Popsicle sticks are very easy to use and so versatile…you can teach numbers, make crafts, create stick puppets for songs and stories, use them to build something, etc. Here are some animal crafts that you can make with kids. You can use them to teach new songs, to learn about their body parts, to teach…
Clay Bugs
Materials: clay, beads, google eyes, pipe cleaners Instructions: It’s as easy as it gets! 🙂 The kids can give the clay any shape they want, then they add beads, eyes (as many as they want), legs, arms. You don’t even need glue for the decorations, just press them in the clay.
Fun Ways to Play and Learn with Playdough
There are endless ways of playing with play dough. My kids love it, because it’s something they can make from scratch, it’s soft and smells nice (if you put aroma oil, lavender, cinnamon, etc.), it’s something they can play with on their own, without any help from adults. I love it because it helps me…
Fruit and Vegetables Worksheets {FREEBIE}
I used these worksheets with my 2-5 y.o. a couple of weeks ago and they really enjoyed them. That’s why I thought it would be a good idea to share them. Some of them are for very young kids, who just need to practise their fine motor skills, counting, and colouring, while some are for…
Feelings and Emotions
Every morning during circle time, we talk about feelings – how we are feeling at that moment, what makes us feel happy/sad/angry and why, or what we do to make others feel happy/sad/angry/etc. We have a song about feelings – another one from Super Simple Learning – that we modified a little bit. It’s called…
Songs and Teaching Ideas for Colours
Throughout the first years of kindergarten, children will learn to recognize colours, by practising locating objects of a specific colour when asked, ordering objects of different colours into matching colour groups, comparing objects on the basis of characteristics and physical properties, such as color, shape, size, etc. Also, by using water colours, markers, chalk, pencils,…