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5 How to Use School Supplies Activities to Easily Establish Clear Expectations

Back to school season is all about setting clear expectations, rules, routines and procedures! One important expectation to establish during the first week of school is how to use school supplies appropriately. For little learners, repetition and practice surrounding routines and procedures is key. With these five simple How to Use School Supplies Activities, preschoolers and kindergarteners will be set up for success all year long!

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

How to Use School Supplies

During the first week of school, establish clear expectations for how to use school supplies with these school supplies activities and toolbox crafts designed to demonstrate their proper use!

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

These five How to Use School Supplies Activities features ten of the most used school supplies:

  1. Pencil
  2. Crayons
  3. Scissors
  4. Glue Stick
  5. Glue Bottle
  6. Markers
  7. Highlighter
  8. Dry Erase Marker
  9. Play Dough
  10. Bingo Dauber

Make learning the routines and procedures for how to use school supplies easy peasy by choosing the school supplies activities that work best for your classroom!

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How to Use School Supplies Activity #1

School Supply Stories

First, introduce how to correctly use each school supply with these positive supply stories.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

The stories come in both printable and digital format. You can choose to print and bind a book or simply display the PowerPoint slides for an easy, no prep supply introduction.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

I like to go over one or two supplies each day, using the following practice activities along the way to solidify how to use each supply correctly.

How to Use School Supplies Activity #2

I Can/I Cannot School Supplies Sorts

After reading the supply story, we complete a whole class supply sort. Each supply includes 6 “I Can” and “I Cannot” kid-friendly statements with picture cues.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

The cards can be used as a pocket chart sort or for an anchor chart. I like to print the cards on card stock and laminate them for durability, so I can use them year after year.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

To make this activity more interactive, I choose students to place the cards under the correct pocket chart heading.

How to Use School Supplies Activity #3

Interactive Digital Slides

As a digital alternative, you can choose to use the interactive digital sort slides.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

Students simply drag the checkmark or the X to show whether the picture and sentence are an “I Can” or “I Cannot” choice.

How to Use School Supplies Activity #4

School Supplies Practice Pages

After finishing the supply stories and sorting activities, I have the students complete the printable practice page that goes along with that particular school supply. With seventy-four pages to choose from, you can easily use these printables for extra practice during morning work or center time.

Students are able to practice tracing horizontal and vertical lines with their pencil.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

Using colors that make sense and coloring in the lines with their crayons is also an important skill to practice at the beginning of the year.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

We practice cutting straight, curvy and wavy lines with scissors.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

It is also important to practice gluing with a glue stick….

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

As well using lines or dots of liquid glue.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

While markers aren’t my most favorite school tool to use at the beginning of the year, it is essential that students learn how to use them appropriately.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

Plus, we practice how to use a highlighter by highlighting a line or word just one time.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

To practice using their dry erase marker, I like to put the printable pages in a durable sheet protector.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

I also like to put the play dough practice pages in a sheet protector, so that we can practice making dough balls, pancakes and snakes over and over again. Laminating the pages works great as well.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

The last supply that always needs a little extra practice are the bingo daubers. The practice pages allow students to learn that a gentle dab goes a long way!

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

I like to use these pages not only at the beginning of the school year but also all year long when we need a bit of a refresher. Another great time to revisit these school supply expectations is after a long break, such as winter break.

How to Use School Supplies Activity #5

Toolbox Craft

Once the students have successfully completed a practice page, they will earn that school supply sticker for their “I Can Use My School Tools!” toolbox craft!

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

Toolboxes for two-ten supplies are included in order to best fit the needs of your students.

Students color their supply sticker and then cut and glue it to their toolbox.

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

Once all of the supplies have been reviewed, students will have a full toolbox and will be a school supplies expert!

How to Use School Supplies Activities and Craft

Grab the interactive how to use school supplies activities and toolbox craft here!

Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

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Establish classroom rules and expectations with these interactive classroom rules activities and craft!

Establish classroom rules and expectations with these interactive classroom rules back to school craft and classroom rules digital slides! Includes 20 developmentally appropriate classroom rules posters, with 26 digital slides and matching student pages.

Promote positive behavior during the first week of back to school with these David Goes to School activities and craft!

Check out this comprehensive list of books to teach rules for back to school!

Teaching students about classroom rules & classroom routines and procedures just got a whole lot easier with this ultimate list of back to school books about rules! These read alouds will help with classroom management as you review classroom procedures with your elementary students. You can pair these back to school books for kids with your favorite back to school activities. Students learn how to take care of classroom supplies, kindness, and all about following directions and listening.

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Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.
Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.
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Ashley Sharp

As a dedicated Kindergarten teacher for nearly 20 years, I believe the words “fun, play, and creativity” can sit right alongside the words “developmentally appropriate, engaging, and rigorous.” Learning is meant to be fun and messy!

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