NUTS AND SEEDS THEME FOR PRESCHOOL! Each Wednesday throughout the school year, we will continue offering learning activities along with the brilliant #playfulpreschool blogging team. This week's activities are centered around a Nuts and Seeds Theme for Preschool. If you have missed the previous theme-based activities, they are linked for your convenience below. Also, please take a moment … [Read more...] about Nuts and Seeds Theme: Listening Games with Sensory Sound Shakers for #PlayfulPreschool
Trees and Leaves Theme
Why Do Fall Leaves Change Colors? #PlayfulPreschool
Fall Colors for #PlayfulPreschool This week’s #playfulpreschool theme contains activities centered around FALL COLORS (Red, Orange, and Yellow). All throughout the school year, the Playful Preschool blogging team will be working behind the scenes to offer activities and suggestions just for your students or children. Please visit the home page of this blog each Wednesday morning to see new … [Read more...] about Why Do Fall Leaves Change Colors? #PlayfulPreschool
Apple Prints Pinwheel Craft for Preschool & Kindergarten
Apple Printed Pinwheels Craft (Disclaimer: this post and others within the blog contain affiliate links. For full disclosures, visit ABOUT US!) Every fall our Pre-Kindergarten children practice apple coring in the practical life center. The children core the apples, place the apple slices on a serving tray, and carry the slices around the room serving other children who would like to taste … [Read more...] about Apple Prints Pinwheel Craft for Preschool & Kindergarten
Apple Scented Homemade Play Dough & Counting Mats for Fall!
Fall will be here in just a few short weeks! The Apple Scented Play Dough Recipe smells wonderful while cooking! It is a great way to add sensory play to the printable counting mats this fall! Apple Scented Play Dough and Numbered Counting Mats - ApplePlaydoughMathMats Recipe Ingredients for Apple Scented Play Dough: 1 cup flour ½ cup salt 1 Tbsp canola oil 1 cup water Red food coloring … [Read more...] about Apple Scented Homemade Play Dough & Counting Mats for Fall!
{Sponsored} Trees & Leaves Theme Fall Learning with #Wikkistix!
I am paid and have received free Wikki Stix to bring the following activities to you. While I am paid, our kids have used Wikki Stix in our classroom for over 20 years. The activities and opinions below are my own and not those of Wikki Stix/Omnicor, Inc. 5 Little Acorns - a chant to accompany Wikki Stix created Acorn Stick Puppets - 5 Little Acorns Materials needed: Brown/White Wikki … [Read more...] about {Sponsored} Trees & Leaves Theme Fall Learning with #Wikkistix!
It’s Just a “Stone’s Throw Away” to Learning & Play the Nature Way!
Kids love to play outside! If you ask any of our children what their favorite part of the day is, hands-down it will be outside play time. Playing and learning with natural items can be a FUN part of outdoor play with a few simple ideas! It doesn't take children long to begin to develop their own ways of playing and learning with readily found items. Below you will find some ideas to get the … [Read more...] about It’s Just a “Stone’s Throw Away” to Learning & Play the Nature Way!