Make a homemade abacus with your child or students using just a few basic materials – in fact, we are sharing two different homemade abacus designs – a simple system that is great for young learners and a slightly more complicated abacus based on a Japanese soroban abacus that helps older students who are already […]
DIY Heart String Art: Tween Craft Idea
Inside: This sweet heart string art project makes a great project for tweens and teens who love to craft. Searching for a fun craft for tweens or teens? While string art definitely harks back to the 60s or early 70s with a kind of retro vibe, this DIY heart string art (try saying that three […]
7 Young Adult Books for Social Emotional Learning (Grades 6-12)
Before the advent of cell phones and iPads, books more regularly served as an escape from everyday life for generations of teens and tweens. Unfortunately, often nowadays our students are more likely to read a tweet, watch a TikTok video or scroll SnapChat then pick up a book. But putting the right young adult book […]
10 Math Dice Games for Kids
It’s time to get rolling with this fun collection of ten math dice games for kids. The following ten math dice game ideas all use dice – from one or more regular six-sided dice to those which have a greater number of sides. Be sure to keep a selection of dice in your math resource […]
Weaving for Kids: DIY Twig Frame
Weaving is a fun creative activity at any age and this cool DIY Twig Frame is the perfect weaving for kids activity for tweens and teens. It makes a great addition to our Summer Crafts for Tweens collection and, like our recent Craft Stick Lantern, the finished result looks great displayed in their bedroom or […]
