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Holiday Sensory Bins That Teach – Christmas, Gingerbread, Kwanzaa, & More!

Valentine’s Day Activities for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

Snowman Sensory Table & How to Color Chickpeas Tutorial

How to Dye Salt for Sensory Play and Art Activities

How to Dye Chickpeas with Acrylic Paint (aka Garbanzo Beans)

20+ Holiday Sensory Tables for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten

Sensory Table Ideas for the Year

Christmas & Holidays Around the World Sensory and Art Activities

How to Dye Chickpeas and Make a Color Matching Sensory Bin

How to Dye Noodles and Make a Mini Name Sensory Bin

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Create a winter butcher paper activity to practice

Create a winter butcher paper activity to practice letter identification with snow plows! Students plow the snow to find the letters. Once they find a letter they say the letter name, sound, and/or a word that begins with that letter.
You can also make this a sight words, CVC words, or number identification activity too!

As student stretch to move the snow plow, they will be strengthening their upper arm and shoulder muscles as well as their fine motor muscles which students need for writing!

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Bring the snow inside for students to explore! Ton

Bring the snow inside for students to explore! Tons of learning can occur as they expire the snow with tools. They will be developing science skills as they observe the snow melt and change as they manipulate it with the tools. Students will also be developing their fine motor muscles in their fingers, hands, and wrists as they use the small tools to manipulate the snow. Most students don’t get to play with snow inside with their hands so it’s a really fun experience for students.
When students get bored playing with the snow, you can add watercolor paints, or liquid water colors and explore color mixing in the snow.
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❤Update alert! ❤Valentine's Math and Literacy

❤Update alert! ❤Valentine's Math and Literacy Centers now includes three fine motor activities, one writing center, six literacy activities, and eight math activities. Swipe through the photos of the math centers.
The new valentine's dump truck count and subtraction game with candy hearts has to be my favorite activity from this unit for sure! It also includes a valentine's dump truck subtract 5 mat too! Which math activity is your favorite?
If you already own it, just download it again for your update!
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Winter name writing with Q-tips and paint. This wo

Winter name writing with Q-tips and paint. This would also be fun to do with sight words or vocabulary words.
In January I start transitioning my friends who are going to kindergarten to writing their name in lowercase. So their name at the top is an uppercase and their name at the bottom is in lowercase.
These name mats are a freebie in my TPT store. .
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My students LOVED these Polar Animals math and lit

My students LOVED these Polar Animals math and literacy centers! The animals and fun winter manipulatives make learning so much fun. The plastic ice cubes are fun for games, STEM, or at the light table.
All of these activities are the Polar Animals Math and Literacy Centers Unit.
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Polar animal, snowman, and winter themed fine moto

Polar animal, snowman, and winter themed fine motor journal ideas for this week!
Fine motor and handwriting work doesn't have to be boring for students or tons to prep for teachers. I like to make the fine motor journal activity based on the learning theme and what skills students need more practice with.

If you want tons of fine motor journal ideas for the whole year, grab my Fine Motor Journal unit from my TPT store.
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Writing on paper gets boring so try writing on foi

Writing on paper gets boring so try writing on foil (aka ice). Use dry-erase markers so students can write and erase on the foil, just like a dry-erase board.
Then have students crumble up their foil into a ball after the activity ends and put the "icebergs" into the blocks or STEM center for a building prop.
These word cards are in my Polar Animals Centers Unit.
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Fine motor journals: winter themed fun letter writ

Fine motor journals: winter themed fun letter writing practice! Pick a snowball letter and write it. I added a piece of foil under the letters to make it more engaging. One table is writing uppercase letters and the other table is writing lowercase letters. The snowball letters are in my Winter Centers Unit.

You can find tons of fine motor ideas and printables in my Fine Motor Journals Unit!
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