Welcome back, campers! I am so pleased to announce that Mary Mac won yesterday’s Summer Camp Week giveaway and will be receiving a set of Color-Me-In Notecards from Chronicle Books. Congratulations, Mary! We will contact you by e-mail shortly for details about your prize.
I hope you are loving Summer Camp Week as much as I am! Be sure to follow AllFreeKidsCrafts on Twitter and Facebook to keep up with each amazing prize!
Today, I’m looking forward to exploring some great educational crafts for kids! In addition, we’re giving away a set of six American Girl Historical Craft Kits from EK Success Brand’s line of American Girl crafts to a lucky winner! Keep reading to learn about Academic Camp crafts, learn about the prize and enter the giveaway!
To enter today’s giveaway, answer the following question in the comments below:
Which is the best way for kids to learn: listening quietly in a classroom, or playing educational games?
Educational Crafts for Academic Camps
AllFreeKidsCrafts features all sorts of great educational crafts for kids, and many of them are featured in this complete collection of 39 Creative Lesson Ideas and Educational Crafts for School Kids. These crafts and activities are the perfect way for homeschoolers, unschoolers, and homeschoolers alike to create and learn with hands-on lessons for every subject.
If you’re looking for crafts for kids who are studying math, make a set of Platonic Solids Geometric Shapes or play a fun and tasty Cookie Fraction Game.
Reading and Writing camps are great for little language lovers, and we have some great tools to 
help them succeed! Draw Story Scenes on Cookie Canvases for a sweet and educational treat, make a Story Cube Reading Game as a memory tool, or create your own stories with these Storytime Stones (shown).
Scientific tots will love this Magical Milk Experiment at Science Camp! They can also create a Model Human Lung to study basic anatomy, or cool off with a Water Bottle Rocket.
Summer Camp Week Giveaway
AllFreeKidsCrafts.com is giving away a prize a day every day this week here on FaveCraftsBlog.com for Summer Camp Week. It is so easy to enter. Just go to our daily Summer Camp Week post and comment to enter! You have 5 chances to win and a new special prize each day.
Today, we’re giving away a prize for kids who love learning about history and playing with American Girl dolls. This set of six American Girl Historical Craft Kits from EK Success Brand’s line of American Girl crafts is a great way to teach kids lessons about different time periods in American history with some fun crafts.
Create Weave & Tie Bracelets (left) decorated with flower and butterfly buttons and wooden beads, just like Kaya would have worn in 1764.
Learn how to embroider a Sweet Heart Stitched Pillow like Felicity Merriman would have in 1774.
Use this Fancy Flower Wreath kit to create a lovely door decoration of paper flowers, inspired by American Girls Cecile and Marie-Grace, who made flower wreaths in 1853.
For a more modern look, create 8 flower headbands, hair clips and more with a 1934-style Fabric Flower Style Set inspired by Kit Kittredge!
Hold your most treasured items in a wooden Painted Memory Box like Josefina Montoya would have had in 1924.
Make some psychedelic and funky 1974-style String Art Cards like Julie Albright would have made.
You can win this great set of all six American Girl Historical Craft Kits by commenting on this blog post! That’s right, the winner of today’s contest will win all six craft kits! Your American girl or boy will love to make these fantastic crafts this summer when she’s learning about girls throughout history.
Comment on this blog post and enter to win six American Girl Historical Craft Kits, then check in tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. CST to find out if you’re the winner!
Giveaway Rules:
- Contest open to US and Canada residents 18+
- One comment/entry per person.
- Contest closes Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 11:59p CST.
- Please comment on this blog post to enter.
- Winners will be posted on FaveCraftsBlog.com and notified by email at 10:00a CST on Wednesday, July 18, 2012.
To enter today’s giveaway, answer the following question in the comments below:
Which is the best way for kids to learn: listening quietly in a classroom, or playing educational games?
Be sure to check here tomorrow morning to see if you won!
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Both ways. They can learn by listening to others but they can also learn from educational games. I think they learn more by listening & seeing examples set by other.
I love the bottle rocket project! I think I might put food coloring in the water so we can have different colored rockets!
I think kids learn more by play educational games. They don’t realize that they are learning they think It’s just a fun game. You do get more attention if you make it fun and enjoyable. I have to say play educational games with my children have helped me teach them the Alphabet, Math, Reading, Spanish and more.
As a retired first grade teacher, I found that children can learn both of these ways as well as many other ways. The more way you teach a concept, the more children will be able to grasp it. Thanks.
For my children it is the educational games all the way. We homeschool and that is never quiet. There are times when we will do verbal instruction, but I remember being bored out of my mind having to sit in a classroom and listen to the teacher drone on and on about a subject.
I think they learn better by being “hands on” so, educational games. In my opinion they are less likely to get bored that way. 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway! Good luck, Everyone!!
I think children each have their own way of learning. My children need to have hands on activities like learning games for the information to “stick”. Their little minds wander in a quiet classroom.
Thanks for the opportunity to win these awesome craft kits!
My granddaughter does best with educational games. She learns when she is working with other kids/fammily/parents. Sitting quietly is hard for her.
Games are fun and help kids learn with them realizing it BUT there is also a time & place for quiet classroom learning.
I have 4 kids and each like to learn a little differently. The favorite would have to be educational games though.
For my kids definitely learning games!All those ADDers can’t sit still for long!
I definitely think educational games. Gets their attention an makes them learn to listen more effectively.
Best way kids learn is hands on playing educational games.
My kids love educational games and I think they get so much more out of this, one more reason to homeschool!!!
We would LOVE this craft set, what a special treat!!!
hands on! Bring on the games.
I think kids (and adults) learn better by doing, not just by sitting and listening. In fact, auditory learning has been shown to be the least successful way to learn (most people are visual or kinesthetic learners). Thanks for the chance to win!
I feel that hands on learning is the best, especialy if there are learning disabled students in the mix
One of my dear GDs is a K-3 teacher; she would absolutely agree that educational crafts are a far better choice than sitting quietly and listening. Children learn by doing and crafts are an excellent way to provide hands on experiences. Two of my grands are in Montessori which is very hands on and they are both thriving (pre-school and entering 2nd grade). I love the crafts set.
My granddaughter says that she learns best by sitting quietly in a classroom. I think my kids liked to learn by educational games.
I believe different kids learn in different ways. So I think both work. I homeschool my daughter, and most of the time she does better with hands on activities. It’s fun to watch kids learn and grow even when they don’t know it.
Educational games are definitely thee way to go given those two choices. There is a lot to be said for interactive learning. Children learning alongside parents – whether reading, playing, or working – is the ideal ‘classroom’.
I think it’s entirely dependent on the child – some learn better one way; some another. Although I would think learning through educational games is a lot more fun than just sitting in a classroom
I have worked with kids for several years in the pass and I have had success with them learning both ways, It will depend on the program and how interesting that you make it for them.
Definitely the Educational games! They dont get bored that way.
Hi,
Based on theory of multiple intelligences I would say it depends on the child. The theory identifies eight different intelligences of which audio, art and kinesthetic are three. So the question becomes how well does the child respond to the modalities. Check out Howard Gardner’s writings for more information.
Jenny
Playing and learning 🙂
it makes it more fun
Every child learns differently. So I think that both ways work, but doing things hands on works the best for my grandkids.
I think that kids can benefit from learning both ways. For the specifics of a lesson, listening without distraction probably the way to go. However, a hands-on approach to see how the lesson plays out is definitely a better way to drive the point home. I have five children and wish that there would have been more of a mixture of both in their learning.
I teach elementary special ed, and they definitely learn best with hands on games and activities! They are more fun and engaged, and more likely to remember the skill the next time.
Definitely educational games. Kids always seem to learn and retain more when they don’t even know they are learning. Less pressure plus more fun equals more retention.
playing educational games. young minds tend to wander when they have to sit quietly and listen.
I think it depends on the child. Some learn better by listening, some by doing. A combination of methods can help reinforce the lesson.
All kids learning differently – some by listening and some by doing however I believe that for them to be able to use what they learn throughout their lives they need to have hands on learning along with listening.
Both ways gives our kids the opertunity to learn, but parents must do their job too, to be involved & instill good values to their children so they can become successful & well educated adults.
Kids always learn better when playing an educational game.
Being a substitute teacher, I have seen kids successfully learn by both of these methods. As with anything, each child has their own way of learning. Some kids learn best by listening and some learn best while engaging in activities or classroom play. Some learn best with a combination of both. Both methods of learning are important.
Hands on is always better!
Playing educational games really helps children to learn. Kids want to play and if you put play with learning, learning comes to them easier.
playing educational games as a child i was a sow me kid and i’m still that way i have to be shown how to do something i can’t make heads or tails of directions
educational games stick with them better
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That’s just how I was! I think anyone can benefit from a unique approach to learning.
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I agree. When kids learn a lesson by touching, seeing and experiencing, they remember better!
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Definitely while playing and not necessarily educational games. 😉 You can turn any playtime into an educational experience.
playing educational / hands-on games!
its more fun for kids!
Playing educational games and getting hands-on with things.
kids learn better hands on games and projects.
Through play or w/ educational games/toys
ABSOLUTELY PLAYING EDUCATIONAL GAMES! ALTHOUGH LISTENING IN THE CLASSROOM IS IMPORTANT, AND THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO LEARN FOR SOME – ALMOST EVERYONE LEARNS BEST FROM HANDS ON EXPERIENCES.