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. colorful sensory activity for preschoolers to explore I may getKeep Reading
Snowball Names Fine Motor Literacy Activity
Add these snowball names to your collection of winter activities for preschoolers! Be sure to check out Sugar Aunts’ fine motor snowmen. It looks like a ton of fun for the kiddos! Plus, it had glitter. While I love our snowball names, there was no glitter involved. Yet. 🙂 Related: Preschool Winter Crafts snowball names is aKeep Reading
Candy Heart Breaking Fine Motor Activity
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
Super Simple Apple Fine Motor Color Matching Game
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
Dyeing Wooden Spools for Fine Motor Skills Activities
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
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 MaterialsI may get commissions forKeep Reading
Easy Fine Motor Activity with Nuts & Bolts
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
Preschool Name Activity for a Fairy Tale Theme
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
Fine Motor Development with a Spring Threading Activity
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
Preschool Winter Math Fun with Counting Snowballs Invitation
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