Add these stuff the turkey fine motor activities to your Thanksgiving math centers! These turkey math centers are great for practicing 1:1 counting, subitizing, adding, and making 10. Plus, strengthen fine motor skills, as you build number sense, with these stuff the turkey math games and fine motor activities for Thanksgiving. These turkey math activities can be played independently or with a partner during math workshop, morning work, or as an early finishers activity!

Stuff the Turkey Math Games for Centers

Get ready to gobble up some festive fun with our FREE “Stuff the Turkey” math games! During these Thanksgiving centers,…

Add this masking tape mummy craft to your list of Halloween party activities! This Halloween craft is a great opportunity to enhance fine motor skills as your students tear and stick masking tape to their FREE mummy template. This mummy craft is perfect for your Halloween centers during your classroom Halloween party in preschool, kindergarten, or first grade. Pair this Halloween craft with your favorite Halloween books this October. Plus, this fall craft makes a cute Halloween bulletin board!

Masking Tape Mummy Halloween Craft for Kids

With easy prep and quick assembly, this masking tape mummy is one of my favorite Halloween crafts to create during…

Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

Torn Paper Apple Craft for Kids

Apple Week is one of my favorite September themes! This simple torn paper apple craft is perfect for the beginning…

Back to school crafts are a great way to kickoff the new school year! Today, I am sharing some of my favorite back to school crafts for preschool, kindergarten and first grade. You will find a David Goes to School craft, an all about me craft, a first day feelings craft and more. These crafts are great for teaching rules and expectations, as well as building a strong classroom community from day one. You will also find name crafts, including a Chrysanthemum craft and alphabet name soup craft.

Back to School Crafts for Kids

The start of a new school year can be very overwhelming for our young learners. Getting used to a new…

Looking for some fun and engaging name writing activities for preschool and kindergarten? These back to school name writing practice mats and name building activities are perfect for helping students learn how to write their name. Early elementary students get to practice tracing their name and building their name with magnetic letters. These editable name mats work well for centers, morning work or early finisher activities. Use these name practice mats with your favorite name books for kids!

Editable Name Writing Practice Activities

Teaching preschool and kindergarten students to write their names is an important milestone in their educational journey! Not only does…

Looking for some fun name activities for your preschool or kindergarten classroom? These fine motor name activities are perfect for word work, fine motor tubs, literacy centers, early finishers or morning work. You can use these back to school activities with your favorite name books for kids. Download the editable name mats for name spelling practice. Students get to build letter recognition and sound recognition, as well as fine motor skills, with these fun name activities for kids!

Fine Motor Name Activities Practice Mats

Name activities not only help children recognize and spell their own names, but they also foster a sense of identity…

Pair this tissue paper Earth Day craft mosaic for kids with your favorite Earth Day books and Earth Day activities! This Earth craft is simple enough for kindergarten, and even, preschool students. Add an "Earth Day Promise" to the craft with the FREE writing prompt! #preschool #kindergarten #firstgrade #earthday #craftsforkids #kidscrafts #teachers #springactivities #teacher

Tissue Paper Earth Day Craft Mosaic for Kids

Pair this tissue paper Earth Day craft mosaic for kids with your favorite Earth Day books and Earth Day activities!…

Celebrate spring with these bright and colorful eggs! Invite your preschool and kindergarten students to practice making patterns with this pom pom painted Easter egg craft. Not only is this colorful egg craft perfect for creating patterns, it is also perfect for building fine motor skills! It’s one of the best spring crafts for kids, especially since each one turns out beautifully unique! #finemotorskills #kindergarten #preschool #craftsforkids #kidscrafts #teacher #springcrafts #easter

Easter Egg Craft for Practicing Patterns

Celebrate spring with these bright and colorful eggs! Invite your preschool and kindergarten students to practice making patterns with this…

This is one of the best rainbow crafts for kids! It is fun, colorful and easy to make! Plus, your preschool and kindergarten students can practice their scissor skills and strengthen their fine motor skills as they snip each color into smaller pieces. It’s one of the perfect spring crafts for kids… especially as an addition to your St. Patrick’s Day crafts and St. Patrick’s Day activities!

The Best Rainbow Craft for Kids to Practice Scissor Skills

Are you getting tired of the cold, damp weather? Me too! I’m ready for some sunshine! And, what better way…

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 March fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic, while providing a soft start to your day, with these spring fine motor activities and St. Patrick’s Day fine motor activities! These fine motor activities for March are great for morning tubs. Ditch the morning work worksheets and try these bins instead!

20 March Fine Motor Activities for Morning Tubs

What do your school mornings look like? I’ll be honest and say that I wasn’t always a fan of our…

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 February fine motor activities also work well for math or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Valentine’s Day fine motor activities, President’s Day fine motor activities, Groundhog Day fine motor activities and dental health fine motor activities!

20 February Fine Motor Activities for Morning Tubs

In a recent blog post, I shared how technology and increased demands on our time has made it more difficult…

Strengthen fine motor skills with fine motor morning tubs! These 20 December fine motor activities also work well for math centers or literacy centers and use common Preschool and Kindergarten classroom supplies. Make your mornings a little less hectic with these Christmas fine motor activities! Students get to work on beginning sounds, ending sounds, CVC words with the Christmas literacy activities. They also get to work on addition, counting, & number sense with the Christmas math activities.

20 December Fine Motor Activities for Morning Tubs

Every year, I say that the number of students lacking fine motor skills continues to grow. Some of this I…