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Winter Easy Crafts with An Adorable Moose Head Craft

November 26, 2024 | Leave a Comment
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We’re doing some winter easy crafts. Also look at my Winter Season Unit Study Free Lapbook & Hands-On Ideas.

Winter is such a special time for crafts and activities.

From winter solstice to snow, winter foods and traditions, and polar animals there are a wide variety of topics to learn about that you can choose from.

Winter Easy Crafts with An Adorable Moose Head Craft

For this activity today I wanted to focus on the larger-than-life cold weather loving moose through a simple and sweet craft activity.

Use it as a base for a whole moose unit study or just a quick and simple winter craft on its own.

Popsicle sticks have to be up there in my top 5 favorite inexpensive craft items for their versatility.

And of course they are so easy to get and cost just pennies.

MOOSE BOOKS FOR KIDS

MOOSE BOOKS FOR KIDS WHO LOVE TO READ AND BE READ TO

Grab a book or two to add to your home library or for a unit study.

If You Give a Moose a Muffin

If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. If you give him a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it. When he's eaten all your muffins, he'll want to go to the store to get some more muffin mix.

In this hilarious sequel to the beloved If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, the young host is again run ragged by a surprise guest. Young readers will delight in the comic complications that follow when a little boy entertains a gregarious moose.

This classic book is the perfect gift for young readers who like to giggle.

Deneki: An Alaskan Moose

Child's nature picture book.

Honk the Moose (Nature) by Phil Stong (2001) Hardcover

What do you do when a moose takes over your town?

Three young boys try to save a moose through the cold Minnesota winter.

Grab some fascinating facts as well as more ideas for winter crafts to keep hands and mines busy through the season.

MOOSE FACTS

  • Moose are the largest members of the deer family. They are found in North America, Europe, and Asia.
  • Moose are gentle animals, but they can be dangerous if they feel threatened. They will charge at anything they perceive to be a threat, including humans.
  • They are herbivores, which means they eat plants. They are also ruminants, which means they have a four-chambered stomach that helps them digest their food.
  • Moose are very tall animals. They can grow up to 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh up to 1,800 pounds. Moose have long, gangly legs and a large, humped back. They also have a long, droopy nose and big, floppy ears.
  • They are covered in a thick coat of fur that helps them stay warm in the cold winter months. They have dark brown fur on their backs and sides and lighter brown fur on their bellies. Moose also have a white patch on their rump.
  • These cold weather loving creatures are solitary animals. They only come together to mate. Moose calves are born in the spring and stay with their mothers for about a year.
Winter Easy Crafts with An Adorable Moose Head Craft

Now here are 8 easy but really cool winter crafts for kids from winter lights to the cutest abominable snowman you’ve ever seen.

8 WINTER EASY CRAFTS

  1. Learn Why Evergreen Trees Are the Ultimate Winter Wonder & Tree Craft from dyed pasta turned into pretty pine trees.
  2. Make beautiful Mason Jar Snow Globes to create a suspended winter scene that will never melt away.
  3. Make these super easy DIY Luminaries For Winter Solstice celebrations to light up the night indoors or out.
  4. The Snowflake Art Project is so pretty and while it is simple the impact is far above your basic snowflake craft.
  5. This Abominable Snowman Fork Painted Craft is just absolutely adorable and would be precious framed and hanging up.
  6. Not only are these Arctic Winter Animal Craft Ideas: Make Your Own Felt Puppets a fun craft but they provide an activity that keeps the kids entertained for hours.
  7. For a craft that encourages a little more movement, try this Pom Pom Popper Snowman to get your kids up and running on a wintery day.
  8. Check out these 10 Toilet Paper Roll Winter Crafts and Make An Adorable Toilet Roll Winter Village, I just love a basically free craft especially when it’s this cute.

ADORABLE MOOSE HEAD CRAFT FOR KIDS

You will need:

  • 6 wooden popsicle sticks
  • Black felt
  • Google eyes
  • Brown paint
  • Paintbrush
  • Tacky glue or hot glue
Winter Easy Crafts with An Adorable Moose Head Craft

Use scissors or a straight edge to cut down 1” on either side of one popsicle stick for ears, discard the remaining piece or save it for another craft.

Spread out 5 popsicle sticks, I like to use silicone mats like these to contain the mess and make cleaning up easy.

Paint at least one side of all the popsicle sticks brown, including the ears and set aside to dry.

To keep it a little neater you could also let your child color them with markers instead.

Winter Easy Crafts with An Adorable Moose Head Craft

While you are waiting for the paint to dry, cut two small ovals out of black felt for nostrils, two antlers,

Also, cut a rectangle piece just wide enough to cover the width of your popsicle sticks and long enough to cover ¾ of the height.

Winter Easy Crafts with An Adorable Moose Head Craft

Flip the dry popsicle sticks over and line them up evenly, glue the rectangle to the back to stabilize and keep them all in place.

Winter Easy Crafts with An Adorable Moose Head Craft

Add ears and antlers, secure with hot glue or strong tacky glue.

Winter Easy Crafts with An Adorable Moose Head Craft

Turn over and glue the nostrils onto the face.

Winter Easy Crafts with An Adorable Moose Head Craft

Add large googly eyes to finish off your cute moose and allow the glue to dry.

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How To Create Toilet Paper Roll Penguins For A Bowling Game

November 25, 2024 | Leave a Comment
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We’re making these super cute toilet paper roll penguins for a bowling game. Be sure you grab more ideas for winter fun on my page Winter Season Unit Study.

And then of course you know I found 12 more toilet paper roll craft ideas to make.

Toilet paper roll crafts are a great way to upcycle something that is already on hand.

How To Create Toilet Paper Roll Penguins For A Bowling Game

Once you see these cute ideas you are going to want to start saving up all your empty toilet paper rolls to work your way through them.

Penguins are flightless birds that live in the Southern Hemisphere.

Additionally, penguins are known for their black and white feathers, waddling walk, and love of swimming.

They happen to make adorable inspiration little bowling pins for a wintery themed bowling game.

And you can make as small or as large a set of pins as you like.

Six seems to be a good number and manageable to knock over.

Before we waddle into all these crafts let me leave you with a few things to share with your preschooler about these formal wearing little Antarctica cuties.

BOOKS ABOUT PENGUINS

11 Penguin Books & Resources for Kids Who Love to Read and Be Read To

Add some of these books and resources about penguins to your learning day.

Penguin's Way

With a new children’s book imprint, the Bodleian Library brings beloved classics back into print, beginning with a beautiful storybook about the life of a fascinating Antarctic species. Originally published in 1962, Penguin’s Way by Johanna Johnston tells the surprising story of these creatures, complete with colorful artwork by award-winning illustrator Leonard Weisgard. In Penguin’s Way, a playful colony of emperor penguins lives on the edge of a faraway secret sea. During the summers, the penguins are content to fish and swim in the icy waters. But, when the seasons change, they must travel more than one hundred miles to the snowy lands surrounding the South Pole. All across the snow plain, the penguins sing songs to welcome newly hatched chicks into the world, but how will the fluffy newborns survive the freezing winter? Few things pique children’s curiosity about the world around them better than a good book. Brought back for a new generation of young readers, Penguin’s Way offers a fun and creative introduction to these fascinating animals.

Mr. Popper's Penguins: All-Time Popular Children Book

Charming Characters: Meet the endearing Mr. Popper and his comical penguins, each with their distinct personalities and quirks, creating a delightful and memorable cast of characters.

Whimsical Adventures: Follow Mr. Popper and his penguins on a series of whimsical escapades, as they navigate unexpected challenges and create joyous chaos in their small town.

Heartwarming Message: Experience the heartwarming message of friendship, family, and the importance of embracing the unexpected, as Mr. Popper's life is transformed by the presence of his unusual feathered companions.

Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World

Whiteblack the Penguin is worried. He has run out of stories for his radio show, a dire situation for the Chief Storyteller of Penguinland. So Whiteblack decides to travel in search of new tales to share. The result is a journey that spans the globe and not only introduces the precocious penguin to a host of colorful characters but teaches him about the power of friendship and what it means to be a hero. Originally created in 1937, while the Reys lived in Paris, this delightful story is being published for the first time, and is sure to enchant readers young and old. From the creators of Curious George, Whiteblack the Penguin Sees The World is a timeless tale with all the hilarity and childlike sense of adventure characteristic of the Reys’ previous work.

The Emperor's Egg: Read and Wonder

Can you imagine spending the winter outdoors in Antarctica without anything to eat? That’s just what the male Emperor penguin does. While his mate is off swimming and catching loads of fish, he stands around in the freezing cold with an egg on his feet for two whole months, keeping it warm and waiting for it to hatch. Welcome to the story of the world’s most devoted dad!

Penguins!: Strange and Wonderful

A new edition to the acclaimed Strange and Wonderful series. The seventeen species of penguins come in all sizes and are fascinating in many other ways. The little blue penguin, the smallest, stands about sixteen inches high, and the emperor penguin, the largest, stands almost four feet tall. Some penguins are named for how they look, such as the black-footed penguin, while others are named for where they live, such as the Galapagos penguin. Laurence Pringle's informative book, with stunning illustrations by Meryl Henderson, introduces young readers to the life and behavior of one of nature's most remarkable birds.

12PCS Realistic Penguin Figurines

This penguin figures set was made by hand painted with high realistically detailed appearance, cute face and childish eyes. Their uniquely molded textures and richly painted details make the animals vivid. And all the animal figures stands up very well, they do not fall over. Children would like to spend more time to observe and play with them.

The Great Penguin Rescue: Saving the African Penguins

African penguins waddle around nesting colonies in lower numbers than ever before. Despite South African government efforts to protect the penguin colonies and their ocean fish supply, young penguins still struggle to survive. Fuzzy chicks waiting for food in open nests may overheat in the sun or become prey. Others simply may not get enough food to survive on their own once their parents leave. But new conservation methods, including rescuing and hand-feeding vulnerable chicks, are giving experts hope. Can volunteers and scientists help save Africa's only penguins before it's too late?

March of the Penguins

This documentary chronicles the heroic and harrowing journey that emperor penguins make amid subfreezing temperatures and violent snowstorms at the South Pole in order to mate.

365 Penguins (Reissue)

A family finds a penguin mysteriously delivered to their door every day for a year. At first they’re cute, but with every passing day, the penguins pile up—along with the family’s problems. Feeding, cleaning, and housing the penguins becomes a monumental task. They’re noisy and smelly, and they always hog the bathroom! And who on earth is sending these kwak-ing critters? Bright, striking illustrations with lots of opportunity for counting (and lots of laughs), 365 Penguins has become a perennial wintertime favorite.

Penguin: A Season in the Life of the Adélie Penguin

Beautiful, full-color photographs and an engaging first-person narrative introduce young readers to an Adelie penguin family's first view of the harsh, wild Antarctic environment.

Penguins!

An illustrated introduction to those wonderful waddling water birds!Living only in the southern hemisphere, there are seventeen different kinds of penguins.  With bright watercolor illustrations and kid-friendly language, Gail Gibbons introduces these black and white birds, describing where and how they live, what they eat, and how they hatch their young.   An exploration of the egg-laying and chick-raising habits of the emperor penguin is also included, describing how these large penguins take care of their babies in extremely cold temperatures, working together to look after one large egg at a time. Readers will also learn about threats to penguin populations, and what conservation efforts have been made to help preserve them.  A collection of penguin facts is also included.

Also, look at a few fun facts about penguins.

FUN FACTS ABOUT PENGUINS

Penguins are typically black and white.

WHAT COLOR ARE PENGUINS?

Their black feathers help them absorb heat from the sun, while their white feathers help them camouflage themselves in the snow.

WHERE DO PENGUINS LIVE?

They live in the Southern Hemisphere, in places like Antarctica, South America, and New Zealand.

In addition, they prefer to live in cold, coastal areas.

WHAT DO PENGUINS EAT?

Penguins eat a variety of things, including krill, fish, and squid. They use their beaks to catch their food.

HOW DO PENGUINS STAY WARM?

Too, penguins have a thick layer of feathers that helps them stay warm in the cold weather.

They also huddle together in groups to keep each other warm.

12 TOILET PAPER ROLL CRAFTS TO TRY

  1. There is no buzz about it, cutting strips from your toilet paper rolls creates the cutest little Toilet Paper Roll Honeycomb Honey Bee Activity.
  2.  Not only is it a cute craft but also a great game for building hand eye coordination-How To Make A Frog Craft Toilet Paper Roll.
  3. These Reindeer Toilet Paper Craft friends are just too cute.
  4. What a unique take on recycling a toilet paper roll, this Craft And Play: Toilet Paper Roll Car Craft looks so fun to make and play with.
  5. Fun and easy, try this Robot Toilet Paper Roll Craft.
  6. These unique snow people can be found in How to Make an Adorable Toilet Roll Snowman for Winter Crafts.
  7. What a pretty Cardboard Tube Unicorn Crafts, I think this one would even be a great craft for a unicorn themed party as well.
  8. Learn how to Make An Adorable Toilet Roll Winter Village to brighten up wintry days with a craft and a great decoration.
  9. While this How to Make a Toilet Paper Tube Flower Garland is left brown you could absolutely have your child paint the rolls and let them dry before cutting to add some color.
  10. Toilet Roll cats can be made in any color or pattern to match your own personal kitty, maybe even craft an entire herd of them.
  11. For a space unit or just a space loving kid this Rocket Ship Craft is out of this world.
  12. Great for preschoolers this Toilet Paper Roll Owl Craft also allows them to work on some fine motor skills as they wrap yarn.
How To Create Toilet Paper Roll Penguins For A Bowling Game

Now, let’s get to put together a set of penguin bowling pins that your preschooler will love to set up and knock down over and over again.

HOW TO CREATE TOILET PAPER ROLL PENGUINS FOR A BOWLING GAME

You will need:

  • 2 sheets black construction paper
  • 3 sheets white construction paper
  • 1 sheet orange construction paper
  • Google eyes
  • 6 empty toilet paper rolls
  • Glue sticks
  • Hot glue gun/sticks
  • Scissors
How To Create Toilet Paper Roll Penguins For A Bowling Game

First, cut out 6 pieces of black construction paper to 3 ¾”x 6 ¼”, this is the perfect size for a toilet paper roll.

Cut out 6 orange beaks (about 1” long) and 12 half sized orange triangles for feet.

Finally, cut 6 small white ovals out of construction paper.

How To Create Toilet Paper Roll Penguins For A Bowling Game

Let your child use a glue stick to put the parts of the penguin together on the center of each black paper, including google eyes

How To Create Toilet Paper Roll Penguins For A Bowling Game

Continue until all 6 are done, let glue dry completely.

How To Create Toilet Paper Roll Penguins For A Bowling Game

To make sure that it holds up to being knocked over repeatedly I highly recommend that you wrap the paper around the toilet paper roll.

How To Create Toilet Paper Roll Penguins For A Bowling Game

Secure it with hot glue rather than a glue stick.

How To Create Toilet Paper Roll Penguins For A Bowling Game

Finally, tightly ball up a couple pieces of white construction paper to make a snowball bowling ball.

How To Create Toilet Paper Roll Penguins For A Bowling Game

This fun little set is now ready for playtime, when not in use keep

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Physical Science For Kindergarten: Free States Of Matter Pages

November 24, 2024 | Leave a Comment
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Teaching physical science for kindergarten level should be fun. Also, look at my page Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum for more activities and ideas.

Besides teaching science covers a wide range of topics and many topics overlap.

Until a child reaches middle or high school grades, there is no need to break physical science down into branches.

For instance, physical science includes chemistry, physics, and astronomy.

Also, mathematics is a science.

Physical Science For Kindergarten: Free States Of Matter Pages

For example, at an early age you can teach children how many, how few, how hot, how cold, how large, how small, how far, and how near.

And one excellent way to teach physical science for kindergarten is by coloring.

Children are naturally curious about the world around them.

So, learning about the properties of matters should be a natural process.

WHAT IS MATTER

By this age children can distinguish between living and nonliving things.

They can observe water (a liquid) change to ice (a solid).

And matter is anything that takes up space and has weight, like the air we breathe and the water we drink.

Matter can change from one state to another one.

There are three main states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.

Look at some easy definitions and items to use as examples.

WHAT IS A SOLID

A solid has a definite shape.

As your child grows you can explain that molecules are packed together closely. This will lead to a discussion of atoms.

For now, they understand that solids have definite shape and volume. They stay hard.

Here is a list of some solids to share with your child.

  • wood
  • rocks
  • ice (as long as it stays below freezing)
  • wooden blocks
  • toys like dolls
  • ball
  • book
  • crayon
  • pencil
  • fork
  • eraser
  • backpack
  • shoe

Then move on to what are liquids.

WHAT ARE LIQUIDS

Too, this concept is better illustrated by items. But liquids can flow and pour.

But a liquid takes the shape of its container.

Molecules are not packed as tightly and move around.

This allows liquids to flow.

Here are some examples of liquids.

  • orange juice
  • milk
  • syrup
  • dish soap
  • liquid glue
  • rain
  • water
  • river
  • honey
  • tea

Finally, move on to gases which may be a bit more difficult to explain because we can’t see them.

WHAT IS A GAS

However, we can see what they do.

But a gas does not have a fixed shape or volume.

Look at some ways to illustrate it.

  • Helium is used to blow up balloons.
  • When water boils and gets hot we see steam. That is a gas.
  • Air is what we breathe, and it is made up of gas.

Too, let your child explore with water, which is a liquid, then freeze to turn to ice, a solid, then boil to see the steam which is a gas.

Besides it’s better to see the states of matter in action for kids this age.

MORE SCIENCE ACTIVITIES FOR KINDERGARTEN

Also, here are few more science activities.

  • Quick Unit Study & Easy Salt water Density Ocean Science Experiments For Kindergarten
  • 10 Kindergarten Fall Crafts and Craft Fun Bean Mosaics
  • How to Make an Edible Kindergarten Earth Science Tectonic Plate Activity
  • T Is For Simple Fun Thunderstorm Activities For Kindergarten
  • 8 Best Summer Unit Studies For Kindergarten | Free Ant Study
  • Growing a Seed Activity For Kindergarten Science Kids Activity
  • 8 Stellaluna Kindergarten Activities | How To Make A Coffee Filter Bat Craft
  • Rock Activities For Kindergarten And Fun Edible Rock Cycle
Physical Science For Kindergarten: Free States Of Matter Pages

Then, look these fun color by code states of matter free pages.

HOW TO GET THE FREE STATES OF MATTER COLOR BY CODE PAGES

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Creative Time Telling Activities And Free Worksheets For Young Learners

November 23, 2024 | Leave a Comment
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I have some creative time telling activities to share and free time telling worksheets.

Teaching time telling is a gradual process.

In the formative years, introduce your child to fun clocks so they understand its associated with time.

For example, point out the two types of hand. One is a long hand and the other is a short hand.

Too, some kids don’t understand what we mean by hand. I had a few of mine looking for actual hands.

Creative Time Telling Activities And Free Worksheets For Young Learners

So, it’s important for them to know that is what we call the long and short arrows.

Gradually, as your kids move from kindergarten to second grade, introduce more detailed concepts.

For example, illustrate how long a second is. I always had my sons blink their eyes.

Next, illustrate a minute. Since I had boys, everything related to running and moving.

A couple of mine wanted to run so we did that.

Last illustrate an hour by timing a cobbler, reading time or lunch time. This gradual process makes this part of math fun.

HOW TO TELL TIME BOOKS AND RESOURCES

Also, look at some of these time telling books and resources to add to your day.

9 Time Telling Books for Kids Who Love to Read and Be Read To

Add some of these resources to your day for telling time.Your kids will love hands-on games and ideas.

Clocks and How They Go

Describes the weight clock and the spring clock and how they work.

Turn & Tell Wooden Clock

Educational Details: The clock face has large red numbers to match the hour hand, small blue numbers to match the minute hand, and a segmented color disk to help kids visualize "quarter
past" and "half past

The Secret Clocks: Time Senses of Living Things

Why do some plants blossom only during the day? How do certain birds know when and where to migrate? Why are some people "early birds" and others "night owls"? In this easy-to-read volume, Seymour Simon examines the inner biological clocks of people, animals, and plants and explains what makes them tick.

Perfect Timing Game

TIMES UP: Learn to tell time in this fast paced, fun and cooperative game. The goal of this Perfect Timing card game is to get the clock to the right place just in time.

Time Dice Pair

Jumbo 12-sided dice/manipulative to reinforce basic time-telling skills. Contains 2 dice: (1) yellow with blue numbers 1-12 to designate hours. (1) yellow with red numbers: 00 -: 55 to designate minutes.

The 13 Clocks

The hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hill where a wicked Duke lives with his niece, the beautiful Princess Saralinda. The Duke fancies he has frozen time, for he is afraid that one day a Prince may come and win away the hand of the Princess—the only warm hand in the castle. To thwart that fate, he sets impossible tasks for Saralinda’s suitors. But when the bold Prince Zorn of Zorna arrives, disguised as a wandering minstrel, and helped by the enigmatic Golux, the cold Duke may at last have met his match.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery.

Clocks Tell the Time

Man has always found a great need for measuring time. This book begins with very early time-keeping, and goes through water-clocks, sundials and early clocks to modern ones. At the end is the Atomichron, which may be the accurate time-keeper that will go with rockets into space.Early mechanical clocks were worked by heavy weights, and had only an hour hand, as seen in the old clockmaker's shop used on page 4. At that time people did not feel the need to know the exact time, nor had they made a clock accurate enough to tell it. In this age of science, time must be measured exactly. The Atomichron should lose only one second in three thousand years.

Clock Learning for Kids

  • Unlock the joy of learning time with our practical and functional Montessori toys for babies. Enhance kids' clock learning to tell time with our toy clock.

Then move into concepts harder to grasp.

I don’t believe in kids being ready at exact grade levels, I believe as they’re ready teach them the next concept.

Grade levels are just to give you a goal to aim for.

CONCEPTS TO TEACH FOR TIME TELLING

After you teach the basics, look at some of these concepts to teach.

  • Teach what o’clock means
  • Also, half past the hour and explain the minute hand is on 6. They need to know it half of an hour.
  • Move on to quarter past the hours.
  • And quarter to. So quarter past and quarter to are easier to explain by a hand held clock. I showed you how to make one below.
  • Compare analog and digital time.
  • Explain what is digital time and how to read it.
  • Before you do this go over counting by 5s. If a child struggles with skip counting, time telling will be difficult.
  • Then move on to a.m. and p.m.

HANDS-ON TIME TELLING ACTIVITIES

Next, look at these hands-on math activities for learning to tell time.

  • Tick-Tock! How to Make a Hands-on Time Cool Paper Plate Clock
  • Upcycled Clock: A Color Matching Activity
  • 7 Time-Telling Fun Hands-On Time Activities and a Simple Watch Craft
  • Time Puzzle
  • Make A Rock Sundial
  • Hourly Telling Time Bookmarks
  • Learn to tell the time clock craft
Creative Time Telling Activities And Free Worksheets For Young Learners

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Easy Atom Model Project: How To Create A Fun Lego Version

November 22, 2024 | Leave a Comment
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Making an easy atom model project is really a terrific way to help kids understand the makeup of atoms.

LEGO bricks are a versatile and engaging teaching tool that can be used to teach a wide range of subjects and skills.

For example, they teach science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) in a fun way.

Easy Atom Model Project: How To Create A Fun Lego Version

LEGO is great for hands-on learning because it allows students to learn by doing.

Kids build creativity and imagination.

When working in a group LEGO learning builds collaboration, team work, and problem solving.

Finally, they can be used for learning how STEM concepts work in the real world.

If you want a different easy atom model project I have 5 more great ideas for you.

From edible to oversized models, these activities are sure to hold kids’ attention and help them retain what they are learning.

EASY ATOM MODEL PROJECT FACTS

Atoms are the basic building blocks of matter.

They are so small that you can’t even see them with a microscope!

Atoms are made up of even smaller particles called protons, neutrons, and electrons.

  • Protons have a positive electric charge.
  • Neutrons have no electric charge.
  • Electrons have a negative electric charge.

Protons and neutrons are found in the center of the atom, called the nucleus.

Electrons orbit the nucleus in paths called electron shells.

The number of protons in an atom determines what element it is.

For example, all atoms with one proton are hydrogen atoms.

 All atoms with six protons are carbon atoms, and so on.

Atoms can combine with each other to form molecules. Molecules are the building blocks of all things around us, from water to air to the food we eat.

Atoms are constantly moving and vibrating. When atoms move faster, they have more energy. When atoms move slower, they have less energy.

The study of atoms is called atomic physics. Atomic physicists have learned a lot about atoms over the years, but there is still much that we don’t know.

Easy Atom Model Project: How To Create A Fun Lego Version

Since atoms are the basic building block doesn’t it just seem fitting that we use our favorite building blocks to recreate our own model as well? 

5 EASY ATOM MODEL PROJECT IDEAS

  1. You can make your atom and eat it too with an Atomic Cookie Skillet Model that introduces another science activity, cooking, into the mix.
  2. Another edible model that is tasty, the Marshmallow Atom Project, keeps it really simple while teaching the basics.
  3. Label The Atom Playdough Activity turns another favorite ‘toy’ into a learning lesson.
  4. Go big with this How to Make a 3D Model of an Atom, perfect for co-op or a family science project.
  5. If you have a budding artist at home they may enjoy learning about the parts of an atom by learning How to Draw an Atom in 6 Easy Steps.

Finally, look at how to create a fun LEGO atom version.

HOW TO CREATE A FUN LEGO ATOM VERSION

Remember how I mentioned this was easy? It really is as simple as letting your child play with LEGO. I typed up and added in a quick key for each of the parts to help them remember and that was it!

You will need:

  • LEGO baseplate
  • Lots of 1x? Any length bricks
  • 2-6 studs (1×1) in 3 different colors
  • Typed or handwritten list of atom parts
  • 18-2×2 bricks
  • 2-3×6 plates

First, start with a reference picture of an atom online or in a favorite science book.

You can choose any color you like for each part, just be sure that you have a lot of the 1x_ pieces in a variety of lengths to create the electron paths.

Then you will need to designate a color for electrons, protons, and neutrons in single studs.

Easy Atom Model Project: How To Create A Fun Lego Version

Start by creating electron paths by making an outer “circle” and an inner “circle” with 1x_ pieces, you can achieve more of a circular shape by alternating placement at corners and randomly around the circle.

Occasionally use your designated color for electrons and replace a stud to represent the electrons moving along the path.

Easy Atom Model Project: How To Create A Fun Lego Version

Add in your desired number of protons and neutrons to the center.

Easy Atom Model Project: How To Create A Fun Lego Version

Flip two 3×7 plates upside down and make 3 stacks made up of 6 2×2 bricks across one end of them.

Easy Atom Model Project: How To Create A Fun Lego Version

Turn over your atom model plate and attach these to one end of the board.

Easy Atom Model Project: How To Create A Fun Lego Version

This will create a fun angled display for your model.

Easy Atom Model Project: How To Create A Fun Lego Version

Have your child type or write up each of the parts of an atom and then use this as a key, putting the corresponding LEGO colors next to each one.

Remove the LEGO colors from the key and see if they can recall which is which, including the names of each.

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