Personally I'm an advocate for NOT having my kids do a lot of structured learning over the summer. I think they need a break, and I look instead for learning opportunities in fun things we would be doing anyway. For example, I've written a bunch of blog posts about ways your kids can learn while … Continue reading Summer Learning
My niece Gaby has been busy using The Trip Clip website to create packets of printable mazes for me to sell on Teachers Pay Teachers. You can print an unlimited number of mazes yourself if you purchase the maze activity on The Trip Clip website, but if you want to just get some mazes quickly … Continue reading 6 Books of 30 Mazes: Beginner To Extreme
This is a fun way to encourage a little learning while you're on vacation, and you'll have a great keepsake from your trip at the end of it. The Trip Clip will let you print as many of these pages as you want. They are a nice size (a half sheet of paper) which can … Continue reading A Child’s Travel Journal
Sneak in a little handwriting practice with these two holiday-themed writing activities. Letter To Santa Have your kids dictate their Christmas wish list to you. Enter it into the letter tracing activity on The Trip Clip website and it will turn into dotted letters your child can trace. Kids who aren't reading or writing yet … Continue reading 2 Fun Holiday Writing Practice Activities
BINGO is a fun way to help kids learn their weekly spelling words! You can use The Trip Clip to make your own spelling BINGO games using any spelling list you want. Parents can use the list a teacher provided to make a BINGO game to help their kids practice their words each week. Teachers … Continue reading Spelling BINGO Bundles (1st – 5th Grade)
BINGO is a fun game, and an incredible learning tool. From travel bingo, to chores bingo, to spelling bingo, you can make any kind of bingo board you need with The Trip Clip. There are many different ways you can play bingo. Whether you're aiming for 5 in a row, blacking out the whole board, … Continue reading Make Any BINGO Board
Week 35: Practice Writing - Write a Book! Having your kids write their own book is wonderful writing practice! When my son was 5 and waiting for his little brother’s Play Gym class to end, I stapled together a set of these templates that included a picture and a writing space below, and he wrote a … Continue reading Week 35: Practice Writing – Write a Book!
If you're looking for new ways to help kids practice their spelling lists beyond quizzing them over and over, try some of these activities that let kids experience the words in many different contexts. They can really help the spelling words sink in, and can also be a lot more fun for the kids! You … Continue reading 5 Creative Spelling Practice Ideas
Week 6: Learning Through Drawing This is something I may need more than my kids. Whenever we sit down together to draw, I get immediate drawer's block. That's a thing. Really. Seriously, though, there's something about staring at that blank page that just makes me freeze. Sometimes, a little inspiration is just the thing that's needed. These drawing … Continue reading Week 6: Learning Through Drawing
You can learn at the grocery store - in Spanish! Many of The Trip Clip® activities allow full customization, which means you can easily make them in any language you want. Whether Spanish is your native language, or you want to practice a second language, you can have fun doing your grocery shopping in Spanish! … Continue reading Apriendo en la Tienda de Comestibles: 10 Actividadas Gratuitas
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