Preschool Powol Packets

I am super excited to share Chocolate Chip Change with you today!  It's a preschool-friendly counting, numbers, and colors game!! We've been reading Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  as a read aloud book recently, and everyone  has loved it!  Last week I shared our chocolate sensory lesson and activity , and today I am sharing our new chocolate-y themed card game! The number cards all have numbers printed and a corresponding number of chocolate chips on them.  This helps children associate the numbers with objects they represent, and helps ease the burden of differentiating between tricky numbers like a six and nine!  Additionally, the game requires color knowledge of red, green, blue, and yellow.  My experience has been that if children do not know the necessary colors when they want to play a game, they will learn them very quickly! How to Play Chocolate Chip Change: 1- Deal each player seven cards and turn one card over in the middle to make a

Chocolate, science, sensory, a great book...this activity/lesson has all the best parts of learning in it!!  And all our kiddos loved it...from two to eight years old!! In anticipation of Roald Dahl's birthday coming up, I decided to read Charlie and and the Chocolate Factory aloud to our kiddos.  They are absolutely loving it!  It is so creative and bizarre that it is like candy for their imaginations, while at the same time it has a lovable main character that they all relate to.  An extra bonus is that each chapter only takes a couple minutes to read, so it is something my child with a short attention span can easily sit and listen to each day!  We haven't quite finished it, but it is safe to say that it is one of our new favorite read-alouds! Since we've been reading about chocolate every day (and talking about it...can you imagine a life-time supply?!!), I decided to have a short lesson on where the chocolate they love so much comes from.  When I used to

I was looking at coloring pages I've put together in the past, and thinking about fall activities, and I decided it was time to make a Fall Fun Coloring Page! {FREE} Fall Fun Coloring Page!! I love coloring pages because they provide fine motor exercise, color exploration, and usually have room for your kiddos to add in more details or extra ideas.  And they're incredibly easy to just print and use!  I also often encourage my children to color on a blank sheet of paper because I don't want them to feel confined by someone else's lines or ideas.  Their own artwork always amazes me! Sometimes, I like to use coloring pages for fine motor activities too!  Here are 5 super easy, and super fun, ways to use a coloring page.  Some will make the page heavy, so you may want to "mount" it on cardstock or a file folder before starting! 1- Paint the picture with fingerpaints, q-tips, straws, or even regular paintbrushes! 2- "Color" the p

I am super excited to be joining the Virtual Book Club for Kids hosts this year!! Every month we will feature a different children's book and over a dozen different hands-on activities that go with it!  You can share your own activities or wait and collect ideas from the hosts!  Activities and book features will usually go up on the first of every month, September through August.  Here is the schedule: And I thought I would share a quick introduction to each of the books with you today!  These are Amazon Affiliate Links, so if you want more information about the book, click on the picture and go to its Amazon page to learn more and, if you choose, order it! September: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak: I still have glowing memories of discovering this book when I was about six at a school book fair!  I am thrilled it is the first book in the club this year!! October: Llama, Llama, Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney: A sweet (and ma