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Earth Day Printables Pack!
- Patria Lincoln Posted On Apr 15, 2019 | Printables
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Celebrate our beautiful Earth with these 3 amazing Earth Day Printables!
Color in the sheet and hang it up for decoration with this Earth Day Coloring Sheet! Click here for the download!![Earth Day Crafts](https://www.learningresources.com/media/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-09-at-8.46.15-AM-792x1024.png)
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Viva La Musica! DIY Cinco De Mayo Instruments!
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo this year with some live music! The kids will love crafting these simple instruments, opening up discussion about the holiday and its origins. It is a common misconception that Cinco de Mayo is celebrated as Mexico’s independence day. In Mexican culture, May 5 actually marks the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over the French forces of Napoleon III in 1862, at the Battle of Puebla. In fact, the residents of the state of Puebla are really the ones who celebrate the holiday the most – even more than the rest of Mexico. They party with traditional Mexican food, dancers, and mariachi music. These wonderful sounds of celebration inspired us to make some homemade instruments. According to the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California, music experiences in childhood can actually accelerate brain development, particularly in language and reading skills. Down the road, learning a musical instrumental at an early age can actually improve mathematical learning and increase SAT scores. Sounds good to us, so let’s get musical! Here’s what you’ll need to make you own little Cinco de Mayo band.
Festive Tambourine
What You'll Need:
- 2 paper or plastic plates
- Decorations (stickers, markers, or paint)
- Ribbon
- Hole Punch
- Craft Jingle Bells
- Scissors
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- Using your paint or stickers, decorate the outside of your tambourine. Be colorful and creative!
- Next, match the plates up so the bottom part of the plate faces out. Punch 5-6 holes around the plate’s circumference, making sure your bottom and top plates match up.
- Cut the ribbon as long as you’d like. Longer ribbons always seem to add more drama! Then lace the ribbon through the jingle bells.
- Loop your ribbon around the holes punched in the plates, securing it with a double knot.
- Shake away! These small bells make a joyful sound!
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Beating Drum
What You'll Need:
- Clean Tin Can (be aware of sharp edges!)
- Baloon
- White Duct Tape
- Decorative Tape
- Two #2 Pencils
- Scissors
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- First, cut the balloon at the base of the “stem”. You’ll need lots of balloon material to cover the wide opening of the can.
- Stretch the balloon over the tin can. Tape the perimeter.
- Then finish the whole can with the white tape, and add decorative tape if you so choose.
Shaky Maracas
What You'll Need:
- Plastic Easter Eggs
- Plastic Spoons
- Dry Rice
- White Duct Tape
- Decorative Tape
- Scissors
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- Fill the plastic eggs with about 2-3 pinches of rice. Filling them too full will not allow for the fullest sound: less is more.
- Close the eggs and stick some tape around them immediately. If these crack open, you’ll have a big mess.
- Next, situate two of the spoons to “cup” the eggs on either side. Wrap the tape around the spoon. Follow the spoons’ handles down with tape, as well as the top of the egg.
- Add some decorative tape or stickers of your liking.
- Shake it up!
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Ultimate STEM Day Activity Bundle! National STEM Day is November 8 – a day designated to the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and math. To help you celebrate STEM in style, we’ve put together three of our very favorite, holiday-themed STEM smarts & crafts activities perfect for your Thanksgiving Day festivities and winter break fun.
Simple Physics Turkey Races
Add some get up and go to your gobble gobble with these crazy-fun turkey races perfect for perking up the party on turkey day!Here’s what you’ll need:BalloonsConstruction paperTapeStringPlastic strawsChip clips or binder clips![STEM Day Activities](https://www.learningresources.com/media/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1-Supplweies-1024x768.jpg)
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Crystal Snowflake Christmas Ornaments
Celebrate the coming winter with crystal snowflakes you make yourself!What You’ll Need:Pipe cleanersBoraxFood coloringWide mouth glass container like a measuring cupPencil, craft stick, or spatulaString or an extra pipe cleaner![STEM Day Activities](https://www.learningresources.com/media/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/1-Supplies-1024x951.jpg)
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Winter Marshmallow Dens
Turn those cocoa fixin’s into a science lesson about the winter habits of some of your kids’ favorite animals with this tasty activity!What you’ll need:ToothpicksMarshmallowsPaperCrayons or markerSnowy Animal ToysWhat you’ll do:Ask your kids to imagine where they might go to hibernate if they lived out in the wild. Have you kids draw their ideas on paper.![STEM Day Activities](https://www.learningresources.com/media/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2-Drawing-Close-Up-1024x536.jpg)
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HAPPY STEM DAY!
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World Gratitude Day Printables!
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Teaching kids thankfulness and appreciation early is invaluable in today's world. Use these free and adorable "Thank You Card" printables to let someone know how much you appreciate them!
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