Your students will enjoy learning how to write a friendly letter to a leprechaun this Saint Patrick’s Day. Students learn the appropriate placement of the date, greeting, body, closing and signature. Materials: Friendly Letter to a Leprechaun template Friendly Letter to a Leprechaun template (transparency for the teacher) Pencils Erasers Word wall, Words Writing Book [...]

Your students will love making rain sticks. This can be used as a simple spring craft or it can supplement a social studies lesson about native South American culture. Appropriate for Grades: 2nd – 12th Rain Stick Craft Materials: paper towel roll toothpicks beans, rice, gravel or small pebbles paint (any colors) paint brushes 2 [...]

This spring craft is quick, easy and useful. Your students will enjoy using recycled materials to create their own Spring Bunny Pencil Holders. Materials: glass jar, tin can or plastic container (yogurt or sour cream) glue wiggly eyes (2 per student) pom poms (2 per student for the nose and tail) brown paper bag wikki stix [...]

Your students will love creating their own egg carton gardens. This easy and fun project is a great way to introduce the plant life cycle. After the seedlings sprout, send the sprouting gardens home or plant your own classroom garden outside! Types of Gardens 1. Herb Garden – basil, chives, mint, parsley, rosemary and sage. Explain how herbs are used [...]

Your students will love creating and writing about their baby chicks. Appropriate for Grades: K-2 Materials: free baby chick beak, feet and box template free My Baby Chick writers’ workshop book (black & white or color) yellow yarn wiggly eyes paper towel or toilet paper roll pen crayons pencils plastic green grass, hay or real grass [...]

Materials: Free Spring Poetry Printable Book (color or black & white) Pencils Crayons Stapler Poems             Here’s the Classic Poem, Little Bunny Foo Foo           Little bunny Foo Foo           Hopping through the forest           Scooping up the field mice           And bopping them on the head           Down came the Good Fairy, and she said           ”Little bunny Foo Foo           I don’t want [...]

Your students will love making leprechaun traps while they learn about the scientific concepts of push, pull and lever. Leprechauns will visit your classroom looking for gold coins. When your students return to the classroom after lunch they will find sparkling, green footprints and notes from a leprechaun! Here’s the free note and art to decorate the leprechaun traps. Materials: [...]

See our easy, fun St. Patrick’s Day classroom crafts projects and free shamrock, leprechaun and other St. Patrick’s Day patterns you can use in the classroom.

Your students will love to learn about writing in your classroom while you jumpstart your writers’ workshop using this activity.

This Easter, why not introduce some new Easter-themed crafts into your classroom? Easter and springtime themed crafts are a real pick-me-up for the winter blahs, and they can really energize your room. Consider the following ideas for implementation in your own classroom: Pop Bottle Baskets To make this Easter craft, you’ll need the following materials: [...]