Still Playing School: February 2016

Color Sorting Ideas for Kids

We love to work with colors and rainbows! Fine motor practice is even more fun when it's bright, brilliant, and beautiful color sorting activities for kids!

Fantastic color sorting activities for kids to work on fine motor skills. Great for preschool with a rainbow theme!

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UNO Movement Game for Kids

We play outside as much as we can but lately the weather hasn't been cooperating. What is a parent or teacher to do when stuck inside with active kids who need to move? We turned the classic card game of Uno into a indoor gross motor game! 

How to turn UNO into an indoor recess gross motor movement game for kids!

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Letter Formation with Play Dough

We used several of our favorite play dough tools to get the material just perfect for working on letter formation and spelling! Our kids are always excited to work with play dough so this simple invitation to play and learn added a bit of hands on literacy and fine motor work to our day.


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Rainbow Polka Dot Discovery Bottle

We love any excuse to play with rainbow colors! This discovery bottle is extra fun because the rainbow polka dots are transparent so you can see different colors where the rainbow colors overlap. We also tried a new to us sensory bottle filler that worked beautifully that we can't wait to share with you!

Create a rainbow dot discovery bottle for kids to observe color mixing in action! This is the perfect sensory calm down activity, too!

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Ten Ways to Paint a Rainbow

Colorful process art is irresistable! We've rounded up the most creative ways for you to paint a rainbow with your kids!

10 Creative Ways to Paint Art Rainbows for Kids

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Rainbow Tinker Tray

Our Winter Tinker Tray was such a big success that we decided to make another one. But we're craving spring and color so a rainbow themed was perfect! 



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Rainbow Shapes

We reviewed two dimensional shapes by building them with colorful sticks! This hands on math activity allows kids to explore angles and sides in a concrete way.

Kids can build shapes with colorful sticks! A great hands on math lesson!

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Parts of the Eye Painting

Our daughter loves art so painting is a great and creative way for her to show what she's learned. We studied the parts of the human eye this week then she worked on a watercolor painting to demonstrate her learning.

Kids learn parts of the eye thought art and science combined with this painting project!

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Where is the Heart? Body Part Identification Game

This body part identification game is the perfect way to keep preschool kids moving while they work on naming parts of their body! 

Body Part Identification Game for Kids to practice naming parts of their body

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Fractions with KORXX Blocks

Fractions can be a tricky concept for kids to master. You have to combine the idea of equal parts with portions. As always, we wanted to work on learning in a hands on way so we got out our favorite blocks for today's math lesson. 

Kids can learn fractions in a hands on way with KORXX building blocks

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Foam Stickers Process Art

We might be addicted to process art at our house! Our latest project is super simple using foam stickers and a rolling pin to create print making painting with the kids. There is a ton of fun fine motor work involved, too!

Foam stickers, a rolling pin, and paint create the perfect process art invitation for kids! I love how this art station is set up and provides lots of fine motor work!

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