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Free Easter Lacing Cards

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Lacing is a great activity for young children to help develop fine motor skills, concentration, and hand-eye coordination. Try it out with these 3 Easter themed lacing cards!

Print the cards out, then laminate them and cut out the picture along the dashed lines. (If you don't have a laminator you could glue them to a thin cardboard like a cereal box). Then use a hole puncher to punch holes where indicated. For young children I suggest starting with the egg or the chick as those are easier. For older children you can add challenge by punching extra holes in between the holes that are already there.

Give your child a shoe lace, or a piece of yarn that is reinforced by tape at the end. Tip: to make it easier you can add a bigger piece of tape at the end, as big as 1 or 2 inches to form the lacing "needle". Enjoy!

Download your Free Easter Lacing Cards!

Free Earth Day Pack for Toddlers & PreK

Celebrate Earth Day with your toddlers and preschoolers with this fun set of 16 printable activities featuring letter sounds, pre-writing, word tracing, puzzles, do-a-dot, lacing, counting, number recognition, patterns, visual discrimination matching, and more!

Click Here to Download your FREE Earth Day Pack Here!

For more Earth Day printable activities, see the following posts:

Recycling Sorting

Earth Q-Tip Painting

Earth Day Alphabet & Number Puzzles

Free Princess Learning Pack for Toddlers & PreK

My daughter's current obsession is princesses. We have princess books, princess toys, princess dresses, and we even threw a princess birthday party for her third birthday! I always like to take advantage of things that interest her and use them as learning opportunities, so of course I created a Princess themed printable pack, and giving it out for free to all my wonderful followers!

This free printable pack includes 21 activities to practice counting, number recognition, letters, letter cases, letter sounds, prewriting, scissor skills, visual discrimination, lacing, do-a-dots and more!

For toddlers, I always recommend that you laminate the activities and use Velcro to attach the loose pieces. Preschoolers or children who are practicing using scissors can do these activities by cutting and pasting. The prewriting sheets should be laminated or placed in sheet protectors for easy wipe-off.

Click here to download your Free Princess Learning Pack!

For more princess themed printables, see the following posts:

Halloween Lacing Cards

Lacing is a great activity for toddlers and preschoolers to help develop fine motor skills, concentration, and hand-eye coordination. Grab an old shoelace and try out one of these free printable Halloween themed lacing cards!

These 5 free Halloween lacing cards include a mummy, a spider web, a bat, Frankenstein, and a jack-o-lantern.

We usually like to use lacing cards by lacing around the outside of the image, but for the mummy and spider web I thought it would be fun to lace across the image as shown in the pictures. However, your child is free to lace in whatever pattern they would like!

Materials needed:

-laminator

-hole puncher

-shoe laces, yarn, ribbon, etc.

Note: For the mummy and spider web we had to use 2 shoelaces since one was not long enough. If you choose to use yarn or ribbon, you can reinforce the ends with tape to form the lacing "needle".

Click here to download your free Halloween Lacing Cards

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D-Eye-Y Games for Kids: Visual Skills at Play from Left Brain Craft Brain

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Sequencing Activity for Preschoolers by From ABCs to ACTs

Toddler Leaf Sewing Craft by My Little 3 and Me

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D-Eye-Y Games for Kids: Visual Skills at Play from Left Brain Craft Brain
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Free FROZEN Learning Pack for Toddlers & PreK

It's finally here! My daughters have been obsessing over Disney's FROZEN lately and I have been planning on making this pack for quite some time! I hope you enjoy this FREE Printable Frozen Learning Pack for toddlers and preschoolers, featuring math, literacy, visual discrimination, prewriting, handwriting, scissor skills, puzzles, do-a-dots, lacing cards and more!

This FREE Frozen Learning Pack features 36 activities that will keep your little Frozen fan busy for a long time, while practicing numbers, counting, letters, letter sounds, visual and fine motor skills!

Click here to Download your FREE Frozen Learning Pack!

For more FROZEN fun, try these Free Frozen Alphabet Cards:

For more princess fun, check out the Princess Learning Pack:

Free Princess Learning Pack for Toddlers & PreK

Click here to download your Free Princess Learning Pack!

For more princess themed printables, see the following posts:

Halloween Lacing Cards

These 5 free Halloween lacing cards include a mummy, a spider web, a bat, Frankenstein, and a jack-o-lantern.

Materials needed:

-laminator

-hole puncher

-shoe laces, yarn, ribbon, etc.

Note: For the mummy and spider web we had to use 2 shoelaces since one was not long enough. If you choose to use yarn or ribbon, you can reinforce the ends with tape to form the lacing "needle".

Click here to download your free Halloween Lacing Cards

Click Here to browse through D-Eye-Y Games for Kids: Visual Skills at Play from Left Brain Craft Brain
ALL of our Halloween printables, or click the image below:

D-Eye-Y Games for Kids: Visual Skills at Play from Left Brain Craft Brain

For more fun lacing ideas and printables, check out the following featured posts!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Sequencing Activity for Preschoolers by From ABCs to ACTs

Toddler Leaf Sewing Craft by My Little 3 and Me

Free FROZEN Learning Pack for Toddlers & PreK

Click here to Download your FREE Frozen Learning Pack!

For more FROZEN fun, try these Free Frozen Alphabet Cards:

For more princess fun, check out the Princess Learning Pack:

12 Creative Ways to Learn with Coloring Pages

Coloring pages seem like the perfect quiet time or busy activity for kids. However, my daughters (and I'm sure my kids aren't the only ones) will spend about 5 minutes or less if I give them a coloring page and crayons. Granted, this may be because they are still young (3 1/2 and almost 2 yrs), but I wanted to find a way to engage my kids and also get some educational value out of a simple coloring page.

Recently, we went on a vacation which involved an airplane flight as well as multiple car rides. While I thought I had packed enough activities, I ended up running out of things to keep them busy. I went out and bought some coloring books and decided to get creative!

Here are 12 ideas for creative ways of using and learning with coloring pages, as well as a list of my favorite free coloring page resources at the end!

1. Color By Number
This is a super easy way to turn a coloring page into an educational activity! Just create a legend of numbers and their corresponding colors, and write the numbers on the picture where the colors go. For a fun twist, you can play a roll & color game by rolling a die, calling out the number and then coloring one of the numbers in the picture. Keep rolling and playing until the picture is complete.

2. Color by Letter or Sight Word
This is the same idea as number 1 but you can use letters, words, shapes or anything else that your child is learning.

3. Color by Dots
Use a marker to create little circles, essentially labeling which colors go where on the page. Great for color recognition in young children.

4. Color by Sequence
Write numbers or letters throughout the picture and ask your child to color in numerical or alphabetical order.

5. Sticker by Number/Letter/Word
This one is a favorite at our house! Hide letters, numbers or words throughout the picture and also write them on a set of stickers (I like to purchase these circle labeling stickers at the dollar store). The child then places the stickers over the correct letter or number.

6. Cut & Make into a Puzzle
This one is really easy to prep. Just cut the paper into 4, 6, 9 or 12 pieces and let your child put it back together. You can also let the child do the cutting and it doubles as cutting practice!

7. Cut in Half and Complete Picture
Learn about symmetry or just let your child use their imagination to complete the picture.

8. Find & Color
Depending on the type of coloring page, ask your child to find a specific shape, object or character and once they find it they color it. Repeat until the whole page is colored. This would be great with a more complex coloring page with many different elements.

9. Make a Collage
We do this one a lot at our house. I give my kids craft supplies such as tissue paper, pom poms, feathers, googly eyes, scrap paper, buttons, etc and have them glue these things onto the coloring page. It usually comes out like a work of art! You may need to reinforce the paper or, if you are printing, you can print on cardstock or heavy paper.

10. Turn into a Playdough Mat
Any coloring page can be turned into a playdough mat. Just laminate the sheet (or not) and give your child playdough to "color" in the picture. Tons of fun and great for fine motor skills.

11. Turn into a Lacing Card
This one works best if the coloring page is mainly one animal, object or character. Laminate the page (or print on cardstock), then cut out the main object and punch holes around it. Give your child a shoelace, string, yarn etc. to lace around the picture.

12. Cut out Characters/Animals/Objects and Make Story Puppets
Another idea that works only for certain coloring pages. Cut out the main characters, animals, etc. and turn them into puppets by taping a craft stick to the back. Ask your child to come up with a story and use the puppets to act it out.

Free Coloring Pages & Resources:

300+ Disney Princess Coloring Pages by What Mommy Does
35 Free Disney's Frozen Coloring Pages by The Kid's Coloring Pages
1000+ Free Disney Coloring Pages for Kids by The Farm Girl Gabs
Famous Paintings Coloring Pages by Super Coloring
Marvel Superhero Squad Coloring Pages by On Coloring
Robots Coloring Pages by The Art & Craft Giraffe
32 Free Zoo Animal Coloring Pages by Raising Our Kids
Animal Coloring Pages by Better Homes & Gardens
Eric Carle Coloring Pages by Mom Junction

Free Valentine's Day Learning Pack for Toddlers & Preschoolers

Get ready for Valentine's Day with this FREE learning pack! This printable pack is designed for toddlers and preschoolers to practice early learning skills such as alphabet and number recognition, counting, letter sounds, letter cases, size, shapes, patterns, visual discrimination, prewriting, scissor skills, puzzles and more!

This printable pack is designed for toddlers and preschoolers to practice early learning s Free Valentine's Day Learning Pack for Toddlers & Preschoolers

This FREE Valentine's Day Learning Pack features 35 hands-on activities, and it is available for Free to all email subscribers. Here is what's included:

Literacy Activities:

-Letter Sound Matching

-Sight Word Matching

-Letter Case Matching

-Word tracing

-Letter H tracing

-Letter Sorting

-Circle all the things that begin with H

-Word puzzle

-Alphabet Sequence puzzle (upper & lower case)

Math Activities:

-Numbers 1-5 Puzzle

-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle

-Numbers 11-20 Puzzle

-Counting 1-5

-Counting 6-10

-Cut & Paste the Missing Number

-Number to Quantity Matching

-Patterns

-Sorting by Size

-Shape Matching

-Color by Number

Pre-Writing/Fine Motor:

-Trace the Shapes

-Trace the Hearts

-Trace Horizontal Lines

-Trace Vertical Lines

-Do a Dot Heart

-Heart Lacing Card

Visual Discrimination:

-Shadow Matching

-Which one is different?

Scissor Skills:

-Cutting straight lines

-Cutting zig zag & curved lines

-Several Cutting & pasting activities

Puzzles:

-Alphabet Sequence Puzzle (upper & lower case)

-Word Puzzle

-Numbers 1-5 Puzzle

-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle

-Numbers 11-20 Puzzle

This Valentine's Day Printable Pack is FREE for all Totschooling subscribers!

What can I expect as a Subscriber?:

-You will receive access to free printables that are not available for download on the website. This includes holiday and seasonal packs, as well as other themed activity packs.

-You will get access to a collection of Board Book Printable Activities and Nursery Rhymes sequencing.

-You will receive 1-2 emails per week with new posts, freebies, sales and additions to the site.

-You will receive a special subscriber discount for the Online Store.

-Your information will never be shared with anybody else.

How do I get my Valentine's Day Pack after subscribing?:

-After confirming your email address, you will receive a Welcome Email which provides the link to the subscriber's page. This subscriber's page is where you can download the Valentine's Day Pack as well as ALL other subscriber freebies.

-Please check your email thoroughly for this email including spam folder, promotions folders, etc. If you still do not see it, please email me at totschooling@gmail.com and I will be happy to send you the link.

Free 4th of July Learning Pack for Tots & PreK

Get ready for the Fourth of July with this FREE learning pack! This printable pack is designed for toddlers and preschoolers to practice early learning skills such as alphabet and number recognition, counting, letter sounds, letter cases, size, shapes, patterns, visual discrimination, prewriting, scissor skills, puzzles and more!

This FREE 4th of July Pack features 32 hands-on activities, and it is available for Free to all email subscribers. Here is what's included:

Literacy Activities:

-Letter Sound Matching

-Sight Word Matching

-Letter Case Matching

-Word tracing

-Letter F tracing

-Letter Sorting

-Circle all the things that begin with F

-Word puzzle (flag)

-Alphabet Sequence puzzle (upper & lower case)

Math Activities:

-Numbers 1-5 Puzzle

-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle

-Numbers 11-20 Puzzle

-Counting 1-5

-Counting 6-10

-Cut & Paste the Missing Number

-Patterns

-Sorting by Size

-Shape Matching

Pre-Writing/Fine Motor:

-Trace the Shapes

-Trace the Stars

-Trace Horizontal Lines

-Trace Vertical Lines

-Trace the Flag

-Do a Dot Flag

-Do a Dot U.S. Map

-Flag Lacing Card

Visual Discrimination:

-Which one is different? (tots)

-Which one is different? (prek)

Scissor Skills:

-Cutting straight lines

-Cutting zig zag & curved lines

Puzzles:

-Alphabet Sequence Puzzle (upper & lower case)

-Word Puzzle

-Numbers 1-5 Puzzle

-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle

-Numbers 11-20 Puzzle

This 4th of July Printable Pack is FREE for all Totschooling subscribers!

Don't forget to download your Free Summer Pack also!

What can I expect as a Subscriber?:

-You will receive access to free printables that are not available for download on the website. This includes holiday and seasonal packs, as well as other themed activity packs.

-You will get access to a growing collection of Board Book Printable Activities.

-You will receive 1-2 emails per week with new posts, freebies, sales and additions to the site.

-You will receive a special subscriber discount for the Online Store.

-Your information will never be shared with anybody else.

How do I get my 4th of July Pack after subscribing?:

-After confirming your email address, you will receive a Welcome Email which provides the link to the subscriber's page. This subscriber's page is where you can download the 4th of July Pack as well as ALL other subscriber freebies.