Easter

Planning for more than just an Easter egg hunt in preschool

Planning for a big day requires some careful thought as to what the kids will enjoy doing versus what we think they should be doing!

Dying pipe cleaner Easter eggs

Having fun making and dying pipe cleaner Easter eggs in preschool!

Easter egg painting

Our preschool class explored the process of cracking open eggs and painting all in one!

Easter egg math

A terrific exercise in math and listening skills using plastic Easter eggs in our preschool classroom.

A duck, a goose, and an egg

Having fun with rubber ducks after reading the fun children’s book “Duck and Goose” by Tad Hills!

Happy Easter from Teach Preschool

This is what this grandma will be spending most of Easter Sunday doing…. May you have a very blessed day! This article is being shared with you by Deborah Stewart of Teach Preschool – Promoting excellence in early childhood education at home and in the preschool classroom! Check out Deborah’s new book and order your [...]

Exploring weight and size with scales in preschool

There are all kinds of simple scales you can provide for inviting children to explore weight. Set out a set of scales along with a variety of items for the children to explore and compare… The bowls on the top of these scales come off which allows the children to easily fill the bowls then [...]

Teach Preschool in the news: Save those easter eggs!

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 [...]

Plastic egg color mixing water play science in preschool

They say to keep your titles short but I couldn’t decide what to call this so I threw in the all the words that describe this activity! This is a fun little activity for exploring water and color mixing. I have written this post with examples of questions that can be asked as the children [...]

Crack open the egg and paint in preschool

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 [...]