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Ice Cream Colors! Ice Cream Coloring Pages

June 4, 2020 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

Nothing says “summer is here” quite like an ice cream cone.

Personally, I can eat ice cream all year long, but it’s especially great during warm weather.

When my kids are laying around on a warm afternoon, I like to share simple activities to keep them engaged, instead of just sitting in front of a screen.

Which is why I’m sharing these free ice cream coloring pages today – in case any of you are dealing with the same summer break situation.

Keep reading to get your set – free!

If your little one enjoys these ice cream themed printables, be sure to check out our fun print or digital ice cream preschool shape sorting activity too!

Ice Cream Colors! Printable Ice Cream Coloring Pages

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This product includes eight different ice cream coloring sheets, including cones, popsicles, and push pops.

There’s no right or wrong way to color each picture, so you can just hand out crayons or colored pencils and let the kids go wild.

Of course, it’s possible that you’ll end up with green ice cream, but hey. That’s art for you.

Our youngest one wanted to use a ton of colors for her push pop.

And, of course, she couldn’t pass up a chance to add a few “sprinkles” to her ice cream cone!

These coloring sheets would be a fantastic art activity to use with our ice cream unit. It’s got plenty of fun ice cream themed activities for early learners.

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Check out some of these other fun early learning resources!

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25 Super Easy Preschool Crafts You Can Make in 10 Minutes

May 28, 2020 by Selena Robinson 3 Comments

I love to make crafts with my kids, especially when they’re very young.

What I don’t like is having to buy a whole lot of supplies (and expensive ones, at that!) for a project that I’ll only do once.

So, when I make a craft with my preschooler, I always prefer to do one that I can get done in 10 minutes or less.

After all, Pre-K kids have pretty short attention spans.

If you’re looking for some simple crafting fun for young kids, try this list of super easy preschool crafts you can make in just 10 minutes!

This list is full of easy PreK crafts for each season.

Some work well for spring, others for summer or fall, some are perfect for winter – and some are great any time of the year!

Read on the see the full list. And for more simple preschool ideas, check out my list of 10 preschool learning activities you can do in 10 minutes!

25 Super Easy Preschool Crafts

1. Toilet Roll Butterfly Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

2. Torn Paper Fall Tree Craft – Hands On As We Grow

3. Easy Snowflake Craft – Mama Smiles

4. No-Sew Sock Snowman Craft – Easy Peasy and Fun

5. Easy Wax Boats – Housing a Forest

6. Train Tape Resist Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

7. Easy Craft Stick Snakes – Crafty Morning

8. Coffee Filter Apple Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

9. Easy Shapes Salt Truck Craft – Sugar Aunts

10. Pringles Can Binoculars – Happy Hooligans

11. Farm Paper Bag Puppets – Look! We’re Learning!

12. Easy Paper Plate Watermelon Craft – ABC Creative Learning

13. Simple Fork Print Sunflower Craft – Crafty Morning

14. Simple Farm Craft with Stickers – I Heart Crafty Things

15. Coffee Filter Sun Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

16. Shape School Bus Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

17. Simple Cardboard Tube Construction Set – Inner Child Fun

18. Simple Craft Stick Photo Frame – Living Montessori Now

19. Woven Craft Stick Butterflies – The Craft Train

20. Sea Shell Salt Dough Craft – Teach Mama

21. Farm Shoebox Diorama – Look! We’re Learning!

22. Simple Airplane Craft – Learning 4 Kids

23. Paper Plate Cars – Glued to My Crafts

24. Clothespin Snowman Craft – Easy Peasy and Fun

25. Easy Shape Car Craft – Look! We’re Learning!

Did you like this post? Try these other early learning ideas!

This post is part of the Crafts for Kids Unit Study roundup! Stop by to read other great kids’ crafts posts from my fellow educators!

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Letter F Craft: Flamingo Fun! from Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading

Ice Cream Preschool Shape Sorting Activity

April 9, 2020 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

When I was a kid, one of my strongest summer memories is going down to the Dairy Queen to get an OREO Blizzard.

It was my very favorite childhood treat.

(In fact, it’s taking every bit of willpower in my body not to break off from writing this post and go get one.)

Ice cream is still a classic treat for kids, especially during the summer.

And that’s why I wanted to make a fun ice cream-themed learning activity for preschoolers – this ice cream preschool shape sorting activity!

This is such a fun (and low-prep) learning activity for small ones!

You only need a few minutes to prepare it and then the kids will be off and running!

Just be prepared for them to ask you for ice cream immediately afterward.

Read on to see how to get your copy of this shape sorting activity! Plus, check out our cupcake letter matching activity for more “sweet” learning fun!

Ice Cream Preschool Shape Sorting Activity

To use this preschool shape sorting activity, you’ll need the following: (This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

To begin, just print both the ice cream “scoops” and the ice cream” cones”.

The cones feature the shapes themselves.

And the scoops are labeled with the shape names. (I used the same color for the scoop and the shape on each cone for a little hint.)

Laminate both pages and cut them out. Then just mix them up and let the kids get started!

How to Use the Ice Cream Shape Sorting Activity

We started off by laying out all of the ice cream “cones” and “scoops”.

As Piglet found each shape cone, I asked her to name the shape.

Then she used the colors and the beginning letters to give her clues as to which shape name matched which shape.

Before we knew it, she had built all five ice cream cones! Enough to open her own sweet shop!

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For more hands-on preschool fun, check out these ideas!

$Pick up this cupcake English and Spanish number word matching activity to build number recognition with early grades! Perfect for math centers!$

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20 Fun Printable Preschool Resources for Early Learners

March 12, 2020 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

When you’re working with early learners, the more hands-on the activity, the better.

Preschoolers just love to learn with interactive resources.

When they can move objects or parts around, they are so much more engaged with the lesson.

So this list of 20 printable preschool resources is loaded with hands-on learning activities for early learners!

There are preschool shape activities, preschool alphabet activities, and preschool counting lessons below.

Perfect for preschool teachers, homeschoolers, and afterschooling parents!

Read on to see the full list.

And, for more ways to help early learners work with math concepts, take a look at my list of fun outdoor math games!

20 Fun Printable Preschool Resources for Early Learners

1. Share this Big and Small Flower Sorting Activity to help little ones learn to sort sizes!

2. Practice recognizing shapes with this Ice Cream 2D Shape Sorting Activity!

3. Work on fine motor skills and letter and number literacy with these Birds and Bugs Playdough Mats!

4. Teach preschoolers to create basic math patterns with these Colorful Cars Pattern Clip Cards!

5. Use these Rainbow Number Word Puzzles to teach preschoolers about numerals and number words!

6. This simple Apple Tree Counting Mat is perfect for counting by fours!

7. Learn how to talk about the body in Spanish with these printable Spanish Parts of the Body Flashcards!

8. Match up lowercase and uppercase letters with this hands-on Cupcake Letter Matching Activity!

9. Help early learners start storytelling with these printable Spring Creative Writing Story Prompts!

10. Count from one to ten with this fun Butterfly Counting 1-10 Mat!

11. Working on a farm theme? These Farm Playdough Shape Mats are fun for fine motor practice!

12. Teach little ones to recognize colors with this easy Colorful Birds Matching Activity!

13. Help early learners practice using scissors with these Apple Scissor Skills Printables!

14. Get some Spanish and fine motor practice with these Spanish Color Word Playdough Mats!

15. Introduce counting and basic fractions to preschoolers with this Ladybug Counting Math Center!

16. Pick up these Rainbow Playdough Mats for a fun spring-themed fine motor activity!

17. Match up colors and color words in this hands-on Mail Colors Sorting Activity!

18. Count objects from one to ten with these printable Apple Counting Puzzles!

19. Use these hands-on Shape Sorting Mats to help little ones recognize basic shapes!

20. Practice sorting by size with these cute Cupcake Big and Small Worksheets!

Try more early learning activities below!

These printable robot themed number tracing worksheets are great for penmanship practice! Or laminate them to use at math centers!

These printable preschool resources are so easy to use! Just print them, prep them, and then start learning!

Shape Sort! Shape Sorting Activity Mats for Kids

February 6, 2020 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Shapes are all around us. We often learn about them as individual items, but we really see them everywhere we go!

When my kids were small, they loved spotting shapes as we went about the day.

They found shapes on streetlights, traffic signs, buildings, and especially their favorite foods.

To help early learners recognize shapes all around them, I’m sharing these fun shape sorting activity mats for preschoolers!

These are so cute for morning tubs and early math centers! Kids will love challenging themselves to find all the shape objects.

Read on to see how to get your set! And, for more fun with shapes, don’t miss our Apple Seek and Find Shapes Worksheets!

Shape Sort! Shape Sorting Activity Mats

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This product includes mats and shape cards for:

Circle
Square
Triangle
and Oval

Each shape mat has six spaces to place the six objects that have the specified shape.

The cards are also color coded, so it’s easy – even for little ones – to match them up.

If a student is unsure which shape goes where, ask them to lay the shape card directly on the shape shown on the mat.

Then they can trace around the shape with their finger to see which shape it resembles the most.

This can be used as a one-time cut and paste activity for students, but it really works wonderfully as a reusable lesson.

Just laminate the mats and cards and then add hook and loop sticky dots for a quick go-to whenever you want to reinforce shape recognition.

These are also fantastic for busy bags!

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Take a look at these other early learning activities for students!

$Add these hot cocoa playdough 1-10 counting cards to winter math centers for easy counting practice! Great for morning tubs too!$

And don’t miss more ways to teach for early ages on my Learning for Little Ones Pinterest board!

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$Share these fun preschool shape sorting mats with early learners! Great for morning tubs and math centers too!$

Polar Animals I Spy Activity for Kids

January 21, 2020 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Last week, I took the kids to the library and I checked out a Where’s Waldo? Find the Differences book.

After about 10 minutes of staring at one picture, my head started to hurt.

I found Waldo pretty quickly, but finding all the differences in each of the pictures almost killed me. The kids thought it was funny.

Look and find activities are really popular with kids (and adults like me), so I thought this fun Polar Animals I Spy Activity would be a cool winter project for early learners!

This winter I Spy activity is a simple, no prep learning game for little ones!

Read on to see how to get yours – free! And, for more early learning ideas for winter, don’t miss our Roll A Snowman Art Activity!

Polar Animals I Spy Activity

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Printer (with ink)
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Laminator (optional)
Dry erase markers (optional)

This product includes two separate Polar Animal I Spy pages:

A simple I Spy activity for preschoolers
A more challenging I Spy activity for older children

These would be fantastic for morning tubs or math centers!

Simply laminate each activity page and let students use dry erase markers to count each polar animal they find.

The answers are included in the product too. 🙂

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Take a look at these other winter learning activities for early ages!

$Practice counting, recognizing inequalities, and more with this Yeti-themed Math Practice Lesson for early grades!$

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Peppermint Hot Cocoa Sequencing Mats for Kids

November 14, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

When I was little, I was a total hot cocoa addict.

My parents drank coffee every morning. But I was in love with hot chocolate.

I had a little microwavable mug and, once I learned to make cocoa on my own (usually with Nesquik), I was off to the races.

As the weather gets colder, I still remember my hot chocolate memories. And that’s why I wanted to share these adorable peppermint hot cocoa sequencing mats for kids!

These would make a perfect winter early learning activity for preschoolers and kindergartners who are working on retelling steps in order.

Read on to see how to get your set – free! And, for more fun with winter learning, don’t miss our winter alphabet and number playdough mats!

Peppermint Hot Cocoa Sequencing Mats for Kids

To use these sequencing mats for kids, you’ll need the following: (This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

This product includes:

One color sequencing mat
Two sets of color three-step hot cocoa sequencing cards
One line art sequencing mat
And two sets of line art three-step hot cocoa sequencing cards

Once you prep this activity, you’re all set!

Place the cards in random order and let students practice telling how to make cocoa using the cards in the correct sequence.

You’ll definitely want to laminate these for durability. It makes them hold up better for little hands!

You can also use them with sticky hook and loop dots to add them to a busy bag.

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Stop by and check out these other winter early learning activities!

And for more winter teaching ideas, follow my Winter Activities for Kids board on Pinterest!

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Multicolor Mail! Preschool Color Sorting Game

November 11, 2019 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

Preschoolers love to pretend to deliver mail.

When we took our little ones to a pretend neighborhood, they all wanted to dress up as mail delivery workers and put envelopes in the tiny mailbox. It was adorable.

Since learning to recognize colors and color words is an important skill for toddlers and preschoolers to master, I thought it would be fun to combine colors and mail delivery into a simple preschool color sorting game!

With this simple color recognition activity, kids can pretend to “stamp mail” and work on learning their colors. And, after the initial setup, you can reuse it over and over again.

It’s perfect for preschool busy bags, centers, or morning tubs!

Read on to see how to get your set!

And for more color sorting fun, check out our Colorful Cubes Color and Number Sorting Worksheets!

Multicolor Mail! Preschool Color Sorting Game

To play this preschool color sorting game, you’ll need the following: (This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

This game includes “envelopes” that feature the color words for:

Red
Yellow
Blue
Black
White
Orange
Yellow
and Purple

Simply cut the envelopes out, fold them in half, and laminate them.

Add a loop sticky dot to the square in the upper right corner of each envelope.

The color stamps are all printed on one page. Laminate the page, then cut out each stamp.

Add a hook sticky dot on the back of each stamp.

Then you’re ready to play! Show the kids how to attach the correct color stamp on each envelope.

Since the color words appear in the color they identify, this is a simple color recognition game for little ones.

You can work on primary colors first, then add secondary colors and neutrals, if you like.

Divide up the colors and see who can match their stack up first!

This would be a wonderful busy bag activity. You can just store the stamps and the envelopes in a resealable bag and let the kids practice anytime!

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Don’t miss these other preschool learning activities!

$These printable ladybug math activities are perfect for sharing with the kids this spring!$

And see more ways to make early learning fun on my Learning for Little Ones Pinterest board!

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Preschool Worksheets: Cookie Counting Worksheets for Preschool

November 4, 2019 by Selena Robinson 3 Comments

One of the wonderful things about preschool is that you don’t have to teach a whole lot of math. After all, you’re working with kids that are four to five years old.

So it’s really a time for introducing the very basics of mathematics: shapes, sizes, counting, numbers, and so on.

I thought we’d add a fun twist to working on counting with Piglet with these cookie counting worksheets for preschool!

These printables include practice for counting to ten and matching like objects – two skills that are important to cover in preschool.

Read on to see how to get a copy of these for your students!

And, if you enjoy this printable, check out our Ice Cream Preschool Shape Sorting Activity to practice shape differentiation with early learners! Don’t miss our other fun preschool worksheets and activities too!

$These printable cookie counting to ten worksheets are so fun for math centers or morning tubs!$

Cookie Counting Worksheets for Preschool

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Dry erase crayons (optional)

This product includes two worksheets – one set featuring color cookies and one set with line art cookies (if you want to save on ink).

Students count the chocolate chips in each cookie and then draw a line to match it to a cookie with the same amount of chips on the opposite side.

Each worksheet has five rows, so kids only have to match one cookie on the left side to another cookie on the right side.

With Piglet, we started by counting the number of chocolate chips in the first cookie.

Then we went to the right side to find the cookie with the same number of chips. Then she drew a line to match them up.

After that, there was no stopping her!

A full answer key is provided for these worksheets as well.

If you want to reuse these cooking counting worksheets at math centers, just laminate them and let students use dry erase markers!

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Be sure to try some of these other preschool learning activities!

And find more ways to work with early learners on my Learning for Little Ones Pinterest board!

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$Practice counting to ten with these fun cookie themed counting to ten worksheets! Laminate these to use at math centers or place them in morning tubs!$

Pumpkin Preschool Size Sorting Game

October 15, 2019 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Working with size recognition is such a fun early learning concept! All of our kids loved learning the differences between small, medium, and large.

My husband, who is 6’3″, was always an easy way to show “big”. Meanwhile, I’m 5’2″, so I kind of worked as “medium”. And, of course, our kids (when they were preschoolers) were “small”.

We could usually line up our hands and see the obvious differences in size.

For a class of early learners, though, it’s also good to have a quick printable activity you can go to when you’re learning about size. And that’s where this pumpkin size sorting game comes in handy!

Simple Pumpkin Size Sorting Game for Kids

This is a perfect fall math center activity for early grades! And you could also use it to talk about same and different, as well as feelings, since each pumpkin has a different expression.

Read on to see how to get your set – free! And, for more early learning pumpkin fun, take a look at our Pumpkin Places Ordinal Number Lesson!

$Pick up this simple pumpkin preschool size sorting game to help early learners practice size recognition! So fun for a fall math center activity!$

Pumpkin Preschool Size Sorting Game for Kids

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Pumpkin Themed Size Sorting Game for Preschool

This size sorting game includes:

Three size sorting mats
Eighteen pumpkin size cards

Printable Size Sorting Game

You can use these as a one-time cut and paste activity or you can reuse them at centers by laminating them and adding hook and loop sticky dots.

Pumpkin Printable Size Sorting Game

Since it’s low prep, you’ll only need a few minutes to set it up. Then kids can get to work!

Printable Preschool Size Sorting Game

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Don’t miss these other early learning resources for fall!

$These no prep fall counting worksheets for preschoolers feature a fun farm theme! Use them for classwork or at math centers!$

And see more ways to add autumn themes to your lessons on my Fall Activities for Kids Pinterest board!

Printable Size Sorting Game for Kids

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