I am so excited to announce my fine motor tracing sheets download is now available in the download store!!  There are 48 tracing  sheets designed to work on fine motor development.  Each tracer comes in b&w as well as grayscale and with two tracing levels. 

The tracers are a perfect addition for any writing center. The children start by tracing with their fingers and then move on to crayons ... markers ... and pencils.

You can find the fine motor tracing sheets in my download store and grab the holiday tree tracer for free here.
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I am so excited to announce my fine motor cover-up mats download is now available in the download store!!  There are 52 mats designed to work on fine motor development.  The mats can also be extended into math activities by adding dice.

Each mat comes with three different color levels (b&w - part color - full color) and two different cover-up levels.  Cover-up circles are included with the patterns but you can use other items such as those shown in the images below:

When children pick up and place the cover-ups on the mat it helps to develop fine motor muscles in the fingers which are needed for cutting and writing (as well as other daily activities like getting dressed and eating).  I like to introduce one or two mats a week but you can also print out several and have the children self-select which ones they want to do. 

You can learn more about the fine motor cover-up mats download here and see a video by clicking below.

I am so excited to announce my color clip cards download is now available in the download store!!  There are 51 sets of color clip cards designed to work on color recognition and fine motor development.  Each set comes in b&w as well as color and with two color level choices for printing. 

Simply print the color clips on cardstock paper ... cut them out and laminate. Children clip the correct color on each card with a clothespin or paper clip.

To learn more please visit the color clip cards information page.
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​We are winding up our snowman theme this week and one of the things we did was make paper plate snowmen. We kept the process simple using basic shapes and the snowmen turned out so cute!

We used small chinet paper plates as they are thicker and more durable than regular paper plates. We also used white paint ... glue ... construction paper ... and iridescent glitter. 

We turned the paper plates over and painted the back with white paint and let it dry. When then painted a second coat and let that dry as well. The next step was to paint a thick layer of glue on the paper plate.

We then sprinkled a generous amount of iridescent glitter over the paper plate and shook of the extra on a piece of construction paper which made it easy to put the excess glitter back in the bottle.

We cut circles out of black construction paper for the eyes and the mouth and glued them on. Next we cut rounded triangles or carrot shapes out of orange construction paper for the nose and glued that on as well.

You can see a video of this project by clicking the image above or here.

I am so excited to announce my ten frames vol. 1 download is now available in the download store!!  There are 20 themed ten frame sets designed to work on early math and fine motor development.  Each set includes numbers 1-10 and 11-20 and comes in three color levels as well as with or without counting guides. 

​To learn more please visit the ten frames vol. 1 information page.
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I am so excited to announce my letter and number sequence mats download is now available in the download store!!  There are 47 themed sequence mat toppers that also include mats for numbers 1-20 ... 1-30 ... and both upper case and lowercase letters. The mats also come with or without guides as well as letter and number squares to place on the mats.

To learn more please visit the letter and number sequence mats information page.
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