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Do you need a low prep December craft for your preschoolers, kindergartners, and first graders? Are you having a Polar Express party or Christmas train activity day? These free printable train engineer hats are the perfect craft to add to the fun! With easy step by step instructions, these are the low prep craft you need this holiday season. If your students are working on writing their names, I've provided multiple options for them to practice writing their names on the hats. Or, if stude

Do you need a low prep winter craft for your preschoolers, kindergartners, and first graders? Are you doing a penguin or artic animals unit? This easy, printable penguin craft is just what you're looking for! With easy step by step instructions both in the resource and in video format, these are the low prep craft you need this month. A great way for students to practice those important scissor skills, this template makes the craft print, cut and go. Use them as part of a bulletin board

Do you need a low prep November math center? Or, do you want to do a fun, Thanksgiving themed activity, but still want it to be educational? These Thanksgiving Symmetry Mats have you covered! Tangram mats designed to mimic different Thanksgiving foods, these range from very simple to moderately challenging. Using symmetry mats with your students helps promote problem solving, improve geometry skills, and work on composing larger shapes from smaller shapes.  All skills that are invaluable d

Are you looking for an easy science experiment that your kids can follow all year long?  The pumpkin in a jar experiment is just what you need!  And this Pumpkin Life Cycle Observation Journal completes the experiment!    The journal includes spots to note the life cycle step their jar pumpkin is in, a spot for drawn observation, and a spot to make written observations. Print as many weekly pumpkin life cycle observation pages as you need & students can follow their pumpkin for as long as

Are you looking for a fun counting and number matching activity to do with your preschool and kindergarten students this winter? Do you want a winter math activity that kids can do independently or at a center? This penguin fishing game is just what you need! By adding a magnet to each of the fish and adding the printable penguin to a magnetic wand, you've created a fishing for numbers game that kids will love to play! Use these in a sensory bin, as part of a winter center, or as an additio

Pumpkin Needs Paper Pumpkin Craftivity is a great way to combine science and an adorable craft for kids to take home.  Create a paper pumpkin that opens to reveal exactly what plants need to grow!  Offered in both color and black and white, each option features a version with traceable words and a version with sentence stems only, allowing kids to finish the sentence on their own. And don't worry if you aren't crafty!  The set includes full written instructions, so you have help every ste

Give yourself the gift of time this holiday season! With these preschool Christmas activities, you'll have a complete set of lesson plans for the month of December. Everything you need to have a great Christmas Train or Polar Express unit is pulled together in one affordable bundle! Designed to take planning off your plate and free up time during the busy holiday season! No need to come up with math or ELA centers, dramatic play ideas, sensory bins, art projects, or read alouds. They're al

Are your students working on composing large shapes from smaller shapes?  Pumpkin Tangram Puzzles are a no prep way for kids to practice using smaller shapes to create pumpkins in different ways.   Designed to accompany standard tangram pieces, printable pieces are also included in the pack.  Use the "key" page for kids to match shapes or give kids the blank hexagon pumpkins page to allow kids to practice critical thinking and shape manipulation.  These would make a great fall center,

Add this fun sorting activity to your next weather unit! Provided are backgrounds for each of the 4 seasons and a set of 16 cards with icons for each season, including clothing, activities, and weather. This activity was designed to accompany The Weather Girls by Aki, but can easily be done without reading the book.

Are you looking for a fun imaginative play and fine motor activity to do with your preschool and kindergarten students this fall? Do you want a fall center activity that kids can do independently or at a center? This scarecrow dress up paper doll set is just what you're looking for. By adding a magnet or hook and loop to piece, you've created an imaginative play dress up station that students can easily do on their own. Use these in a sensory bin, as part of a fall center, or as an addition to

Designed to accompany the YouTube video found here, this pack includes 5 different activity cards and the printables you’ll need to help teach kids the letter I.   Because they’re all hands on and play based, kids will love these activities.  In fact, they’ll feel so much like play, kids will be able to recognize the letter I without even realizing they learned it!   All winter themed, these activities make planning a snowy unit for your preschool or kindergartners so simple! We’ll do An eas

Parts Of The Space Shuttle- Labeled Drawings. Illustrations don't just look nice, they can often teach us things. That's especially true with labeled diagrams in informational text. 2 drawings with answer keys, a complete space shuttle and a more detailed orbiter. ****** BIG SAVINGS ON THE ENTIRE ILLUSTRATION UNIT BUNDLE HERE***                                                              And: ****** DON’T MISS THE COMPLETE SPACE ACTIVITY BUNDLE HERE****** What does this set include? Act

The "Disguise a Turkey" craft and writing project is one of the most popular seasonal projects for any elementary school. But, more and more, families are having a hard time completing the assignment.  This color, cut, and paste activity meets families where they are with a lower intensity project!  This turkey in disguise activity is based on "Operation Turkey Trot" a fun spy theme where we use "props" given to us by headquarters to disguise our turkeys.  It still gives kids a chance to

Do you need a low prep Valentine's Day craft or St Patrick's Day craft for your students? Are you doing an amphibian unit? This easy, printable toad craft is just what you're looking for! Because we make the frog or toad almost entirely out of green hearts, this is a perfect craft for either Valentine's Day or St Patrick's Day. It's a two for one! And by using the included bulletin board flyer, you can have a complete bulletin board in the amount of time it takes to staple up the crafts. Wit

Butterfly Match Game for pre-k and kindergarten is hands on, interactive, engaging, and play based! We'll match our butterfly halves to make a complete butterfly. It makes a perfect spring activity! Easily printable, this activity helps students identify numbers, count, and subsitize.Included with the printables are 3 different ways to use the cards: As a sensory bin activityAs a matching gameAs an "I have/who has" gameMath Skills Covered In This Product:Number RecognitionCountingSubsitizin

Are you working on money and financial literacy with your early elementary students? Are you struggling with all the different skills and concepts that money brings? This money recognition, savings and budgeting unit has you covered! With activities from basic money recognition all the way up to budgeting and tracking savings, there's something for each of your students from prek-2nd grade in this pack! Complete with a budget planner, a funds tracker, a visual savings chart, printable pla

Pumpkin Life Cycle Paper Pumpkin Craftivity is a great way to combine science and an adorable craft for kids to take home.  Using paper strips featuring pictures of the life cycle steps, this craftivity is not only fun, it emphasizes the fact that the pumpkin's life cycle truly is a circle.  Offered in both color and black and white, each option features a version with lifecycle steps printed on the strips and a version with pictures only, so kids can label the steps themselves. And don't

Do you need an October unit pack that's a little bit pumpkin, a little bit Halloween, and a whole lot of fun?  This low prep math and ELA unit pack is the resource you've been waiting for!  6 math activities, 6 ELA activities, 2 crafts, and a classroom decor bonus!  What's not to love? All math activities focus on shapes and geometry, language arts activities focus on writing and pumpkin science.   Bonus files include close reading questions for Will Hubbell's Pumpkin Jack, a compl

Do you have a space love on your hands?  Looking for an out of this world way to teach illustration and place value concepts?  This Outer Space Bundle Pack has 14 activities, all engaging, hands on, and space themed!   Included in this bundle are 14 different outer space activities appropriate for preschool-2nd graders. For the language arts portion of the pack, We focus on illustration, including guide drawings, shape recognition, sequencing, and drawing prompts.  The math activities are al

Are your preschoolers and kindergartners working on identifying beginning sounds? Or learning CVC words? What about high frequency words? Do you need hands on ways for them to practice? These Penguin phonics task cards are here to help! With 6 different task card sets, you'll be sure to find something for every student in this pack! The pack includes: 26 beginning sound picture cards to match with the included penguin letter cards. 80 CVC word task cards, sorted by short vowel sound a