Here is a fun tracing activity for preschoolers and toddlers! They are easy to print and a great way to prepare young kids for writing!
Fine Motor exercises are an important part of any child's curriculum and learning experience. Learning how control your hands and refining those hand muscles help a child learn how to do important, every day life skills like feeding, wiping, zippering, and tying shoes. Enter Finger Gym.
This free play dough mat is an intrinsic hand strengthening exercise to build strong grasp and pinch strength through play.
This simple Instant Pot recipe gives you restaurant-worthy results with minimal effort.
Spending the first week of school teaching classroom expectations and procedures is essential for a successful year. Glue is a tricky school supply for many little learners and there definitely needs to be instruction dedicated to teaching learners how to use this tool.Glue BottlesWhen learners are not taught how to use their glue correctly things
Kids learn about the alphabet from a young age! Whether they are singing the ABC's or identifying letters of their name, it is one of the first things kids learn about! Including fine motor and
Learn how to make suncatchers with this fun, fine motor raindrop art activity that has preschoolers peel and sharpen crayons to create raindrop shapes.
Looking for a quiet way to entertain your toddler? Build a threading station! This activity is sensory based with fine motor skills practice too!
Improve pencil grip with these FUN fine motor activities. Ideas for toddlers, preschoolers, and preschoolers to correct pencil grip.
I realized yesterday that I didn't give much explanation of our class and why we are doing it. So here it is-- I love kids and I l...
Free preschool assessment worksheets for year-end review or as a kindergarten readiness checklist. Ensure your preschool student is ready for kindergarten with these free worksheets: Alphabet, numbers, counting, fine motor, all about me, emotions, behavior, social skills, following directions, addition, subtraction, shapes, patterns, sequencing, days of the week, months of the year, seasons, sight words and more!
Montreal is the perfect micro-cation! Here is a 3-day itinerary that will make you fall in love with the city. I have curated this Montreal itinerary especially for you, it mixes touristy and non-touristy things.
Here are engaging Valentine's Day fine motor activities for preschoolers! Download our free printable to practice scissor skills with heart cutouts and build hand strength with hole punching.
Teaching kindergartners how to cut – quick resources for teachers. Here are some bright ideas to teach how to cut for thoses that need it in your classroom.
Improve pencil grip with these FUN fine motor activities. Ideas for toddlers, preschoolers, and preschoolers to correct pencil grip.
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About The Artwork Original life drawing, vintage 1980s artwork from my archives. Please note, this is an old drawing on rather thin and wrinkled paper, as at the time I often couldn't afford art materials, offered for those who appreciate the spontaneity of line and gesture, unique emotional state that is not possible to repeat at will, and are not so much concerned with the quality of support. Original Created:1988 Subjects:Women Materials:Paper Styles:FigurativeIllustrationPortraitureRealismFine Art Mediums:Ink Details & Dimensions Drawing:Ink on Paper Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork Size:8.3 W x 11.4 H x 0.1 D in Frame:Not Framed Ready to Hang:Not applicable Packaging:Ships in a Box Shipping & Returns Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments. Handling:Ships in a box. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines. Ships From:France. Have additional questions? Please visit our help section or contact us.
Jolanthe from Homeschool Creations created this fantastic interdisciplinary, multi-skill printable gardening unit that would be perfect for spring and learning about the Earth. Featuring twelve colorful activities, here are a few of the highlights {as always, you'll have to visit Jolanthe's site for the full scoop}! Photo Source: homeschoolcreations.com Scissor Skills. In this exercise, students help 'water the flowers' by cutting on the line in order to connect the watering can to the colorful blooms. Jolanthe provides two scissor skill worksheets that can be printed onto different weights of paper to provide exercise variations. For additional fine motor practice, you might also consider laminating a copy of each worksheet, or sliding them into a plastic document sleeve, and placing a copy in the writing center along with a dry erase marker or crayon to use for tracing. Along with building hand strength, coordination, and learning how to properly hold a writing tool, the activity also provides pre-writing practice. Photo Source: homeschoolcreations.com Writing Patterns. While similar to the activity extension above, this pattern writing worksheet offers much more complex pre-writing practice - helping students practice directional movement, apply proper hand position, recognize the difference between drawing and writing, etc. Print onto the back of recycled worksheets or laminate for use with dry erase crayons. Photo Source: homeschoolcreations.com Colors & Shapes in Bloom. This activity is great because it requires your students to practice several concepts/skills at once - shapes, colors, color word recognition, and shape word recognition. Cut the descriptions from the flowers, inviting students to match the pieces, or have your students paste the blooms into a booklet, highlighting the color words and circling the shape words {or both!}. Photo Source: homeschoolcreations.com Parts of a Flower. With this fun puzzle worksheet, students will learn new vocabulary words and about the basic parts of a plant. First, invite students to construct the flower, placing the cards in the correct order, then match the appropriate vocabulary words to each part. Once they've had exposure to the words, have them play memory/matching games with the flower and vocabulary cards. Photo Source: homeschoolcreations.com Story Sequencing. This activity goes along with the book, Jack's Garden, by Henry Cole. After reading the story, invite your students to take these story event strips and put them in the correct order. This can be done as a class, in small groups, or as an individual assignment. These are just a few of the incredible activities Jolanthe has in store for your kiddos in her gardening unit. Be sure to visit her blog for more information and for the free download! Happy Learning!
It's graduation time! Celebrate your little graduate with these DIY preschool graduation caps. Fun and easy project!
A guide to planning the perfect 1, 2 or 3 days in Positano itinerary including things to do, where to stay and tips for getting around.
Summer calls for lots of water activities, cool treats, and easy low prep activities like these summer dot activity printables. This post contains affiliate links. See my Disclosure Policy for details. GETTING STARTED With minimal prep
Learning how to use scissors is an important skill that promotes hand strength, hand-eye coordination, classroom tool use and bilateral motor coordination skills. Children need to practice fine motor skills when cutting with scissors in order to learn how to use scissors safely and accurately. There is a progression to help master cutting skills. A … Thumbprint Cutting Strips Read More »
This Women's Day, celebrate some amazing female artists who've broken boundaries with art. Get kids started with our Amazing Art Projects by Women Artists,
Explore science and fine motor skills with these fizzing hearts! A great experiment for preschool.
These 10 Back to School fine motor activities are a go to in my special education classroom during the first weeks of school.
Looking for a fun Robot Preschool Activities for kids? Check out these 8 Hands-On Robot activities for Preschool or Kindergarten.
FREE Earth Day tracing sheets including pictures and words that kids can trace. Great for handwriting and fine motor skills. Perfect for preschool or kindergarten Earth Day activity.
Love making simple agamographs? This time we've prepared a cool Night and Day Agamograph Template for your kids to color, cut, and fold! This agamograph will entertain your kids for quite a while and is a
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Not only will cutting sheets help teach your child how to cut properly, but they offer great practice for cutting a straight line.
Alphabet Worksheets help your kids do just that, learn their alphabet. Practice makes perfect and we have a lot of worksheet practice activities. Finish the alphabet, match letters, alphabet connect the dots and more. Help your child have fun learning to read and write their ABCs. They’re sure to enjoy all of these worksheets. Print […]
Bring out your inner patriot with a fun tracing worksheet with stars and stripes! Your little writer will build fine motor skills and letter recognition.
Earth Day is next week and I wanted to add something else fun this year: easy reader books. My youngest is really getting into these style of books. We have been working on a lot of easy reader books for
