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Fine Motor Activity for Kids : Make Feather Necklaces

These feather necklaces are a fun fine motor activity for kids and are a perfect addition to a Thanksgiving, turkey, or Spring birds theme unit or lesson plans. The article also includes ideas for working on math concepts like counting, comparing quantities, and creating patterns. This is a perfect hands on math and fine motor activity for your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. #preschool #finemotoractivities

Whether you are talking about Thanksgiving, birds, or are just looking for a fun fine motor activity for kids – these feather necklaces will fit the bill.

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How to Paint with Feathers: 5 Fun & Easy Ideas

Your kids will love these 5 fun ways to paint with feathers. Spring, summer, fall, winter ... these process art activities are perfect all year or during a study of birds or Thanksgiving turkeys. The feathers provide a great sensory experience and the feather paintings are beautiful. Perfect for your art center in your #preschool and #prek classroom. Check out these ideas today. #processart #preschoolart

Your kids will love these 5 fun ways to paint with feathers. These process art activities are perfect all year or during a study of birds or Thanksgiving turkeys.

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Painting with Balls: How to Easily Combine Art and Science

Painting with balls and marbles is a fun way to combine process art and science.  Kids will have fun creating and experimenting with this simple activity. These are great process art ideas for preschool and pre-k. Add the activity to your preschool STEAM, art centers or lesson plans. It's easy to adapt for any season.. spring, summer, fall or winter. Add different balls and a ramp to increase learning...great science and art activities for your creative curriculum unit on balls or ball theme

Painting with balls is a fun way to combine process art and science.  Use these simple ideas to extend your art activity to include science.

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An Easy Craft for Kids: How to Make Dancing Ribbons

Here is an easy craft for kids. Make simple dancing ribbons on a budget with a few simple supplies. This is a cute party activity and the ribbons can be used for dancing, math and literacy activities. Perfect for kids in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Valentine's Day party activity, birthday party activities, Christmas party activities. Use the dancing ribbons for counting syllables in words, making shapes and letters, counting activities and movement activities during circle time.

Make dancing ribbons on a budget with a few simple supplies…an easy craft for kids.   This is a cute party activity and the ribbons can be used for dancing, math and literacy activities.

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Easy Art for Preschoolers: How to Paint with a Flyswatter

A flyswatter plus paint equals easy art for preschoolers. Your kids will love painting with these non-traditional paint brushes on this fun process art project. Perfect for an insect theme, bugs theme, and summer theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. I love using the open-ended art project as a fun and simple way to explore mixing colors. #processart #preschoolart #openendedart

A flyswatter plus paint equals easy art for preschoolers. Your kids will love using these non-traditional paint brushes on this fun process art project.

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How to Make a Counting & Color Activity for Your Bird Theme

With a few materials, you can make this bird color sorting and counting activity.  Kids will love this hands-on math and fine motor activity.

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How to Make This Simple Caterpillar Pattern Activity

This cute caterpillar pattern activity combines fine motor skills, math, and craft. Your kids will enjoy creating patterns and counting as they make caterpillars. This is a great patterning activity for your bugs & insects theme, butterfly & caterpillar theme, or spring theme units and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Works well when studying caterpillar life cycles and it's a perfect addition to a study of the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. #preschoolactivities

This cute caterpillar pattern activity combines fine motor, math, and craft. Your kids will enjoy creating patterns and counting as they make caterpillars.

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How to Easily Teach Symmetry with This Free Butterfly Printable

Use this fun butterfly activity to introduce symmetry and mirror image to your kids. Decorate the free printable butterfly and use a mirror to help kids see the symmetry. This is a great math activity for your butterfly theme, bugs and insects theme, spring theme unit or lesson plans. A great STEAM activity and addition to a study of Eric Carle or butterfly life cycles. A fun art project...and you won't need coffee filters or pipe cleaners. #preschoolactivities #butterflyactivities

Use this butterfly activity to introduce symmetry to your kids. After decorating the free printable you can use mirror board to help kids see that a butterfly’s wings are symmetrical.

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Try out these hand strengthening activities for kids. The fun fine motor activities will build and improve strength in little hand muscles. From squeezing activities to hole punch and plunger activities, these ideas to increase hand strength are perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, occupational therapy classrooms, and at home. From theraputty, toys like squigz, and squirt guns your preschoolers will love these ideas. Check them out today.
Use these free printable nature scavenger hunt books to encourage kids to write, draw, and read while exploring their world. Perfect for pre-k, preschool or kindergarten age kids. Use the free printables in the classroom, on the playground, during nature walks or hikes, on camping trips, in the backyard, or during summer camp. Use this emergent reader for your plant and seeds theme, spring theme, and pond theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #preschoolactivities
Alphabet activities such as making letter collages or using letter mats are a great hands-on way to teach letter identification and reinforce letter-sounds. Here are over 200 material ideas that you can use for your collages or letter mats. A printable reference list or art and other materials is included. Better than worksheets, these are perfect hands-on activity for your preschool and pre-k classroom or lesson plans. Your young children will love this sensory learning opportunity. #preachool

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Kids love these hole punch activities. Use the printables to build fine motor skills, for hand strengthening, and to improve hand-eye coordination in a fun and exciting way. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, special education and occupational therapy classroom. The printables include shapes and many themes and seasonal printables to use during spring, summer, winter, and fall. #finemotor #finemotorskills #preschool
Use these 11 different printable name puzzles with your preschoolers for name and literacy activities. Find ideas for the whole year! Perfect for your preschool or kindergarten classroom, or at-home learning or homeschool. Teach your kids to spell their names, construct their names, and the beginning steps to writing their names with these hands-on activities. Make learning fun in fall, winter, spring, & fall with themes from pumpkin, Thanksgiving, caterpillar, snowman, and many more!
There are so many ways that your kids can work on name practice with these editable name activity mats. Perfect for early childhood, preschool, and pre-k classroom, this is a fun way to work on name recognition, the alphabet, letter sounds, spelling their names, handwriting practice, fine motor skills...etc.. You can even include pictures. Use for back to school, the beginning of the school year, an all about me theme unit or lesson plans. #preschool #nameactivities #backtoschool
Use these 1-20 number activity mats to help your kids in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten learn counting, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, and number sense.  The mats are a great multi-sensory tool that your kids will love. There are so many ways to explore numbers on just one page. Use playdough to form numerals, trace the dotted numbers, represent the number with finger-counting cards, ten frame, and build the number with counting cubes. #preschoolmath #prekmath #kindergarten
Use these CVC Beginning Sound Clip cards to help your kids hear and see the beginning sounds in words. They will love this hands-on early literacy activity...perfect for teaching early literacy concepts in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. 17 word families are included. Looking for ideas for teaching rhyming, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and phonological awareness? These activities are perfect for your literacy centers as independent and small group activities.
These rhyming clip cards will help your kids see and hear rhymes in simple CVC words. Kids love clipping clothespins on the rhyming words in this activity. Perfect for small group or independent activities in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or SPED classroom. An engaging way to teach rhyming, early literacy concepts, and phonological awareness to young children. #rhymingactivities

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