In addition to all the letter learning activities we’ve been doing recently we’ve also started some activities to work on our pre-writing skills! For this particular pre-writing activity we primarily did it on the light table but below you’ll see it’s also fun for kids off the light table! Post contains affiliate links for your convenience, see disclosure for […]
Preschool Activities
Learning activities, art activities, and fun crafts for preschool aged children.
DIY Emotions Story Stones: A Social-Emotional Learning Activity
Helping children understand and express their emotions is an important part of early childhood development. One fun and engaging way to encourage these conversations is with DIY emotions story stones. These painted rocks feature different facial expressions and emotions that children can mix and match to create faces, tell stories, and explore how people feel. […]
Small World Play: Gnome & Fairy Garden
My daughter and the daycare kids love the peg gnomes & fairies from our fall nature table so much that they end up staying out all year long. They’ve been part of our calming sensory bin and our DIY felt play mats. This time they got their own small world to live in! Gnome & Fairy Garden: Small World Play […]
Dramatic Play: Spaghetti Shop for Kids
My daughter loves to play dress up and any sort of dramatic play activity. She’s especially fond of cooking and kitchen dramatic play activities lately. This spaghetti shop for kids pretend play activity has seriously been one of her favorites and she spent a long time (an hour and 20 minutes!) playing and exploring with […]
Simple Kids Castle Craft
Do your kids enjoy working with clay? Here both playdough and clay are materials that the kids all enjoy using. We’ve been talking a lot about gnomes and fairies lately, a new favorite imaginative play interest for them, and the kids were concerned that their fairies and gnomes didn’t have a house to live in because we […]
Glow in the Dark Letter Matching Sensory Bin
Here’s a new twist on learning letter! Make a glow in the dark letter matching sensory bin! Sensory bins are always fun for kids, from infants to preschool and beyond, and we can’t get enough of them. My daughter and the daycare girls love to play in sensory bins. This simple glow in the dark […]
Spring Flower Sensory Bin with Water Beads
Celebrate spring with this fun water bead and flower sensory bin for kids! Have you played with water beads yet? They are seriously some of our favorite sensory materials! The girls loved it when we got to cut and squish them on the light table and even just simple water bead play is always a […]
Personalized Gross Motor Game for Kids with Mirrors!
It’s time for our Light and Reflections Series with some of my fellow awesome bloggers!! Last month we focused on letter recognition by having fun with some letter tiles and water beads but this month our theme is Music and Movement!! As part of this theme, I made a fun gross motor game using a […]
Virtual Book Club for Kids Intro & A Giveaway!!
Welcome! I’m excited to announce that we will be participating in the 2014-2015 Poppins Book Nook!! And what is a better way to start out this year’s virtual book club than with a AMAZING giveaway? Do you want to win a FREE Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ 32GB WiFi 4G w/ Charger? Keep reading if you do!! […]