Super simple learning ideas for kids!
The amount of teaching resources, games, and printables that can be found online can be overwhelming at times. This can be true especially when they are labeled as “free.” What does that even mean? You click hoping you actually get the entire activity for free, but then you can’t even find the right spot to download the printable. Or you have to click through many
Pirates, treasure hunts, and maps are always super fun ways to bring learning into the classroom! My preschoolers love our dress like a pirate day that we have every year. And our printable pirate number puzzles freebie fits in perfectly to those kind of themed days. It is always a good idea to have some routine to fun days and keep the learning activities just
Summer is coming! That means we all get to relax and recharge over the break. In my house it also means we have an abundance of creatures around. We get everything from frogs to dragonflies to snakes (both friendly and not so friendly!). Our frog on a log lowercase letter match is the perfect activity to play during the warmer weather while practicing alphabet recognition.
There is this ice cream place near us that only serves vanilla and chocolate custard-style ice cream each day. Along with those flavors, there is a special flavor of the day. We love this ice cream place so much, that I will check out the flavor of the day almost every day just in case we need to make time to go get ice cream
The very best way to keep learning fun and interesting as the weather gets warmer is to bulk up on hands-on activities! Keep little kids engaged and motivated with these hands-on ice cream activities for preschoolers. Little kids like ice cream. Little kids like to move and learn. And little kids like to have fun. Each of the ice cream activities in this awesome list
Every year when we go to the beach for a week, we see the cutest sand crabs! We could sit there and watch the crabs run from hole to hole forever. They duck in and out of the holes while making sure it’s safe to keep moving across the sand. This is why our lowercase letter crab match is the perfect activity for preschoolers to
There is nothing better than delicious ice cream on a warm, summery day! Ice cream is one of my favorite themes to end the school year on. It also is a fun theme to use during birthdays. Our free printable ice cream counting mats are the perfect addition to any ice cream or restaurant theme! Ice Cream Counting Mats This free printable ice cream counting
It’s not always easy to come up with alphabet activities for younger kids who have no prior letter knowledge. Exposing preschoolers to letters of the alphabet without the stress of a correct answer or desired outcome is a fun way to begin learning the alphabet. Our dinosaur egg alphabet match can be set up for young children to play different ways to fit their individual
Flowers are blooming and the weather is warmer, so spring must be here! My preschoolers only have a couple of months left with me before summer break. This means that it’s the perfect time of year to really focus on those skills that they haven’t quite mastered. In my classroom, one of those skills would be lowercase letters. Most of my preschoolers have no problem
Rainbows are not just beautiful, they are also the perfect way to reinforce color recognition with preschoolers! Our printable rainbow color play dough mats help strengthen fine motor skills while practicing color skills. Older preschoolers can build the color words with play dough. Younger preschoolers, and even toddlers, can build colored rainbows with the matching color. Play dough is a motivating learning material in my
