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Turtle Roll and Cover

6/25/2014

I made this turtle roll and cover activity for the children to work on their number recognition skills. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper and laminated them. I attached self-adhesive magnets to the back of the cover up circles so that they would have a little more weight to them even though we did not use magnetic boards for this activity.

The children rolled the dice and then covered up the same number on the turtle mat. Play continued until all of the numbers on the turtle mat had been covered up. I made two different mats ... one with three sets of numbers 1-6 and another with numbers 2-12 that could be used with two dice.

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Turtle Roll and Cover Preschool Math Activity

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Playdough Ice Cream Cones

6/22/2014

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We love working with playdough and today the children made pladough ice cream cones using a playdough mat I created for this activity. They could use any color of playdough they wanted and they molded and pressed the playdough into a ice cream scoop shape and placed it on the mat. They then took pony beads (which we also love) and pressed them into the ice cream cone.

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Lego Sensory Tub

6/12/2014

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During the summer we do a lot of outdoor centers. Today I put together lego sensory tubs and the children had a blast with them. I selected larger blocks such as duplos and mega blocks for the younger children and put them in the tubs. If you have older children you can use regular legos.

I made sure I had a variety of colors and number of connectors on the blocks and then I filled the tubs with water. The children sorted through the blocks connecting blocks that were they same color. They also free played the the blocks making different structures and I also included animals ... plants ... and people for them to play with.

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Ladybug Letter Match

6/6/2014

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For the last of our ladybug center activities I made a ladybug letter match. The ladybug mats come with both upper and lowercase letters as well as the matching letter circles. I printed the mats on cardstock paper and glued them on to colored cardstock paper. I also printed the letter circles on cardstock paper and then laminated the mats and the circles to add durability. The children matched the letter circles to the letters on the mat and were able to do an upper to upper ... upper to lower ... and lower to lower case match.

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Playdough Ladybugs

6/4/2014

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I set up an outdoor playdough center today and the children made playdough ladybugs. I made a leaf mat that the children could use to put their ladybugs on (I printed it on cardstock paper and laminated it). The children pinched and shaped red playdough into ovals and then made small balls from black playdough.

The next step was to put the ladybug heads and bodies together and then press black pony beads on the body of each ladybug. The children really enjoyed making the ladybugs and putting them on the leaf mat.

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