One easy way to make handwriting practice fun is to make it big! Painting big letters with window paint on the windows is a great way to get kids excited about working on letter formation. The only thing I needed to prep for this activity was to mix up some window paint and put something down on the floor under the window. This would be great to do outside on your windows or glass door too. Here's the recipe---> Easy Window Paint Recipe We … [Read more...]
Telling Time Activity for Kids
Telling time can be fun when you take it outdoors! Kids can practice reading a big clock on the driveway. Make reading a clock and telling time more hands-on with a huge sidewalk chalk clock. To make ours I drew a huge clock on the driveway and found toys in the garage for the hour and minute hand. Then we had fun playing clock games! Telling Time Games for Kids: Call out a time and have the kids use the "hands" to show it to you. Show … [Read more...]
Water Painting Handwriting Practice
Letter and number handwriting practice doesn't just have to take place at a table--there are so many ways to make it fun! The weather is nice so we went outside to water paint chalk letters. Big Letter Writing Practice chalk bucket or bowl with water paintbrush I am a fan of sidewalk chalk activities because they are so easy to set up. For this one all I had to do was write the letters on the sidewalk and fill the bucket with water … [Read more...]
Sight Word Basketball Activity
Spring is here and instead of sitting inside doing homework we are ready to get outdoors and move while we learn! This week we practiced both sight words and dribbling with this simple sight word basketball activity! Sight Word Basketball Activity flat surface (drive way, basketball court, parking lot) sidewalk chalk sight word list (or math facts or spelling words) I wrote a bunch of sight words on our sidewalk and got out our … [Read more...]
Egg Number Identification and Counting Game
Playing with numbers is a lot of fun for preschoolers! We set up a simple move and learn game to practice number identification and counting with some of our many plastic eggs. Egg Number Game Supplies: plastic eggs bucket or basket cards with the numbers you want to practice on them We have started to pull out our Easter decorations and the kids were excited to get to play with the plastic eggs again. I added a little learning to … [Read more...]
20+ Color Activities for Kids
There are so many ways to make learning colors fun for kids! Cooking, games, crafts and art activities can all be used to help kids explore and learn about colors. I'm thrilled to have Carolyn from The Pleasantest Thing here today with more than 20 color activities for kids! I'm so excited to be visiting Coffee Cups & Crayons today! This website always has such wonderful colorful activities, I thought I'd share a few of our favorite ways to … [Read more...]
Color Scavenger Hunt {free printable}
We have been busy doing lots of rainbow and color activities lately. One of our favorites is a color scavenger hunt! It's one of those activities that gets kids moving outdoors with very little prep so is perfect to do anytime. It's also fun for kids of all ages to do so a great one to pull out with multi-age groups! Color Scavenger Hunt Supplies: LET'S GO ON A COLOR HUNT! FREE PRINTABLE (download and print) Pencil Flat surface to … [Read more...]
Sight Word Stomp Practice Activity
Practicing sight words doesn't have to be boring--you make it fun by turning it into a game! One of our favorite ways to move and learn with sight words is to play Sight Word Stomp! Sight Word Stomp Game: sight word cards a kid Yep. That's it! It is a very low prep activity that makes it perfect for all of us with kids. I spread the sight word cards around the floor and called out a word. My kindergartner had to find it and stomp … [Read more...]