🔺 Adorable shape buddies are a fun shape craft for preschoolers that works on shape and color recognition while having fun!
These preschool human body printables will teach your kids about the human body. Learn the body organ's functions and locations with these!
2D shape activities for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Shape mats (legos, geoboards, etc), play dough mats, posters, sorting mats, worksheets, & MORE.
Look no further for the perfect free preschool number printables. Warning...must love giraffes and bunnies :):):)
Here’s another fun and easy process art project for preschoolers– painting with yarn or string. My kids loved exploring all the designs they could create using yarn as their painting tool! Follow our Art for Kids Pinterest board! I’ve been having so much fun surprising the kids with simple art activities to do after school. …
This adorable little weather station is the sweetest way for your little learners to learn the days of the week, weather and the different weather conditions. What you get: ~ Weather Station sheet (A4) ~ Days of the week and relevant pointers. You'll need split pins to attach the pointers to the weather station, you can pick them up at any stationery story. Please note: This is a digital product. Upon purchase, you will receive one PDF file ready to print and play! All product designs and concepts are the intellectual property of Whimsy Printables. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Copyrights © 2020 by Whimsy Printables.
Self portraits for 3-5 year olds
Simple kitchen table collage projects galore!
The goal of an “All About Me” theme is usually to help classmates get to know each other better, but when your only student is your own child, that puts a bit of a different spin on things. For our All About Me theme we focused on emotions, family, and learning more about ourselves. Here […]
Grab this fruit-themed pattern activity to practice patterns with your little learners. Includes four pattern types to meet different learners' needs.
Are you doing a tot school transportation theme? We finally finished up our transportation themed activities this week and had a lot of fun with all the different modes of transportation we explored. Here were our plans for Transportation Week: And here are the details of each activity: Our favorite transportation books for the week […]
20+ Simple Hands-On Activities That Help Build Fine Motor Skills - with fine motor skills going missing at preschool, try some of these hands-on invitations to help strengthen fine motor skills | you clever monkey
These free ocean printables and Montessori-inspired ocean activities are designed for preschoolers through early elementary. Perfect for home or classroom!
Looking for a fun Transportation Preschool Binder for kids? Check out these 8 Hands-On Transportation activities for Preschool or Kindergarten.
Voici quelques petits exercices pour amuser vos enfants. Voici le lien de téléchargement de l’exercice d’écriture de l’alphabet Voici Le lien téléchargement de l‘exercice d’écriture des chiffres Voici le lien de téléchargement des écriture vagues Lien vers le jeux de Tangram. Imprimer puis plastifier si possible les éléments avant de les découper. Lien vers le téléchargement du Tangram Lien vers le téléchargement des modèles Lien vers le Sudoku ESPACE Voici les gabarits d’ailes de Chauve Souris pour réaliser votre DIY Lien vers le Jeu des ronds Montessori Imprimer en 2 exemplaires et mettre sous feuilles plastiques. Voici le lien de téléchargement du jeux de paires des Sapins de Noel Il faut imprimer deux fois chaque planche, les plastifier si besoin puis les découper. Le but est que l’enfant puisse regrouper les sapins par paires identiques. Voici les différentes planches du corps humain à télécharger. Vous y retrouverez les organes ( format A4 ou A3 ), les personnages et les nomenclatures. Voici un puzzle de squelettes que j’ai trouvé et qui est très bien fait! Je vous le faire suivre en téléchargement Voici le lien de téléchargement de l’exercice d’écriture lignes et courbes maternelle Voici le lien de téléchargement de […]
Get these FREE editable name cards for preschool and kindergarten. Use the easy-to-customize cards for fun and engaging name practice activities with your kids. Perfect for enhancing early literacy
Use dyed corn kernels to create colorful corn mosaic art in preschool! Great as a Thanksgiving art project, harvest craft, or just for fun.
Spring has finally arrived for good here in Wisconsin. We are enjoying every minute of the fresh spring air, and this week’s theme combined bugs, plants, frogs, ducks, chicks, and all things spring. Here were our plans for Spring week: And here are the details of each activity: Our favorite books this […]
DIY Song Cubes to help children learn music "old favorites" and practice finding and keeping the beat; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
looking forward to Spring? Here is a list of spring kids craft to celebrate spring. Lot of crafts to choose from, kites, chicks, Easter, flowers, rain and more.
I love self-portraits. It always amazes me how much each child's personality comes out in their drawings. I constantly have parents asking me, did my child draw that?! The answer is yes! With the right directions/facilitation you can help each child do their best. I love the results of this project and it's simpler then it looks. This project usually takes us about two days. I begin by giving the child a blank piece of paper. (I use white card stock Then I ask each child to think about what their face looks like. Is it round like a ball? Oval like an egg, etc. Then I ask them to draw their head. It's important to use permanent marker, because washable markers will run when painted over. Then I ask the child to think about what they have on their head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, etc. DON'T DRAW HAIR it will be added later. Last, I have them draw two lines down from their chin to make their neck. Then, we look at our multi-cultural paints together and choose the shade that matches the closest. (You can find multi-cultural paint through discount school supply) They paint all of the white space on their head/neck. I cut out their portrait after it has dried and glue it down on a piece of white card stock. Then we work on their hair. I use blonde, black, and brown yarn. I ask them about what color their hair is, is it long or short, does it need to be braided, in a pony tail, curly, etc. This part is very teacher directed. Some accessory ideas; colored yarn for hair ties, barrettes, streamers folded up for bows, pipe cleaners for head bands, jewels or beads for earrings. Then, it's time to paint in the eyes if necessary. I use white acrylic, because the tempera paint lets the color underneath seep through. Then the child adds a dot with the color of their eyes. We added writing to our art that says "My name is ______." You can read about adding writing here. We display our self-portraits all year in the classroom and then send them home in portfolios at the end of the year. Fall weather has FINALLY arrived here in St. Louis! I'm enjoying a lazy Sunday with the windows open and Cardinal baseball on TV. If you like the ideas found on my blog, please leave a comment and follow me! :)
Kindergarten/First Grade When I begin teaching at a new school I like to start with the Elements of Art to get a foundation established before working on a final project. With the primary grades my focus is Color, Line and Shape and Pattern. I usually begin with a lesson on color where the students mix the secondary colors from the primary colors and then create their own color wheels. After learning about Color we explored the element "Line". In the kindergarten and first grade classes we discussed vertical, horizontal and diagonal and then the students explored patterning using colored popsicle sticks. They were encouraged to work together to create an abstract line "collaboration". The kindergarteners often have a hard time with the concept of working as a team. It takes a little prodding sometimes but we eventually end up with the table or carpet covered with a giant abstract design. When the time is up we take a moment to observe and talk about their work. Kindergarten Abstract Line Collaborations Kindergarten collaboration First Grade Abstract Line Collaborations After they've had practice making patterns with colored sticks each student made their own abstract line collage using paper "lines". The kindergarteners used colored lines on black and the first graders had grey backgrounds with colored lines. They could also add black lines for accents. Kindergarten Abstract Line Collages First Grade Abstract Line Collages
Patty has a fantastic blog post about how you need to connect the dots for your team. I love how she makes it so clear, that our job is to help people understand how their work matters. Since we k…