Do you need a hands-on, sensory lesson to teach about kind words? You will love this! Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and even older kids! Also part of the Virtual Book Club for Kids!
Sharing activity inspired by Should I Share My Ice Cream by Mo Willems! Perfect for homeschool, classrooms, or family fun. Includes a free printable!
Discover math Valentine's Day activities your preschoolers will adore. All hands-on ways to practice counting, measurement, patterns, and more!
A Preschool Friendship Theme that includes preschool lesson plans, activities and Interest Learning Center ideas for your Preschool Classroom!
You can easily help your students get to know each other. Try some of these games about friendship to help your students out.
A Preschool Friendship Theme that includes preschool lesson plans, activities and Interest Learning Center ideas for your Preschool Classroom!
Creating A Classroom Community Through Art Part 1 Red, yellow, and blue are great alone, but when you mix them you create something beautiful. This is how lasting friendships are formed. Two individuals coming together to create something beautiful - FRIENDSHIP. The children pick a friend to work with and were given a large sheet of paper to decorate. We used tempera paint (red, yellow, blue), flannel sheets, and plastic plates. We diluted the paint with water to make it easier for it to pass through the flannel sheet. The children then placed one hand in one of the primary colors, and made handprints on the table. "What does the paint feel like on your hands?" "What do you think will happen if you hold hands and mix your colors?" "Can you create that color again?" "How many different colors can you make?" How can you make that color brighter?" Holding Hands to Mix Colors Color Mixing: Yellow + Blue = Green Color Mixing: Red + Blue = Purple One of the final art pieces. This is a working piece of art that the children will continue to add to, and extend their ideas. More to come very soon!
This toddler friendship activity is easy and fun to make and is a simple reminder that we are all friends in our classroom. Free printable!
A Preschool Friendship Theme that includes preschool lesson plans, activities and Interest Learning Center ideas for your Preschool Classroom!
It’s important for preschoolers to have friends at a young age. Friendships help children develop many important life skills, like sorting out conflicts and getting along with other people. Encourage the class to make new friends and help them celebrate their friendships with the crafts listed below. These crafts are preschool-friendly, and children can play ... Read more
My Body themed activities and centers (FREEBIES too)! Preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kiddos will love these centers.
Hands-on math, literacy, and kindness activities inspired by the book Strictly No Elephants. Perfect for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten littles.
Help your student develop the skills they need to be good friends. Try these activities about friendship for preschool classrooms!
Looking for fun Back to School Themes to use in your classroom? Check out these fun, play-based preschool activities for the first few weeks of school. Lots of math, literacy, patterns, tracing and more hands-on fun.
Use our Free Friendship Unit in your classroom to teach students the characteristics of a good friend and how to make the right choices at school and at home when it comes to navigating and maintaining friendships. This free friendship unit is perfect for back to school time or a refresher anytime during the school
ALL ABOUT FRIENDSHIP Friendship and conflict solving skills are so important to teach our kiddos. Our job is to teach them important social skills. They need these tools to ensure successful relationships with their peers and adults. It is tricky, but it can be done! I am sharing some
This friendship gross motor activity makes friendship activities for preschool fun, especially with an ice cream theme that kids will love!
Sometimes the easy and classic preschool crafts are the best. Today I'm sharing a super easy paper plate craft for all reptile-loving kids. We're crafting some beautiful paper plate snakes! Watercolor Paper Plate Snakes This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! This weekend our preschool is holding its annual fall fundraiser. We're serving all-you-can-eat pancakes (yum!), offering face painting, showing a whole bunch of reptiles, and making these fun paper plate snake crafts. I made a couple with my son a couple of days ago just to try the craft out. It was a complete hit! So I'm excited to make them with other kids this Saturday. Here's what we did! First, I cut out the snake shapes from paper plates. (It was super simple swirl!) Then, we drew "secret designs" with white crayon. (He loved doing this part.) And then we painted them with these paints to reveal our secret snake designs. (We love our liquid watercolors, but we also love using these really affordable watercolor cakes too!) Of course, we also added googly eyes too! Once the paint dried, we added finishing touches with glitter glue. (I bought a huge bottle of gold glitter glue from Michaels. But you could also get glitter glue from Amazon too.) My son really enjoyed smearing the sparkles everywhere with a paint brush. (FYI- Glitter glue will smear your liquid watercolors. But we didn't mind too much. Also, glitter glue tends to muck up brushes. So, I have several brushes that are dedicated "glue brushes" so we don't ruin our nice watercolor ones.) I think the kids on Saturday are going to have a blast making these snakes! 4 More Colorful Paper Plate Art Projects: If you love colorful paper plate projects, you'll love these other awesome ideas: Doughnut and Watermelon Paper Plate Purses Paper Plate Toucans Gorgeous 3D Paper Plate Flowers Paper Plate Dragons Even More Creative Paper Plate Crafts! Here are some more fun paper plate crafts from some of my favorite kid-craft loving bloggers! Mix and Match Paper Plate Faces | Hello Wonderful! My World Paper Plate Craft | In the Playroom Paper Plate Monkey Craft | Easy Peasy and Fun Paper Plate Turkey | I Heart Arts N Crafts Paper Plate Inky and Clyde Craft | Artsy Momma Paper Plate Acorn Craft | A Little Pinch of Perfect Let's keep in Contact! You can always find more fun ideas on my Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter accounts! (Or subscribe to my email mailing list by filling out the pink bar at the top of the screen. Happy making, friends!
Teachers can use these 15 friendship books and videos for the classroom to teach kids friendship skills: how to make friends and how to be a good friend.
Whether it's the beginning of the school year or anytime in the middle--this is one of my favorite activities to do with students. As much as school is about reading, writing, math, science, social studies, PE, art, music, and all the subjects--it's even more about the relationships that students build with their peers. No classroom is perfect because we are all learning! We start off with FRIENDSHIP TOWERS. At first I have some building blocks (you can use Jenga blocks, unifix cubes, really anything that you can build with) and we talk about what makes a great friend by asking questions like: What do great friends do? What do they sound like? What do they look like? (as in actions) What do they make you feel like? And with each response I build a tower. I have my students write down key terms that they say and add to their "Friendship Tower" page. A freebie printable is at the end of this post for you to use because #yourock. Then I talk about how all friends aren't perfect...and I take away a few blocks. We discuss how this doesn't mean that a friendship is over, it just means that you have to keep building. Now sometimes something might happen where you feel your friendship tower has been completely destroyed. Sadsville. We discuss cirmcumstances like this because students will encounter this--it's real life y'all. BUT then we talk about how it's okay to rebuild and refortify your friendship and how it is totally possible! Then students get to build their own friendship towers and encourage one another and cheer each other on for the "coooolest tower" or the "tallest tower" or the "funkiest tower" and so on. I'm allllll about simplicity with a big impact and my students alllllllways love this one. JUST had to share! Will you try this? I think you should! Let me know how it goes in the comments. Oh, and grab this handy dandy freebie printable {HERE} Over and Out!
Hello to my Preschool People! I’m sharing a lesson on friendship today through the story of David and Jonathan. This is a great lesson if you are a weekday preschool teacher to integrate with a “friendship” theme in your classroom. […]
Friendship-building activities help children in K-3 develop strong social skills. When relationships are an important factor in education, kids succeed in school and life.
We wrapped up Friendship Week today. We did a lot of discussing what it means to do a friend and what are some fun/safe things you can do with your friend. I created this fun matching game to use in our sensory bin. I dyed some rice for the first time and it turned out perfect! It also reminded me of grass, so I found pictures of kids on the playground. On the cards I wrote words that describe what a good friend does, like share, help, kind, etc. Then, we picked a card, read the word, and discussed the word more. I added these fun "Buddy Builders" from Amazon and they were perfect "friends" for our park. This book is a great way to talk about the nice things our hands can do. Especially, if you have any kiddos who like to use their hands in an unsafe way ;) I also dyed noodles for the first time, too! We used those noodles to make friendship necklaces! We also used a bead kit for friendship bracelets :) Click on image to grab this bead kit! These peanut butter and jelly color matching cards were a huge hit! We played restaurant and worked together to serve the correct colors. I got these from The Homestead Teacher! Grab them HERE! We like to think of words that start with each letter. When we are out, we will see a letter and I always have to think of something that starts with that letter. It totally helps connect learning, so I made these "F is for friends!" page and we decorated the 'f' different supplies. For our play dough invitation, I printed off this cute friendship clip art set from Creative Clips! We put the friends in our play dough and pretended we were playing at the park! The last game we did was this fun math activity! We had to help the boy get to his friends by rolling our dice and counting each circle. It was a great way to practice some counting, number identification, and taking turns! Grab these activities HERE! *NOTE: the play dough friends are not included in this due to terms of use, but they are free for you to download HERE!
Development of social function, emotional regulation, friendship activities for preschoolers, friendship skills, communication
Discover top tips, step-by-step processes, and printables for preschool lesson planning to enhance teaching and support child development.
These friendship books are sure to warm your heart and teach kindness! They're great for social-emotional learning or a friendship theme.
Friendship activities for preschoolers are important to their social growth as well as learning how to share and get along with others.
Try these meaningful activities to teach your preschooler about what makes a good friend. Included are 16+ friendship activities for preschoolers.
Our favorite Friendship Books for kids. These books teach all the very different things that make up what friendship is. Perfect for the classroom or home.
This toddler friendship activity is easy and fun to make and is a simple reminder that we are all friends in our classroom. Free printable!
Looking for fun and meaningful Kindergarten friendship activities? You'll love these for your small group counseling activities or classroom lessons!
If you're a preschool teacher or homeschool mama, you'll definitely love these no prep Printable Fine Motor Thanksgiving Preschool Worksheets! They're quick & easy and little kids adore the fun cutting and tracing, coloring, and
We've set up our toddler and preschool classroom this week for the friends and families theme, with fun hands-on activities!
