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Ready to Take on the World....Kindergarten Goals
My 5 year old will be starting Kindergarten in a few short days. I received a packet of papers to fill out from her soon to be teacher and one of them was a Parent Survey. One of the questions was...
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Baking Soda and Hair Conditioner
We've tried this activity several times and each time, its a huge hit! All you need is 3 parts baking soda to 1 part hair conditioner. We find the VO5 or Suave conditioner at Walmart for less than...
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Using Glass Stones for Fine Motor, Math and Letter Skills
We love glass stones, or as we call them "Dragon Tears". You can find them in the floral section and we get them at the Dollar Tree. Sometimes I bury them in the sandbox for the kids to discover,...
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Our Visit to the Great Salt Lake/Antelope Island
This summer we took a day trip out to Antelope Island, Utah which is surrounded by The Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of the great ice age lake, Lake Bonneville. The lake contains...
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Humpty Dumpty Experiments
Humpty Dumpty is probably one of my most favorite nursery rhymes to explore with kids. There are just so many activities and experiments that naturally go along with it. We started by reading the...
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Pipe Cleaner Spiders
My son brought home a book from school about spiders the other day. It had pictures of all sorts of different ones, hairy, smooth, big, little, all different colors. I thought it would be a good...
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Linky Shapes from the Dollar Tree
I'm quite fond of popping in the Dollar Tree to find some good deals. I saw these in the toy aisle and grabbed 5 packs. There are so many activities you can do with them. Just some of the ways we...
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Pumpkin, Rubber Bands, and Golf Tees
When I saw some really cool Hands on Pumpkin Math, over at Fun A Day, and what her kids did with push pins, rubber bands and a pumpkin, I knew that would be right up our alley! I wanted to give the...
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Pom-Pom Coloring Matching
So this is pretty quick and easy to set up. I just used an egg crate and some paint. Just paint the inside of the egg holders various colors to match the pom-poms. This is great for fine motor,...
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Sight and Word Family Games
Now that my daughter is in Kinder, part of her curriculum is working on sight words and word families. I am trying to add some engaging, hands on ways for her to practice learning them. Here are a...
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Bob Books Level 2
Now that my daughter is an official "reader", she reads anything and everything she sees. We have used the Bob Books for quite some time now. Did you know you can get them on Kindle? We received a...
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Discovering Glue
So many preschool and even kindergarten teachers cringe when the white glue comes out. They envision puddles of glue, glue seeping onto the tables, onto the floors, scraps of paper floating in pools...
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All About Rainbows in Preschool
Rainbows are awesome, magical even. Kids are fascinated with them, most adults as well. Here is how we explored rainbows in our preschool class. I filled empty Gatorade bottles with water and then...
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Partner Painting/Friendship Painting
Have you tried partner painting or friendship painting yet? It is a great way for children to learn about cooperation and team work. I like to introduce it at the beginning of the year to help the...
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The Day the Pirates came to Preschool
I had a couple kids in my class who loved to play pirates. I thought it would be a good way to tie in the letter X and have some fun pirate play at the same time. I created some pirate ships using...
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Are you familiar with the books by Laura Numeroff? One of my favorites to start the school year off is "If You Take a Mouse to School".After reading the story, we created some paper mouse faces. I...
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Camping Color Scavenger Hunt
We love to camp in the summer. One activity that keeps our kids busy is a color scavenger hunt. We painted the inside cups of an egg carton various colors. When we get to our destination, the kids...
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Plastic Glove Painting
This was so fun. The kids had to really squeeze the gloves to get the paint to drip out, which means they were strengthening their hand muscles. It was fun to squirt out the paint in such a different...
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Play Dough and Potato Heads
The kids love to use the potato head pieces with the play dough. I just love seeing what characters they create with them. I will post a recipe for the absolute best play dough I have ever made, but...
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Ice Crowns
Okay well, not really, ice.... but "icicle looking" might be more accurate. My kids loved making these and squeezing the glue bottle onto the triangles is an excellent fine motor strengthening skill....
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Tee Pee / Wigwam Preschool Craft
We had so much fun making these cute little wigwams. We had a discussion on what a "home" can look like and included igloos and wigwams in our discussion. We made these paper plate wigwams to use...
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Ice Popsicle Paintings
Painting with ice is a fun way to create and is a great sensory experience for little ones. We have painted with ice cubes before but I thought the kids would be able to paint longer if their hands...
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Canoe, Canoe?
How fun are these little canoes. You have everything you need right now to make these! - paper towel roll- crayons (or markers, or paint, or whatever you want)- scissors- stapler (or glue depending...
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Hot Chocolate Paint
Who knew hot chocolate made good paint? We tried this the other day and it was a big hit, not to mention, smelled fantastic!We mixed some hot chocolate mix, with baking soda and a bit of water....
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Garbage Bag Hula Skirts
We have been singing and dancing to "Under the Sun" by Frank Leto as well as the Lilo and Stitch soundtrack. I thought it would be fun for the kids to have a costume to sway in. So we made these cute...
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