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June 28, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · 3 Comments

Bead Drop Fine Motor Jar

Building fine motor skills can be so fun for preschoolers and toddlers!  Their little fingers are getting ready to write letters, words, and draw detailed pictures.  Developing and strengthening fine motor muscles while little learners are young, set them up for success throughout their early school years. The Bead Drop Jar is a simple, low prep activity (like our other fine motor activities) that my

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June 27, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · Leave a Comment

Fine Motor Straw Flag Sticky Tray

Fine motor activities are a hit with many toddlers and preschoolers!  I try to incorporate fine motor fun into my preschool classroom every day.  Most fine motor activities are more like games or puzzles for little learners to solve, instead of work. The Straw Flag Sticky Tray includes the colors red, white, and blue and is a great way to introduce little ones to the

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May 24, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · Leave a Comment

Pizza Dough Fine Motor Pretend Play & Spelling Song

Let’s make some pizza! Kids in the kitchen!  My kids love to help out in the kitchen, whether it’s mixing with a hand-mixer or rolling out dough.  Recently, my preschooler was wondering if she could play with dough like she did the last time we were making cookies.  We didn’t have cookie dough, but we did have pizza dough!  She spent an hour creating her

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March 14, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · 11 Comments

Bunny {tail} Sensory Bin for Preschool

Sensory play with cotton balls! If there is one area of the classroom that my preschoolers visit the most, it would be our sensory table activities!  Because of this, I like to change the theme and materials in our sensory bins often.  Spring and Easter are just around the corner, so this is the perfect time of year to introduce my preschoolers to our Bunny

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February 20, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · 3 Comments

ACTIVITY: Muffin Tin Color Sorting

Sorting colors is an activity that will easily entertain the toddlers and preschoolers in your life! {without the kiddos even realizing how much learning is going on!}   The Muffin Tin Color Sorting busy bag is one of those activities that takes just a couple of minutes to set up and will be played with over and over again!  The supplies cost just a couple

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February 17, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · 1 Comment

Being Kind in Preschool {kindness quilt & bird feeder}

Valentine’s Day was the perfect time of year to focus on being kind with my preschoolers!  We focused on how kindness mattered to others we love.  The kids could come up with lots of ways that their mommies were kind to them, but it was harder for them to think of ways that they could be kind to their mommies!  After a few days, lots

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January 19, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · Leave a Comment

Winter Theme Fun in Preschool!

Brrr…it’s officially winter!  It may not be as cold as some parts of the country where we are, but the preschoolers are still enjoying all of our wintery activities in the classroom this month!  I’ve added sparkly Frozen-themed play dough.  The preschoolers are using ice blocks (Legos), polar animals, and ice picks (tees) while playing and pretending.  We always have scissors out with play dough

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January 13, 2015 By Nicole Franklin · 3 Comments

Preschool Printable: Counting Marshmallows & Number Recognition!

Hot chocolate and counting marshmallows! In my preschool class we have been working on counting and numbers.  The 3 year-olds are rocking the new activities that I added to our classroom, including filling our hot chocolate mugs up with the correct number of marshmallows! The preschoolers count one marshmallow at a time when adding them to the hot chocolate mug with kid-friendly tweezers.  They are

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