month, here are a few free websites full of crafts and activities for all my fellow teachers to use throughout this school year!
I've used this website multiple times with my students.
They have activity e-books that contain all the cut and paste crafts they have available, but they also have the crafts in singles. Some of the crafts are themed for holidays such as Easter, but they also have some animals ones, bugs ones, and plants ones.
These cut and paste crafts are great for developing fine motor skills and, with younger and ESL students, they're great for vocab building as well.
My students really enjoy these crafts, they're constantly asking me to do them during break time.
It's definitely worth trying out with your students!
On this website, they have an extras sections full of fun activities for students. A personal fav of mine is the colour by number pages. They have a nice variety of images to choose from, both themed and not.
They also have a few paper crafts such as paper squishies, and paper roll unicorns. These are much more hands on and involve more fine motor and hand-eye coordination.
Both these crafts can be a used for a more relaxed day of learning, or perhaps as a downtime/break time activities during class. Definitely worth checking them out!
P.S. they have kindergarten graduation diploma templates that are beyond adorable!
Twistynoodle has some really cute colouring pages that are both themed and not (the Halloween and fall themed ones I'll definitely be using some of these next month!).
Cololuring sheets that are colouring by numbers or letters, can really help students learning not only their numbers and letter as well as colours, but learn it in a more fun and relaxed way, even if that's just matching the symbol to the colour.
I think a couple of these pages stapled together could make really great silent activity booklets for students to have use. Printing these in a lump sum like this may help save on time and slow pace during lessons if needed.
If you try them out with your students, let me know how it goes!
Whether you're a student or an educator, who hasn't heard of Kahoot? If you haven't though, Kahoot is an interactive quiz style game, that students join through their phones/computers using a specific code.
When I was still in school, and when I did my TESOL Practicum teaches, we used Kahoot as a fun way to learn/test students' learning.
During my TESOL teaches, I taught a lesson on writing a formal email in English. I used Kahoot as a way to do a multiple choice answer game on the topic. I created some emails that had errors in them, added them to the Kahoot, then gave 4 options for my students.
These 4 options could include something such as missing a greeting, or it has the wrong recipient name. My students really seemed to enjoy the activity. It was a nice break from having to speak or write in their second language.
As educators, while we can create our own Kahoot to use with our students on what they're specifically working on, we can also, use the pre-made ones that have been made for public use.
For public use, I found a really cute one that uses Pixar to teach about genetics. Kahoot is absolutely worth checking out and trying out with your students.
Think you would use any of these with your students? I'd love to hear how in the comments below!
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