These lovely printable summer kids activities are the perfect toddler and preschool activities to explore a summer fun theme. This beach theme activity pack is also a great vocabulary builder and includes early math skills,

Making an outdoor easel is such a great activity to do when the weather has finally made the switch to summer - you won't regret it!

Too soon for a Fall post? Hmmm ... if so, please feel free to make these summer trees (you summer-loving Mamas you). But it's coming ... that F word. I actually like the F word, just not the W word. Did I lose you? Welcome to John's world my friends. This Quiet Bin is another

Today I'm going to show you how to make easy pointillism for kids. I'm so excited to show you this fun art style today. It's perfect for all ages and requires very few art supplies.

Summer Picnic Preschool Workbook and Activity Pack 50 Pages of work sheets and activities! It’s been awhile since I have posted a preschool pack. It’s been chaotic around here for the p…

RAINBOW SKY SENSORY BOTTLES - such a fun sensory play idea! Enjoy the contents in a bottle or a sensory bin. Great for for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.

Get this cute free printable beach coloring page together with a fun summer activity sheet for your preschooler or kindergarten student. They'll love it!

Need a quick and easy activity for toddlers or preschoolers? Try making an animal line-up. It's a perfect idea from Busy Toddler.

Ocean Foil Painting- make a beautiful sparkling ocean scene with this summer process art. Fun project for preschool, kindergarten, or elementary.

I think it’s safe to say that ALL toddlers love a trip to the zoo. We are lucky to have a pretty fantastic zoo close to where we live so we take full advantage of that and visit every few weeks or so. Madelynn always loves seeing what the animals are up to, so I knew this […]

15 Free printable funny summer ad libs, great for kids car activities or for summer party games.

Olympic Sports Free Resources--educational printables, Olympic-Fun-by-Wise-Owl-Factory, free PDFs, writing frames, pocket chart cards, word finds, verbs

Summer Watermelon Themed Preschool Activity Pack 11 Different Watermelon Themed Educational Activities! I can’t believe I’m already nearly three weeks into my new gig as a stay at home …

Drip Style painting inspired by the famous 1950's artist Jackson Pollock, perfect for Preschoolers!

Looking for a Camping Preschool Unit? This Preschool Pack is jam packed with fun and engaging camping themed activities! As with all of my preschool units, they are play based and options to differentiate for various abilities. You can purchase my Camping Preschool Unit in my TPT shop! Camping Preschool Pack Food is SO motivating for little learners. We spent a lot of time playing with (and eating)marshmallows this week! Hayden practiced counting to 20 with marshmallows. Then we worked on identifying numbers 11-20, which have been a little trickier for him. I named a number, and if he could find it, he got to eat that marshmallow. All of a sudden, he was identifying numbers with amazing accuracy!! Hayden has always loved puzzles, and how cute are these s'more numbers? He worked on 1:1 correspondence by counting each amount of objects, and then matching them to the number. Yep, another marshmallow activity. He traced the number with dry erase marker, and then counted marshmallows onto each ten frame. You could also use play dough for these mats. Dry erase markers make writing more FUN! He worked hard at tracing capital letters on these camping themed alphabet cards. We love these letter beads from Learning Resources. Seriously, we use them for everything. Hayden identified the beginning sound of each picture. Name crafts have been a huge motivator in writing. Hayden made a giant s'more, while writing his name. We worked on creating and extending patterns with colorful goldfish. Nature loose parts are one of my favorite tools to use for learning activities. We have a tray of our favorite treasured saved. Hayden picked a shape card, and then built the shape from rocks, stones, and other nature treasures. Beginning Sounds Tents- For this activity, I folded a notecard in half and added an animal sticker. My son placed the beginning letter for each animal in the tent. Hayden matched uppercase and lowercase letters, while identifying beginning sounds, to make s'mores. Sponge Painting Campfire- We used brown construction paper as logs, then dipped a sponge into orange and yellow paint! I love how this cute craft came out. We built letters by using toothpicks and marshmallows! It was a fun theme, I wish we would have had time for a few more activities. Here are some other activities included in this pack. Bear tracks read and stamp. This comes with letters and sight words. Camping roll and cover. Again, there are two options for this game. There is an addition roll and cover and just a simple roll and cover pictured. Make 10- Build a ten frame by following each recipe card. Practice subitizing and recognizing numbers in a ten frame, with this ten frame camping puzzle. Identify the beginning sound of each picture, OR identify the CVC word. Practice nonstandard measurement by measuring with a marshmallow ruler! You can grab this pack in my TPT shop, or it is also included in the year long bundle!! Looking for more preschool fun? Be sure to check out the year long themes bundle. It is a DEAL! Camping Preschool Pack Year Long Preschool Themes Bundle For more play based learning ideas, follow us on Instagram @michele_dillon

30 fun ways to teach colors to preschoolers.

This is an adorable project to do with your students anytime of year, but I especially love it for the beginning or end of the year (goal setting or reflection), Spring, or when talking about all the places you'll go. It makes a beautiful bulletin board, hallway display, or memory book piece. *********************************************** ALL THE INTERESTING DETAILS: This art project comes with many balloon and basket options. Please check out the pictures for more details! Also included: NEW!!! Basket text in English and SPANISH! American and British/Australian/Canadian spellings of favorite/favourite More Almost-Summer Must-Haves: ☀️ Camping : an Engaging, Rhyming, Emergent Reader Book Kids LOVE! ☀️ Butterfly Directed Drawing ... Perfect for Spring , Bugs , or anytime! ☀️ End of the Year ... Build community . kindness . reading & writing skills! ☀️ Farm Emergent Reader Book: "At the Farm" Learn Sight Words ☀️ Graduation Kids! Adorable End of the Year Writing Project! ☀️ Kindergarten Graduation Cap, Diploma, & End of the Year Celebration Ideas! ☀️ Kindergarten Writing Autobiography: How I Made it to Kindergarten! ☀️ Directed Drawing Bundle! Art for every season! ☀️ Mother's Day or Father's Day ... Superhero Directed Drawing & Writing! ☀️ Mother's Day Directed Drawing .. Students draw themselves & someone special! ☀️ Mother's Day Project Pack! 3 precious projects to celebrate mom &/or grandma! ☀️ Sharks FREEBIE! Zoo Animal Research Mixed w/ Authentic Literacy Practice! ☀️ Spring Hot Air Balloon Project! Perfect for Spring , March , End of the Year ! ☀️ Sunflower Directed Drawing ... Spring ... Mother's Day ... Beautiful! ☀️ Thank You Note SUPER Pack! For volunteers , school workers , end of the year ☀️ Zoo Animal Research Mixed w/ Authentic Literacy Practice *********************************************************** ✳️ FOLLOW MY STORE! Look for the green star next to my store logo at the top right corner of this page and click it to become a follower. This will allow you to be FIRST to find out about when I post exciting NEW products and freebies! ************************************************************* ⭐️WHO LOVES FREE PRODUCTS? Be sure to take a moment to leave feedback for all your purchases on TPT! Not only do I love to hear from buyers, but it also helps YOU earn points to put towards any future TPT purchases! Win-win! ********************************************************** Thanks for stopping by! Made with ❤️ from Katie at HOWYWOOD Kindergarten

Beach Ball Painting- Fun and easy summer process art for kids. Perfect activity for preschool, kindergarten, or elementary.

This textured sand slime activity is an absolute must try! If you have kids that love ocean or beach themed projects - they are going to love this one.

The first time Hannah do activity with narwhal images, she was excited. She called it the 'pony whale'. The tusk of the narwhal does resemble pony. The difference is, narwhal do exists, but pony did

Farm animals craft idea for kindergarten What is Farm and What are on the Farm? Jane is so excited because they will go to farm but there is a problem. Jane does not know what [...]

Transportation printable pack - vocabulary, tracing, counting and sorting activities for preschool and kindergarten.

Fun Crafts using Handprint and Footprints. Kids love these crafts and you will love them more! Ideas for those sweet little handprints and footprints!

This next science experiment is great for kids of all ages!

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Sand play dough paired with loose parts.

40+ Amazing Water Table Ideas to keep your toddler or preschooler entertained and engaged with their water table all summer long!

Come learn about the Ocean with ocean theme activities designed for Preschool!

Today we painted our outlined selves! We picked our favorite colors and had a blast! Later we went on a letter/word hunt through magazines! Some of us were looking for letters in our names, and others were looking for describing words!

It all started when a little friend brought in a beautiful geode to show the class. They were absolutely enthralled with the crystals growing inside! She set up a station where friends could come and look closer. The next day, another friend brought in a beautiful geode that looked a little different. They started wondering all kinds of things about the geodes which lead to discussions about if other rocks can be geodes and have crystals inside. I asked if they wanted to explore further to find out and they most definitely did! Here is my planning web. I set up one area for them to look closer and use their writing and drawing skills to document what they noticed. This area also was a perfect opportunity to sort objects based on their properties and attributes, then use writing and pictures to record how they sorted them. This was a favorite area to visit! I mixed science with art in our art area! I set out some polished agate that the kids thought were so beautiful! They used the digital microscope to look closer and notice the crystals and rings. Then they used water color to create the beautiful, colorful rings. That last step was to add salt to their wet watercolor to create the crystals and see how the salt grabbed the water color! I also set up an area with magnets for them to explore. I put some rocks in our sensory table with the sand and some photos of transient nature art for inspiration. Below, some friends worked to show feelings using the rocks. Some loved creating animals. Unfortunately, we were only a week into exploring the rocks and learning about the different types of rocks, crystals and jewels made from them when the schools were all ordered to close so we were not able to finish this exploration. This group really loved looking at these rocks and I hope it sparked an interest in geology for them. Some had big rock collections already and some started collecting during this study. I hope they continue to collect, observe and sort their collections by attributes. Egg cartons are a great way to keep their rock collections organized. Here are a few pictures to show some things they created in other areas of our room at the time. It has been over a week without seeing them and I miss these little friends of mine so very much! I am working on what my virtual/digital class will look like. I will work hard to help parents continue the discovery based learning that their kids love so much through our life experiences at home. The environment of our classroom was considered a teacher on its own in the way it was set up, but they also learn from their natural environment at home! Hopefully my next blog post can help with that! Until then, stay home and stay healthy!

Make this fun paper plate bear craft with your kids! All you need is plates, paint, markers, and tape! It's the perfect bear art project for kids.

When planning out our Tot School calendar I have to tell you that I was not really as excited for some themes as others… I mean pumpkins, apples and Valentines, YES! Bring it on! But space, cars and dinosaurs aren’t exactly my jam. I’m a girl mom to 2 little pink tutu wearing cutie pies. […]