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Here are the best craft ideas from the Early Learning Ideas website. Find activities for home or for your preschool or pre-k classroom.

Work on Cutting Skills with Flower PrintableKids 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
Make Feather NecklacesThese 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
An Easy Craft: How to Make Dancing RibbonsHere 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 a Bird Counting & Color Activity
25 Easy Craft Projects to do with KidsHere are the most popular craft projects to do with kids from the Early Learning Ideas website.  Check out this visual library to find some inspiration for fun and easy projects to do at home with your kids. Kids will love these cool projects that you can make with simple and cheap supplies like paper plates, popsicle sticks, and pipe cleaners. Perfect for at home learning with your preschooler.
Make a Caterpillar Patterning ActivityThis cute caterpillar pattern activity combines fine motor skills, math, and craft. Your kids will enjoy creating patterns and counting as they make caterpillars. This is a great patterning activity for your bugs & insects theme, butterfly & caterpillar theme, or spring theme units and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Works well when studying caterpillar life cycles and it's a perfect addition to a study of the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. #preschoolactivities
Teach Symmetry with this Butterfly PrintableUse this fun butterfly activity to introduce symmetry and mirror image to your kids. Decorate the free printable butterfly and use a mirror to help kids see the symmetry. This is a great math activity for your butterfly theme, bugs and insects theme, spring theme unit or lesson plans. A great STEAM activity and addition to a study of Eric Carle or butterfly life cycles. A fun art project...and you won't need coffee filters or pipe cleaners. #preschoolactivities #butterflyactivities
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How to Make Bunny Juice BoxesHere is the perfect, simple snack idea for your kids Easter party or Spring celebration. Use the free printable juice box wrap to make a cute bunny juice box. Complete them with pom-poms or cotton balls for tails. Your kids will love these little rabbits. They are the perfect snack addition to your Easter theme, spring theme, or bunny theme unit and lesson plans in your preschool or pre-k classroom. #preschool #preschoolsnack
How to Make Brilliant Color Tubes Help kids explore color by creating these color tubes.  The prep is easy.  Kids can decorate them to create their own little work of art. Red, blue, yellow, green....a great way to teach colors. This is more than a preschool arts and crafts project.... there are also many ideas for color mixing, graphing, and other hands on learning activities.  This will be fun for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and prep and a perfect addition to your unit and lesson plans on the five senses and colors.
Get Kids Excited About Color with this Stained Glass CraftYour kids will be memorized by this cellophane stained glass craft. It's fun way to explore color with kids. Use this as a process art activity and fun way for teaching color mixing and transparency. It's a great sensory activity that can even be used on a light table in your preschool or pre-k classroom. Children will love to experiment while learning about colors (red, blue, yellow, green..), color mixing and the science of color.
Make Bunny BagsMaking bunny bags is one of my favorite Easter crafts for preschoolers. Transform a simple lunch bag into an adorable bunny work of art...complete with a cotton ball tail. The cute bags make a great activity at a kids Easter or birthday party....and they can be used for goody, treat, or favor bags. This craft idea is great for your Easter theme, bunny theme or spring theme unit or lesson plans in preschool, pre-k or kindergarten. #preschool #bunnyactivities #preschooleasteractivities
Tinker Tray: An Easy DIY Gift for KidsAre you looking for a simple DIY gift for kids? Make a fun DIY tinker tray box for them. These tinker boxes are perfect gift for a child in preschool or early elementary. It will encourage creativity. Kids will create process art or their own stem activities. Material ideas are included. Make a fun Christmas present, holiday gift, or birthday gif. Use the material list as inspiration to create STEM drawers or tinker drawers in your preschool classroom. #tinkertray #DIYchristmasgift
Fun Arts & Crafts for Kids: Make Egg ShakersLooking 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
Valentine’s Day Activity for Fine Motor PracticeAre you looking for a fun Valentine's Day activity for kids? Use this free printable for fine motor and scissor skills practice. Kids can cut out paper hearts and use a hole punch to complete them. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or SPED classroom. A great addition to your Valentine's Day theme or February theme units or lesson plans. Use to decorate your room or even as a Valentine party activity. #preschool #Valentinesdayactivities #finemotor #scissorskills
Make Silly Dust Bunny Puppets for Rhyming Words ActivitiesMake these silly rhyming puppets and use them for rhyming activities. Your kids will have so much fun that they won't realize they are learning. Perfect for literacy centers, ELA centers or literacy work stations, circle time, large group activities, and small group activities. Teach rhyming to kids in preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, TK, SPED, RTI. Tutorial, activity and game ideas are included. This is a perfect activity to use with the Rhyming Dust Bunnies book.
A Beaded Snowflake Fine Motor ActivityThis snowflake craft for kids is a great winter project combining hands-on math learning and fine motor activities. Learn how to make the beaded snowflake ornament. Kids can work on counting, patterning, composing and decomposing numbers and skip counting. This is a great fine motor activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten in class math centers or at a classroom holiday party. holiday crafts for kids, winter art projects... #winteractivitiesforkids #finemotor #preschool #wintermath
The Best Way to Teach Kids to Make Paper SnowflakesMaking paper snowflakes is so much easier for young kids, when you use these snowflake cutting templates or patterns. Your kids will experience success...it's so much fun. So much more than a craft.... they are strengthening their fine motor skills and working on improving their scissor skills! Perfect for your holiday theme, winter theme, snow theme, Snowy Day theme unit and lesson plans in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten. #winteractivitiesforkids #finemotoractivities #preschool
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