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Bat Sensory Bins Perfect for Preschool

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These bat sensory bins are perfect during a bat or nocturnal animals theme, or in conjunction with your favorite batty books. You can even include them in your Halloween activities for preschoolers, but they’d be great any time of year. Related: Bat Crafts and Activities Bat Sensory Bins Below you’ll find three bat-themed sensory binKeep Reading

Filed Under: Sensory Tagged With: Book Club Play Dates, Halloween

Free Number Train Printable for Preschoolers

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Use this number train printable with a variety of math activities for preschoolers. It’s a simple printable that you can use in multiple ways with your students. Get your own copy of the train calendar numbers at the bottom of this post. It’s very easy to prep, so you’ll be able to incorporate it intoKeep Reading

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Book Club Play Dates, Free Printable, Transportation

Llama Llama Red Pajama Day Snacks

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This month’s Book Club Play Date is centered on the book Llama Llama Red Pajama. I’m sharing a few ideas for snacks inspired by the book. For this play date, I envisioned a pajama day with the kids – it’s something my son and I do sometimes, and we try to have one once a yearKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Book Club Play Dates

Free Printable Monster Match Game

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Monster Preschool Lesson Plans

This easy-to-prep monster match game is perfect for preschoolers. Be sure to check out the rest of my free preschool printables when you’re done here. The Halloween memory game uses printable “monster” cards that are not scary in the least. That way, the kids can focus on exploring visual discrimination and other early literacy skills.Keep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Book Club Play Dates, Fall, Free Printable, Halloween

Farm Theme Preschool Snack | Haystacks

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This month’s Book Club Play Date is focused on Big Red Barn, and I was charged with sharing a snack idea! When I was thinking about a farm theme preschool treat, I immediately thought of chocolate haystacks. They were a favorite of mine to “bake” as a kid, so I thought they’d be great toKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Book Club Play Dates, Cooking, Farm

Color Collage Art Project for Kids

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Process art and open-ended crafts are such fun for kiddos, and I love that a lot of learning can be integrated into art projects. We recently made a color collage as part of our Book Club Play Dates series. In addition to being a fun piece of collaborative art, it worked on many early learningKeep Reading

Filed Under: Preschool Arts and Crafts Tagged With: Book Club Play Dates, Process Art, rainbows

Book-Inspired Rainbow Sensory Bin for Kids

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Here at Fun-A-Day, I write a lot about sensory activities for preschoolers. Kiddos can learn and practice so much as they participate in sensory play, and they LOVE getting into a good sensory bin! Here’s a simple sensory activity based on Karma Wilson’s book Bear Sees Colors. What a great addition to your spring activities forKeep Reading

Filed Under: Sensory Tagged With: Book Club Play Dates, Fine Motor, rainbows

Quick as a Cricket Art Activity for Preschoolers

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This Quick as a Cricket art activity combines a well-loved children’s book with colorful art. You’ll definitely want to add this to your process art ideas. While we enjoy crafts around here, process art is by far where most of the kids’ creativity is focused on. During the preschool year, my students explore it almostKeep Reading

Filed Under: Preschool Arts and Crafts Tagged With: Book Club Play Dates, Process Art

Preschool Busy Bag Ideas for a Dinosaur Theme

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Need some busy bag ideas for a preschool dinosaur theme or a dino-loving kiddo? I have a few to share with you, along with some free printables to get you started. These busy bag ideas would be perfect in conjunction with this month’s Book Club Play Dates‘ book Dinosaurumpus! Are you following Fun-A-Day’s DINOSAUR THEME Pinterest board? dinosaurKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Book Club Play Dates, Dinosaurs, Free Printable

Make Way for Ducklings Preschool Number Game

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Have you ever read Make Way for Ducklings with your kiddos? I have found memories of reading it when I was younger, and then reading it again (and again and again!) now that I have a kiddo of my own. So I was pretty excited this book was chosen for the third Book Club PlayKeep Reading

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