Lemonade for sale! My own preschooler has been obsessed with sensory soups lately! Whenever we are outside, we are filling our favorite plastic bin or water table with something colorful and fun to explore with. {dollar store and Target Dollar Aisle finds are always a hit!} When I asked her if she wanted to make pretend lemonade, she was all in! We decided together what
Printable Watermelon Counting Cards
The preschool year is winding down and summer is just around the corner! Summer brings pool parties, camp-outs, lazy days, and if your family is anything like ours…lots of watermelon! The Printable Watermelon Counting Cards {download at the end of the post} will fit into teaching about the letter Ww, numbers and counting, and any summer thematic unit. Affiliate links included in this post.
Alphabet Flower Letter Writing in Preschool
Alphabet flowers are blooming! Handwriting in preschool doesn’t usually involve a pencil and paper like in the older grades. Preschoolers need fun invitations to feel like they are playing while learning. This is why fun learning games are perfect for preschoolers! The Alphabet Flowers Handwriting Game brings learning outside and encourages letter matching and writing practice! Affiliate links included in this post. Alphabet
Investigating WORMS in Preschool
Wiggly worms! Earthworms are fascinating to preschoolers. FAS-CIN-ATING. Whether the little learners are brave enough to actually touch the worms, or would rather observe from the sidelines, worms are a great tool to use to teach across all learning areas in the classroom. My class has been feeding worms to baby birds in our newest sensory bin, learning about how worms help the soil, and
Ladybug Counting Preschool Window Activity
Learning with ladybugs! Counting ladybug spots with reusable stickers on a window or in the bathtub is a fun way to practice numbers again and again! Bringing learning outside {or even inside looking out!} makes learning more interesting to preschoolers. In preschool, we have been learning about bugs and The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle is a big hit right now. The Counting with Ladybugs
Baby Bird Eats the Worm! {fine motor sensory bin}
Wiggly worms! Mother birds feed their babies wiggly worms while they stay safe in their nest. Those wiggly worms can be hard to hang on to! This sensory bin is a big bird nest full of wiggly worms and baby birds waiting to be fed. Strengthen fine motor muscles, work on color sorting, and have fun playing all at the same time! Just like our
Reusable Colorful Caterpillar Alphabet Sticky Wall
We are loving everything about spring at preschool right now! There are so many stories, finger plays, and songs about caterpillars and butterflies that my preschoolers are having so much fun learning about them! To add to our themed learning centers this month, I created a Colorful Caterpillar Alphabet Sticky Wall for the classroom. It was an instant hit and my preschoolers are doing a
Butterfly Count & Clip Number Cards
Independent learning activities are always a hit in my preschool class! We have been working on counting different kinds of things (besides just the numbers on the calendar) like frog jumps, egg shakes, bunny hops, ball bounces, and more! Each time, we use the same method. The kids have learned to point and count (or hop and count…shake and count…etc) so that the counting is
Chicken Eggs Sorting & Fine Motor Sensory Tray
I put together this sensory tray full of chicken eggs and Easter basket grass with the help of my preschoolers. Before we could even start setting up the tray though, the grass (which we were calling hay) needed a haircut! When you take the grass out of the bag, it seems like one long piece all wrapped up and is almost impossible to really separate.
Making Purple Science & Preschool Song
My preschoolers have had a blast shaking eggs to Laurie Berkner’s, I Know a Chicken, song! Our egg shakers are simple to make – plastic eggs filled with rice (beans, pebbles, beads) and taped or glued together. Ta Da! Super simple, super fun egg shakers. Because the kids cannot get enough of this song, I came up with a new way to shake some eggs