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How to Build a Tower: 25 Simple Engineering Ideas for Kids

Find over 25 ways to build towers without blocks. From toothpicks to recycling bin materials, your little engineers will love these ideas. Kids can learn about engineering and architecture as they experiment with new materials to create towers. Find ideas for fun materials for toothpick towers, straw towers, towers from recycling materials. From simple towers to more complex ones that hold weight...These fun STEM ideas are perfect for kids in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Are you looking for some additional STEM or engineering activity ideas for your kids? Let’s talk towers…… or more specifically, how to build a tower without blocks.

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20 of the Best Weather Activities for Preschool Kids

Are you looking for fun ways to introduce weather to preschoolers? Check out his list of the best weather activities for preschool kids. From weather music, books, arts & crafts, to weather stations and experiments, your kids will love these fun activity ideas. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and special ed classroom. Help your kids learn about storms, snow, fall, rain, spring, summer, and wind. Click to learn more.

Are you looking for some fun, hands-on weather activities for your preschool kids? Check out these weather themed ideas.

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The Best Weather Books for Preschool Kids

Are you looking for books for your weather theme? Spring, summer, winter, and fall... you will find books for all seasons that are perfect for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten circle time, storytime, classroom library, or science center. How do you explain weather concepts to kids? Try these books for preschoolers. Help kids understand storms, seasons, weather, snow, rain, wind and dressing for the weather.

How do you explain weather to your preschool kids? When I was a child, the weather was something that both delighted and scared me. Here are some great books to help your kids understand all types of weather.

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The Best Preschool Science Books

Inspire your young scientists with this list of the best preschool science books. Click to find life science, Earth science, physical science, and books that will help your kids think like a scientist. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten storytime, circle time, class library, class science center, or dramatic play center.

Are you looking for books to add to your science activity center or science-themed dramatic play area? Perhaps you are looking for some preschool book ideas to inspire your young scientist? Here is a list of some of the best preschool science books for your kids.

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How to Make an Exciting Doctor Dramatic Play Area

medical themed dramatic play unit

Create a doctor dramatic play area for your preschoolers. Kids can learn science, literacy, and math concepts in a fun way as they play and pretend.

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20 Easy Activities with Rocks that will Make Learning Fun

Use this free printable to create a rock collection container from a simple egg carton and get ideas for over 20 fun learning activities with rocks. Here are some fun learning activities for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or for at home learning. Teach kids about the science of rocks and minerals while using this rock collection for cheap, easy, and fun math, measurement, and sorting activities.

Use this free printable to create a rock collection container from a simple egg carton and get ideas for over 20 fun learning activities with rocks.

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How to Make a Space Theme Playdough Tray

Learn how to easily create a space theme playdough tray for your preschoolers with these material ideas. Your kids will love this invitation to play. Perfect for open-ended play in preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom for a space-themed or transportation theme unit or lesson plans. Combine fine motor skills activities, sensory play, + science. Your little astronauts can explore planets, rockets, the moon in a hands-on play-based way - with play dough. Click to get lots of ideas.

Easily create a space theme playdough tray for your preschoolers with these great material ideas. Your kids will love creating with this invitation to play.

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Measurement for Kids: How to Compare Weights with a Balance Scale

Use this fun activity featuring measurement for kids in your math or STEM learning center. Kids weigh containers of everyday objects in a bucket balance scale. Your children will have fun while learning the concepts of heavy and light and also learn to sort the objects by weight. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. This hands-on learning center can be used for any theme or lesson plans....just use thematic materials in the containers...ideas are included. #preschool

Are you looking for an activity about measurement for kids?  Your kids will enjoy comparing the weight of everyday objects in plastic containers using a bucket balance scale.  They will learn the concepts of heavy and light and will have fun sorting the objects by their weight.

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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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