Spanish counting activities teach numbers and are also useful for teaching other vocabulary. I made these printable Spanish counting activities…
Spanish number games build skills and confidence with important vocabulary. Play these Spanish number games with your students to give…
Un elefante se balanceaba is one of the best known Spanish children’s songs. It is a counting song and the…
Cinco Puntos Press is a small, independent publishing company in El Paso, Texas. They publish many beautiful books rooted in…
Pacca Alpaca makes educational games for children. Both Pacca Alpaca Basic Language Learning app and Pacca Alpaca Travel Playtime app introduce…
Math problems are excellent reading comprehension practice. Proble+ (pronounced proble-mas) are engaging online games that combine Spanish reading comprehension and…
Plastic eggs are an easy, hands-on way to play Spanish matching games. You can make the activities more effective by…
These five songs all teach children to count from 1 to 10 in Spanish. Most of them teach other vocabulary…
I use paper cups for all kinds of activities in preschool Spanish. We count into cups and use them for…
Speaking Spanish with kids is fun, but it can also be hard to fit into a busy schedule. Use these…
School is winding up for kids, and many of us are looking for an end of school year activity. One…
This great World Cup Activity Pack from Multicultural Kid Blogs is in English, but there are many ways to use…
These three stories from Barefoot Books have a prince or princess and a charming fairy tale setting. They also have…
These five Spanish activities for kids take almost no preparation. I asked readers about making sets like this a series…
I have used Cuadernos Digitales Vindel many times when I needed basic math problems or language activities and did not…
In my work with Spanish learners, of course I look for picture books that teach Latino culture. Given that, it…
This picture with hidden hearts can be used in lots of different ways to engage kids with Spanish. You can…
Spanish has a wealth of traditional finger plays, rhymes and songs for children. Kids love games with actions, and these…
Children all over the world sing about elephants swinging on a spider’s web, and keep singing and singing as they…
I am so happy to be able to share these great Spanish songs for kids with my readers. Rockalingua is…
Playing with patterns or sequences, kids can speak lots of Spanish. I like pattern activities because you can associate vocabulary…
Rockalingua has a free 11-page set of printable activities to teach children Spanish colors and numbers. This is a wonderful…
Last week I shared two Spanish color-by-number pages that work well for talking about Christmas in Spanish-speaking countries. They are…
These Spanish Christmas color-by-number pages teach colors, numbers and vocabulary. They are an excellent opportunity to talk to children about…
Leanna is a stay-at-home mother to a sweet, funny, rambunctious three year old boy and his adorable, smiley baby brother…
Teaching children numbers in Spanish is fairly easy, so you might wonder why you would ever put a young child…
There are lots of hands-on activities that you can do with kids to teach the shapes in Spanish and use…
Playing with color is a wonderful way to speak Spanish with children. They learn or practice the Spanish color words…
Kids love playing with bean bags. Like balloons and water, bean bags almost guarantee happy children and a successful activity…
Chile Crece Contigo was established by the Chilean government to support and protect children and families. As one small part…
This Spanish online game, Un día en el circo, is from a set of activities called Diverland. The activities are…
Educapeques is an educational portal with lots of resources for teachers and parents. On the website, Editorial Educapeques of Spain…
This time of year there are lots of plastic eggs around. If you find yourself with a few extra, consider…
The video below by Fiestikids is a great review of the Spanish numbers 1-20. It teaches kids how to express…
Sticky notes have to be one of the handiest inventions ever. In addition to keeping us organized, they are wonderful…
I play this simple Spanish game for kids with students and they love it. I usually play with preschoolers, but…
I know I am getting ahead of myself, but I thought it would be better to post these early. These…
These patterns of common objects from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt can be used in lots of ways with children learning Spanish…
These printable puzzles are short, self-checking vocabulary or reading exercises. Kids cut the scrambled puzzle apart. Then, they match the…
Talking about photographs is a good way for children to practice Spanish. This activity with a picture of a birthday…
Photograhs with simple descriptions are an excellent way for children to hear and learn Spanish. With pictures, kids understand…
LinguiMind is an iPad app designed to introduce children to numbers, letters and colors in Spanish (and French and English)…
Kids in Wisconsin are building lots of snowmen this week, so we are talking about them in class too. This…
With Christmas coming, I know that lots of us are looking for gifts for Spanish language learners. Parents of my…
Proble+ (pronounced proble-mas) are engaging online Spanish games that combine reading comprehension and basic math skills from the Ministerio de…
Poems for children in Spanish teach language and culture through rhythm, rhyme and images. Simple structures and familiar vocabulary make…
iPad apps for kids provide fun ways to practice a language. Gus on the Go is an app for learning…
The school year is starting and many of us will be working with the days of the week in Spanish…
I have written about 9letras before, but with the school year starting I thought it would be a good idea…
Tripas de gato is a traditional game my kids played in Mexico, and it can easily be adapted as a…
The title of this traditional Spanish number game, a pares y nones, means evens and odds in English. It is…
Kids can learn and practice lots of Spanish as they do math problems. Math word problems have language that kids…
While I am here in Mexico, I bought more of these pinzas to use in my classes and I realized…
This traditional Spanish game, El juego de la oca, is a board game similar to Snakes and Ladders. Players roll…
Manzanita del Perú and En un café are traditional counting-out rhymes to start games. For both, kids usually count to…
Chillola is a website designed to let children explore different languages. The site has lots of basic Spanish vocabulary accompanied…
This counting activity with Spanish audio is perfect for little ones. In Cuenta con Manitas children count the bees around…
The album Uno, Dos – Songs for Learning Spanish is part of the educational project Sing with Señor. This music…
This Spanish game is a comecocos or a sacapiojos. In English, it is called a cootie-catcher, a chatterbox or a…