Mother's Day and Flowers!

Mother's Day!

Mother's Day Fill in the Blank!

Here is the link for this cute all about Mom Printable

Mom, You Light Up My Life!

Here is the link for this Mom's Day Template

Flowers

Match and Color

Skill:  upper and lowercase letters, matching

I had corresponding lowercase letter cards on the floor.  Each child took turns picking a card, naming the letter and then coloring in the matching uppercase letter.

Here is the link for these Match and Color Flower Printables 

Flower Shape Sort and Scissor Practice

Skills:  shapes, sorting, scissor practice

Here is the link for Shape Sort and Scissor Practice

Spring Trace and Count
Here is the link for Spring Trace and Count

Skills:  number recognition, number writing

Roll, Count and Cover

Skills:  counting, number recognition

Here is the link for this Count and Cover Printable

F is Flower and Counting Flowers

Skills:  letter recognition, counting, numbers 1-5

Here are the links for Flower Begins with the Letter F and Stamp and Count

Flower Projects

Bottle Cap Flowers

Cupcake Liner Flowers

Halloween Fun!

Halloween Fun!

Projects

Handprint Spider

Paint child's hand black

Press onto 5x7 piece of orange construction paper

Let dry - add googly eyes and spider webs!

Book Connection:

Spooky Bunny Tales - The Blue Tarantula

Max & Ruby Three Stories in One

 

Witches Broomsticks

Press a pretzel stick into the middle/bottom part of a Mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cup

Book Connection:

It's Halloween Night

By: Jennifer O'Connell

 

Mosaic Candy Corn

Draw a candy corn shape on black construction paper with white chalk

Separate the candy corn into 3 sections

Cut white, orange and yellow paper into squares

Glue the colored squares onto the paper

 

Square Monsters!

Cut a green square  and 2 rectangles -for the legs from green construction paper

Cut two squares, a skinny rectangle and a zigzag for the bolts, hair and nose piece

Cut two rectangles for the feet

Glue the feet to the square

Glue the other pieces to the Monster!

Draw on two scars and two eyes

Book Connection:

Inside a House That is Haunted

By:  Alyssa Satin Capucilli

 

Coffee Filter Pumpkin

Paint a coffee filter with orange water color paint.

Let dry - Glue a green stem to the top!

Handprint Jack-O-Lanterns

Trace hand on orange construction paper

Cut it out and draw a face on the hand print

Glue on a green stem

Candy Corn Footprint

Paint the bottom of one foot white, orange and yellow.

Press the foot onto a piece of construction paper

 

Learning Activities

Candy Corn Number Match

Skills: number recognition, counting, number words,

Cut out pieces to candy corn - white, orange and yellow

Write the numeral on the white piece, corresponding dot/dots on the orange piece and the number word on the yellow piece

Directions: 

 Match the three pieces of the candy corn and glue them on the black construction paper

 

Halloween Shape Sort

Skills:  Shapes, gluing, name writing

Create a document with 3 circles and 3 triangles

On the side of the document copy 3  jack-o-lanterns and 3 candy corn

Directions: 

Cut out the jack-o-lanterns and candy corn

Glue the pieces into the correct shape

Halloween Counting Book

Skills:  number writing, counting, reading, name writing, coloring

Here is the link for this cute Halloween Counting Book

 

At the Pumpkin Patch Beginning Sounds Sort

Skills:  beginning sounds. cutting, pasting, letter recognition

 

Here is the link to this great beginning sounds activity.

 

 

 

 

 

Fall Fun!

Fall Fun

Projects 

Stamped Cork Fall Tree

Cut a tree trunk from brown paper

Prepare red, yellow and orange paint and 3 wine corks

Directions: 

Glue the tree trunk to a piece of white paper.

Press the corks into the paint and press onto the paper to make leaves!

Ripped Paper Fall Tree

Cut a tree trunk from brown construction paper

Type and print:  In the Fall, the leaves fall off the tree!

Directions:

Rip small pieces of red orange and yellow construction paper

Glue the tree trunk to a 5x7 piece of blue construction paper

Glue the "leaves" to the tree

Glue the poem to the bottom of the tree

 

Fall Leaf Man

Cut out a leaf shape

Cut out strips of black paper for the arms and legs- accordion fold the strips of paper

Type and print:  If I were a leaf, I would . . .

Directions: 

Glue googly eyes to the leaf

Draw a mouth and nose on the leaf man

Finish the sentence

Staple the arms and legs on the leaf man

Staple the finished sentence to the leaf man

 

 

Learning Activities 

Pumpkin Seed Counting Story

Skills:  MathCounting, one-to-one matching, number recognition

Here is the link to this printable book

We used a light pink stamp pad to make the pumpkin seeds on each page

 Leaf Counting Book

Skills:  number writing, counting,  number recognition, name writing

Trace and cut out out a leaf shape to make this book

Directions:

Write the numbers 1-5 on the top of the leaves

Stick the appropriate number of  fall sticker/s on each page

Write your name and  1-5 on the cover

 

 

Acorn Shape Match
Skills:  shape recognition, matching, pasting
Cut acorn shapes from brown and tan construction paper - brown for the top and tan for the bottom.  Draw matching shapes on the top and bottom of each acorn
Directions:
Match the shapes and glue the acorns to the paper

Acorn Number Match
Skills:  number writing, one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, counting,
This is a variation of the acorn shape match
Directions:
Roll two die and add them together
Write the sum on the top part of the acorn
Draw the same number of dots on the bottom of the acorn
Glue the acorn halves to a piece of paper

 

  

Fall Tree Words

Skills:  sight word reading, gluing

Trace hand on a blue piece of paper - color with brown marker

Cut out different colored leaves (I did 6 leaves)

Write sight words on the leaves

Directions:

Read each leaf and then glue it to the tree

 

 

Rain, Rain, Go Away!!

Rain, Rain Go Away!

 

Rain Crafts

Cupcake Liner Umbrella's

Cut cupcake liners in half

Cut pipe cleaners into 6 inch pieces

Glue cupcake liners to white paper

Bend the pipe cleaners into a J

Glue the pipe cleaners underneath and below the cupcake liner to make the umbrella

Dip a Q-tip into blue paint and press onto the white paper for rain!

 

Paper Plate Umbrella

Cut a paper plate in half

Decorate with spring time stickers

Cut a J shape from brown construction paper

Cut blue string or yarn into varying lengths

Cut raindrops from blue construction paper

Tape or glue the brown handle to the back of the paper plate

Tape the blue string/yarn to the back of the plate

Tape the blue raindrops to the blue string

 

Watercolor Umbrella and Raindrops

Painting their umbrella's
 

Two of the finished products

 Draw an umbrella onto white paper.

Use watercolor paint to paint the umbrella

Paint spots around the umbrella (to be made into raindrops)

When dry, cut out the umbrella

Glue to a piece of blue construction paper

Cut our raindrops from the paper and glue to the paper and umbrella!

 

Rain Learning Activities

 

Cloud and Rain Counting activity

                         Rolling the dice, counting the dots           Tana's finished activity
                            and gluing on the raindrops

Cut out cloud shapes and glue them to a large piece of black construction paper.  Cut out blue raindrops and set aside.  I typed and printed off the following saying . . .  It's Raining, It's Pouring . . .

Rain is falling form the clouds, count the drops as the fall down!

 

Directions:  Roll the dice.  Count the dots.  Write the number on the first cloud.  Count out the matching number of raindrops and glue the raindrops below the cloud.  Repeat. 

(If you get the same number roll again)

 

Addie's finished activity
 

 

Cloud and Raindrop Name Writing

Cut out a cloud shape from white paper (make sure it is big enough for your child's name)

Cut out large raindrops from blue construction paper. 

Have your child write each letter of his/her name on a raindrop. 

Glue the "Raindrops" in order on the cloud. 

 Glue the finished cloud onto black construction  paper. 

Add a few blue raindrops falling from the cloud
 

Songs/Rhymes

 

Rain, Rain Go Away

Rain rain go away
come again some other day
Little  (insert child's name)
Wants to play

Rain rain go away.
 

 

It's Raining, It's Pouring

It's raining; it's pouring.

*The old man* is snoring.

He went to bed and bumped his head,

And he couldn't get up in the morning.

*I inserted names into this spot*

Winter Unit!

Winter Fun Unit!

 

Mitten Matching -

Math - Counting, one-to-one correspondence and number recognition

I found this free template from the wonderful site Maketaketeach   Addie loved playing this number/counting matching game!

Snowman Name!

Name Writing

We cut out enough "snowballs" to make a head for the snowman and the "name" body.  Addie glued on a hat, scarf, boots and arms.  She drew the eyes, nose and mouth.  She cut out bits of white paper to make the falling snow!

 

Winter Clothes Mobile

What belongs 

I posted this activity earlier in the month.  Here is the link to my earlier post about the

Winter Clothes Mobile

 

Snowman Letter Booklet

Writing uppercase and lowercase letters 

I created a word document and inserted a snowman from clipart and enlarged it to the size I wanted.  I printed multiple copies and Addie practiced writing some of her upper and lowercase letters.  Below is a sample of her G's and D's!

I cut out each "Letter Snowman" and glued it to construction paper and trimmed around the snowman to reinforce it.  Lastly, I punched a hole on the hat of each "Letter Snowman" and used a clasped ring to make a Snowman Letter Bookletfor Addie

 

Winter Fun Patterns

Patterns and cutting and pasting

I created a Word document and used clipart to find a snowflake, snowman sled and mittens for making patterns.  Addie cut out each item and made specific patterns!

 

Winter Wonderland Fill the Frame

5 and 10 Frame game

Counting, one to one correspondence

Addie placing the correct number of snowflakes on the mittens

Link to the Winter Wonderland Fill the Frame activity

 

In My Snowglobe

Winter art and writing activity

I saw this great activity on Kreative In Kinder

 

Snowflake Counting

Number recognition, counting, cutting and pasting

Addie cut out the numbers 1-10 and glued each number below a snowman.  Then she cut out the appropriate number of snowflakes and glued them above the each snowman.  I am going to make this into a number book for her!

Here is the link to this great Snowflake Math activity.

 

Hot Cocoa and Counting Marshmallows

name and number writing, counting

The template says

Hot cocoa in (insert name)'s cup,

she just wants to drink it up.

(insert name) puts (insert number) marshmallows in

and now the drinking can begin!

 

I created the rhyme and printed it.  Addie wrote her name in the appropriate places.  She rolled a dice and counted the dots.  Then she used a hole punch to punch out the correct number of marshmallows from a piece of white craft foam.  She glued the "marshmallows" in the mug. 

I drew the mug and cut out the mug and wavy line for the mug.  Addie glued the mug to the black paper and glued the "hot cocoa" to the mug.  She then glued the rhyme to the top and wrote in the appropriate number of marshmallows! 

 

 

Other Winter Crafts we did this month!

Click on the link to go to my blog post about each winter craft.

Paper Plate Snowman Faces
 

 Make Your Own Felt Snowman
 

Glitter Snowflake

 

Sponge Painted Snowman

Handprint Snowmen