Make Your Own: Candy Countdown Calendar – After designing and making your calendar, count down the days to the holiday you made it for.
Symbols, Shapes, Letters, & Numbers Game – This game helps people to learn symbols, shapes, letters, and numbers in a less stressful way, and offers them a reason to write/draw them. It also offers players a chance to be as creative as they want to be. If the player creates a scene, or a picture, then creative thinking skills is an added benefit.
An Eggcellent Game – This timing game encourages players to compare their progress each time they play the game.
Roll-n-Score – Make and decorate your own game and keep track of your score on a piece of paper.
8 Ideas for Homemade Water & Nerf Gun Targets – Use recycled items in a creative way to make targets to encourage scoring.
Bottle Roll Bullseye – A simple game that encourages score keeping.
Yacht – Dice Game: The benefits of the game Yacht and how to play it. Links and videos.
Inspiring People: Cardstacker – Turn a simple deck or two of playing cards into an amazing structure. This activity is a natural form of engineering and requires creative and critical thinking skills.
Stacking Cup Challenge – How quickly can you stack a bunch of cups and take them down? This activity is also a natural form of engineering and requires players to think and act quickly.
Code Breaker (scroll down to Play Games) – Turn simple to make stamps into a code breaking guessing game that gets players thinking.
Rainbow Codes – This activity brings science, language, and math skills together in one activity. Players think of what they want to say, write it down in a certain way, and offer it to someone to solve.
Make Your Own: Cocoa Bubble Bath/Body wash – Purchase and measure to make your own, personalized bubbles or body wash.
Make Your Own Scented Play Clay – Measure the ingredients to make your own clay, then create whatever you like with it.
Marshmallows – Purchase and measure to make these tasty treats.
Spark of the Day: Pom – Pom Shooter – After making a simple pom-pom shooter, measure how far can a pom-pom go!
Carton Creations – Most creative projects use math to help figure out what the final outcome with will look like. This is an open-ended activity and can be turned into a game, toy, or a useful item.
Glowing Halloween Lantern, Harvest Thanksgiving Lantern, Glowing Lantern– Turn an ordinary carton into a holiday lantern. Math is needed to figure out how to cut and place the windows in this project.
Make Your Own Gift Wrap – Use recycled and simple items to decorate your own gift wrap and boxes. Some of these activities include folding projects.
Fall Cut-Outs – This creative craft project can be used for any season.
4th-of July America’s Independence Day – This post includes some activities that are mathematical in nature.
Make Folded Hand Puppet – Fold paper in a variety of ways and create a one of a kind puppet.
Halloween Origami – Have fun folding Halloween icons.
3-D Ornaments – Turn a variety of 3-D shapes into festive ornaments or something else.
Holiday & Winter Origami – Fold up a variety of winter and holiday icons.
Geometry/Shapes/Games/Puzzles
Pumpkin Face Game (scroll down to activity) – Use a variety of geometric shapes to make a one of a kind pumpkin.
Spark of the Day: Symbols of Fall Twist Balloons – Use simple twist balloons to make unique mathematical shapes.
Make Your Own Gravestones, Rounded Gravestone – The rectangular stone is a fun and creative project, the rounded one is more mathematically involved.
Pop & Play Dart Game – Make your own dart game with a twist.
Tangrams – Various geometrical shapes form a variety of interesting shapes.
The Circle – The circle is a fascinating and versatile shape. The activity in this post encourages fraction use.
Spirals – Find spirals in nature and make your own spiral art projects.
Geometric Designs – Explore a variety of geometric designs. Make your own coloring/art projects.
Fractals – Look for fractals in nature and make some of your own.
Star Shape – Turn an ordinary circle into a star, learn about different types of stars and make a variety of stars.
Heart Activities – Origami and craft projects with a heart theme.
Magic Square Puzzles – Resources for Magic square puzzles include: Printable and online puzzles, and information about how to solve them.
Yacht – Dice Game: The benefits of the game Yacht and how to play it. Links and videos.
More benefits to come…
Solitaire Challenge #1: Peg Solitaire –
Make Your Own: ‘What’s Missing’ Picture –
Last One Standing
Stacking Cup Challenge
Mini Marble Run
Cook Your Lunch Outside
Snowflake Activities & Resources
Symbols, Shapes, Letters, & Numbers Game
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