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Mother's Day Activities

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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A Preschool Mothers Day Gift that Moms Will Absolutely Love

Are you looking for Preschool Mothers Day gift ideas for your children to make? Here is a simple printable book that will be a special keepsake for mom. Easier than crafts or big projects and better than cards, these gifts require no special supplies. Print the books, help kids fill in the questions, and kids can color and add their own art. A perfect literacy and fine motor activity for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. #mothersdaygiftideas #preschool

This simple keepsake book is the perfect preschool Mothers Day gift. No special supplies are needed & Mom will love this unique gift.

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Flower Literacy Activities

Your kids will love this hands-on flower them literacy activity. Use it to teach letters, letter recognition, letter sounds, beginning sounds and phonological awareness. The printables are perfect for a preschool and pre-k classroom - a perfect addition to your literacy centers for a flower theme, spring theme, garden theme or mothers day theme unit, and lesson plans. The printables are easily adapted for individual students..ideas are included. #preschoolactivities #alphabetactivities

Your kids will love this hands-on flower them literacy activity. Use it to teach letters, letter recognition, letter sounds, and beginning sounds

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A Mother’s Day Craft and Card

Mother's Day Gift - Make a simple Mother's Day craft and card from paper flowers and a few embellishments.  Attach the flower magnets to the downloadable card for a sweet gift.  Click through to see step-by-step directions.  This is a simple gift to make with kids in preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, early elementary, primary, and early childhood education.

Make a simple Mother’s Day craft and card from paper flowers and a few embellishments. Attach the magnetic flowers to the free printable cards for a gift that Mom will love.

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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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