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Shape Mats: Drive & Trace Activity Pages

April 18, 2017 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment

With the release of our newest product, “Shape of the Week,” we’ve been busy learning all about shapes.   This new set is geared towards Tots and Preschoolers and includes lots of hands-on fun!  Best of all it’s FREE and the shapes coordinate perfectly with our Shape of the Week program so you can easily integrate this into a fun center time activity.

Drive and Trace Mats should be used with small toy vehicles for children to drive around the shape.  We recommend laminating them for durability.  Students can then trace the shapes with a dry erase marker or a finger.

Print Drive and Trace Mats Free from our Sister Site: PreschoolMom.com

Looking for more?  Try our new Shape of the Week Program today!

 

 

Filed Under: Math Tools, Shape Printables Tagged With: drive and trace mats, preschool math, printables, shapes

Spring Flowers: Shape Search & Color

April 17, 2017 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

It’s Spring!  The flowers are blooming and it’s a great time to sneak in a little flower fun with your students.  We have a varitey of free Spring Preschool Printables as well as som free Shape Printables here.

Spring Flower Shape Match is another simple shape worksheet that will work on student visual discrimination skills. Students find and color the flower shapes based on the coloring guide:

 

Print Spring Flower Worksheet Free from Preschool Mom.

 

Looking for more Shape Printables?

Try our Shape of the Week Program today!

 

Filed Under: Flower Printables, Shape Printables, Spring Tagged With: flower printables, math, preschool printables, shapes

Shape of the Week Program

April 11, 2017 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Shape-of-the-Week covers 10 different shapes over a 10-week period.  Each week includes 4-days of activities and hands-on learning designed to keep little minds engaged.  This curriculum is print-&-go, meaning you can print it out, place it in a three-ring binder, and everything is presented in the order needed during the 10-week program.  Best of all this set coordinates with our Letter of the Week Alphabet Curriculum!

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  • Circles
  • Squares
  • Triangles
  • Ovals
  • Rectangles
  • Trapezoids
  • Diamonds (Optional Rhombus Alternative)
  • Hexagons
  • Hearts
  • Stars

 

Monday:

Shape Chart:  Introduce students to the shape of the week with a colorful chart that features the shape attributes. We suggest laminating these charts and hanging them in the classroom or on a morning board.

Shape Maze:  A fun shape maze for students to build small motor control and problem solving skills. Students learn about the shape’s symmetry and complete a dot-to-dot activity.

Tuesday:

Shape Trace:  Students practice tracing and drawing their shapes.  Encourage students to use different colors for each shape and to do their best to stay on the lines.  This is a great activity to build fine-motor skills.

Shape Playdough Mat:  A simple way to get students working with their hands. We recommend laminating the playdough mats so they can be used over and over again.  Students roll out the play dough and form it into the shape.

Wednesday

Shape Find:  Students practice visual discrimination skills as they hunt for shapes. Each picture features engaging graphics for children to seek and find their shapes hidden throughout the scene.

Shape Craftivity:  A fun cut and paste activity featuring the shape of the week.  These are super simple and very low-prep often only requiring construction paper and glue.  Students work on key scissor skills as they build scenes on their paper.

Thursday:

Draw a Shape:  This is a fun worksheet page for children to learn to draw different objects using this same shape.

Shape Dab-&-Dot: A fun hands-on on activity to build shapes.  Provide students with bingo daubers, stickers, small stamps, coins, or any other tactile manipulative to fill in their shape.

 

Shape Sort Game:  This weekly game can be printed and added to each week. Children choose an image and identify which shape is featured and place it onto the correct sorting mat.  This game can be played as multiplayer with each student choosing a shape mat and placing the cards upside down in the center.  Students take turns drawing a card and the first one to fill up their shape board wins.

There are so many fun activities for children in this set:

Shape of the Week Program

4 Days a Week for 10 Weeks

Coordinates with our Letter of the Week Program

Filed Under: Homeschool Curriculum, printables, Shape Printables Tagged With: geometry, homeschool curriculum, learn to read, letter of the week, math, prechool, shapes

Hands on Alphabet Printables

July 20, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick 3 Comments

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If you’re looking for a fun way for your little one’s to learn the basic shapes of the the uppercase letters, I’ve got a great free printable set for you.

I’ve just added these to our Alphabet Printables at File Folder Fun and you can print a set in color or black and white.  You could even print them on colored paper if you want colored versions without paying for all the ink.

 

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If you have a laminator, definitely use it on these before cutting the shapes out, as these will get lots of use.

Children can use these shapes to make the entire uppercase alphabet, making this set extra useful.  My children started making pictures with them, so I’m sure they will inspire a little creativity in your kids as well.

Print your own Hands on Alphabet Here

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Looking for more Alphabet Activities?  Check out our Letter of the Week Preschool Curriculum!

 

 

Filed Under: Alphabet Printables, Preschool Printables Tagged With: alphabet, hands on, manipulatives, preschool, printable, shapes

Preschool Printables

February 20, 2014 By Valerie Mcclintick 4 Comments

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I have recently updated our Free Preschool Printables section of PreschoolMom.com!

We have over 30 themes with numerous printables and activities you can use in your homeschool or classroom.

Here’s a sneak peek…..Click Here for links to all these units!

Be sure to check out more resources at KindergartenMom.com

BTW- We have a separate newsletter for our Preschool Mom website! 

Many of these sets include handwriting practice, alphabet themes, printable charts, file folder games, wordwall cards, crafts, science activities and more!

Alphabet Printables

American Sign Language Printables

Australia Printables

Butterfly Printables

Colors Printables

Community Helper Printables

Days of the Week Printables

Dinosaur Printables

Click Here for Full List

 

 

Filed Under: Full, Preschool Printables Tagged With: abc, alphabet, butterfly seasons, colors, curriculum, file folder games, frog, holidays, language, learning centers, letter of the week, math, numbers, preschool printables, shapes

Australian Dot Painting

June 12, 2012 By Valerie Mcclintick 4 Comments

Lynn and I just wrapped up another Free Preschool Bible lesson
on our sister site PreschoolPost.com

In case you’re wondering how our partnership works;
Lynn is the actual writer of the lessons,
and I am the web-designer/printable maker (what else right?)

It’s really a great arrangement for both of us!


(That’s Lynn….she’s great!)

Actually, one of my other responsibilities is to “shoot” the crafts….
meaning for each month Lynn sends a lesson,
I actually “do” the craft with the kiddos and take photos along the way.

How fun is that?

Well as I was saying, we just wrapped up lesson,
so that means we got to try out a new craft!

So here’s how it all went down:

Don’t you just want to make your own now?

preschool bible lesson

Check out the rest of the lesson for more
Down Under printables & resources!

Filed Under: Australia Crafts, Preschool Crafts, Preschool Printables Tagged With: art, australian, bible, god made animals, kids, lesson, lizard, preschool, printable, shapes, sunday school, template

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