I have posted April's Number Tracing Calendar and Calendar Numbers along with other April items to my free printables page (if you do not see them at the bottom of the page please refresh your browser).
I set up a plastic Easter egg color match for the children to work on their math and fine motor skills. I put twelve plastic eggs (the bottom halves) in a muffin tin and put matching colored buttons in a bowl.
I also set out jumbo tweezers as an option for the children to use. In this activity children put the buttons in the same colored plastic eggs that were in the muffin tin.
Once the children were done putting the buttons in the eggs they did a visual estimate of which one had the most and which one had the least. They then counted how many buttons were in each egg. If you do not have or do not want to use buttons you can also use pom poms for this activity.
You can see a video of this activity here or by clicking below:  These egg suncatchers look so cute in our windows!! They are really easy to make and great for fine motor development. The children cut colored cardstock paper into egg shapes and then cut the center out of the egg leaving about a 3/4 inch border. We set the eggs on open laminating pouches. The children then cut various colors of tissue paper into small squares and placed them inside the eggs. The next step was to sprinkle glitter over the tissue paper and and laminate. The children cut the eggs out and we hung them up on the windows.  Bunny Number Pick and Cover added to the member's section. The free daily printable this week is Bunny Alphabet Pick and Cover which is a great activity for developing for letter recognition as well as fine motor skills. I printed all patterns on cardstock paper and glued the bunny mats onto colored cardstock paper.  I laminated all of the pieces and set them out along with playdough that the children rolled into balls. The playdough is used for covering up the letters. If you do not want to use playdough I have also included cover-up circles with the patterns.  In this activity children pick a letter card and cover-up the same letter on the bunny mat. You can do all lowercase ... all uppercase ... or a combination of the two. Play ends when all of the letters on the mats have been covered up. You can grab the patterns for free until Sunday March 29th ... after that they will only be available in the member's section.  I made a bunny color matching activity to work on fine motor skills and color recognition. I printed the bunny patterns on cardstock paper ... cut them out and laminated them.  I set the bunnies out in one of our center stations along with matching color pom poms. I put magnets on the bottom of the pom poms to add more weight to them. The children put the pom poms on the bunnies with the same color.  For a math extension I made sure that I had a different number of pom poms for each of the six colors. When the children were done putting them on the bunnies they counted how many were on each bunny and which colors had the least and most pom poms. You can see a video of this activity here or by clicking below:   Bunny Alphabet Train added to the member's section. The free daily printable this week is Bunny Number Train which is a great activity for developing for number recognition as well as fine motor skills. I printed the bunny number train cars on cardstock paper ... cut them out and laminated them. I then punched a hole on each side of the number cars.  In this activity the children put the train cars in numerical order and linked them together with learning links. They then put the loose number circles on the matching bunny.  You can grab the patterns for free until Sunday March 22nd ... after that they will only be available in the member's section. |
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