Super simple learning ideas for kids!
Preschoolers love to explore with play dough! Play dough is a great tool for preschoolers to strengthen fine motor muscles in their little hands while learning and playing. Themed play dough centers are a big hit in my classroom because they allow the kids to work independently. Spring is just around the corner so flowers will be blooming soon! Print the spring flower play dough
Dr. Seuss’ birthday is a great excuse for some extra fun learning games! Preschoolers love to learn through play and when there is rhyming involved, it’s even more inviting! After reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, I set up a color game for my preschoolers to play. Different colored fish were hidden around our classroom. Each child got a turn to find
My preschoolers love to show off their skills lately, so they were more than eager to practice writing on our new Rainbow Writing windows! This new activity was easy to set up in just a few minutes with supplies we already had in the classroom. The kids practiced writing letters, writing their names, and drawing each other. The activity ended up being the most popular
My preschoolers like nothing better than to stick their little fingers into rice. There is something so soothing about it, that our rice bins get a lot of love! We have been learning about the letter Rr and rainbows, so our rainbow rice was the perfect addition to our learning. Making colored rice is as simple as making colored noodles, but may take a few
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
Rainbows and fun spring activities are popping up everywhere! My preschoolers love learning centers that give them independence to be like the “big kids” – the kids in the 4 year-old classes. We have been drawing pictures and writing detailed “sentences” about them both in circle time and in our writing center. The kids have been working with numbers in our number count center from my
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
Math games are a great way to add fun to learning. Preschoolers love to actively learn! Rolling dice, tossing a ball, or picking a card adds a hands-on opportunity to discover. The Roll to Fill math game can be played individually, with a partner, or in a group setting like circle time while working on number identification, counting, and one to one correspondence. The game
Valentine’s Day is almost here! This means that candy can be found in every store that you go into. Instead of buying it to eat…buy it to learn with. With 4 different versions of candy hearts available this year – regular conversation, mini, large, and ABC – there are so many ways to use them in the classroom! Patterning is just one of the
Preschoolers love when 2 colors are mixed together and create a new color! We have mixed colors with cans of veggies, Christmas tree branches, medicine droppers, and our fingers so far this school year. Hands-down, rolling cans in a huge bin to make orange was my preschoolers favorite color mixing activity! They still talk about it 4 months later. This month, the colors
