Looking for a fun way to teach kids about atoms and molecules?! We’ve got you covered! Our Atom and Molecule Activity Pack includes engaging, hands-on activities that introduce the parts of an atom (the nucleus, protons, electrons and neutrons) and then shows how multiple atoms group together to form molecules. Grab your Atom and Molecule Activity…
Learning how to recognize and add together coins can be confusing for kids but these 10 playful money activities are a motivating way to tackle coins once and for all. Grab your set in our shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers! Then, for more math fun, check out our Place Value Cover Up activity in our shop! Peek…
These 10 playful money activities are a motivating way to learn the names and values of coins and then jump into adding up the total of a group of coins.
Use the pack for math centers, morning activities, review work… There are so many possibilities!
Check out all of the details below.
INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:
–> Coin Chart
–> Coin Activity Sheets
–> Interactive Coin Book
–> Spin to $1 Game
–> Coin Graphs
–> 27 Clip Cards
–> Toy Shop Activity
–> Coin Puzzles
–> Coin War Game
–> Making $1 Challenge
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Pumpkin activities are a must for fall! These 21 playful pumpkin math, literacy and science activities take learning to the next level by teaching kids alphabet letters, sight words, numbers, beginning addition, pumpkin life cycles and so much more. They’re perfect for preschool and kindergarten! Grab the activity pack in our shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers, Want more?! Hop over to…
Teaching the five senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch) helps kids learn how they make observations in the world. That’s why it’s the perfect science topic for children in preschool, kindergarten or first grade! These 12 motivating, hands-on activities make learning the 5 senses irresistibly fun and easy to prep. They’re great to use as whole…
Sound boxes (also called “Elkonin boxes”) help kids strengthen pre-reading skills by teaching them how to identify and replace phonemes in words. The word “cat”, for instance, has three phonemes: /c/ /a/ and /t/. Our mega pack of 114 sound boxes are a playful, hands-on way to practice sounding out common 2, 3 and 4 phoneme words. Grab your…
Sound boxes (also called “Elkonin boxes”) help kids build a strong foundation of pre-reading skills by teaching them how to identify and replace phonemes in words.
This mega pack includes 114 sound boxes giving kids practice sounding out 2, 3 and 4 phoneme words.
To play, students say the word out loud normally once and then stretch out the word slowly. They tap their finger (or slide a manipulative) into a box for each phoneme they hear.
Step up the fun by using the sound boxes with a variety of manipulatives: sliding counting chips, driving in Matchbox cars, squishing balls of playdough, clipping small clothespins, sliding LEGO bricks, or writing an X with a dry erase marker.
Children will soon be able to name and replace phonemes in a snap!
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Pretend play is great for practicing cooperation, communication, planning, imagining… even reading, writing and math! These 9 pretend play sets are must-haves for a dramatic play center or community unit. Use the ready made activity sheets or personalize them by typing in your kids’ names. The pack is editable so you can use any names under the sun. Grab your own set in my…
Back to school season is here and these top notch ideas for teachers are sure to make it the best one yet. Check out our huge collection of free teaching printables, community building activities, games, bulletin boards, and even a few end of the first day gifts students will love. Get inspired and then over to…
As children learn how to read, the part of words they are able to isolate and spell first are beginning sounds. It is as though their brain works so hard to pull apart that first sound that the rest of the letters just melt away. These eleven beginning sound games are the perfect combination of fun and effective…
The 2D Shape Activity Pack is bursting with motivating ways to learn about circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, ovals, rhombuses, trapezoids, hexagons, stars and hearts!! Clip 2D shape sandwiches, make interactive shape flap books, play dice games and so much more… Grab your set in our shop or on Teachers Pay Teachers! Peek Inside Middle Brother (age…
When kids learn how to break words into syllables, they take a big step toward reading. Your kids are sure to love learning syllables with these cookie jar syllable sorts! Snag your set below and then request an invite to our 4 week course, The Reading Roadmap, so you can get the proven, ready-to-deploy system for…
Classrooms are fuller than ever and with large class sizes comes even more learning styles. These 15 simple ways to differentiate are easy ways to meet the needs of a variety of learners – from sensory kids who crave extra input to children who love to wiggle and even highly capable kids who need to take activities…
These NO PREP handwriting activity sheets make it fun for kids to practice letter names, letter formation and letter sounds!
BIG UPDATE–> The pack now includes D’Nealian handwriting pages and British English versions that ask kids to “colour” instead of “color”.
Use the covers to bind them together as an engaging handwriting book or have kids work on the sheets one at a time!
The handwriting activity sheets are great to use as morning work, word work stations, supplemental handwriting practice or alphabet activity in kindergarten or preschool.
STUDENTS WILL:
–> Write upper and lowercase letters with highlighters,
–> Rainbow write them with six colors of crayons (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple),
–> Write them in boxes
–> Trace them on a line
–> And color a word that starts with the sound
These handwriting activity sheets are so motivating! Just print and play.
Welcome Instagram friends! This is the place to find all of our latest posts in one spot. Simply scroll down and click on the activity you’re searching for – our newest posts are on top. Spring STEM Challenges in our shop // on Teachers Pay Teachers 3D Shape Puzzles Sticky Ice Rainbow Digraph Puzzles Egg…
Looking for Valentine’s Day activities your students will beg to play over and over again?!
This print and play pack includes 20 motivating ways to teach alphabet letters, word families, sight words, number concept, graphing, estimating and so much more.
The Valentine’s Day activities are easy to differentiate, making them perfect for pre-K, kindergarten and first grade!
INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:
LITERACY
–> Alphabet Hearts. Such a motivating way to work on letter recognition and upper and lowercase pairing.
–> Letter Sound Clip Cards. Clip the letter that starts each word.
–> Rhyming Puzzles. Find the matching words.
–> Perfect Pairs. Sound out 16 pairs of CVC words.
–> EDITABLE Sight Word Dash. Race to give your friends their valentines as you read and write sight words along the way.
–> EDITABLE Heart Words. Write your word list in a Valentine’s tray!
–> 2 Little Reader Books. Practice pointing underneath each word, using picture clues and more.
–> 3 Story Starters. Get kids writing with fun story prompts.
MATH
The set also includes math activities teaching critical skills including counting, number writing, patterns, estimation, odds and evens and graphing.
–> 1-20 Ten Frame Dab. Read the number and then fill your ten frame with that many dots.
–> Spin to 20 Game. Race to reach 20 as you practice adding on.
–> Making 10 Challenge Cards and Review Sheet. How many more do you need to make 10?
–> Heart Patterns. Solve AB, ABB, ABCD, AABB, AAB and ABC patterns.
–> Shape Graphs. Pick up a valentine, name the shape and graph it. What shape reaches the top first?
–> Estimation Station. Practice making good guesses and comparing them to actual answers.
AND THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING!
There are 20 Valentine’s Day activities in all.
Little books are a novel way to encourage reading for meaning and reading for fun! Children will love making their own books, then “getting to work.” These little books are great to use at school or at home, as the basis of an extended activity or just a quick 5-minute read-through. For some extra practice,…
Make learning fractions fun for kids and easy prep for grown ups! The Fraction Activity Pack is filled with motivating and effective activities that teach key vocabulary like numerator and denominator, parts versus whole, thirds, fourths… Once kids are ready, they put it all together and read and write fractions on their own. There are so many important steps to…
If your children are learning about fractions, these quick and easy pizza fraction clip-it cards will help consolidate their understanding. They are a fun way to practice recognizing and reading fraction names for halves and quarters. Kids can even make their own! Want to keep the math fun going? Check out our Place Value Cover…
If you’re teaching kids how to identify beginning sounds, these board games are a fun way for them to show you what they know! Use them as literacy centers, small group activities or homeschool games. For more preschool learning, try our Ultimate Preschool Activity Pack where you can get all of our pre-K centers in…
The hardest part of teaching is the thing they don’t cover in teachers’ education programs – classroom management! It’s what makes a day turn from jump-to-the-sky-amazing to don’t-want-to-ever-come-back-again-AWFUL. Classroom management is undoubtedly one of the hardest teaching skills to learn, but these tried and true tips and tricks will help you focus students’ attention, manage behavior issues…
Block play is a huge deal at my house. My kids adore building with blocks and I love their enthusiasm because blocks are so open-ended and grow with children, not to mention they are an excellent toy that encourages fine motor development. Scroll below to find the different stages of block play, and then hop…
I won’t downplay it – I’m totally obsessed with these 32 editable sight word games. And teachers are too! The pack has earned more than 1,300 four star ratings on Teachers Pay Teachers. “This has to be one of the best things that I have ever bought! These save me so much time and headaches when it’s time to…
These 20 inspiring classroom decoration ideas will brighten up even the drabbest of spaces. The quick DIY projects include simple ways to store class supplies, display student work, and add a little color to your day. And the best part is that these classroom decoration ideas work with any theme and color palette – just tweak them…
ABC games are a motivating way to teach kids the names and sounds of letters. This superhero-themed alphabet match up takes the fun to a whole new level. As kids pair upper and lowercase letters together, they magically build an awesome superhero. This ABC game is a low-prep, must-try activity kids will beg to play again and again. For more alphabet fun, snag…
Dice games are a quick, screen free way to entertain kids when you’re at home or on the go. These four must-try dice games are my family’s favorites. They’re easy to learn, fun to play, and {as a HUGE bonus} teach kids important math skills too. Gotta’ love that! For more fun math activities, grab our…
Science just got a whole lot easier to add into your lesson plans! Using the easy-to-follow instructions and common household supplies, kids will whip up some magic rainbow milk, make raisins dance, create some fluffy Ivory Soap souffle, fish for ice, shine pennies and make water walk.
PLUS, your download also includes a no-prep science journal that goes along with the 30 jaw-dropping science experiments so kids can easily keep track of their results.
But that’s just the beginning! Get ready for plenty of “oohs” and “aahs.”
There’s so much included in this set! Check out all of the fun experiments below.
INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:
–> The Disappearing Egg Shell
–> Walking Water
–> Tornado in a Jar
–> Flying Tea Bags
–> Magic Balloons
–> Disappearing Skittles
–> Dancing Raisins
–> Volcano in a Jar
–> Rainbow Milk
–> Candy Chromatography
–> Water Cycle in a Bag
–> Crystal Names
–> Fireworks in a Jar
–> States of Matter Balloons
–> Dying Flowers
–> Fluffy Soap
–> Shining Pennies
–> Fishing for Ice
–> Sink or Float
–> Little Sprout House
–> Making Grapes
–> Lava in a Cup
–> Running Pepper
–> Sink and Float Oranges
–> Will it Melt?
–> Peppermint Fireworks
–> Sunscreen Science
–> Is it Magnetic?
–> Phases of the Moon
That’s more than 30 awesome science experiments PLUS a kid-friendly, no prep science journal. Get ready for some serious fun!!
Absolutely everything you need to teach kids how to read in one spot. So easy for grown ups and motivating for kids!
If your students are working on those tricky Magic E words, this Bingo game is a MUST! Helping kids master CVCe words takes most kids lots of practice so why not make all of that hard work fun? Scroll below to grab your freebie and then make sure to hop over and snag our Vowel Team…
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of my all-time favorite children’s books. My boys are big fans too, so I was excited to pull together a motivating Very Hungry Caterpillar sight word game that would make reading practice super fun. It’s the perfect addition to our best-selling Editable Sight Word Games! This post contains an Amazon affiliate…
I admit it: I used to be a Dollar Tree skeptic. I couldn’t imagine that a store filled with things costing just one buck could possibly have anything worthwhile. Boy was I wrong. The Dollar Tree is packed with awesome classroom supplies – scissors, flashcards, posters, dice… It even has a teacher supply aisle. No joke. Here are 100+ of…
These 23 Christmas activities will make even the Grinch smile! The festive math and literacy centers include alphabet games, counting activities, pattern and shape practice… so much learning in one download.
The set is perfect for Pre-K and Kindergarten!
INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:
LITERACY
–> Rhyming Clip Cards. Clip the word that rhymes!
–> Alphabet Christmas Lights. Such a motivating way to work on letter recognition and upper and lowercase pairing.
–> Letter Sound Puzzles. Solve playful puzzles by matching letters to words that start with them.
–> Alphabet Clip Strips. An awesome way to practice upper and lowercase pairs.
–> ABC Trees. Roll the alphabet die and color the matching ornament. So fun for letter recognition!
–> Christmas Themed Handwriting Activity Sheets (in Print and D’Nealian). Strengthen letter formation and fine motor skills.
–> EDITABLE Sight Word Maze. Race to Santa’s workshop and read sight words along the way.
–> Christmas Bingo (Class Set). Play a fun round of Bingo as you practice reading Christmas themed words.
–> North Pole Little Reader Book. Practice pointing underneath each word, using picture clues and more.
–> 5 Story Starters. Get kids writing with fun story prompts.
MATH
–> Christmas Counting Clip Cards. A fun counting, number recognition and fine motor activity in one.
–> Counting Mats. Reinforce counting from 1 to 10 and ten frames.
–> 1-20 Ten Frame Dab. Read the number and then fill your ten frame with that many dots.
–> Color by Ten Frame. Work on instantly recognizing the numbers 1 to 20.
–> Spin to 20 Game. Race to reach 20 as you practice adding on.
–> This or That. Compare two numbers and color the one that’s largest.
–> Roll to 30 Sheet. Practice number recognition and adding on as you race to 30.
–> Making 10 Challenge Cards and Review Sheet. How many more do you need to make 10?
–> Cut and Paste. Solve AB, ABB and ABC patterns.
–> Candy Cane Patterns. How many different patterns can you create?
–> Reindeer Spin and Graph Shapes. Flick the spinner, name the shape and graph it. What shape reaches the top first?
–> Christmas Tree Roll and Cover Pattern Block Mat. Race to cover the pattern block mat and practice number recognition and adding along the way.
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Whether you’re planning a fall unit, pumpkin theme or just need a batch of engaging math, science and literacy activities for preschool or kindergarten, this pack has everything you need.
Teach letter names, letter formation, sight words, story writing, counting, beginning addition, comparing numbers, 2D shapes, the pumpkin life cycle and more.
This pumpkin activity pack includes 21 projects in one easy download- ABC games, EDITABLE sight word games, math centers, science activities…
Check out all of the fun details below!
INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:
LITERACY
–> Alphabet Activity Sheets for P, S and T
–> Rolling Pumpkins ABC Game
–> Five Little Pumpkins Rhyme
–> 3 Versions of Five Little Pumpkins Little Reader Books
–> EDITABLE Pumpkin Sight Word Hunt
–> EDITABLE Sight Word Mystery Pumpkins
–> 2 NO PREP Story Starters
MATH
–> Pumpkin Glyphs
–> Write and Wipe Adding on Cards
–> Pumpkin Ten Frames
–> Comparing Numbers from 1-20 Sheets
–> Adding to Ten
–> Number Cover Up for 1-6
–> Addition Cover Up for 2-12
–> 2D Shape Clip Cards
–> Spin and Color Shape Pumpkins
SCIENCE
–> Pumpkins Are… Brainstorm
–> Pumpkin Life Cycle Hat
–> Life Cycle Craftivity
–> Life Cycle Sequencing
–> Foldable Pumpkin Plant Journal
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These 9 pretend play sets are must-haves for a dramatic play center or community unit. Use the ready made activity sheets or personalize them by typing in your kids’ names. The pack is editable so you can use any names under the sun.
The 147 pages of pretend play printables give kids plenty of practice cooperating, communicating, reading, writing and doing math. Children will have so much fun playing that they won’t even notice they’re learning too!
Each set includes easy to follow instructions, signs, worker badges and fun, hands-on math and literacy activities.
Plus, to make differentiating easier, there are two versions of each learning activity. For instance, construction workers can pick from pre-filled work orders or blank versions requiring writing.
The colorful graphics and high interest topics make this set an awesome addition to any classroom or home.
Check out all the fun details below.
INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:
–> Clothing boutique
–> Bakery
–> Grocery store
–> Construction site
–> Police station
–> Voting station
–> Airport
–> School
–> Doctor’s office
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BUNDLE AND SAVE! Add HUNDREDS of motivating word work stations to your collection so you can easily differentiate your literacy centers for a variety of reading levels. Print one center for students who are practice letter sounds, pull another center for kids who are working on blends…
The Word Work Bundle includes ALL of my phonics and sight word packs… including all of the EDITABLE ones… so you have everything you need in one spot.
It’s tailor-made for preschool, kindergarten and first grade teachers.
INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:
The MEGA bundle includes 450+ centers practicing sight words and phonics skills:
–> Rhyming
–> Syllable segmenting
–> Names
–> Alphabet letter names and sounds
–> Beginning sounds
–> Short vowels
–> CVC words
–> Beginning digraphs
–> Ending digraphs
–> Beginning blends
–> Ending blends
–> Vowel teams
–> Magic E words
–> Diphthongs
–> R-controlled vowels
–> Compound words
–> Sight Words
–> Reading fluency
INSIDE YOU’LL FIND:
LETTER RECOGNITION
–> Alphabet Stamping
–> Letter in My Name Sort
–> Curvy, Straight Letter Shape Sort
–> Alphabet Clip Cards
–> Alphabet Memory
–> Little Mouse Alphabet House Game
LETTER FORMATION
–> Handwriting Activity Sheets (in standard AND D’nealian fonts)
–> Alphabet Tic Tac Toe
–> ABC Hide and Seek
–> Race to the Top
–> Matchbox Car Tracing
LETTER SOUND
–> Alphabet Chant
–> Alphabet Charts (in color AND black and white)
–> Alphabet Match Up
–> Phonics Clip Cards
–> Phonics Match Up
ABC SEQUENCING
–> Paperclip Letters
–> Missing Letters Game
–> Missing Letters Clip Cards
Bundle with our fine motor and preschool math pack and save here!
This bundle is a Pre-K game changer!
The 63 alphabet, math and fine motor activities save you so. much. time planning and prepping centers, morning work or stations.
The set bundles three activity packs into one easy download:
Rhymes for kids are big in our family. Rhyming helps my boys notice patterns in the way words sound – an important pre-reading skill – and, as a BIG bonus, they’re one of the easiest ways to keep them entertained when we’re waiting in doctors’ offices, at restaurants, etc. One of our favorite rhymes for kids is this…
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed is one of my family’s all time favorite rhymes for kids. It’s been my secret weapon when I needed a quick distraction in doctors’ waiting rooms, airplanes, restaurants… you name it. This set of free printable Five Little Monkeys finger puppets is an easy and fun way to bring the classic rhyme…
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 younger or older kids. For more…
ABC games are a great way to teach kids the names and sounds of letters. What makes this roundup of 20 ABC games a little different is that it’s filled with boy-tested and strongly approved activities that are about the things boys love most. No worksheets allowed. So roll up your sleeves, pull on your fireman hat and get ready to…
This 2D shape hunt is a simple way to turn an ordinary regular neighborhood walk into a super fun math lesson! Learn about 2d shapes including circles, hexagons, rectangles and squares as you sneak in a little exercise. For more fun shapes activities, check out our Pattern Block Mats in our shop! Getting Ready To…
We love to play our favorite color game to practice the names of colors and do lots of color mixing experiments to see what happens when we mix together two of the primary colors {red, blue and yellow}. Of all the color mixing we’ve done, our play dough color game was one of my boys’ favorites. It was hands-on,…
The Math Mega Pack includes 10 hands-on, printable games that teach shapes, patterns, number recognition and writing, counting to 20, graphing, measuring, beginning addition and subtraction. Inside you’ll find: Making 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. A number concept activity. Shape Sorts. A hands-on shape game. Number Rainbows. Practicing number writing. Frog Addition and…
Help kids build a strong foundation of skills with these 21 awesome preschool math games. The list includes fun ways to learn shapes, counting, number writing, measuring and more. They’re the perfect complement to our Number Formation Pack! First up on our to do list are shape games – motivating activities teaching kids the names…
I love finding preschool activities that make learning fun for my kids – science projects, math games, ABC games… you name it, I’m a fan. That’s why I was excited to pull together a list of more than 100 of my favorite hands-on preschool activities from across the web so that I could find tons of fun, educational ways to fill…
Pretend play is a hit with kids of all ages! I’ve created a jumbo pack of pretend play printables to use with my kids. The 130+ pages include props, writing activities and easy to follow instructions for restaurants, police departments, doctors’ offices, grocery stores, classrooms and more. There are 10 units in all. I am…
These Word Family Spiders are cute AND educational! If you follow me on Playdough to Plato’s new Instagram page, you already know that our family has a serious case of Halloween fever. And I love it. So I decided to overcome my arachnophobia and pull together a low-prep, spider word family activity for my oldest son,…
20 fun, motivating games that teach kids letter names, ABC sequencing, letter formation and uppercase-lowercase pairing. Read more.
Putting on shoes, learning to use utensils and navigating the neighborhood are all skills that require telling your left from your right. If your child is anything like my 3.5 year-old, learning to distinguish direction can be a challenge. For more awesome ideas like this one, become a VIP Plato Pack member so you can…
Whenever I asked my kindergarten or second grade students to name their favorite part of the day, “recess” always seemed to be #1 on their list. They loved playing, talking and moving with their friends. So it’s no surprise that their favorite reading activity was usually “Read Around the Room”- an activity your family will…
Teaching kids opposite words like wet-dry, left-right, up-down is great for vocabulary development. This free printable game is a fun way to make learning opposite words fun for kids. Just print, cut and play. Easy peasy. Scroll below to check out more, then snag our Ultimate Preschool Activity Pack in our shop! Teaching Opposite Words…
Sight word games, science experiments, first grade math and more.
Kindergarten games, science experiments and math.
ABC games, preschool math activities and crafts.
This fun sight word game was inspired by one of my kindergarteners favorite games called Beetle. But since my stomach turns at the mere mention of anything creepy crawly, I decided to give it a little twist and name it “Roll a Sight Word Alien” instead. Looking for more sight word fun? Be sure to check out…
Guest post by In Lieu of Preschool. Letter of the day hands stamps are a simple and fun way to get your child interacting with the alphabet! And for more preschool fun, check out this awesome Ultimate Preschool Activity Pack! After our letter lessons are finished for the day, I’ve begun stamping my two preschool-aged…
With three kids who are 4 and under in our house, we play ABC games nearly every day. There are so many fun ways to practice letter names and sounds and Alphabet Ball is one of our favorites. It’s a low prep, active way to help kids practice the ABCs. Want more ABC fun? Check out our best-selling…
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