These are just the hats I’m rejecting!  The rest are in plastic boxes labeled by type.  You may not have silly hats, but do you have an old baseball cap?  How about a fun ski hat?  A tennis visor?  A sun hat?  Hats can add a bit of fun to your usual routine.  Match [...]

If you’re like me, somewhere in the depths of your bathroom you have a box of those tiny bandaids that don’t stick on any body part or a box of Dora bandaids that your kids refuse to wear.  Put those bandaids to good use the next time you want to practice body parts vocabulary or [...]

Sorry guys.  Ask your wife or girlfriend!  Don’t you find it hard to throw away those wonderful sturdy little boxes?  Here are some fun things to do if you have enough boxes for all of your students.  You can find all sizes and kinds of boxes on the internet.
For advanced vocabulary:  Print vocabulary words.   Put [...]

Beanie babies!  Somewhere in your house you probably have stuffed animals – yours or your kids’.  If not, you find them everywhere – at garage sales, in thrift shops, on sales tables.  There are so many things you can do with stuffed animals.  I love Beanie babies because they are cheap and small and you [...]

I have a new plan.  If I start a post with the words BASEMENT TIP, you know I’m going to suggest a prop you might be able to use to spice up your teaching.  If I ever figure out how to create a virtual tour of the basement, you’d know long I could keep this [...]