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The Best Winter Books for Preschool

Find the best winter-themed books for preschool kids. Your kids will love these books about snowmen, snow, and animals in winter.

Are you looking for book ideas to supplement your winter-themed activities? Here is a huge list of the best winter books for preschool kids. They are perfect for your class library or storytime.

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Christmas Fine Motor Activities that will Make Your Kids Happy

Your kids will enjoy these fun & easy Christmas & holiday fine motor activities. The ideas are great for your preschool or pre-k classroom or at home. Kids can practice fine motor skills like pre-writing, scissor skills, and hand strength. Early childhood art & craft and sensory projects are included too. Some are cheap and use household items. Click to check out the ideas today.

Are you looking for some super fun fine motor activities that are perfect for the holiday season? Check out these great Christmas fine motor activities for preschoolers.

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15 Easy Fine Motor Activities for Fall

Check out these fun and exciting fine motor activities for fall. Perfect for kids and your Halloween theme, pumpkin theme, or fall theme unit and lesson plans in the preschool and pre-k classroom or at home. These pumpkin theme, leaf them, and spider theme activities are great for the occupational therapy room as well. Many of the fine motor activities use household items or things from nature. Free printables are featured.

Here are a bunch of fun and exciting fine motor activities for fall. Perfect Halloween, pumpkin, and Autumn fine motor activities for kids in preschool, pre-k, tot school and kindergarten.

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Make Custom Printable Name Puzzles for the Whole Year

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!

Use these fun printable name puzzles for motivating and meaningful literacy activities for the entire year.

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How to Improve Cutting Skills with a Free Flower Printable

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

Your kids will have fun while working on cutting skills with this free flower printable. This activity is a perfect addition to your flower theme unit.

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Fun Fine Motor Activities: How to Use These Bead Placement Printables

Use these free ocean-themed printables for fun fine motor activities. Ideas from bead placement to sticker and stamping activities are included. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, occupational therapy classrooms. Kids can work on grasp and strength as they prepare for handwriting. The complete set has activities for fall, winter, spring and summer. Use with tongs, tweezers, buttons.....lots of ideas are included.

Use these free ocean-themed printables for fun fine motor activities. Ideas from bead placement to sticker and stamping activities are included.

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How to Use These Free Printables for Scissor Skills Development

From snipping to cutting on a longer path, use these free ocean-themed printables to help your preschoolers work on scissor skills development. The fine motor printable includes a variety of pages for many skill levels. Start your kids with practice on single snips and work toward teaching them to cut on a variety of lines (from straight lines, curved paths, zig-zags, waves). Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, or occupational therapy classroom.

From snipping to cutting on a longer path, use these free ocean-themed printables to help your preschoolers work on scissor skills development.

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How to Use Simple Plastic Eggs to Make Learning Activities for Preschoolers

Here are many ways you can use simple plastic eggs in learning activities for preschoolers. Ideas include music and movement, counting, sorting, sensory play and STEM and so much more. These activities are perfect additions to your bird theme, Easter theme, spring theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. Perfect for literacy centers, math centers, fine motor centers, and STEM centers. Get out those plastic Easter eggs and start learning #preschool

No, they are not just for Easter Baskets….there are many ways you can use plastic eggs in learning activities for preschoolers. Ideas include music and movement, counting, sorting, sensory and STEM…

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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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