This Winter book for Beginning Readers is perfect for your early reader. Your reader will be exposed to the sight words (the, likes, who) as well as able to use the picture clues and predictable text to feel successful. It’s hard to find free, printable books for beginning readers so I decided to put together …
We love Jan Brett’s book, The Mitten. Here’s a collection of The Mitten Activities and Crafts that can be used with a mitten theme, in the Winter time, or as learning activities to support the retelling of this great book. The Mitten Crafts These craft activities are a way to inspire creativity with young children. …
We all have Q-tips on hand. They can be cut and arranged to make this beautiful snowflake craft and they provide a great lesson about how God makes everyone different! Materials: Construction Paper Q-tips Glue Scissors Instructions: Cut the Q-tips into various sizes. Keep some whole. Let your kids use their imagination to figure out …
We loved the movie Frozen. LOVED it! If you and your children feel the same way then you will have a great time with these Frozen inspired activities. Click on each activity title for directions and more information. Olaf’s Summer Coloring Page Love this guy! I had to include it in the collection of activities. …
Kids of ALL ages will love the Snowman Game! It can be used to practice almost any skill, from letters and numbers to words and multiplication. Here are a few ideas to get you started: Snowman Colors Game Feed your snowman snowballs (pom poms). Name the color of each snowball as you feed it to …
5 Little Snowmen is one of our favorite Winter rhymes and is so fun to repeat and act out! Download and print the 5 Little Snowmen Puppets. Cut out the snowmen and tape them to craft sticks or plastic spoons. Use your puppets to sing or tell the story of the 5 Little Snowmen …
Time for a snowball battle indoors… with cotton balls and these cotton ball activities. After using cotton balls for sensory play and an indoor snow battle, I was inspired to find more ways to use these soft, little white puffs! Here are a few ways that we have used them as well as some ideas …
This simple snow globe craft was a fun excuse to get out the glitter. Cut out a white circle to decorate and a trapezoid shaped piece for the base of the snow globe. Your snow globe craft can work with ANY THEME! Christmas, Winter, family, Valentine’s Day, birthday, alphabet, etc. I thought N was making …
I live in California, where the weather is usually pretty mild, but I know other parts of the country might be dealing with lots of snow days (in our defense, we do get stuck inside when one of the kiddos gets sick!). You can only watch so many DVDs before the kids get antsy Here …
How much fun would it be to a host a Winter Tot School? Grab a few of your favorite tots, round up things you (probably) have laying around your house and get to learning! Trays are always a great thing to have out when hosting a play date because they can be rotated around and …
We are still LOVING our busy boxes over here (which are similar to busy bags)! About twice a day, G (20 months) will say, “Box? Box?” and drag me over to the cupboard to select one of the fun activities. I switch out the activities once a month so here are some of the fun ideas included in …
With the weather getting colder, you might be looking for a few indoor, Winter Activities to occupy and challenge your toddler. Set up these winter themed activities and watch your little one explore and learn! Snowball Hide Grab a pill box (mine was from The Dollar Tree) and some small pompom “snow balls.” Tots have …