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Activities for Spring


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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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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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How to Make a Spring Weight Station with a Balance Scale

Get out your balance scale or bucket scale!  Here are lots of spring and summer-themed material ideas that you can use in your weighing station. Create a weight station in your math center, science center, or STEM center. Find lots of material ideas and printables to create your own measurement learning center in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. Perfect for Easter theme, garden theme, bug theme, weather theme, ocean theme etc. Your kids will love this hands-on math activity.

Get out your balance scale!  Here are lots of spring and summer-themed material ideas that you can use in your weighing station.

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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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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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How to Make an Exciting Plant Theme Playdough Invitation

Make a plant theme playdough invitation to play. Here are lots of material ideas to make an exciting plant & garden theme playdough tray. This is a great hands-on fine motor and sensory activity for your garden theme, plants theme, spring theme, or Earth Day theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Kids will love planting plants and seeds in the brown playdough and will have opportunities for math and literacy learning as they create with worms. #preschool #playdough

Your kids will love this plant theme playdough invitation to play. Here are lots of material ideas to make an exciting plant & garden theme playdough tray.

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How to Easily Assemble a Fun Flower Play Dough Tray

Create a fun flower playdough tray for your kids with these unique material ideas. Your kids will love this open-ended, flower-themed activity. Material and easy ideas for a playdough invitation to play for your flower theme, garden theme or spring theme unit or lesson plans. Add playdough mats for literacy and math learning. Perfect for your preschool or pre-k classroom and fine motor learning centers. Your kids will have fun making flower-themed creations. #preschool #playdough #finemotor

Create an engaging flower playdough tray for your kids with these unique material ideas. Your kids will love this open-ended, flower-themed activity.

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10 of the Best Plant, Seed, and Garden Books for Preschoolers

Find the best plant, seed, and garden books for preschoolers. These favorites will be great additions to your classroom library and perfect for your plant theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit and lesson plans. Use the childrens books at circle time, or on your science table. Kids will have fun learning about vegetables, flowers, science and plant life cycles. #preschool #planttheme #gardentheme #prek

Find the best plant, seed, and garden books for preschoolers. These favorites will be great additions to your classroom library and perfect for your plant study.

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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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