Cupcakes are fun to eat and fun to decorate! So why not let the kiddos decorate and learn to count at the same time? Using pom poms or buttons, or anything you thing would be a great additive to the game have them decorate their cupcakes according to what the card tells them.
All you need is construction paper, card stock, glue, markers, number stickers (optional).
Cars make everything fun! So why not incorporate cars and letters!
This one takes some time; but it’s worth it. Make a car for every letter of the alphabet (using the upper case letters). Use sentence strips that are white and black and look like a street; cut into smaller pieces and write a lower case letter on each piece. The object here is to match the car with the road that has the matching letter.
Don’t be upset if they want to drive around the block (table) to get to the letter first, it’s all part of the play in learning. You can set the road up into a long stretch, curves, hills; whatever makes it fun for your young one. Or just keep them in separate pieces.
I used the template below, but I left out the back window so that I could have room for the letters. I used letter templates that I purchased online from another blog, so I cannot share those. You can use stickers or just draw the letters on the cars.
Again, I laminate everything!
This is a simple felt board to help learn colors.
All you need is felt or construction paper.
For the mouse; I just made a half circle and added an eye, ear, tail and a mouth.
Tell the children….”look at all the little houses we have. They are all different colors. Can you tell me the colors we have? Let the children tell you the colors of the houses.
But we have a problem. We don’t know which house the little mouse is hiding in. Will you help me find her?
Let’s call for her…. “Little mouse, little mouse, are you in the [Point to a color of house] ________ house?” Slowly peel back the house to see if the mouse is under the house. “She wasn’t in that house, which house should we try next?” Ask the child(ren) to choose a color, and repeat the chant.
This is my adaption to the game “Kitty, Kitty Are You In the Blue Hat”.
You will hide the cat under one of the hats and the child/children then ask, “Kitty cat, kitty cat, are you in the [color] hat?” Each child takes a turn lifting a hat to see if the cat is indeed under it. Before the next child lifts the hat; repeat, “Kitty cat, kitty cat, are you in the [color] hat?”.
For this you need either felt or paper (depending on how you wish to make these, permanent makers and glue. Make sure when printing off the cat; that you print him off small enough to fit under the hats. I made my hats to fit an 8×10 piece of construction paper and then laminated them.
This is a Felt Story Board for 5 Little Monkeys.
I did free-hand the bed, but below you will find the template for the monkeys. I did alter them a bit. On the Facebook page; you can read why other people did to up the Felt Board story. They were great ideas!
Who doesn’t like ice cream! This is a fun way to get those young ones to play and to learn math! Just scoop the ice cream onto the cones.
All you need is construction paper, colored pencils and permanent markers.
Cut out the cones, ice cream and numbers, then laminate. I actually used file folders for the ice cream cones because they looked more like cones that any construction paper color that I could find. I wrote a number on each cone so the child knew how many ice cream scoops to put on each cone.
This is a fun way to get your young ones to learn numbers. All you need is construction paper, card stock, glue, pom poms or buttons. You can use stickers for the numbers, write them with permanent marker or use cut-outs. Use pom poms or buttons for the seeds. Any markings that you do; do before laminating. Glue numbers and melon to card stock and laminate. I cut out out the lighter and darker part of the rind of the template to trace onto the construction paper.
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