Make Learning Fun

Online and Printable Mad Libs for elementary school, middle school, and high school Are you the parent or teacher of a child who struggl...

Kapla, Keva, Citiblocs: Review and Comparison About ten years ago, my kids got a 200-piece set of kapla blocks as a Christmas gift. There...

Learn Hiragana Like a Japanese Kid Looking for fun ways to learn hiragana? You'll see how kids in Japan learn to read through games...

Fractals are lots of fun. Very helpful for multiplication, exponentiation, place value, and counting in base two, base three, etc., not to ...

A 7-year-old kid I know (his name and relation to me will be withheld to protect the not so innocent) recently tried to stretch a base hit i...

I recently noticed my kids getting grouchy and snippety with one another during (home)school time, especially while working on something tog...

We have a closet-full of board games, but Risk isn't one of them. No problem. My son, who had played once at a friend's house, made ...

Christopher Danielson is a math teacher and teacher trainer whose blog is always thought provoking for me as a teacher. He turns the ...

This is a fun game to see how many languages you can recognize by listening to 20-second snippets. The variety of sounds that people make wh...

Everybody's made a tin-can phone or string phone as a child. They're fun, they work (Can you hear me? Yes!!!), and they're quic...

The first human flight took place in a hot air balloon in France over 100 years before Orville Wright took to the air. It's not easy to ...

The most fun and delicious way to learn fractions is with food. You can count, add, subtract, even multiply and divide fractions with food...

Pine Cone Triceratops My kids went to the science museum today and made these great pine cone animal sculptures. What a wonderful way ...

Catch The Match is a deceptively simple card game that develops observation, pattern recognition, memory, and concentration skills. In the ...