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How to Melt Crayons in Molds
It's finally the time to melt our old mixed crayons to make new multicoloured star-shaped ones.
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Fingerspelling Exercise | ASL | Crayola Color Names
ASL Exercises Playlist: • ASL Exercises A fun fingerspelling exercise to stretch your expressive fingerspelling skills in ASL. Fingerspelling is a vital part of American Sign Language. The best way to get better at any skill is to...
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Story surprises
"Stories spark listeners’ curiosity and help children aged 3-7 understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction. Children become engaged when they use their creative ideas to change familiar stories. In this activity, children...
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Do you see what I hear
"Understanding stories involves listening and visualising. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create sketches based on a story they have heard or read. Children will then make connections between their story sketches and other...
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Buddies keep me company
Children learn more about emotions by seeing situations from others’ perspectives and by sharing experiences that are real or imaginary. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create and trade travel buddies with members of their...
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Let's Explore STEAM Teams
New inventions and improvements are almost always made by teams – innovation is a team sport! This video will explore how STEAM teams work collaboratively to solve problems.
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Design innovations
"Designers and engineers create new products by identifying unmet needs, then defining, exploring and assessing solutions. In this activity, children aged 12-14 will use the IDEA Design Thinking Process to reimagine and improve items...
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All the best moves
"Children aged 3-7 can use the five STEAM disciplines – science, technology engineering, art, and math – to explore living and non-living things. In this activity, children will create a game focused on how things move. By combining...
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Animals big and small
"Observing what is the same or different is an important skill for 21st century learners. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will design and play a hand-made card game. In doing so, they will build observation skills while learning...
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Arts and Crafts: How to Draw a Christmas Tree
Bella loves decorating her Christmas tree. What does your tree look like? Draw the perfect Xmas tree with her! Materials 1x Sheet of paper 1x Black pen 5-10x Colour pencils (eg., dark green, deep green, light green, brown, purple,...
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Hand drawn selfies
Self-portraits are images that look outward and inward, revealing what we truly feel inside and displaying our personalities and interests. In this activity, children aged 8-11 will create a hand-drawn selfie to explore self-identity and...
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Write an adventure
Stories can spark children’s curiosity about the wider world and help them connect with the lives of other kids who live in different countries. In this activity, children aged 8-11 will create a travel journal from a personal...
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What happened next
"Sequencing helps children understand the main idea of a story and how changing the order can change the meaning and outcome. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will illustrate a sequence of events in a story and organise them in ways...
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Harvest Hunt
Drawing and sculpting helps children understand math ideas. In this activity, children aged 8-11 will learn about sorting and multiplying. Using modelling clay, pens and paper, they will create an imaginary garden full of 3D fruits and...
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Celebrate and honor
Art and writing offer families opportunities to celebrate traditions and honour those who have made a difference. Stories about those who have come before us help young adults develop respect for their heritage. In this activity,...
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Foot Traffic
People measure all types of things everyday: distances walked, sizes of clothing, quantities of food and time for cooking. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will trace their feet and cut them out to use as non-standard measurements,...
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The future I see
When children imagine the future, they visualise their hopes and dreams. Visualising what they want to be in the future helps children pave pathways to success. In this activity, children aged 8-11 will create magic mirrors and personal...
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Meet me
Creating portraits helps children notice the similarities and differences between images of people. Portraits can be realistic or fantastical. But they all reveal something about the person. In this activity, children aged 8-11 will...
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Late arrivals
Addressing time in stories helps children understand how sequence impacts the narrative of any story – personal, real or imagined.
In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create illustrations that reflect the beginning, middle and end...
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Colorful world of animals
Nature and art can inspire children to tell amazing stories. Creating animal stories helps children understand the difference between fact and fiction. In this activity, children aged 8-11 will create an imaginary animal and build a...
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Order it again
Shapes, lines, sizes and patterns are all part of math – and art. When children connect what they have made to other big ideas, learning deepens.
In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create characters with modelling clay, then put...
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In my world
"Skills and mindsets that students cultivate today, including curiosity, imagination, open-mindedness, persistence and growth mindset, prepare them for STEAM careers. In this activity, children aged 12-14 and parents will work together...
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Make it more or less
Children are natural storytellers. When they draw, a window into their minds opens and you can see what they think and feel. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create drawings of what they see outside their window. As they draw,...
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Prices and Percentages
Combining art and math can help children understand prices, costs, nutritional and monetary value and make good choices. In this activity, children aged 8-11 will create a collage of images to help them understand the difference between...