This set of Spanish Valentine’s Day materials and activities is from the wonderful website Nourish Interactive. The free printable Spanish materials include coloring pages, cards, a word search puzzle and a worksheet of Valentine’s Day words to alphabetize. All of these activities teach Spanish food vocabulary if you talk about them with kids learning Spanish. [...]
These printable Spanish cards for Valentine’s day are a fun activity for children learning the language. Valentine’s day in Spanish is Día del amor y la amistad (The day of love and friendship), Día de San Valentín or Día de los enamorados. Most Spanish-speaking countries celebrate on Feb. 14th, although in Colombia they celebrate on [...]
If you celebrate Christmas, Christmas cards are a fun way for kids learning Spanish to use the language. In Spanish, Christmas cards are tarjetas de Navidad, tarjetas navideñas or postales de Navidad, depending on the country. Cards are a good language activity because they are short and there is often an illustration to support the [...]
In Spanish, this game is a comecocos or a sacapiojos. In English, it is called a cootie-catcher, a chatterbox or a fortune teller. This is an excellent language activity and it can be adapted in lots of different ways to use with Spanish language learners. It involves folding paper to make a toy that fits [...]
A find-it jar (or scavenger hunt in a bottle) is a great toy for kids who are learning Spanish. I have played with these in stores and love them. Searching for the tiny boat, discovering the dinosaur – it is captivating! Find-it jars can be a good language learning activity, so I was happy [...]
I love using story sticks with kids learning Spanish. The pictures reinforce what they hear, and the movement helps them process the language. Children use the stick to order pictures of a story as they listen. These printable templates are free, the sticks are simple to make, and they are based on great books. Also, [...]
This short video from Discovery Kids lends itself to lots of Spanish learning activities. As Doki paints a picture, he talks to his friend Pincel (paintbrush). The small range of vocabulary, repetition, and great visuals make this video perfect for Spanish language learners. The video is very short, just one minute long, but there is [...]
Kids can learn lots of Spanish from a text-rich environment at home or in a classroom. Posters, signs, bookmarks, screensavers, place mats, notepads – any surface with words is an opportunity to expose children to Spanish. HP México has some really cute printables in Spanish that will appeal to lots of kids. The graphics are [...]
Mi mundo en palabras is part of the Centro Virtual Cervantes, a site created by the Instituto Cervantes of Spain. It is a wonderful interactive site designed to teach children Spanish. The target audience is seven to nine-year-olds, that is, children who can read and write. However, many of the activities can be used by [...]
Valentine’s day in Spanish is Día del amor y la amistad (The day of love and friendship), Día de San Valentín or Día de los enamorados. Most Spanish-speaking countries celebrate on Feb. 14th, although in Colombia they celebrate on the third Saturday of September. Many countries also celebrate El día del amigo in June or [...]
This activity for making a butterfly from a paper plate is from Manualidades para niños; thanks to them for the permission to embed the video! Make this butterfly with your child and at the same time provide the opportunity for her to listen to and understand native-speaker Spanish. Your child will hear Spanish as she [...]
This activity is from Manualidades para niños; thanks to them for the permission to embed the video! Make this sun with your child and at the same time provide the opportunity for her to listen to and understand native-speaker Spanish. Your child hears Spanish as she listens to the instructions, and the images make the [...]
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