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Candy Heart Breaking Fine Motor Activity

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Welcome to the “Little Heartbreakers” blog hop, led by Devany of Still Playing School and Laura of LalyMom. My preschoolers and I had a lot of fun with a heart-themed fine motor activity. I know Valentine’s Day isn’t until next month, but I wanted to test everything out before trying it on a larger scale. Breaking HeartsKeep Reading

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Super Simple Apple Fine Motor Color Matching Game

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Coloring matching game and fine motor apple activity in preschool

We had some fun earlier this fall during a preschool apple theme! The kiddos really enjoyed this apple color matching game that we played using some of our colorful wooden spools. Full disclosure – it’s not so much a “game” . . . but kids love calling all kinds of activities games, so I rolledKeep Reading

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Dyeing Wooden Spools for Fine Motor Skills Activities

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Over the summer, I came upon bagfuls of small wooden spools at a local craft store. I’m always on the lookout for materials for my pre-k classroom, so I picked up a couple. Looking at them, I decided they’d be great for a variety of fine motor skills activities for my students. Related: Dyed WoodKeep Reading

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Pumpkin Patch Small World Play

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Pumpkin patch small world play

October is always a fun time to learn and play with preschool pumpkin activities! I recently set up an incredibly simple “pumpkin patch” for small world play in the classroom. The kiddos got into it even more than I thought they would! Related: Pumpkin Sorting Activity with Printable Sorting Cards MaterialsAcrylic pumpkinsSmall and large riverKeep Reading

Filed Under: Sensory Tagged With: Fall, Fine Motor, Pumpkins

Easy Fine Motor Activity with Nuts & Bolts

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With a recent robot theme, I wanted to come up with something simple for our math/fine motor center.  I have a random collection of nuts and bolts because of activities and crafts like this Father’s Day frame.  Engineer was playing with them one day, and he had a blast!  His enthusiasm for those simple pieces ofKeep Reading

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Preschool Name Activity for a Fairy Tale Theme

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I do a lot of teaching with names in preschool!  Since names are meaningful to children, they’re more invested in learning about them. For this reason, I enjoy incorporating a preschool name activity into many of my themes.  Our recent fairy tale unit was no different!  Check out how the students created royal, blinged-out names! “royal” preschoolKeep Reading

Filed Under: Literacy Tagged With: Fairy Tales, Fine Motor, Names

Fine Motor Development with a Spring Threading Activity

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Welcome back to the last of our Spring Play Days!  I’ve had fun sharing spring-themed activities with Fantastic Fun and Learning, Nothing if Not Intentional, Twodaloo, and Buggy and Buddy this week.  Hopefully these ideas can tide us all over until spring finally arrives!  Previous Spring Play Days included “stained glass” window art and aKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Fine Motor, Spring

Preschool Winter Math Fun with Counting Snowballs Invitation

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This simple counting snowballs math is a perfect fit for your collection of winter activities for preschoolers. We do a lot of super simple learning activities in my classroom.  Even if they’re very easy to set up, they are teaching the kiddos important skills.  Once such activity revolved around preschool winter math, an activity IKeep Reading

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Counting, Fine Motor, Numbers, snow, Winter

Winter Fine Motor Play with Styrofoam “Snowballs”

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The kids will love this winter fine motor play with snowball geoboards! Add it to your list of winter activities for preschoolers. Affiliate links included below.  If you purchase anything from these links, I receive a small commission.  Thanks for supporting Fun-A-Day! using styrofoam snowballs for winter fine motor play fun MaterialsStyrofoam ballsSmoothfoam ballsWooden golfKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Fine Motor, snow, Winter

DIY Foam Geoboard Tree for Seasonal Fine Motor Fun

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three images of styrofoam trees with golf tees in them and rubber bands on the golf tees with the text, 'DIY geoboard Christmas trees'

practice math & fine motor skills with DIY foam geoboard Related: Christmas Activities for Preschoolers At the end of November, my preschoolers had way too much fun with our fine motor Christmas trees!  In fact, that “little” activity has been going strong for over two weeks now.  That activity, along with our pumpkin geoboard fromKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Christmas, Fine Motor

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