Activity Ideas

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities with Magnet Letters

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

"I Spy" Games and Books

The Mitten

• Animal Mask printable

• Animal printable

• Mitten printable Left and Right

Musical Instruments

Pirate Counting Book and Counting Cards with skills progressions

Snowman-  Book ideas:  The Biggest Snowman Ever,  The Snowy Day

• Snowman building idea

• Snowman counting (use cotton balls in a bin and a child's tweezers)

• Do You Want to Build A Snowman? skills progression ideas:  (English) (Spanish)

Weather Talk and More

Bath time Play

Bubble Fun

Building Sticker Stories with 3+

Create your own story

Easter Scavenger Hunt

Felt Board Story Telling

Flashlight Shadow Stories

Magnet Letter Play Progressions 

Magnet Letter Play Skills

Mirror Play Mouth Movements

Pipecleaner games

Pool Noodle Boats

Rhyming Cards

Scavenger Hunt Story Build

Stickers Color Book

Storytelling with toys/puppets  and (Spanish version)

5 Little Animals Story Telling

5 Little Lady Bugs Rhyme and craftstick puppets

5 Senses Activity Stations

Progressions of Magnet Letters Play

Magnet Play Info

Magnet Push and Pull - to be used to explore magnets labeled with north and south poles.  

Magnetic or Not? - gather items from around your house to explore their magnetism.  

        Magnetic or Not sorting sheet- 

Intentional emerging math language and skills to practice when playing LEGOS  and Blocks

Importance of Pattern Play

Apple counting tree (We use pom poms to pick the apples.)

Color Hunt

Color Hearts Scavenger Hunt

Counting and Patterns

Dot Counting Book

Matching Game with Craft Sticks

Mirror Play for young learners (2 months +)

Mirror Play Mouth Movements

Puzzle Play

Shapes, Counting, Matching, and Patterns

Developmental Stages of Writing

Stages of a Pencil Grip

From Scribbling to Printing

Use these books to show learners how scribbles turn into different kinds of lines, which turn into shapes, which turn into pictures.  

You can also show learners how straight and curved lines can turn into letters. 

• Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

• A Line Can Be by Laura Ljungkvist

• Follow This Line by Laura Ljungkivist

• Lines that Wiggle by Candace Whitman

Dauber Painting

Drawing a line matching (spring)

Hand Tracing Designs and More!

Pipe Cleaner Wiggly Lines Sculptures 

Shape and Line Hunt

Snipping and Cutting

String Art with Lines  (Lines that Wiggle book)

Tracing and Drawing

Age breakouts of activity ideas 

Ball Play 

Balloon play 

Bucket Play

Color mixing and painting

Color Tunnels

Contact paper collage (10 mo +)

Decorating cookies (real or pretend)

Homemade parachute games

Importance of Playdough 

Importance of Rattle Play

Puzzle Play

Race Car Play

Sensory Bins

Sponge Play

Sticker Play (8 mo +)

STEM at Home (Science Technology Engineering Math at home activities) 

Preschool Activity Ideas

Preschool Discovery Hour

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Miss Lucia's Bilingual Read-Aloud Story Time

Khan Academy Kids- Free learning app (no adds, no subscriptions)- Raising A Reader approved

PBS kids- stories, interactive games, and activity ideas

Peep and the Big Wide World

Science Sparks

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