Saturday, March 14, 2015

Spring ideas



Spring alphabet cards (for memory/matching games). You can also ask the child to pick a magnetic letter and find the matching spring card or match lower case/upper case letter cards.
 Spring lacing. Print a spring picture, color it and poke holes for lacing.
 Roll and cover the sum (for older children) or roll and cover the number (for younger kids).
 Count and line the correct amount of spring foam stickers.

More spring number and letter cards.
 Recognize and cover the correct lower case letter.
 Tracing.
 Find the match.
 Spring memory cards.

Roll the die and place the right amount of foam stickers in the basket.

Flower collage


Valentine's special hearts

 ... with foam stickers and crayons
... many hearrts of different sizes and color glued together...

Winter crafts

 Our version of a special snowman I saw on Pinterest...
 Small pieces of paper ripped by the child to make a snowman...
 Q-tips snowflake, saw it on Pinterest, this is our version!
 Put a paper snowflake on a big page and ask the child to paint all around it. Lift it up and there it is!
Cut out a snowflake and ask the child to paint it and decorate it with glitter.

Valentine's ideas



Draw many hearts on colorful cardboard paper and write a number on one side and the corresponding amount of dots on the other side. Cut the hearts in half and spread the pieces around the room. Ask the child to find the matches.
Choose some nice and colorful paper, give the child a pair of scissors or help the child cut out a heart. They can decorate it with glitter, picture from magazines, pieces of paper they cut or ripped with their hands, stickers or anything you have at home, even buttons work, then glue the heart on a wooden stick. You can use red gems to fill a heart-shaped muffin tray and of course bake heart shaped cookies and decorate them with your kids :)

Winter counting and number identification practice




 Blue cardboard, glue some snowflakes and ask the child to count them and find the right number. Ask them to cover it with a transparent snowflake and/or place as many snowflake in a vertical line below the card.






















Monday, January 12, 2015

Buttons Math practice

Template from: childcareland.com
 If your child can sum, ask him/her to use two dice and work out the sum then place the corresponding amount of buttons on the snowman. If the child is too young for that, work on number recognition and counting with a numbered die instead.