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10+ Must-Try Ideas for a Preschool Garden Theme

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Are you looking for some new ideas to add to your list of spring activities for preschoolers? Try incorporating a garden theme into your lesson plans this year! A garden theme can include everything from flowers and crops to insects and pollinators. And the children can study early math skills, early literacy skills, art, sensoryKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Flowers & Plants, Share It Saturday

Jack and the Beanstalk Activity | Pop-Up Tree

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Run! Don’t walk! To add a this Jack and the Beanstalk activity to your list of STEM activities for preschoolers! Not only is this pop-up tree super-fun, but it’s also jam-packed with a TON of early learning opportunities including everything from literacy to art, all the way to engineering. Please welcome Curt, a former scienceKeep Reading

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Fairy Tales, Flowers & Plants

Kid-Made Cupcake Liner Flowers

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We recently had a ton of fun making cupcake liner flowers! They are a great addition to your list of spring activities for preschoolers. With just a few common household items, like cupcake liners and buttons, your preschoolers can create the cutest flower crafts! We have a variety of materials in our classroom art center,Keep Reading

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #playfulpreschool, #TeachECE, Flowers & Plants

10 Evergreen Tree Activities for Preschoolers

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These evergreen tree activities for preschoolers will keep the kids engaged and interested during a preschool evergreen theme. Add them to your collection of winter activities for preschoolers. Hands-on learning is a must for preschoolers (and kiddos of all ages, for that matter)! So when my students and I were talking about evergreen trees, IKeep Reading

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Flowers & Plants, Winter

Seed Sound Matching Game for Kids

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This seed sound matching game is a unique and fun addition to your spring activities for preschoolers and kindergarten kids. It’s easy to set up, and you don’t need many materials to get started! Consider adding the seed sound game to your next plant theme or a unit about gardens. It would be a blastKeep Reading

Filed Under: Sensory Tagged With: Flowers & Plants, Music & Movement

Insects and Plants in the Preschool Science Center

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Our preschool science center is chock-full of so many fun spring activities for preschoolers! We’ve mostly been filling it with plant and insect activities recently.  And, as usual, the kids have jumped right into it with tons of questions and observations!. They’re having a blast with it! Grab done-for-you insect theme and flower theme lesson plansKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Childhood Classroom, Early Learning Tagged With: Butterflies, Centers, Flowers & Plants, Insects

Fun and Educational Garden Activities for Kids

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These garden activities for kids are perfect for any of your spring preschool themes!  And now that spring has finally arrived in our area, we’ve begun to talk about insects and plants.  Last week’s Share It Saturday gave me some great ideas to work with.  I know my students are going to love exploring andKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Flowers & Plants, Share It Saturday

Two Ways to Make Tissue Paper Stained Glass Art for Spring

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collage of preschool tissue paper art with text that reads tissue paper stained glass art

Tissue paper stained glass art is one of the more versatile art projects for kids. You can use this same technique for almost any theme, holiday, or season art you want to plan! Below, I share two different ways you can create stained glass art with tissue paper. Both techniques are very low-prep and neitherKeep Reading

Filed Under: Preschool Arts and Crafts Tagged With: Flowers & Plants, Spring

Painting without Brushes – Using Grass Feathers

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Today, we have a guest poster sharing an idea for painting without brushes. Looking for fun art projects for kids? This one is a blast! I am so excited to have Georgina from Craftulate guest posting today!  She’s a British mama living in America.  On Craftulate, she shares tons of great crafty ideas for theKeep Reading

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Flowers & Plants, Process Art

Flower Garden Crafts & Activities for Kids

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Are you following Fun-A-Day’s FLOWERS & PLANTS Pinterest board? Garden crafts are such a great addition to your inventory of spring activities for preschoolers. Students will enjoy getting in touch with nature as they let their creativity flow! Highlight gardening each week in spring with one of the gardening crafts or activities. Or, better yet,Keep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Flowers & Plants

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