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Making ink stamps for the preschool classroom

August 10, 2011

Make your own foam block ink stamps for preschool.

Bright and colorful sensory bags for preschool

August 1, 2011

I just love these sensory bags. Making them is just as much fun as feeling and playing with them… This idea was shared with me awhile back by one of my Teach Preschool on Facebook friends. To make these really cool sensory bags, all you need is some hair gel, baggies, and food color. I [...]

DIY: I made my very own geoboards for preschool

July 23, 2011

After my husband made the sensory tables and the window easel, he had two left-over rectangular shaped pieces of plywood left over. They were the “holes” that were cut out of the sensory table. I decided to try my own hand at some construction and made my very own geoboards… I sanded the rough edges [...]

International mud day: making rainbow mud paint

June 29, 2011

The point of international mud day is to get messy. Had it been a weekend where I could just let loose and have a mud jamboree, perhaps I would have but I just didn’t have one spare minute this week. I did do some experimenting yesterday and I hope you will enjoy this mildly messy International [...]

Exploring mixed-up chameleons with Eric Carle

June 25, 2011

Today is Eric Carle’s birthday and in honor of his birthday, a large group of bloggers have been putting together ideas that would go nicely with many of his books. I love so many of Eric Carle’s books that I had a hard time narrowing it down. But after much ado, I have narrowed down [...]

Making color wheels all summer long in preschool

June 21, 2011

Summer time is a great time to explore color wheels. I like to use it at an opportunity to review basic colors… The children at preschool made their own color wheels last year. Each class worked together as a group throughout the summer to make their color wheels and each color wheel was a little [...]

DIY: colorful discs for the light table in preschool

June 13, 2011

I am not so lucky as my sweet friend Leeanne over at Kreative Resources who managed to find a free set of plexiglass discs to use on her light table. In fact, I don’t even have a light table! But after reading several ideas from others, I have managed to make my own discs and [...]

Counting and sorting bugs in preschool

May 14, 2011

In the activity box this week, the children found these bright and colorful bugs and bug cards. The bug cards came from PreKinders – you can go to Prekinders to download your own set if you would like a set… Some of our students enjoyed sorting the bugs by color… And others just preferred to [...]

We made caterpillars in preschool

May 12, 2011

There are some activities that just look like fun and this caterpillar painting activity is one of my favorites…. The teachers set out bright colors of paint, some plastic cups, and some plastic forks. The children used the plastic forks to scratch some green grass on their paper… We had all kinds of green grass [...]

Teach Preschool in the news: Save those easter eggs!

April 21, 2011

This morning, I had a special guest join me for my three minute segment on local Indiana Fox 59 Morning News… Tristan and his parents joined me at the news studio bright and early this morning to present my newest segment – see video below. Everyone pitched in to help me get ready… First I [...]

Fun with color words in preschool

April 10, 2011

Through out the school year the children have been exploring all of their colors and color words. Last week, the children reviewed many of their colors through different kinds of paint and sensory materials… Some of the children finger painted their color words… Others sprinkled some colored salt on their color words… The salt was [...]

Crack open the egg and paint in preschool

April 7, 2011

Kids just love to crack open the egg when doing a cooking activity so I thought we could have a little fun with cracking open plastic eggs too.. Just add a little bit of watered down paint inside the plastic eggs… If the paint is too thick, it wont drip out very well. You [...]

Sorting it all out in preschool

April 4, 2011

We have been doing some serious color sorting this past week and as you know, serious play leads to serious learning… To review colors, we put together color sorting trays. This tray was a box used to hold crayons by the bulk and it made a perfect sorting tray. We simply added laminated color cards [...]

The color game in preschool

April 3, 2011

This is a little game we made for our preschoolers to have fun working on color recognition… First we made a little cube and put a different color on each side – red, yellow, blue, green, orange, and purple. Then we cut out 6 large circles from construction paper and laminated them… The object of [...]

Y is for yarn in preschool

April 2, 2011

Preschoolers are unpredictable when it comes to what they will find interesting and how they will play with the different items we put in the activity boxes. I found this adorable idea of making yarn designs on sandpaper by Polwig and decided to turn this idea into one of our activity boxes… We placed sandpaper [...]

Fun with colorful bubble science in kindergarten

January 26, 2011

As I have mentioned many times before, I love all the ideas you can find on other blogs but there are times that I will read an idea but not really give it a chance. Sometimes, it isn’t that the children aren’t ready to try something new or different – the problem is that we [...]

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