Preschool Powol Packets

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 ...

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  ...

National Child Care Provider Day is coming up, so I am excited to share my favorite online training for providers with you ! They are perfect for preschool teachers, daycare providers, and even parents who  sometimes wish early childhood came with a training manual! ChildCare Education Institute  (CCEI)  provides high-quality, online training courses and programs for anyone who works with young children. They have certification programs that provide coursework for national credentials like CDA and over 150 courses in English and Spanish that cover a huge variety of topics, including the three I'm featuring today!  More than 35,000 early childhood professionals have graduated from their CDA and other certificate programs and 99% of their students say they would recommend CCEI to others.  I have taken eight of their courses now, and I can absolutely say I highly recommend them! Here are a few of my favorite things about their courses: ** ChildCare Education Ins...

These road number mats are the perfect way to integrate number recognition and play for your preschoolers! My absolutely favorite way to teach number and letter recognition is through play, so I am super excited to share these number road mats with you! When my oldest son was a preschooler, he used to love lining up his cars to make letters and numbers. These little mats make it SO easy! You can line cars up along the road or drive your cars on the roads as if you were writing them! Print extra copies and make bigger numbers! Click HERE to grab a set of Number Road Mats for free ! And click HERE to learn about my new picture book, A Dinosaur Made Me Spill: A Water Cycle Adventure ! In this fun story, Sofia makes an epic mess at their tea party... and uses the water cycle to explain why it was really a dinosaur's fault! Learn more HERE ! Happy Educating, Carla Dinosaur Made Me Sneeze! This awesome book introduces the rock cycle with dinosaurs, volcanoes, and more! (hint: You ca...

Do you ever get excited about Christmas when it's still just October?? Thinking about my preschoolers and the lights, trains, trees... I can't help wanting to start planning new activities! That's why I'm super excited to share these new Christmas Train Playdough Mats --they're perfect for pre-K classrooms, homeschool, or kids who just like to play with playdough and talk about their awesome trains! You might have noticed I already published a Christmas Dinosaurs Preschool Packet , and I am beyond excited to share these little Christmas trains!  These train playdough mats would go perfectly with a unit study or theme about trains, Christmas, or even gingerbread (if you make gingerbread trains)!!  You can print a bunch or just print one set and laminate them! Use the playdough to add train decorations, people or animals or luggage to the trains, or any other accessories you want! Let your preschoolers build a playdough bridge for the train to go over! Line the pages ...

What are you doing with your preschoolers this winter? Do they love dinosaurs? Or games? What about... dinosaurs AND games?!   The Christmas Dinosaurs Pre-K Pack is full of fun math, language arts, and logic (pre-science) activities! *** Purchase here ! November ONLY : Click HERE to find out how to get it for free!! *** Christmas Dinosaurs Pre-K Pack If you've ever wanted to merge Christmas lights and trees with smiling dinosaurs, this is the perfect packet for you! It has 50 PAGES of printable activities to keep you and your little dinosaur-lovers playing and growing! I've always been slightly obsessed with dinosaurs (my first picture book was even about dinosaurs!), and I am always delighted when my kids go through dinosaur phases! We always pull dinosaurs out for "Dinovember," so I was just thinking about what kind of fun dinosaur activities we needed, and I realized: Christmas Dinosaurs!! So, what's in this packet? Here's a list: 1- Shadow Matching Cards ...

Today I have some adorable community-helper themed activity pages for older preschoolers! Actually, they're great for any age (preschool or kindergarten) that likes to write or draw! I've always been passionate that younger preschoolers should not be "burdened" with writing--they should be allowed to explore it whenever they want. I still believe this, but as I've got older I've met several very young preschoolers who love writing and drawing. It's definitely less-common to see a 3-year old holding a pencil like a 7-year old, but it totally happens! And there are lots of 3-year olds who will love coloring all over these pages with no regard for lines or letters...and that is absolutely fantastic too! So, what's in this little packet? There are five community helpers with names to trace, and things to circle: Baker, Fire Fighter, Police, Doctor, and Construction Worker. There's also a page to add any other community helpers you might know! If that s...

Our Preschool STEM Camp Day 3 is all about states of imagination and creation! It is full of art, so we could label it STEAM too! And like the rest of our STEM Camp, it's perfect for homeschool, summer camps, maker spaces, and more! Here's the step by step science, art, and storybook lesson: DIY Preschool STEM Summer Camp {To see the rest of the themes, supply list, and lesson plans (5 days, with one and a half hours of STEM activities planned each day), click  HERE !} Today is  Preschool STEM Camp DAY 3: Create Supplies : Book ( The Most Magnificent Thing ), velcro, slinky, play doh, random art supplies (suggestions: cardboard boxes, paper cups, egg cartons, paper plates, feathers, wiggly eyes, pompoms, paint, pipecleaners, craft feathers, glue, tape, etc)    NOTE: velcro, slinky, and play doh are optional, but will make the discussion more fun!  Gathering Activity:  As children arrive, direct them to a building station. Today I put ou...

Did you know that over the last few years, I have shared more than 30 math games for preschoolers...for FREE?!! Most of these games require printing, some need a little cutting, and then you are ready to go!! I decided it would be handy to have a list of all these math games in one spot, so if your preschooler wants a game (or you want to teach something with a game), you can just pick the one you want, print, and go! I've divided them up into three groups: board games, matching games, and "other" games. Don't discount the "other" games--they are AWESOME too! They just don't fit into the other categories! Preschool Math Games Board Games: Decorate a Heart Cookie (Valentine Game) North Pole Train Game Bear Walk Game   Shark Diet Game (younger preschoolers can play without coins) Unicorn Magic STEM Board Game (screen-free coding skills) Apple Race Getting to Know You (requires an adult to read) Sports Grid Game Superhero Scarecrow Matching Games: Frog ...