Gratitude Journal

Start a gratitude journal listing 5 things you’re thankful for daily or weekly.

 "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
 -Eckhart Tolle
“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
-Anthony Robbins
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
-Lionel Hampton

Create Your Own Crossword Puzzle

Big Brothers Big Sisters Crossword

Answers: 1.Sister, 2. Special, 3. Brother, 4. Friend, 5. Loyal

to create your own, go to...http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

The website will ask for words and clues about words. Your theme could be serious or wacky. Ideas: Favorite Foods, Places You want to visit, Types of Animals, Favorite Activities...

Creature Feature

With markers, paper and a vivid imagination, kids can invent and draw unusual, never-seen-before creatures.

Proverbs Activities

Fill in the blanks with the words below:

reap

nine
words
end
worm
roads
eggs
nose
policy
perfect
words
Beauty
Bad
will
leap

1. Practice makes ___________________________________________________.
2. Look before you ___________________________________________________.
3. ___________________________________________________news travels fast.

Journal It

Keeping a journal is a way to record daily events and thoughts. Explain what it is and discuss topics that can be written about, such as making a new friend, an interesting activity just completed or how you felt on the first day of school. Try to come up with new ideas. Write about your favorite sports and classes or just about how you feel. Journaling can be a great way to express emotions and problems can seem easier once you’ve written them down instead of storing them in your head. This can be private; however, you can also share with each other.

Mirror Image

Have you ever tried writing backwards? It can be pretty challenging but it’s also very fun. For this game all you need is a mirror, a piece of paper and a marker. Practice writing backwards and then hold your writing up to the mirror to see what you’ve written. The mirror will reflect your writing and you’ll be able to read what you write. For extra fun, start writing secret backwards messages to someone. Have them guess what it means first and then hold it up to the mirror so they can figure it out. You can write whole stories backwards. All it takes is practice!

Constructing Sentences

Have you ever built something? When you build something, you put the pieces together just right so that it can work properly. When you’re forming sentences you connect the words and “build” a sentence. Here’s a game that lets you have fun with constructing sentences! Write the following sentences on pieces of paper and tear the paper so there is one word on each section. Then try to recreate the sentence by moving around the pieces. You can also make up your own sentences.

Create Your Own Superhero!

Create Your Own Superhero! (Best for ages 6-10)