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St Patrick’s Day Crown – a fine motor and cutting skills craft for preschool
St. Patrick’s Day Crown This is a great little craft for preschoolers-working on fine motor skills and cutting skills! This is so easy to make and is a fun way to use all those stickers that are for sale in discount stores for St Patrick’s Day at the moment (my kids always insist on buying stickers for every event or occasion!) My little girl (3) had a lot of fun making this earlier today! Materials: green card stapler stickers green wool glue glitter What you do: cut a zig zag pattern on a strip of card long enough to go around the child’s head. stick festive stickers like these shamrocks…
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Hedgehogs – Leaf and Paper Collages – Autumn / Fall Preschool Craft
Hedgehogs always remind me of Autumn, and these collages are a lovely, simple preschool Fall activity to celebrate the season. We have a hedgehog who regularly helps himself to our cat’s food at night before hibernating for the winter, so my kiddies were delighted to create their own paper version of “Hedgy”, our little prickly buddy! We have lots of other autumn activities for you to try in our Seasonal section of the blog. What we used: card – flesh coloured and blue sugar paper in autumnal colours glue sticks leaves buttons crayons scissors What we did: I helped the children to draw a rough shape of a hedgehog using…
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Alphabet Book – Hunting for Letters, Cutting Skills, Learning Our ABCs
Hi all, this is a short and sweet post this morning about an activity we have been working on. Doodles and I have been having lots of fun working on letters and phonics recently (just the basics). Oodles has been joining in too, but the activities were aimed at D (almost 5 y.o). Today, after doing an “a” sound hunt around the house, listing as many “a” words that he could identify, we decided to do a letter hunt in our magazines and comics. This was great cutting practice as well as helping D to identify as many letters as he could. His first job was just to cut out…
