Preschool Powol Packets

Today I'm excited to share a simple, fun way for you to play   with your children.  The fact that it is good for their fine-motor skills, language development, color recognition, creative skills, and relationship with you is just a lucky side effect! I'm joining with 99 other bloggers to bring you 100 Days of Play , the brainchild of Rachel at Sun Scholars .  Click here for more details and *100* fun, simple ways to play with your children! Today's activity is creating a new world with play dough!  Grab a pile of play dough (or make your own!) and start talking to your children! Tell them it's time to create a new world.  Ask them what kind of people they should make.  Make some! Ask them what kind of animals they should have.  Make some! Ask them what kind of shops they should have.  Make some! Ask them what kind of homes they should have.  Make some! Ask them what kind of other places they should have.  Make some! Use any kinds of props you want...

Today I am happy to welcome Selena from Look! We're Learning! with an outdoor reading activity great for short attention spans! This is the fourth week in the Summer Fun For Preschoolers series! Each Friday for the rest of the summer I will share a guest post with wonderful ideas of ways to intentionally spend time with your young children!  Click  here  for a list of all the weeks, and check out the contributors in the left hand sidebar! We all want our preschoolers to learn phonics and sight words, but keeping them interested in the process can be tricky. Here’s a simple way to help little ones get excited about reading simple words! We started by writing simple CVC words on our driveway. This is a great place to get any older kids involved, by the way. We were careful to use words in which every letter makes a sound so that the boys wouldn’t get stuck on silent vowels or blends. Then we wrote the same words on small index card pieces. A

Today I'm guest posting at the amazing This Reading Mama with a fun technique for practicing writing word families...with mirrors!  Check it out here !  While you're there, be sure to look at her {FREE} reading curriculum for preschoolers! I may share at any of these parties !

Good evening!  Welcome back to Teach Me Tuesday!  As you can tell, I'm changing the format: this week the features are all alphabet activities that you can do with your preschoolers.  I'm so excited to share this great group of printables and learning activities with you!  Be sure to check them out below! #1: Jump In To Learning Beach Theme from 3 Dinosaurs #2: Letter Formation Practice from Teaching Little Ones at Home #3: Caterpillar Early Learning Pack from Life With Moore Babies #4: Alphabet Learning Through Play from Little Bins for Little Hands #5: How to Make a Montessori Alphabet Box from Wildflower Ramblings #6: Lowercase Letter Recognition from Wildflower Ramblings Also make sure you saw the most clicked on link from last week: Most Clicked on Link: Learning About Bugs at Trillium Montessori If you missed any these ladies' posts, be sure to check them out!  And if you are featured, feel free to grab a featured button from the sidebar!

Transportation is a theme that everyone loves here, so I am very excited to share our current favorite truck book and activity with you! My Truck is Stuck by Kevin Lewis is a delightful story about a truck driver delivery a "great big load" who happens to get stuck in a hole.  The story incorporates different kids of trucks, counting to five, rhymes, and engaging pictures.  In fact, the pictures tell a whole additional story (about some very naughty critters) who take advantage of the stuck truck.  My kids love this book--we read it very frequently!  So, for our Poppins Book Nook activity we used some dramatic play to act out the entire story.  The cars and trucks are the most important characters to my boys, and they had a wonderful time gathering the vehicles that would be in "our" story.  Everyone's favorite part was hooking the dump truck up to the tow truck--we had to repeat it several times so each child could have a turn!  Then we had

Make sure you stop by B-Inspired Mama , where I contribute {FREE} printables, and grab your {FREE} number puzzle set !  You can download a 1-10 puzzle or an 11-20 puzzle...what numbers are your children working on? I may share at any of these parties !

Today I am happy to welcome Cassie from  3 Dinosaurs  with an outdoor art project that doubles as a science experiment! This is the third week in the Summer Fun For Preschoolers series! Each Friday for the rest of the summer I will share a guest post with wonderful ideas of ways to intentionally spend time with your young children!  Click  here  for a list of all the weeks, and check out the contributors in the left hand sidebar! Chalk is one of our favorite summer activities. The girls will ask to do it a lot. I always try to do some learning when we do chalk. It does not always happen but when I can make it happen it goes great! It is also one of the easy activities you can do almost anywhere! Here is one of our fun Chalk activities. What you need: white, blue, yellow & red chalk. Draw 6 circles on the ground. (My first try at this I had one to many circles. The girls kept counting different numbers as I was drawing them.)  Place the chalk where th

Milk Fireworks are perfect for some 4th of July fun or just a fabulous science experiment! This science project is an excellent activity for younger kids because of the colors and the ease of experimentation. Simple Supplies: milk (whole milk works best, though these pictures were taken with 2%) bowls food coloring or liquid watercolors liquid dish soap q-tips or toothpicks Easy How-to: 1- Pour enough milk in the bowl to completely cover the bottom. 2- Put a few drops of color near the middle of the milk.  The top picture used liquid watercolors and the bottom picture used food coloring. 3- Dip the q-tip or toothpick in the dish soap and poke it in the middle of the colors.  Repeat as much as you want! 4- It's an experiment, so let your child mix things up and see what happens.  Do you have different types of milk?  Different types of color?  Does a toothpick work better than a q-tip?  Does the amount of milk matter?  Remember to