by jessicaperkins | Feb 12, 2016 | activity, book, books, collage, color, colors, kids read, literature, preschool, rainbow, read
Here are a few of our favorite preschool color books, crafts, and activities. Enjoy! A Color of His Own – Leo Lionni The Crayon Box that Talks – Shane DeRolf Dog’s Colorful Day – Emma Dodd Bear Sees Colors – Rainbow Roller –...
by jessicaperkins | Oct 12, 2015 | activity, counting, fall, kidmath, leaf, leaves, mamamayi, MamaMayILearn, math, montessori, preschool, totschool
One to one correspondence. Early counting.We have been using these little Counting Leaves in our Sensory Kits since September but had some colored gemstones out today for another project and decided to do some one-to-one correspondence. I love the Fall colors and how...
by jessicaperkins | Sep 29, 2015 | activity, construction, Digger, digger dough, diggers, fun, goodnight goodnight construction site, play dough, Sensory, SPD, tools, truck, trucks
#MamaMayIMake Digger Dough! Inspired by my little ones love (obsession) with DIGGERS! Remember that cocoa play dough we made earlier this week? You can add coffee grounds for an extra gritty texture and a few diggers to scoop, push, and excavate. A little...
by jessicaperkins | Aug 2, 2012 | activity, beach, coconut, dough, kids, kitchen, natural play, ocean, play, playdough, preschool, totschool
We have been making Play Dough seasonally, which seems to work out well. We choose a different color and scent depending on what we are exploring for the season. This Summer we chose to make Yellow Play Dough with Gold Glitter and Coconut Extract (it smells like...
by jessicaperkins | Dec 21, 2011 | activity, Christmas, montessori, prewriting, sort, sorting, tongs, totschool, transferring
Christmas Sorting!Buga used her wooden tongs to sort some Christmasy objected in a simple divided tray. We had bows, ornaments, shaped erasers, and bells. I put all the objects in the middle and she had to separate them into categories.Next time I will build in some...
by jessicaperkins | Dec 19, 2011 | activity, art, Christmas, decorate, decorations, homeschool, kid, kids, preschool, project, tot art, Tree
Oh Christmas Tree!! Oh Christmas Tree!! How Felt-y Are Your Branches!I recently had the idea for Buga’s room – a Christmas Tree!I used to decorate my room growing up for all the holidays, Christmas in particular and I thought it would be fun for Buga to...
