10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Fairy Tale Day
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Enjoy a special day with your kids and celebrate Fairy Tale Day this February 26!
Fairy tales can be such powerful ways to make learning fun. With interesting characters and fascinating stories, fairy tales are fantastic for kids of all ages.
Your kids will have a blast with these 10 creative ideas and resources, no matter what age.
Tell a Fairy Tale Day is recognized on February 26. Fairy tales are amazing resources to add to your homeschool and learning fun. Filled with interesting and memorable characters, storylines, and lessons, fairy tales provide you engaging material for kids of all ages.
To add to our February Fun Days, I gathered these 10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Fairy Tale Day. You will find resources for:
- hands-on activities
- movement games
- creative crafts
- imaginative play
- STEM learning
Suggested Resources to Celebrate Fairy Tale Day
Hopefully, you have books and other materials that contain fairy tales. These timeless treasures are invaluable in the development and education of your kids. When paired with creative and hands-on activities, fairy tales can become even more powerful as teaching tools.
Here are a few of our family's favorite resources for fairy tales:
The Three Bears Board Book: An absolute favorite with all of my boys! They love when I use silly voices for each of the characters.
The Little Red Hen Board Book: Another awesome resource with bright colors and sturdy design. Perfect for young learners!
Usborne Illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales: Gorgeous illustrations with 15 fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm.
Usborne Fairy Tales for Bedtime: Another wonderful resource for fairy tales! We've enjoyed these stories again and again.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A Classic Fairytale Keepsake StorybookLittle Red Hen Big BookUsborne Illustrated Grimm's Fairy TalesFairy Tales for Bedtime (Bedtime Stories)
Usborne Illustrated Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: Beautiful illustrations accompany the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
Peek Inside A Fairy Tale Books: These Usborne books are fantastic resources to engage kids, especially young learners. Titles include Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood.
Illustrated Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales by Various (Oct 25 2011)Peek Inside a Fairy Tale: Snow White and the Seven DwarfsPeek Inside a Fairytale Little Red Riding HoodPeek Inside a Fairy Tale : The Little MermaidPeek Inside a Fairy Tale Sleeping BeautyPeep Inside A Fairy Tale Princess & PeaPeek Inside a Fairy Tale: The NutcrackerPeek Inside a Fairy Tale: The Elves and the ShoemakerPeek Inside a Fairy Tale CinderellaPeep Inside A Fairy Tale Snow Queen
10 Creative Ways to Celebrate Fairy Tale Day
Here are some wonderfully creative ideas to boost your learning fun with fairy tales!
Fun With Fairy Tales: Hands-On Learning Stations: Family Schooling provides these awesome ideas for hands-on learning fun with fairy tales.
Colorful Fairy Tale Cardboard Castles: Awesome idea from Pink Stripey Socks! Hands-on DIY project to build your own fairy tale castle by recycling cardboard.
FREE Fairy Tale Shadow Puppets: Meet Penny shares this free printable. Use to help with narration, imagination, and fun!
Fairy Playdough Recipe: This playdough recipe from Laughing Kids Learn features the color pink. You can easily switch colors if your boys (like mine!) refuse to touch pink.
Draw A Fairy Tale Map (Education.com): Practice map skills with this learning fun activity with fairy tale themes.
Fairy Tales Castle Art Project: Deep Space Sparkle provides this tutorial to help you teach your kids how to draw a castle.
Count and Climb with Jack and the Beanstalk: Fun hands-on activity for young learners by Rainy Day Mum.
Three Little Pigs Houses: Science Sparks shares these STEM activities for hands-on learning.
Math Activities for Jack and the Beanstalk (Fairy Dust Teaching): Creative and hands-on learning activities for this fairy tale.
An Outdoor Game for Kids who Love Fairy Tales (with printable action cards): I Can Teach My Child has these cards that provide kinesthetic prompts for learning fun.
Hope these resources and creative activities help you celebrate Fairy Tale Day with tons of learning fun! How will you add sparkle to your homeschool and family with these ideas?
I love the fantasy characters and magic in fairy tales. You can let your imagination roam free. Hope you have the chance to read my new picture book The Wish Carvers a never-been-told-before fairy tale about two sibling elves that come across a knife with the words “what’s carved with me will come to be” on the handle.