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The Best Monster Activities for Kids

Check out all of these monster ideas for your kids. Here are fun learning activities that you can add to your monster theme, Halloween theme, or October theme unit and lesson plans. From process art and letter activities to math game printables and fine motor craft activities, your kids love these learning centers. Perfect for #preschool & #prek. Get out the play dough and the googly eyes for some monster fun. #monsteractivities #halloweenactivities #finemotoractivities #halloweenmath

Check out these fun monster activities for kids. These activities are perfect for your Halloween theme or monster theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool classroom.  Your students will love these monster learning activities.

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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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15 of the Best Preschool Rhyming Songs

Kids love these fun preschool rhyming songs. Perfect for circle time & transitions, these songs will help your kids hear and produce rhyming words. Singing is such a fun way to learn phonological awareness and should be a big part of your early literacy curriculum. These kids songs will have kids laughing, dancing, and doing fingerplays. They won't even know that you are teaching them how to rhyme. Check out this list for great ideas and new songs for your story time. #preschool #rhyming

Kids love these fun preschool rhyming songs. Perfect for circle time & transitions, these songs will help your kids hear and produce rhyming words.

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How to Make Frog Dancing Ribbons for Your Kids

Make fun frog themed dancing ribbons with rubber flying frogs and some ribbon. The fun ribbons can be used for your frog theme or pond theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. Use them for dancing gross motor, and movement activities, counting activities, syllable activities etc. With some assistance you can make them as a craft project. Get out the green ribbon to make some jumping frogs dancing ribbons for your kids. #frogactivities

Make frog themed dancing ribbons with rubber flying frogs and some ribbon. The fun ribbons can be used for your frog theme or pond theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten. Use them for dancing and movement activities, counting activities, syllable activities etc.

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Simple Science Project: Make a Jingle Bell Stick

Use this simple science project to explore sound with young kids. Make three jingle bell sticks and record observations on free printable recording sheet. This is a perfect STEM or STEAM activity or craft for kids in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. A great holiday or Christmas party activity. Supports a Christmas or 5 senses theme or unit in your classroom and the jingle bell sticks can be used as a circle time activity. #preschool #prek #preschoolholidayactivities #preshoolscience

Use this simple science project to explore sound with young kids. Kids can make three jingle bell sticks and record observations on free printable recording sheet.

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Syllable Activities for Kids: 10 Playful Ways to Break Words into Syllables

Here are 10+ fun syllable activities for kids. These ideas will help you with teaching your kids how to break words apart into chunks or syllables with these phonological awareness activities. These are great hands-on activities for developing reading readiness in preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and prep. Activities for your literacy centers, small groups, and circle time are included...hands-on activities to help emergent readers.

Here are 10+ fun syllable activities for kids. Teach kids how to break words apart into chunks or syllables with these phonological awareness activities.

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Fun Arts and Crafts for Kids: How to Make an Egg Shaker

Looking for a fun arts and crafts for kids?  Learn how to make these cute egg shakers!  Ideas to incorporate STEM, math, language, and music & movement activities are included. This fun project is perfect for your Easter theme, spring theme, birds theme, or five senses theme unit or lesson plans...or any time of year in your preschool or pre-k classroom.  Get out your plastic Easter eggs and make fun instruments to use in your circle time activities. #preschool #preschoolactivities

Looking for a fun arts and crafts for kids?  Make egg shakers!  Ideas to incorporate STEM, math, language, and movement are included in the directions. This fun project is perfect for Easter, spring, or any time of year.

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Preschool Movement Songs: 10 Favorite Action Songs for Kids

Here is a list of the best fun preschool movement songs. Try out a few of these silly action songs to get your preschoolers moving and grooving. These are great circle time ideas and music ideas for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten. Includes links to youtube preschool songs. Work on gross motor skills coordination. Your kids will love to dance and sing along with these early childhood favorites. #preschoolsongs #preschool #circletimesongs #circletime

Here is a list of fun preschool movement songs. Try out a few of these action songs to get your preschoolers moving and grooving.

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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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