This week I had the pleasure of hanging out with my little buddy! It has been awhile since I have had a little one with so much energy. He tired me right out! But, while it was fresh in my mind I wanted to share this cute apple granola sailboat snack we made together.
A year’s worth of preschool themes for early childhood educators to plan out their weekly activities.
Simple art project that allows children to build a skeleton using cotton swabs.
You could take a picture and use your child’s face for a my body theme or myself and I themed art project.
As a child did you ever have an excitement with dinosaurs? I did. I loved the mystery behind exploring and maybe finding something new and exciting hiding in the dirt.
Make potato stamps for any art project or theme. It is rather simple to do and children can pass hours of time stamping out pictures.
Making this liquid sidewalk chalk recipe is extremely easy, if you have cornstarch and food coloring in your home. What are you waiting for? Try it now!
So how do you make moon sand? Do you have baby oil and all purpose flour in your home right now? If, so, then you have everything you need to make this recipe. Kids LOVE it!
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Spiced apple juice pops are a healthy & tasty fall treat for children. The pops are dripping with cinnamon, honey & apple – taste fall in popsicle form.
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Stamping Blocks Make Your Own – Create a six-sided stamping block by cutting out and hot gluing craft foam shapes to the sides of a wooden block. Art blocks for any theme. Kids enjoy stamping.
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The transition back to school from summer break or even embarking on their first day of preschool or kindergarten can be a tough time for children and parents alike. The top 10 preschool books for back to school choices below will help to easy some of the tensions families face come the first couple of days of school.
Print and laminate this alphabet printable. Use erasable crayons or markers to reuse the printable day after day.
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Download and use this frog as a coloring page or in any art project for your pond units.
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Do your stamping pads dry up quick? Children forget to cover them? Maybe, you would like some additional colors but just don’t have the extra funds. Did you know it is easy to make your own stamp inks and pads and it is quick and affordable?
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Mega amount of information! Transportation theme 2 weeks of preschool transportation fun!
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Download and print the PDF files below. Once you have printed the patterns, laminate them. Bag up M&M candies and invite the children to complete the patterns.
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Make these wonderfully scented watercolors for the children to paint with. Once the paint has dried, the children can scratch and sniff their pictures for the day. The scent doesn’t last all that long, only for the day but they love the scent while painting and like to scratch and sniff right after the picture is dry.
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This simple & healthy apple smile snack is a fun way to celebrate dental health week, an apple theme or just to get a little smile out of your preschoolers.
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Halloween Tic – Tac – Toe
Print all the pieces for this game of Halloween Halloween Tic Tac Toe and laminate. Cut the 12 game pieces apart and store them in an envelope until ready to play.
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Download and print the PDF file Stained Glass Apple Art Project Pattern to create the art project: stained glass apples, under the apple theme.
What skills do children learn through play?
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I created this lesson plan with the first week of school in mind. It’s a lesson on getting to know your peers and school week. It will help the children understand the rules that are implied both in the school room and outdoors. Helping children to get to know their fellow peers as well as tell others about their interests.
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Glue is extremely easy to make and it only costs pennies on the dollar over purchasing it in the store. Try one of several homemade glues and paste recipes listed.
A full week of activities to keep preschoolers busy learning about penguins.
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Paper Mache Paste
Common kitchen ingredients made up this paper mache paste recipe. Flour, salt and water. Easy, simple and cheap crafting glue to make for your craft projects.
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Science How Water Travels Through Roots Stems and Tubes
Explain how water travels through the roots stems and tubes to the plants leaves. Not sure exactly how this happens yourself? Laura Hamilton shares this wonderful process with us.
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Make up your own herd of these paper plate reindeer. The craft has a simple materials list and it is fairly easy to pull together, which makes the craft a winner.
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Use the sandpaper bear necklace pattern to trace and cut out bear shapes from sandpaper. Rub cinnamon sticks on bears cut from sandpaper. Punch hole in the bear and wear for necklace.
This going on a bear hunt picnic activity invites the children to follow the bear paw prints on the floor to an indoor picnic. Tape the prints on the floor leading to a picnic.
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High quality first day of preschool picture sign. This chalkboard design can be used to take your first day of school photos. Simply have each child hold the 8×10 chalkboard sign and photograph them.
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Art projects and craft activities that go hand in hand with Eric Carle’s book The Very Busy Spider. Preschool art activities for the Very Busy Spider.
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