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Fine Motor Activity for Kids : Make Feather Necklaces

These feather necklaces are a fun fine motor activity for kids and are a perfect addition to a Thanksgiving, turkey, or Spring birds theme unit or lesson plans. The article also includes ideas for working on math concepts like counting, comparing quantities, and creating patterns. This is a perfect hands on math and fine motor activity for your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. #preschool #finemotoractivities

Whether you are talking about Thanksgiving, birds, or are just looking for a fun fine motor activity for kids – these feather necklaces will fit the bill.

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The Best Gingerbread Books for Preschool

These gingerbread books for #preschool are perfect for little learners.  From the classic tale to fun modern twists, kids love the engaging books on this list. Counting books, rhyming books, classic gingerbread tales, and modern twists...your kids will love these. Perfect for your circle time or class library at Christmas or any time of year. My favorite is the Gingerbread Cowboy. Whivh one is your favorite? #gingerbreadbooks #gingerbreadtheme #christmasactivities #preschoolactivities

These gingerbread books for preschool are perfect for little learners.  From the classic tale to fun modern twists, kids love the engaging books on this list.

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How to Paint with Feathers: 5 Fun & Easy Ideas

Your kids will love these 5 fun ways to paint with feathers. Spring, summer, fall, winter ... these process art activities are perfect all year or during a study of birds or Thanksgiving turkeys. The feathers provide a great sensory experience and the feather paintings are beautiful. Perfect for your art center in your #preschool and #prek classroom. Check out these ideas today. #processart #preschoolart

Your kids will love these 5 fun ways to paint with feathers. These process art activities are perfect all year or during a study of birds or Thanksgiving turkeys.

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The Best Children’s Books about Gratitude

Here is a list of children's books about gratitude. Use these books to talk about being thankful during November, at Thanksgiving and at any time of year. The titles are perfect for reading aloud during circle time or in your classroom library in a #preschool #prek or #kindergarten classroom. #thanksgivingbooks #gratitude

Here is a list of children’s books about gratitude. The books are perfect for Thanksgiving and any time of year.

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10 of the Best Turkey Books for Kids

Use this list of my favorite turkey books to help you find some fun #Thanksgiving themed titles to share with your kids during November. These books are perfect for your circle time or class library in #preschool #prek or #kindergarten These books the perfect addition to #turkeytheme, Thanksgiving theme or November theme unit or lesson plans. Find counting or math books, rhyming books to work on early literacy skills, and non-fiction books to learn turkey facts (science). #turkeyactivities

This list of my favorite turkey books will help you find some Thanksgiving-themed read-aloud for your kids. These fun books are great for circle time or your class library.

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Pumpkin Alphabet Activities

Your kids will love these hands-on pumpkin alphabet activities and beginning sound activities. Teach letter recognition and letter sounds with this fun resource. Perfect for your pumpkin theme, fall theme, or Halloween theme uint or lesson plans in your #preschool or #prek classroom. 🎃 The printables are great for your literacy centers #pumpkintheme #halloweentheme

Your kids will love these hands-on pumpkin alphabet activities and beginning sound activities. Teach letter recognition and letter sounds with this fun resource.

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How to Make Custom School Bus Name Puzzles

Use these editable school bus name puzzles to work on alphabet recognition and name practice with your kids. Perfect for #preschool #prek and kindergarten in literacy learning centers. Perfect for the beginning of the year, end of the year, or transportation theme unit and lesson plans. Teach kids to spell their name and teach letters and beginning sounds in a fun, meaningful way. #nameactivities #transportationtheme

Use these editable school bus name puzzles to work on alphabet recognition and name practice with your kids.

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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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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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