I made a shamrock letter and number drop. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper and cut them out. I glued one of the leprechaun card and title strip on a black paper bag that I purchased in the craft section at Walmart. I then laminated the shamrock cards.

Both the letter and number sets come with a recording sheet that the children can use to cover up the shamrocks that have already been placed in the bag after they have identified them.

In this activity children pick a shamrock card and say the letter or number on the card. They then cover up the same letter or number on the mat. We use buttons ... playdough ... and bingo daubers. The shamrock card is then placed into the leprechaun bag. You do not need to use the cover up sheet ... children would simply identify the letter or number on the shamrock card and drop the card in the bag.

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shamrock letters and numbers match

I made a tooth fairy shape match for shape identification and fine motor skills. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper ... cut them out and then laminated them. 

This activity can be done in a couple different ways. The first way is to have  children pick a tooth fairy and then find the tooth fairy with the matching shape and clip them together. You can make two copies of the same color tooth fairies or print off the two different color sets so the children need to rely on matching the shape instead of looking for the same color tooth fairy.

The second way to do the activity is for the children to pick a tooth fairy and then find the matching shape and put it on the blank shape on the tooth fairy card. We used velcro so the pieces would be secured. Again you can choose to use the same color shapes as the tooth fairies or you can use different color shapes.

The third way to use this activity is for children to clip the two cards with the matching shapes together after placing the same shape on the tooth fairy cards. We clip the cards together back to back so the children can see they are the same shape when they flip the cards over.

I have included both black and white patterns as well as two different sets of colored patterns and shapes.

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tooth fairy cut and trace strips

I made penguin fine motor color cards. I printed them on cardstock paper ... cut them out and then laminated them. 

I made four different variations of the activity including a large penguin that children can put matching hats and scarves on along with or without the color word strips.

If you are not using the color word strips the children would pick a hat and place it on penguin's head and then find the matching color scarf and place it on the neck.

If you are using the color word strips there is a penguin mat that has a blank rectangle on it that the children would place the strip on and then find the matching color hat and scarf.

There are smaller penguin cards without color names that children can place the same colored objects that match the hat and scarf. We use buttons ... pom poms ... playdough ... and mini clothespins. I also made cards with the color work already written on it and cards where there is a blank space for children to put the color name on.

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fine motor color hearts

I made woodland animals cover up mats which is great for fine motor skills. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper and laminated them for durability.

I made two different types of mats ... one with three animals and 30 blank circles to cover and one with a single animal and 20 blank circles to cover.

Children can cover the blank circles on the mats with a variety of materials. We use buttons ... playdough ... and paint daubers.

To turn this into a math activity add a dice for children to roll. They would cover up the same number of blank circles on the mat as displayed on the dice. Once the circles were all covered the children could then roll the dice and removed the same number of cover ups.

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turkey alphabet cover up cards

I made fall two piece puzzles which are great for visual discrimination skills. Print the patterns on cardstock paper and cut out. Cut along the line to make two halves for each puzzle and laminate.

There are twenty-eight different puzzles and you can sit set out as many or as few as you like. We separate the puzzle pieces into two different piles and then mix up the pieces in each pile.

Children pick a puzzle piece and then find the matching puzzle piece and put them together. You could also put all the piece together in one pile which would make find the matching piece more difficult.

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fall leaves color match

We made paper plate ladybugs this week and they turned out super cute. We did this project over a two day period to make sure we had enough time for the paint to dry.

To make the lady you will need red paint ... glue ... scissors ... black construction paper ... wiggles eyes ... and paper plates. We used the thicker chinette brand for our paper plates.

The first step is to paint the back of the paper plates red. You can do this by using a paint and paint brush or a paint dauber. After we painted the plates we let them dry for the rest of the day.

We cut head shapes out of black construction paper and glued them on to the bottom of the paper plates.

The next step was to glue wiggle eyes on the heads. If you do not have wiggle eyes a different color of construction paper such as yellow or blue cut into small circles will work fine.

We cut circle shapes out of black construction paper and glue them on to the painted paper plate. You can put as many or as little spots on the ladybugs as you want.

We cut black construction paper into 3-4 inch lengths and folded them back and forth (accordion style) for the legs.  We glued three on each side of the paper plate.

We hung our ladybugs up around the room.  The children got lots of fine motor practice through the use of scissors and gluing pieces together.

You can see a video of this project below: