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Paper Cutting Station

by Filed Under: Fine Motor, Fine Motor Strength, Life Skills, Plato's Blog, Scissor Cutting 2 Comments

Activities for ages 3 to 6. Teaching kids to cut with scissors is an important life skill and helps build fine motor strength and hand eye coordination they’ll need for writing alphabet letters and words later. But if handing over a pair of blades to young kids sounds intimidating, you’ve come to the right spot! Find out how […]

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Malia Hollowell

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Malia is a National Board Certified teacher who inspires educators with playful approaches to early childhood education. She earned her Master’s from Stanford University and has taught in Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd grade. Malia shares her motivating learning activities on her two popular teaching blogs Playdough to Plato and The STEM Laboratory.
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Lines and Shapes

by Filed Under: Arts and Crafts, Plato's Blog, Scissor Cutting 1 Comment

Activity for ages 4 to 8. Straight, thin, dotted or thick, lines are the beginning of fun shapes like circles, squares, and rectangles. This art project is perfect for scissor cutting skills and combines literacy with art when paired with the book When A Line Bends… A Shape Begins by Rhonda Gowler Greene. The simple step-by-step […]

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Malia is a National Board Certified teacher who inspires educators with playful approaches to early childhood education. She earned her Master’s from Stanford University and has taught in Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd grade. Malia shares her motivating learning activities on her two popular teaching blogs Playdough to Plato and The STEM Laboratory.
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Cut and Paste Shape Game for Kids

by Filed Under: Fine Motor, Kindergarten Math, Math, Plato's Blog, Preschool Math, Scissor Cutting, Shapes 1 Comment

Activity for ages 3 to 6. Are you looking for a fun way to help kids learn about shapes? After doing a contact paper shape sort and shape hunt a few weeks ago, the kids and I were excited to try this new hands-on shape game for kids. It’s easy to prep and can quickly be tweaked to work with […]

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Malia is a National Board Certified teacher who inspires educators with playful approaches to early childhood education. She earned her Master’s from Stanford University and has taught in Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd grade. Malia shares her motivating learning activities on her two popular teaching blogs Playdough to Plato and The STEM Laboratory.
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Word Family Garden

by Filed Under: First Grade Reading, Kindergarten Reading, Plato's Blog, Scissor Cutting, Spring, Word Family Activities 17 Comments

Activity for 4 to 6 year olds. Do your kids have a serious case of spring fever too?  This word family garden is a great way to focus all of that warm weather daydreaming on an important reading concept: word families! Put simply, word families are groups of words that share similar spelling patterns.  For […]

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Malia is a National Board Certified teacher who inspires educators with playful approaches to early childhood education. She earned her Master’s from Stanford University and has taught in Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd grade. Malia shares her motivating learning activities on her two popular teaching blogs Playdough to Plato and The STEM Laboratory.
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