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Reindeer Fine Motor Shape Dots

12/19/2020

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reindeer fine motor shape dots for preschool and kindergarten
I made reindeer shape dot cards to work on shape recognition as well as fine motor skills development. I printed them on cardstock paper but you can use regular paper if you like.
reindeer fine motor shape dots for preschool and kindergarten
I set the dot cards out with a small container of paint and some q-tips. The children dip the q-tips in the paint and then fill in the blank dots on the shapes.
reindeer fine motor shape dots for preschool and kindergarten
reindeer shape fine motor dots for preschool and kindergarten
You can use markers or glue sequins on the blank dots if you did not want to use paint. I made both black and white as well as color patterns with two different styles of shape dots. You can download the patterns below.

reindeer shape fine motor dots

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Sequin Turkey

11/16/2020

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sequin turkey craft project for preschool and kindergarten
Here is a wonderful project for fine motor development that goes great with a turkey or Thanksgiving theme.  You will need colored cardstock paper ... scissors ... glue/glue sticks ... sequins ... and wiggle eyes.
sequin turkey craft for preschool and kindergarten
Children cut a turkey body shape out of brown cardstock paper. Next they cut five turkey feathers from five different colors of cardstock paper and glued them onto the turkey body. They glued on wiggle eyes and cut a beak and gobbler from from orange and red cardstock paper. They then cut turkey legs from yellow cardstock paper and glued them on together with the beak and gobbler. The last step was to apply glue drops to turkey and press on the sequins.

You can see a video of this project below:

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Pumpkin Seed Transfer

10/27/2020

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Pumpkin Seed Transfer Preschool and Kindergarten Math and Fine Motor Activity
We love working with pumpkins seeds ... there are so many things your can do with them!! I set this activity up in our math center using two pumpkin bowls that I purchased from Target.  You can use any kind of bowl or container that works for you.  I put the pumpkin seeds in one of the bowls and set out a pair of jumbo tweezers along with dice.
Pumpkin Seed Transfer Preschool and Kindergarten Math and Fine Motor Activity
The children rolled the dice and then used the tweezers to transfer the same number of pumpkin seeds into the empty bowl.  They continued to roll the dice until all of the pumpkins seeds had been transferred. This activity can also be done without the tweezers and/or the dice.

You can see a video of this activity by clicking below:
Pumpkin Seed Transfer Preschool and Kindergarten Math and Fine Motor Activity
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Pumpkin Spice Paint

10/27/2020

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Pumpkin Spice Paint For Toddlers and Preschool
I recently attended a make and take session and one of the things we made was pumpkin spice paint.  It is super easy to make but I felt the recipe we used was a bit too runny so I modified it a little.
Pumpkin Spice Paint For Toddlers And Preschool
To make the paint I put three packets of unflavored gelatine into a jar along with 1 cup of boiling water and mixed the two together until the gelatine was dissolved.  I added yellow and red food coloring and stirred until I had an orange color I was happy with.
Pumpkin Spice Paint For Toddlers and Preschool
The last step was to add the pumpkin pie spice into the paint.  I just continued to shake some in until I got the scent that I wanted.  Everyone loved how the paint smelled and were very excited to paint with it.
Pumpkin Spice Paint For Toddlers and Preschool
I let the paint cool down which also helped to thicken it.  The children then painted large circles on cardstock paper.  When they painted they could see the specks of pumpkin spice.  We let that paint dry and cut out the circle and glue it on to a sheet of colored cardstock paper.  The children cut out a leaf and stem and glue that on the pumpkin.  They then glue pumpkin seeds on for extra fine motor work.
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You can see a video of our pumpkin spice paint below:
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Giant Scarecrow

9/29/2020

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giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
This is one of our favorite fall craft projects to make!!  We do it over a span of two to three days but you can adjust it to fit the needs of your early learners.  We use large sheets of construction paper (usually sold right next to the regular sized construction paper) but if you do not want to make giant scarecrows you can scale the project down to make smaller ones.
giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
You can either have the pieces already cut out for younger children to put together or have guide pieces set out for the children to use as a reference for cutting their scarecrow pieces.

You will need to have a head ... hat ... pants ... shirt body ... sleeves ... straw ... eyes and a nose.  You will also need to have various colors of tissue paper that has been cut or torn into squares.

giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
Once all of the pieces have been cut out it is time to put them all together.  You can put them together any way you wish but I found that we had the most success starting with the head and working our way down.

The hat gets glued at the very top of the head and the shirt body on top of the bottom of the head.  You want to make sure to leave enough room  to make a face on the head.

giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
The sleeves the next to get glued on and they should be glued behind the shirt body.  The sleeves can be angled in any direction.
giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
The pants are glued under the bottom of the shirt.  We used three inch long strips of yellow paper glued to the bottom of the hat ... arms ... and legs to represent straw.
giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
We glued the eyes and nose on the scarecrow head and also drew a mouth with a marker. The last step was to glue the tissue paper squares on the scarecrow.

You can see a video of this project below:

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Fall Fine Motor Wreath

9/21/2020

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Fall Tissue Paper Wreath Preshool and Kindergarten Art Project
Once of our favorite super cute fall craft projects is a tissue paper wreath.  These are super easy to make but really great for fine motor development.  We cut the centers out of paper plates (those just starting to use scissors may need some help).  The next step was to cut or tear fall colored tissue paper in to small squares or rectangle shapes.
Fall Tissue Paper Wreath Preschool and Kindergarten Art Project
Children can sort the tissue paper by color if they wish but we just put all of the tissue paper into bowls.  The children applied glue to the paper plates and then scrunched up the tissue paper pieces and press them on to the glue. 

You can see a video of this activity by clicking below:
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