Spring Themes

Hmm. So, today is the first day of Spring. And yet, winter is still kickin’ it in my neighborhood. It is just so wrong. Evidently mother nature is having a bit of “mommy brain.”  I suppose I can’t blame her, I mean we’ve all been there, mothers or not. 

But, seriously I am so over this cold weather!  This has been the longest winter EVER! It is time for the snow to go away, temps to start rising, and the green to return.  Anyone else out there suffering from cabin fever?

Well, I have a plan to hopefully turn things around.  See, I figured if we all start teaching our kiddos theme units about Spring or Spring-like things, then maybe mother nature would get a clue. So, who’s with me? What? It doesn’t work that way?  Come on, its worth a try. 

I’ll even make it easy for you. I’ve got a whole slew of Spring activities. Just click the images below to be taken to the preschool and tot packs. 

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	More Rain Activities & Ideas: Kindergarten Extension Pack Rain Center Ideas Spring Rain Count & Color Books Magazine Rainbow Craft Family Movie Night Pinterest Board
	More Flower Activities & Ideas: Kindergarten Extension Pack Flower Center Ideas Flower Count & Color Books Pinterest Board

So, fingers-crossed the warmer weather returns.  Let me know if it works in your neck of the woods. {wink, wink}

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Flower Unit {K Extension}

I am loving the weather the past few days.  My neighbors tulips are in full bloom, which made me want to do an extension pack for our Flower Unit. So here you go.  Let us know what you think!

Flower K Extension Pack

Here’s a closer look inside this Kindergarten Extension Pack: (Future packs will hopefully include more printables, but really at this point I can’t promise anything! )

Addition/Subtraction within 10	100 Chart Art
Skip Counting Order Puzzles	Graph Predict and Analyze
Tracing Strips

Products We Use with Our Units
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Looking for more ideas?

• Preschool and Tot Activities
• Devotional and Memory Verse Helps
• Flower Center Ideas
• Flower Count and Color Books

There are also more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on our Pinterest Board!

We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided.

 

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

A New Kindergarten Extension Pack

We’ve gotten quite a bit of rain lately, so I thought it would be a good time to extend another one of our preschool units.   Can you guess which one?  Check it out and download it below. Then let us know what you think!

Rain K Extension Pack

Here’s a closer look inside this Kindergarten Extension Pack: (Future packs will hopefully include more printables, but really at this point I can’t promise anything! )

Raindrop Math	100 Chart Art
Skip Counting Order Puzzles	Graph Predict and Analyze
Tracing Strips

Products We Use with Our Units

Looking for more ideas?

• Preschool and Tot Activities
• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Rain Center Ideas
• Spring Rain Count & Color Books
• Magazine Rainbow Craft
• Family Movie Night

There are also more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on our Pinterest Board!

We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided.

 

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Butterfly Center Ideas

This week we are creating a brand new unit on Butterflies!!  Are you excited??? 

Butterflies are a huge hit on the web, so it wasn’t hard for me to find some fabulous resources that can be use in independent centers.  Remember to go over how to do the activity with your kiddo before allowing them to do it independently.

Pretend Play

For our butterfly week, I found some felt patterns for the The Very Hungry Caterpillar from Making Learning Fun.

Felt Board Pieces for Very Hungry Caterpillar

Felt or Flannel boards are a fun way to retell stories or even for matching activities.  If you don’t have one, they are easy to make.  I found several tutorials on the web, my favorite from Itty Bitty Love. I love that it is small for kiddos and CHEAP!!  If you’d like to make a bigger one then check out Totally Tots or Teach Preschool for inspiration.

Play-Dough

I created a few play-dough mats to go with this week’s theme. I suggest you print them front to back and laminate them, so they can be used over and over again!  To keep your kiddos engaged even longer, provide a few butterfly cookie cutters.

Play-Dough Mats: Butterflies

Art

Spell Outloud has some wonderful craft ideas, plus more on her Squidoo page.  Just scroll down a bit to find the instructions.

 

Butterfly Unit from Spell Outloud

Have fun fluttering through these activities.

Flower Unit {Expanded}

Since Easter is a couple of weeks away and because we love you, we wanted to offer you an Easter gift.  We’ve pulled out our Flower Preschool Unit from hibernation and have expanded it. 

All our printables are in one easy download. Just click the image above to download a single zip file of all the printables. (Can’t unzip it. Try Hamster Free Zip Archiver approved by Amber’s husband. Remember to download carefully.)

You will need to be able to view pop-ups to download the unit, as it will appear in a pop up window from our site! Last year’s printables are also included in this download.
Here are some of the printables that MAY BE included in this unit:

• Flower Observations
• How Many Flower Petals?
• Patterns (ABAB and AABB)
• Roll & Graph
• Letter Sort
• Writing Maze
• Beginning Writing/Cutting Practice
• Size Sort
• Number Order Puzzle (1-10 and 11-20)
• Spelling Book
• Count & Clip
   

Tot Pack
Looking for some ideas for a younger tot? Check out our Flower Tot Pack. (Tot Packs inspired by 1+1+1=1.) Here are the printables included in this pack:  

• Flower Match
• Flower Shapes 
• Count the Petals
• Flower Colors (mini book)
• Size Sequencing
• Flower Picture Puzzle

Products We Use with Our Units

Looking for more ideas?

• Kindergarten Extension Pack
• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Flower Center Ideas
• Flower Count & Color Books

There are also more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on our Pinterest Board!
We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided. 

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Flower Center Ideas

This week, as you know, we are expanding our Flower Theme printables.  I’ve found some fabulous ideas that can be use for independent centers.

Arts & Crafts
I came across Easel Art Pages on Making Learning Fun this summer. I love how they give visual step by step instructions on how to paint different things!  I decided to give it a try and created this flower one for you.

Pattern Blocks
PreKinders has quite the assortment of FREE pattern block designs.  She offers them in color and black and white.  Just scroll down to the bottom to download the flower templates.

Please note that not all pattern blocks are the same size, therefore not all might fit perfectly with the template provided above.

Use these templates to create your own pattern blocks.  You can also purchase them through Amazon or other various educational websites.

Pretend Play
When  I came across the following post about a Flower Shop drama center, I just had to share it!! Pre-K Pages even has a free printable for you to download!! If I’m really honest with you, I just want to set one up because I would have so much fun pretending with it!!

Click each image above to be directed to the post.

Hope you have fun.

Rain Unit {Expanded}

It is that time of year, when birds chirp, trees begin to flower and spring rains fall.  As predicted, the rain has come to 2 Teaching Mommies. Well Free Rain Preschool Printables that is! 

All our printables are in one easy download. Just click the image above to download a single zip file of all the printables. (Can’t unzip it. Try Hamster Free Zip Archiver approved by Amber’s husband. Remember to download carefully.)

You will need to be able to view pop-ups to download the unit, as it will appear in a pop up window from our site! Last year’s printables are also included in this download.
Here are some of the printables that MAY BE included in this unit:

• Patterns (ABAB and AABB)
• Roll & Graph
• Letter Sort
• Writing Maze
• Beginning Writing/Cutting Practice
• Size Sort
• Number Order Puzzle (1-10 and 11-20)
• Spelling Page
• Count & Clip
   

Tot Pack
Looking for some ideas for a younger tot? Check out our Rain Tot Pack. (Tot Packs inspired by 1+1+1=1.) Here are the printables included in this pack: 

• Stormy Weather Match
• Rainbow Shapes 
• Count the Raindrops
• Umbrella Colors (mini book)
• Size Sequencing
• Rain Picture Puzzle

Looking for more ideas?

• Kindergarten Extension Pack
• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Rain Center Ideas
• Spring Rain Count & Color Books
• Magazine Rainbow Craft
• Family Movie Night

There are also more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on our Pinterest Board!
We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided. 

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Rain Center Ideas

This week we are expanding our “Rain” Theme printables. 

Below you will find some activities that your kiddo should be able to do independently.  

Writing

Found more great free resources from Busy Bee Kids Printables! They have several Spring mazes with varying levels of difficulty.  Plus, they have several choices on rainy dot-to-dots. For our writing activities, my son use our Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center, which allows these pages to be used over and over again without having to laminate them. If you don’t have a Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center, then I would suggest laminating them.

Spring Mazes

Spring Dot-to-Dots

Pretend Play

Give your kiddo a white sheet or towel and let them pretend to be a cloud. Provide some music and get the little cloud to dance.

Art

Create a rainbow collage.  Provide your kiddos with scraps of tissue or construction paper in all the colors of the rainbow. Let them glue the pieces to the rainbow template from Making Learning Fun. To make it more exciting, provide you kiddo with Fruit Loops, Skittles or M&Ms.  Of course, Do-a-Dot Paints would also work.  Do whatever you think your kiddos would enjoy best.   I know my son will be all about the food items!  Don’t forget to add some cotton balls or marshmallows for clouds.

To download the template you want, just click it and it will take you to Making Learning Fun.

Hope these activities bring a ray of sunshine to your day.