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How to Use These Free Printable Easter Activities for Pre-Writing Practice

Looking for ideas for Easter? Download these Easter theme free printables today. Use these cute printable Easter eggs to help kids practice their pre-writing skills and fine motor skills in a fun way. Your children will enjoy tracing the different lines that decorate the eggs. Perfect for your Easter theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom learning centers. #preschool #preschoolactivities #preschooleaster #finemotor

Here are some great printable Easter activities that will help your kids work on developing handwriting skills.   Kids can trace a variety of lines on these free Easter egg pre-writing practice pages.

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Over 200 of the Best Materials for Letter Activities and Collages

Letter activities like letter collages or 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 are included. Better than worksheets, these are the perfect fun literacy activity for your preschool and pre-k classroom or lesson plans. Your young children will love this sensory learning opportunity. #preschool

Use letter activities like alphabet collages or letter mats to help kids learn letter identification and to reinforce letter-sound associations. Here are over 200 material ideas that you can use for your collages or letter mats. A printable reference list is included.

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How to Use This Free Printable for 5 Fun Transportation Activities

Do your kids love cars? Use this free printable for several transportation activities in your preschool or pre-k classroom. The car printable can be used for a matching game, a bingo game, and even a travel game. It's a perfect addition to your transportation theme or things that go theme, or wheels theme unit and lesson plans. Kids will love the hands-on learning activities.

Use this free printable for several transportation activities with with your preschoolers. The car printable can be used for a matching game, a bingo game, and even a travel game. It’s a perfect addition to your transportation unit and lesson plans in preschool and pre-k.

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Do you want to download this ABC Activity Freebie?

Looking for literacy ideas and printables? Use this free printable abc activity to help kids learn letters and beginning sounds. The alphabet clip cards are a great multi-sensory and hands-on activity. Perfect for your literacy centers or add to your writing center throughout the year. Better than worksheets, the cards can be used again and again. in your preschool and pre-k classroom. Young children can use the free printables to learn letter formation by finger tracing the large letters.

Today, I have a free ABC activity for you when you sign up for my newsletter.   When you join my newsletter, you will join thousands of early childhood education enthusiasts who enjoy receiving activity ideas delivered directly to their inbox, Clip cards are one of my favorite learning activities…which is why I would love to send you a set of alphabet clip cards for you

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7 Easy Ways to Use This Free Fruit and Vegetable Printable

Use this free fruit and vegetable printable can be used as part of a healthy foods unit, a grocery store scavenger hunt, in your writing or dramatic play center, plus more! Perfect or your dramatic play area, literacy center in preschool, pre-k, and tot school. Many ideas are included.

Use this free fruit and vegetable printable as part of a healthy foods unit, a grocery store scavenger hunt, in your writing or dramatic play center, plus more!

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Valentine’s Day Activity: Heart Fine Motor Practice [Free Printable]

Are you looking for a fun Valentine's Day activity for kids? Use this free printable for fine motor and scissor skills practice. Kids can cut out paper hearts and use a hole punch to complete them. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or SPED classroom. A great addition to your Valentine's Day theme or February theme units or lesson plans. Use to decorate your room or even as a Valentine party activity. #preschool #Valentinesdayactivities #finemotor #scissorskills

Are you looking for a fun Valentine’s Day activity? Use this free heart printable.  Kids can practice scissor skills when they cut out the hearts.  Then, they can use a hole punch to make holes around the heart’s border.  

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Free Valentine’s Day Printable Emergent Reader

You are going to love this sweet valentines day printable for kids. Are you looking for Valentine theme activities for your literacy centers in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom? This free printable emergent reader has coloring pages, simple easy-to-read text, a blank page, and a writing practice page featuring the sight word love. Perfect for your February lesson plans. #preschool #kindergarten #valentinesdayactivities #emergentreader

Here is a sweet, simple Valentine’s Day printable that your kids will enjoy. The free emergent reader is easy to assemble and feature the word “love”…perfect for Valentine’s Day or any time of year.

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Valentine’s Day Game for Kids [Free Printable]

Here is a fun Valentine's Day game for kids. Use this free printable roll and cover game your Valentine's Day theme math centers of work stations. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kids. Use this hands-on math game to teach subitizing, counting, numeral recognition plus the concepts of one more and one less. February math, February math work stations, work tubs.

Here is a fun Valentine’s Day game for kids. Use this free printable roll and cover game your Valentine’s Day theme math centers of workstations.

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Your kids will love running their fingers over these fun tactile letters. Find lots of ideas to make DIY tactile cards for your literacy learning centers. Perfect for teaching the alphabet to kids in preschool and pre-k classroom. Better than sandpaper....this is a fun sensory experience. The ideas will work for sight words as well. #preschool #alphabetactivities #sensoryactivities

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Use these custom name writing activity books to help your kids learn name recognition, letter recognition, and learn to write their names with a variety of activities. A child's name is the most important word in their life....and you can use it as an engaging way to teach concepts of print and early literacy. These books are easy to edit or customize and are easy to assemble. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom literacy centers. Use for back to school or year round
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 easy-to-assemble little alphabet letter books will give your kids a variety of ways to learn letter recognition, letter sounds, and letter formation. Whether you use a letter of the week or no letter of the week, kids love taking these little ABC books home. The simple, predictable text gives kids the opportunity to experience success with reading and starting dots help kids practice correct letter formation. Download your free sample book today. #alphabetactivities #preschool
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
Use these fun editable crayon name puzzles to work on name recognition and a variety of literacy activities with your kids. Your class will love these personalized printable puzzles. Use them in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten class to work on name recognition, alphabet knowledge, letter recognition and learning a variety of pre-literacy skills. Perfect for your literacy centers. #preschool #nameactivities #alphabetactivities
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

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