Apple Tree Alphabet Letter Game

Fall is for apples, acorns, leaves, and learning letters! Incorporate these themes into hands-on literacy activities with your kids including this free alphabet apple tree printable. This would be perfect for a fall preschool theme!

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Green Eggs and Ham Letter Recognition

Read Across America Day is approaching. Yet no matter what time of year it is most kids love Dr. Seuss books. We chose to turn one of our favorites into a hands on literacy activity for preschool or kindergarten!

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Robot Name Puzzle

The first and most important word a child learns to read, spell, and write is his or her name! Kids love this robot name puzzle mat as a hands on way to practice putting the letters in names in order.

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Lion and Lamb Puppets

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. At least, that's the plan! We are introducing our kids to a unit study on weather. These lion and lamb puppets are the perfect prop for this theme!

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Raining Hearts Name Craft

Valentine's Day is the sweetest time to practice names with preschoolers! They are signing cards for their classmates, reading their name on their own mailbox, and this name puzzle craft pairs perfectly with one of our favorite Valentine's Day children's books. 

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Reindeer Food Writing Tray

Do you make magical reindeer food with your kids? It's one of our most cherished traditions but this year I was inspired to see if I could sneak a bit of fine motor work into the Christmas fun. We created a reindeer food writing tray!

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Letter Formation with KORXX Cork Building Blocks

KORXX cork building blocks are a favorite for our entire family. These sustainable and eco-friendly toys inspired endless free play and educational opportunities. Cork has natural unique characteristics that allows kids and adults together to build in ways where other blocks literally can't stand up!

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Acorn Sensory Bottle

We've gathered real acorns to explore and crafted our own in all the acorn activities for kids we've tried over the years! This autumn season we made an acorn discovery bottle that is perfect for sensory play outside or on the light table. 

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Apple Ten Frames

Fall the perfect season for an apple theme! We're offering this free printable hands-on math activity for kids to learn about ten frames. Just print and practice counting, adding, and subtracting! We've included tips for how to use this math tool in the classroom or at home.

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Identifying, Sorting, and Classifying Marine Mammals

We love hands on science ideas for kids! We learned to identify and classify marine mammals from other ocean life in this sensory sorting activity. 

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Foam Blocks in Water

Our kids love any sensory play invitation that involves water! Foam blocks are so fantastic in water because they float and the water acts as a glue making them stick to each other and vertical surfaces. We thought of so many learning activities with these two simple materials. 

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Stamping Shapes in Kinetic Sand

Stamping shapes into kinetic sand is a great opportunity to work on shape identification, count the sides and corners, and compare and contrast the shapes. Our kids loved this hands on fine motor math activity.

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Desert Sunset Paintings

Our kids' desert sunset paintings turned out fantastic! They are so proud of their artwork and all they learned about deserts as we worked on this watercolor technique. 

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Find the Letter Snack Sheet for Kids

Kids love snacks! We added a bit of learning to snack time by creating a letter identification sheet that works perfectly with round pretzels.

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Button Stacking Game for Kids

Buttons are one of the most irresistible for loose parts kids! We're using them to cover literacy, math, and fine motor skills all in one with a button stacking and sorting challenge for children.

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Place Value Game with Dice

Last week we had a lot of fun learning about place value with tens and ones while playing our domino game! We built on this same concept using dice this time to work on hundreds, tens, and ones. 

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Painting Sugar Letters

One of our favorite activities of all time was painting sugar cubes. We decided to revisit this fine motor invitation while adding literacy as we form and paint letters!

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Coin Counting Game for Kids

Nothing makes us happier than when we can find ways to include our preschooler and our homeschooled elementary school daughter in the same activity. We created a hands on math game that they both love to play! 

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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!

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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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