fine motor skills

Making tape turkeys in preschool

November 22, 2011

We are working on our fine motor skills as we learn how to manage the tape all by ourselves..

Preschool pizza box games

October 4, 2011

Making games from pizza boxes for my preschool students to explore!

Teach Preschool in the news: Promoting prewriting skills

September 22, 2011

Teach Preschool in the news: Deborah shares how to promote prewriting skills for young children in this Fox 59 news segment!

Measuring and mixing with a dash of new vocabulary in preschool

September 16, 2011

After reading “Blueberries for Sal,” we became “bakers” as one of my students observed and our little bakers made some blueberry muffins… We explored different kinds of measuring tools and cooking terms as we worked together to make our blueberry muffins… Our bakers took turns measuring and pouring in the different ingredients… Cooking presents such a great [...]

Water bottle collages made by our prek

September 9, 2011

Make simple and creative water bottle collages with your preschoolers!

Making an aluminum foil collage in preschool

August 20, 2011

This preschool aluminum foil activity promotes areas of development such as fine motor control, creativity, and spacial awareness.

Exploring the possible ways items can be used in the preschool classroom

August 17, 2011

Exploring the materials in the preschool classroom is part of setting the groundwork for future learning..

Make your own chip clip art in the preschool classroom

July 18, 2011

Wy is always playing with the chip clips around our house, so I thought I would integrate the chip clip play into a little chip clip painting… I set out some chip clips, yarn, pieces of craft foam, and three colors of paint. To paint with the clips, the boys put the scraps of yarn [...]

Cutting flower stems in preschool

May 11, 2011

Cutting flower stems in preschool Perhaps I should have titled this post “Attempting to cut flower stems in preschool” because child scissors don’t make much of a dent in the stems. However, one of our students figured out how to make this work…. These are left-over stems from our flower bouquets which I posted about [...]

A kitchen timer and a preschooler

April 28, 2011

The use of an egg timer to promote play and learning in preschool!

A bundle of fun with these crayons in preschool

April 6, 2011

Our students love to color so we thought during our color review week, we would mix it up a little and let them try coloring with crayon bundles…. In almost every case, the children began by making the crayons go round and round on their paper… Trying to get all the crayons to touch the [...]

My busy book: sewing

March 20, 2011

Sewing can be a challenge for any preschooler so I have tried to simplify the process a bit and add it to a busy book… For sewing cards – I had some sheets of cardboard that I saved from something my husband got in the mail. You could cut up cereal boxes as well. Then [...]

Last minute valentine collage for prekindergarten

February 13, 2011

I titled this for prekindergarten but any child that has the fine motor skills to do this activity will be able to whip it up fairly quickly. All you need is some construction paper strips to make the hearts and some glue if you want to put the hearts on a piece of paper to [...]

Save the valentine box for preschool

February 8, 2011

Go out and treat your self to a box of chocolates but be sure to save the box! The valentine box is more than just a box it is also an experience… The chocolate dividers inside the valentine box can be used for a little sensory play, patterning, and a sorting game! Don’t forget the [...]

Exploring groundhog day in preschool

January 31, 2011

We made a few work boxes for Groundhog Day that we are planning to use tomorrow. But since there is a snowstorm going on right now, it looks like we may not have school tomorrow… This first work box is to work on a little eye-hand coordination and some pretend play. The clothespins are our [...]

N is for newspaper in preschool

January 27, 2011

This week, we used the newspaper in a variety of ways to help us explore the letter N… The newspaper is a great way to explore letters and numbers and other language and literacy concepts. We laminated one large page from the newspaper to search for letters and numbers… We searched for titles and talked [...]

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