I need.craft ideas for shapes, numbers, colors, or letters. I need playful games for them too. I just need a lot of ideas for preschool activities!! Please and thanks.
There are lots of places for activities for numbers, colors, letters.... In the beginning I was looking for websites with free templates. I printed them and passed to my students. Eventually, I changed my approach. My time is limited and I can't be looking in the internet anymore. I got a hold of a a fonts program for teachers. Especially valuable for preschool. It is called Fonts for Teachers.
For Thanksgiving you can use Turkeys the song did you ever see a turkey, you can cut out small turkey shapes and put the letters of the children names and they can arrange them on the paper and glue them. You can make large Turkeys and study the colors. You can make the Turkey from the child hand prints and put a peak on the thumb and let them all the color feathers, pick a book about Turkeys or farm animals,Song did you ever see a Turkey, walk like Turkey to transition. in the art area you can use the colors you are studying, also the cookie cutters may be turkey shape and the clay-dough can be coded for the colors you are working on. Numbers flannel board stories like ghost busters when number one is after you who you gonna call number 2 just repeat until all numbers are used A Number book,and Greg and Steve Number Rock . Brown Bear the book and small group the colors of the bears, for numbers you can count the bears and do a dual lesson with colors of the bears. Mobiles for shapes, are colors are numbers.
Letters can be used in claydough, and collages, shapes collages, etc Good Luck!
Cannot feel of a e-book off the top of my head. Unhappy when you consider that there are such a large amount of. But I do have just a few random art tasks. You are able to do half sheets of white paper and let the kids reduce strips of black. Let them clue the black strips onto the white and you have an summary zebra. You can do the equal for tigers, and even do giraffe spots. You would additionally create multiple giraffe necks and label them each and every with a quantity 1-5 or however high you want to count. Then have the students put the correct quantity of dots per neck.
A couple of things that I have done over the years....
* One fish Two fish- I have them glue colored goldfish into boxes that say one fish two fish red fish blue fish
* Use cooked Spaghetti noodles to form the number one
* Glue a pea on an index card and then write the number one on it.
Another one I did, was i Taped 2 styrofoam cups together and put some dried rice inside and made little shakers/moraccas. The kids had a fun time shaking their moraccos to music like old mcdonald had a farm :)
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There are lots of places for activities for numbers, colors, letters.... In the beginning I was looking for websites with free templates. I printed them and passed to my students. Eventually, I changed my approach. My time is limited and I can't be looking in the internet anymore. I got a hold of a a fonts program for teachers. Especially valuable for preschool. It is called Fonts for Teachers.
For Thanksgiving you can use Turkeys the song did you ever see a turkey, you can cut out small turkey shapes and put the letters of the children names and they can arrange them on the paper and glue them. You can make large Turkeys and study the colors. You can make the Turkey from the child hand prints and put a peak on the thumb and let them all the color feathers, pick a book about Turkeys or farm animals,Song did you ever see a Turkey, walk like Turkey to transition. in the art area you can use the colors you are studying, also the cookie cutters may be turkey shape and the clay-dough can be coded for the colors you are working on. Numbers flannel board stories like ghost busters when number one is after you who you gonna call number 2 just repeat until all numbers are used A Number book,and Greg and Steve Number Rock . Brown Bear the book and small group the colors of the bears, for numbers you can count the bears and do a dual lesson with colors of the bears. Mobiles for shapes, are colors are numbers.
Letters can be used in claydough, and collages, shapes collages, etc Good Luck!
Cannot feel of a e-book off the top of my head. Unhappy when you consider that there are such a large amount of. But I do have just a few random art tasks. You are able to do half sheets of white paper and let the kids reduce strips of black. Let them clue the black strips onto the white and you have an summary zebra. You can do the equal for tigers, and even do giraffe spots. You would additionally create multiple giraffe necks and label them each and every with a quantity 1-5 or however high you want to count. Then have the students put the correct quantity of dots per neck.
A couple of things that I have done over the years....
* One fish Two fish- I have them glue colored goldfish into boxes that say one fish two fish red fish blue fish
* Use cooked Spaghetti noodles to form the number one
* Glue a pea on an index card and then write the number one on it.
Another one I did, was i Taped 2 styrofoam cups together and put some dried rice inside and made little shakers/moraccas. The kids had a fun time shaking their moraccos to music like old mcdonald had a farm :)
Hope this helps.
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There are thousands of free downloads for preschoolers! have fun.
Read them a story book.