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,…
Colour Matching Activity
I’ve found a very nice activity from Playdough to Plato and I wanted to share it with you: popsicle stick patterns. It comes with a free printable. The kids got to match the colours of our popsicle sticks to the ones on the paper, and also to practice the colours in English. Each child first…
Pom Pom Play Mats
Pom pom mats are a fun and enjoyable way to practise colour and number recognition and work on fine motor skills with very young kids. The kids in our group love playing with our new pom pom mats from Busy Little Bugs. Some of them even started naming the colours in English while playing in…