Preschool Powol Packets

Thanksgiving is around the corner, so I thought I'd share a little print-and-go packet of activities for you! This packet has 7 activities you can print for free! They're perfect for preschoolers and early elementary kids. The pages include: 1- Build a Turkey 2- Thankful Flower 3- PreK/K Maze 4- Find the Differences 5- Happy Thanksgiving Coloring Page 6- I Spy 7- Gratitude Alphabet Click HERE to grab this Thanksgiving Preschool Packet! Happy Educating, Carla Dinosaur Made Me Sneeze! This awesome book introduces the rock cycle with dinosaurs, volcanoes, and more! (hint: You can buy it on  Amazon  or use the code Dinosaur25 at  OakieBees.com !!) Have you seen  HEEP ? It is a  preschool homeschool curriculum ! Learn more  here ! Never miss another post again!   Sign up for our weekly updates newsletter and get links to all our posts once a week in your inbox!  Sign up here !!

Pumpkins are some of my favorite things ever! You can cook with them, play with them, smell them, and do all sorts of pumpkin-themed activities! This free preschool printable lets your kids design and build their own jack-o'lanterns. It's perfect for small groups or even a craft station! You can print this free packet on colored paper or let your kids color their pumpkins any way they like! And you can use the provided facial pieces or just give your preschoolers black paper and let them cut and design their own faces! Craft activities like this one are lots of fun and they help your child develop important skills, like the following: ** eye-hand coordination (important pre-reading skill) ** fine-motor control ** problem-solving ** multi-step project skills ** design and engineering ** confidence If you would like to print the free build-a-pumpkin packet, just click here to get a copy ! Also, consider being inspired by the printable packet, and just providing your children wit...

I think you will love this adorable set of turkey number and letter cards! Aren't they cute?! This festive little Thanksgiving packet has 14 pages of activities pieces, including the following: ** Upper and lower case letter turkey cards ** Turkey number cards ** Turkey counting cards ** A preschool maze ** An "I'm thankful for..." page You can use these for all sorts of activities! Here are a few ideas: ** Match the letter cards upper and lower case in games of memory or matching. ** Spell names or other words with the letter cards. ** Match the turkey number cards with the counting cards. ** "Match" the number of toys with number cards. For example, put 8 cars on the #8 cards. ** Fill the maze in with markers, pencils, or just trace it with your finger! ** Transcribe what your kids are thankful for, let them write it themselves, or let them draw a picture of it! You can grab this fun turkey / Thanksgiving preschool packet FREE by clicking here !  I hope yo...

Do you need a dinosaur preschool activity that takes less than 30 seconds to set up ?   I have one for you today! Actually, I have a whole series of no-prep dinosaur activities ! I think you'll love them because they're SO easy to set up and are still super engaging! I know they've been useful to me!! Anyway, today's super-easy-but-insanely-fun dinosaur preschool activity is all about dinosaur footprints!  As an extra bonus, it works great for babies and toddlers too (as long as they're not allergic to wheat)! Dinosaur footprints are one of the ways we have learned about dinosaurs.  The footprints can tell us their size, if they likely walked on two feet or four, how big their gait was, and more!  You can talk to your kiddos about all the great science we can get from dinosaur footprints and how footprints are a type of "trace fossil" (meaning a fossil made by a living critter without any of the critter actually fossilized), and how fossils are m...

Our preschoolers love matching and coloring games, so these printable continents activities are perfect! Here are a few activity ideas you can use with these pages: 1- Coloring pages! Color the continents! 2- Match the coloring pages shapes to the continents on the world map! 3- Match the continent cards to each other! 4- Play memory with the continent cards! 5- Match the animals to the continent they live on!  6- Play memory games with the continent and animal cards! I hope you love this set! You can get it for free HERE ! Happy Educating, Carla Dinosaur Made Me Sneeze! This awesome book introduces the rock cycle with dinosaurs, volcanoes, and more! (hint: You can buy it on  Amazon  or use the code Dinosaur25 at  OakieBees.com !!) Have you seen  HEEP ? It is a  preschool homeschool curriculum ! Learn more  here ! Never miss another post again!   Sign up for our weekly updates newsletter and get links to all our posts once a ...

Don't we all want to learn more ways to help our preschoolers strengthen their emotional skills ? I just finished my most recent course with ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI) , and I am super excited to share some things I learned about building preschoolers' emotional skills from it with you!  SOC107: Building Social and Emotional Competence is designed for adults working with preschoolers about 2-5 years old. It helps you identify characteristics of social emotional development in children five and under, learn how to create a responsive learning environment, and select strategies that help children build self-regulation and healthy social emotional development. Plus, this is one of the many online courses that is part of their CDA certification . The course is designed for professionals working with young children , but I think every parent would also benefit from the information inside. We all want our preschoolers to develop strong emotional skills so they can solve p...

Space, astronomy, and planets have always been some of my favorite themes, so I love sharing them with my preschoolers! This little Playdough Planets activity can be a whole project on its own, or just a fun extension you can add in to your day next time you pull out some playdough! We started with Jupiter because I was talking about how you can see both Jupiter and Venus right now, easily, shortly after sunset, with my older kids. (If you live in the northern hemisphere, look for the two bright planets after sunset in the western sky.) My preschooler joined us while we talked about how some awesome Jupiter Fun Facts (see below), and then I pulled out the play dough. I limited the colors to red, orange, and yellow. He happily designed four different "Jupiters" and then -- on a different day -- asked to repeat the entire activity! Play dough is awesome for developing fine motor skills and pre-writing muscles. Pulling it out when you talk about science lets kids stretch their...

Today I'm sharing my dinosaur lesson plan for our preschool music class.  I'm teaching a preschool class this year that combines music and movement to teach basic music concepts like pitch and listening skills while letting our preschoolers sing, run, and play!  You can also use a lot of these ideas and activities with toddlers or kindergarteners...just adapt them for your kid's abilities! I'm sharing my lesson plans here in case anyone else wants some ideas for Music Time! You can see more music lessons here ! This lesson is already tested--we had a great time! This is a 40-minute class, and includes transition and movement time. :)  Theme : Dinosaurs (1) Gathering Activity : Play with musical instrument toys. Hello Song : Hello Song:    Hello * kid's name * Hello * kid's name *  Hello * kid's name * We're glad you're here today! to the tune of "Goodnight, Ladies." Warm-up Song :  When I Sing La, La, La  by Janeen Brady with sock puppets. ...

Who loves unicorns?! My kids do! They also love to play Tic-Tac-Toe, so I am super excited to share this re-usable free printable game board... with unicorn pieces!! Isn't it adorable?! You can choose your unicorn from six different designs, cut them out quickly (because they're in easy-to-cut squares!), and start playing!! Laminate them if you want them to last longer, or pop them in a plastic baggie! They would also make an awesome file folder game: glue the tick-tac-toe "board" onto a file folder and put the pieces in an envelope. Glue the envelope onto the folder as well, so you can keep it with the game! Free Unicorn Tic-Tac-Toe Preschool Printable: CLICK HERE to download or print it all for FREE!! And let me know if you have any other games or activities you would like me to make a printable set for!  💖 Happy Educating, Carla Dinosaur Made Me Sneeze! This awesome book introduces the rock cycle with dinosaurs, volcanoes, and more! (hint: You can buy it on  ...

I love sharing awesome places to go and things to do with your preschoolers, so I am delighted to put together my guide of the Top 10 Things to do with Preschoolers at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal Orlando ! I'm also including a possible 1-Day Itinerary , in case you only have one day to spend and you want a suggested to-do list with your kids! And, I have my own little set of Helpful Notes (awesome general tips that you should make sure you know)! Just keep scrolling down to make sure you see everything! IMPORTANT NOTE : Harry Potter - themed attractions are in TWO parks at Universal Studios in Orlando . Universal Studios Florida includes The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley and Islands of Adventure includes The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Hogsmeade. If you're a Harry Potter fan, you really want to visit both parks. You can do it on separate days, but I'd highly recommend doing the Hogwarts Express Ride, which requires visiting both ...