If you haven’t discovered these yet, check out the build a letter template printables at Tired, Need Sleep. She also has an uppercase version and is kind enough to share both. These are a favorite at our house!
Get cooking with Number Burgers! These number burgers are a fun way for kids to work with numbers 1-12. This matching activity adds pretend play to make for a fun learning experience. The buns have a numeral on them, the burger patty has a number word, the cheese has stars to count, and …
This Yes/No Rhyming Bingo is my new favorite! It is from HeidiSongs and it has been our most successful rhyming game yet. Each player gets a smiley/sad face game board and the adult reads the two words on the card. If the two words rhyme you cover a smiley face. If they don’t you cover …
Use this Candle Shapes Printable for your child to build shapes using candles. Talk about how many candles it takes to make each shape. If you haven’t noticed, I’m on a roll lately with activities using materials I already have around the house. This “Build-a-Shape” activity using birthday candles was a lot of …
Head on over to Teach Mama to print the Rhyming Bingo. Another great printable from Teach Mama is this rhyming bingo game. Draw a card, say it, and find a picture on your card that rhymes with it. The person to cover their whole card wins.
I’m on a roll with bottle tops lately! Yesterday I showed you our bottle top sentences and today I wanted to share this bottle top shapes and colors activity (using milk tops). Directions: Print out 2 of the Bottle Top Colors and Shapes Printable. One on card stock and one on paper. Cut the …
This morning we went online to find out the name of some of the Toy Story 3 characters that we weren’t sure about. A few minutes later we had our own Toy Story magnets! Just print and put a magnet on the back. There are also several printable coloring pages, recipes, and crafts to check out. **Just …
This shape sorting printable is from Nicole at Tired, Need Sleep. Just print, cut and sort. I love how this activity gets kids thinking about shapes in every day items!
Yesterday, B and I made this Toy Store Grid Game. We had as much fun picking out the pictures to make it as we did playing it! The object of the game is to be the first person to fill up your game board. Your game board can be a full sheet, 20 squares, or cut …
Give an Alphabet Board Game a try. When you land on a letter you say the letter, its sound, or something that starts with that letter. So much fun! You could play this any way that you want, just naming the letter or sound. These alphabet games give the opportunity for young children to …
Lately, B has been pointing to letters in books and saying “Why’d they make the g (or a) look like that?” So I decided to print the alphabet in different fonts and have him sort it. This was a really neat letter font sort activity. Not only did it give him practice identifying letters but also putting them …
I saw this tutorial and printable at Giver’s Log that helps you create spice jar piggie banks. photo courtesy of Giver’s Log So I decided to make 4 banks in hopes of teaching B about the size and value of each coin. I used Modge Podge to put the label on and I put a piece of …