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How to Make Tactile Letters That are Irresistible to Your Kids

Your kids will love running their fingers over these fun tactile letters. Find lots of ideas to make DIY tactile cards for your literacy learning centers. Perfect for teaching the alphabet to kids in preschool and pre-k classroom. Better than sandpaper....this is a fun sensory experience. The ideas will work for sight words as well. #preschool #alphabetactivities #sensoryactivities

Your kids will love running their fingers over these fun tactile letters. Find lots of ideas to make DIY tactile cards for your literacy learning centers.

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100 of the best non-food sensory table material ideas

You are going to love this huge free printable list of ideas for your sensory table. This list features non-food fillers and mix-ins for your sensory table or sensory bin. Perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or prep. Your kids will love these fun ideas. Some of the ideas will serve as fine motor activities as well. Your children will have so much fun learning with these materials. #preschool #sensorytable

Are you looking for non-food sensory table filler ideas?  In a past article, I listed many ideas for sensory table fillers, but many teachers prefer to not add food to the sensory bin.  Now, here is a list of non-food ideas for your sensory bin or table.

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The Sensory Table Materials List That Will Make Your Life Easier

You're going to love this huge free printable list of ideas for your sensory table materials. Check out this HUGE list of ideas for fillers, mix-ins, and tools to use in your sensory table or sensory bin. Spring, summer, fall, winter there are ideas for all seasons & the combinations are endless. Use them with any themed lesson plans (from back to school to transportation to dinosaurs) in your preschool or pre-k classroom. This will make planning sensory activities easy. #sensoryactivities

Do you sometimes have a difficult time thinking of new materials to add to your sensory table or sensory bin?   Here is a huge list of sensory table materials to help you out.

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25 of the Best Ideas for Using Plastic Bottle Caps in Learning

Plastic bottle caps are perfectly sized for little hands and can be used for so many things. Here are 25 ways to use plastic bottle caps for learning activities with kids. Perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, pre-kindergarten, prep, and SPED. Activities and ideas for math centers, literacy centers, reading centers, sensory bins, etc.

Plastic bottle caps are perfectly sized for little hands and can be used for so many things. Here are 25 ways to use plastic bottle caps for learning activities with kids.

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How to Use These Free Printable Shape Cards

Use these free printable shape cards to teach 2-D shapes to preschoolers. Use them for tracing or create tactile shape cards for finger tracing... a great hands-on sensory activity. Kids will have fun learning shapes with these fun cards. Perfect for your math center in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Use in small group and independent activities. Download the free printables today for your shape activities. #preschool #preschoolmath #sensory

Use these free printable shape cards to teach 2-dimensional shapes. Directions include many ways to add texture to the cards to create a hands-on sensory learning activity. Kids can trace the textured shapes with their fingers or use them for tracing practice.

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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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Make a Name Activity with Letter Rocks

Use letter rocks for a fun name activity in your early childhood classroom. Learn how to make the letter rocks. They are simple and easy to make, and can be used for many hands-on literacy activities for kids. Perfect for your literacy center, sensory table or sensory bin your preschool or pre-k classroom. Your children will love these name activity ideas as part of your frogs theme, pond theme, spring theme, or construction theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #nameactivities

Use this fun name activity to help kids learn to recognize and spell their names.  Letter rocks are easy to make and can be used for many hands-on literacy activities for kids.

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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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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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