I had the amazing opportunity to write a guest post for Teach Mama! So I decided to share this super cool and fun activity for learning letters and letter sounds. It's actually multiple activities in one, and it was a huge hit with my daughter!
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Showing posts with label preschool activity. Show all posts
Rhyming Sorting Game with Free Printable
- It increases their phonological awareness (ability to listen and discriminate between the different sounds that make up words) which is one of the biggest indicators of reading success.
- It helps them recognize rhythm and patterns in language, which improves their oral language skills.
- It teaches them to make predictions and anticipate a rhyming word, which is an important reading skill.
There are many ways to practice rhyming with your child:
- Read lots of rhyming books
- Read and memorize nursery rhymes
- Sing and memorize rhyming children's songs
- Play rhyming games like this one!
This is a Free Printable Rhyming Sorting Game that you can use with children of different levels. For kids who are starting out learning about rhyming, you can have them sort only 2 or 3 groups of cards, while more advanced kids can sort all 6 groups. This is great for both readers and non-readers!
Here is how I played it with my almost 3 year old:
I set up 3 groups of cards, then gave her one card at a time to sort in the correct group.
I started out by asking her "Does bat rhyme with cat, does bat rhyme with dog, or does bat rhyme with pie?" She was confused at first, so I said "Bat rhymes with cat because it sounds like cat. Bat, cat, bat, cat." I did that for a few cards until she got the hang of it and started doing it on her own.
Click here to download your FREE Printable Rhyming Sorting Cards!
For another rhyming activity check out this Dr. Seuss Rhyming Hat printable:
M is for Monster: Craft & Activity
This post is sponsored by Dollar Tree. All opinions are my own.
Teaching my daughter letters has been a bit of a challenge. It's just not something that interests her. So I have to get really creative these days to come up with projects that are so fun, she forgets she is learning! Luckily, I got the opportunity to make this awesome project from the Dollar Tree Value Seekers Club! After we made this adorable Monster box craft, I came up with a fun little game to practice letter recognition and letter sounds!
To create this Monster box craft, you will need the following supplies:
- tissue box (Dollar Tree)
- paint (optional)
- circle labeling stickers (Dollar Tree)
- construction paper (Dollar Tree)
- googly eyes (Dollar Tree)
- tape or glue (Dollar Tree)
The instructions for making this Monster box can be found at the Dollar Tree Value Seekers Club. Membership is completely FREE! You'll find tons of crafts, recipes, décor, tips, contests, insider information, and frugal ideas. The content changes every month, so you'll have lots of fresh ideas for each season, holiday or just every day fun! All the materials can be purchased from Dollar Tree, and you can even print out the project sheets to take with you to the store as a convenient shopping list!
This Monster box was such a cute craft, and super easy for a toddler or preschooler to make. (I helped with the eyes and teeth, but that's about it)
As we were making the Monster, I told my daughter that this Monster likes to eat only letter M's and things that begin with M. It won't eat anything else that begins with a different letter or sound! Those "rules" set us up for some fun activities!
For the first activity, I took out some letter stickers that I had in my craft supplies. But you can also use letter tiles, letter magnets, or any other moveable alphabet pieces that you have on hand. Fortunately, we had a lot of letter M's, so I gave my daughter a bunch of letters to feed to the Monster (about half of them were M's and half were other letters). She took one letter at a time, called out what the letter was, and determined whether the Monster would eat it or not. This is a great game for letter recognition and can be modified depending on what materials you have!
For the next game, I collected a bunch of small objects and toys from around the house. I tried to find as many things as I could that start with the M sound. I found a mirror, a mitten, a monkey toy, play money, a marker, Minnie mouse, a small map, a mouth and a moon. I also added a bunch of other small objects that don't begin with an M sound. One by one, she identified each object and if that object started with an M sound or not, and fed the correct ones to the Monster.
This game can be modified for a lot of different learning activities, whether you want your child to practice letters, numbers, sight words, colors, etc.
For more fun crafts and ideas like this one, sign up for Dollar Tree Value Seekers Club. It's FREE!
School Bus Sorting Game with Post-it Notes
My daughter has been begging me for several weeks to make a Wheels on the Bus game, so I figured it would be perfect for Back to School for kids to practice and brush up on different concepts before they start school again.
I wanted to make this a customizable game that kids of different ages and skill levels can use as a fun learning activity, so I decided to use Post-it Notes! This makes it extra fun for kids because they will love to peel and stick these colorful pieces of paper.
You can use this game to practice color recognition, letters, numbers, sight words, shapes, word families or pretty much anything else that can be sorted. All you need is this Free printable school bus and 5 pads of 3"x3" Post-it Notes!
STEP 1: Click here to Print out the Free Printable school bus. It comes in 2 pages, so you will have to tape the two sheets together to create the school bus.
STEP 2: Cover the windows of the bus with one Post-it Note on each window. Use a marker or sharpie to write the numbers, letters, words, etc. that you want your child to sort.
STEP 3: Take your 5 pads of Post-it Notes and write all the numbers, letters, words, etc on each page of the pads.
STEP 4: Your child will peel and stick the Post-it Notes on the correct window!
As you can see there are so many ways you can play this game!
Here are some more Free Printable Sorting Games:
Hands-On Learning
Welcome to week 5 of the Love to Learn Linky! The posts that are linked up just keep getting better and better, so my co-hosts and I have decided to feature even more than we usually do. Here are 8 awesome hands-on learning activities to try with your kids!
Shark Activities for Tots by Every Star is Different
Early Reading Activities from One Time Through
Back to School with the Love to Learn Linky from Left Brain Craft Brain
Sensory Play Ideas for Little Hands and Feet from A Little Pinch of Perfect
Learning with Oreos
You no longer have to feel guilty about giving your kids an Oreo cookie! Check out my guest post at The Pleasantest Thing and try one of these 8 learning activities with Oreos!
10 Creative Art Activities
When it comes to art, my daughter is a perfectionist. She gets frustrated easily if something doesn't "look" right, and quickly abandons the project. I have learned that it's best to give her more open-ended art activities and leave her free to be as creative as possible.
10 Free Printable Drawing Prompts
These drawing prompts are a great way to spark your child's creativity and imagination!
Click here to Download 10 Free Printable Drawing Prompts by Totschooling
For more art skills practice check out The Ultimate Art Skills Pack for ages 3-6 years. This is a unique set of 20 printable activities to help kids practice ALL of their art skills at the same time: Scissor Skills, Gluing, Tracing, Coloring and Drawing!
Check out more creative art activities below:
For more art skills practice check out The Ultimate Art Skills Pack for ages 3-6 years. This is a unique set of 20 printable activities to help kids practice ALL of their art skills at the same time: Scissor Skills, Gluing, Tracing, Coloring and Drawing!
Check out more creative art activities below:
Kandinsky for Kids by Left Brain Craft Brain
Kandinsky for Kids by Left Brain Craft Brain
Free Printable Art Collages by Totschooling
Kandinsky for Kids by Left Brain Craft Brain
A is for Art: Homemade Clay Recipe by A Little Pinch of Perfect
Easy Seedy CD Art and Science by One Time Through
Kandinsky for Kids by Left Brain Craft Brain
Dinosaur Stomp Painting by Cutting Tiny Bites
Kandinsky for Kids by Left Brain Craft Brain
Packing Paper Art by the Science Kiddo
Kandinsky for Kids by Left Brain Craft Brain
Crayon Transfer Library Totes by Creative Family Fun
Paperclip Painting by Mosswood Connections
Kandinsky for Kids by Left Brain Craft Brain
Art doesn't have to be perfect by Mother's Madness
Halloween Activities & Printables with Googly Eyes
Kids love googly eyes - this is a fact! Googly eyes are not only cute and funny, but they have the ability to bring any boring old thing to life! Plus, they are excellent for practicing fine motor skills!
We like to use googly eyes year-round, but they are especially fun around Halloween time because of all the monsters and spiders and other spooky things you can make with them.
Here is a fun collection of 15 Halloween activities with googly eyes, including hands-on printable activities, easy arts and crafts projects, and out-of-this-world sensory play!
PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES
Create some fun monsters and spiders while practicing fine motor skills, numbers and letters! Just print and let your child stick or glue googly eyes in the white circles.
Click here to Download your Free Googly Eyes Printables
Click Here to browse through ALL of our Halloween printables!
Click Here to browse through ALL of our Halloween printables!
CRAFTS
Monster Mobile from Toilet Rolls by Happy Hooligans
Kid Friendly Pumpkin Decorating by Craftulate
I've Got My Eye on You by Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
Googly Eye Picture Frame by Artsy Momma
Paper Plate Spiders by I Heart Crafty Things
SENSORY ACTIVITIES
Halloween Ice Ghosts by The Golden Gleam
Glowing Sensory Bag Play by Growing a Jeweled Rose
Monster Ice by Growing a Jeweled Rose
Monsters Inc. Inspired Slime by 123Homeschool4Me
Fluffy Slime by Sow Sprout Play
Monster Play Dough by The Imagination Tree
Sensory Bag with Slimy Eyes by Hands On: As we Grow
Monster Sensory Bottle by My Mundane & Miraculous Life
Free Halloween Printable Pack for Toddlers & PreK
Halloween is one of our favorite times of the year and I like to use this as an opportunity to create some fun learning activities. This Halloween themed printable pack is designed for toddlers and preschoolers to develop early learning skills such as counting, number & alphabet recognition, letter sounds, letter cases, size, shapes, patterns, visual discrimination, prewriting, scissor skills, puzzles and more!
This Halloween themed Pack features 27 hands-on activities, and it is available for Free to all email subscribers. Here is what's included:
Literacy Activities:
-Cut & Paste the Missing Letter
-Letter Sound Matching
-Sight Word Matching
-Tracing words
-Letter Sorting
-Rhyming Words
-Which letter does not belong?
Pre-Writing:
-Trace the Circles
-Trace Horizontal Lines
-Trace Vertical Lines
Math Activities:
-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle
-Counting 1-5
-Counting 6-10
-Cut & Paste the Correct Number
-Number Matching
-Quantity Matching
-Patterns
-Cut & Paste in Order from Smallest to Biggest
-Sorting by Size
-Shape Matching
Visual Discrimination:
-Matching Halloween items
-Matching Jack-o-lantern faces
-Sorting Halloween items
Scissor Skills:
-Cutting straight lines
-Cutting zig zag lines
-Cutting page in 4 sections
Puzzles:
-Cut & Paste Puzzle
-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle
Below is a Sneak Peek:
This Halloween Printable Pack is FREE for all Totschooling subscribers! (If you're already a subscriber, you can find this pack on the Subscriber's Page)
What can I expect as a Subscriber?:
-You will receive 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.
-Your information will never be shared with anybody else.
How do I get my Halloween 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 Halloween 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.
-If you're already a subscriber, check a recent newsletter and scroll to the bottom. There will be a link to the Subscriber's Page.
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