remembrance day activities

A great Remembrance Day craft for you and your kids.

Two file cabinets back to back. Covered with fabric makes a magnetic board.

Field of red poppies art idea to help kids commemorate Anzac Day and Remembrance Day. War is a tricky subject to broach with little kids, but teaching kids about the symbols of remembrance is a good starting point. The red poppy flower, or a field of red poppies, is one of those symbols. In Australia we observe Anzac Day on 25th April and Remembrance Day on 11th November (which is Veteran’s Day in the US). Last Anzac Day we made …

Have your kids make these beautiful fingerprint poppies! All you need is paint and fingers! These would be great on homemade cards or just for a spring art project.

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Free Printable I honour and remember you for you great sacrifice on Remembrance Day coloring pages and Download free I honour and remember you for you great sacrifice on Remembrance Day coloring pages along with coloring pages for other activities and coloring sheets

#hazleheadschool Aberdeen WW2 medals made from clay with a paperclip attached for ribbon. Used QRvoice to create a code which links to child's voice talking about their medal. Sue Gordon, Hazlehead Primary School. Aberdeen.

Easy soldier craft for little ones to do for Veterans Day, Memorial Day, or other patriotic activities

Free Printable Remembering the unknown soldiers coloring pages and Download free Remembering the unknown soldiers coloring pages along with coloring pages for other activities and coloring sheets

Preschoolers can do their part to honour this Remembrance Day by making this pretty cupcake liner poppy craft. It's a great craft to do with one child or with a group in the lead up to Veterans Day.

Since I am Canadian, I've titled this post Remembrance Day Activities but all of these ideas can also apply to our US friends for Veterans Day Activities.

Both my boys take part in the annual remembrance parade as Cubs and this year it is the 100 anniversary of the start of World War One. This has really captured the boys imagination, so we made Poppy Pinwheels. Remembrance Day, Armistice Day or Veteran’s Day as it is sometimes called is Novembe…

Every year I come up with a new Poppy project for Remembrance Day. This is the 2012 version. The poppies can be made in three ways, using white streamers, paper towels, or coffee filters. MATERIALS REQUIRED: - wc paper or heavy sketch/drawing paper - scraps of newspaper and/or book pages cut into squares and rectangles - disk tempera paint - eye dropper - stapler - white streamers, paper towels, and/or coffee filters - little square or rectangle of corrugated cardboard - text printed from…

Craft for Memorial Day....I am going to switch it up a bit, but the soldier is cute!