Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and I may be a little late getting this posted, but better late than never. I love Thanksgiving! The food, the family, the colors. I hope you enjoy these simple preschool pages. Just click on the picture to download and print.

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Fall is in the air. Even here in the desert. We are getting so close to being below 90 degrees! I am ready for some cool weather. Every time we get a few clouds in the sky I'm ready to make soup and make some fall crafts. Since it's still too hot for soup, I spent my time making some apple preschool printables instead. Just click on the picture, and if all goes according to plan you should be able to just print them off and use them.

What's a preschool pack without a writing page?

You can either print this off and trace the words with pencil or crayon, or you can slip it into a page protector and trace with dry erase markers, so you can do it over and over again.

Counting clipcards are a favorite. Count the apples and clip a clothespin on the correct number. Great for practicing counting and number recognition.

Apple pattern cards for practicing patterns or for use with the counting pies below. Count out and place the correct number of apple cards onto each apple pie. You could also use red, green and yellow poms poms as the apples for the pies.

Happy Fall!

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D is for dinosaur was a fun preschool unit. I have never been really into dinosaurs, so I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find any fun activities, but it's good to branch out. We ended up finding lots of activities to keep us busy. I like to do a mixture of printable activities and more hands on things. Here are some of the printables I made for us. Feel free to click on the pictures, download then and use them with your own preschooler. And don't forget the joy of laminating!

As I have said before, I am very picky about my handwriting pages. I like the big letters and having just a few to practice with beginning writers.

If your preschooler isn't quite ready for writing letters, you can start with this prewriting page. It helps with learning to control that pencil and strengthening those hand muscles.

We practiced adding using the number cards below. Cut the cards apart, shuffles, choose two cards to put on the first two footprints, and add together. If you laminate the footprint page you can write the sum with a dry erase marker, and then wipe it off for the next problem. If you can't laminate, put it in a plastic page protector and it will work the same way. 

You can use these number cards for the above addition game or as flashcards or cards for memory, or really any of a hundred other activities.

I have seen this cute D dinosaur all over Pinterest, and decided to put together all the pieces so I could just print them off, cut them out and assemble them. I included a little picture on the bottom to show how it's kind of supposed to look.

Cut these dinosaur footprints apart and order them from biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest.

These ABC dinosaurs can be used in lots of different ways. You can put them in a bag and draw them out one at a time and practice sounds. We matched the upper case letters with the lowercase letters. It's up to you.

Okay, get printing, cutting, laminating, playing and learning. Most importantly, have fun with your preschooler! More dinosaur activities to come, but probably not for a couple weeks.

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Here are the rest of the O is for Ocean activities. Sorry it took so long. I have also included a couple more free printables to go along with the other free ocean printables I posted forever ago. For the printables, just click on the picture and download it.

I am super picky about handwriting pages. So many of them are in weird fonts or too small for beginning writers, so I finally decided to try making my own. This one worked out really well for me. I hope you like it too. Hopefully there will be more to come.

I loved this writing activity. Sweet Girl was really into sharks. We read a few books about sharks and then filled out this shark facts paper. I was surprised at how much she remembered.

Here are a few more activities we did that didn't require printables.

Literacy/Writing Activities

• Fishing for Letters- I printed these fish patterns off of Oopsey Daisy, wrote the ABCs on the back and slipped a paper clip on the front. Sweet Girl used our magnetic fishing pole to catch one and then practiced the name and sound.
• Fish Tracing-We practiced writing by tracing the pieces of our wooden fish puzzle.
• Ocean Writing- I filled a gallon sized bag with blue paint and then used a Q-tip to practice writing letters.

Math Activities

• Goldfish Graphing- I printed this goldfish graph off of Oopsey Daisy. We used the colored goldfish to graph them by color.
• Land or Ocean Animal Sorting- We used our growing collection of plastic animals to sort which ones live on land and which live in the ocean.
• Counting Octopus-I made this octopus out of construction paper and wrote numbers 1-8 on the body. Each leg had circular suction cup stickers (okay they were flowers, but at least they were round). The first leg had one sticker, the second leg had two stickers, etc. Sweet Girl counted the suction cups and matched them to the correct numbers.
• Roll and Cover- We also played a roll and cover octopus game from Teachers Pay Teachers. 

Other Activities

• Five Little Jellyfish- I made these by gluing some ribbon between two pieces of felt. We took them away one at a time as we said this poem:                                                                                           5 little jellyfish swimming by the shore, the yellow one got lost and that left 5.                                       4 little jellyfish swimming in the sea, the blue one swam away and that left 3.                                         3 little jellyfish in the ocean so blue, the red one swam away and that left 2.                                         2 little jellyfish swimming in the sun, the orange one took a dive and that left 1.                                     1 little jellyfish swimming all alone, it was time to go home and that left none.     
• Cupcake Liner Jellyfish- Cut a cupcake liner in half and glue down, then glue tissue paper strips down as the tentacles. Add some googly eyes.
• Textured Starfish- We talked about how starfish are rough and that helps them cling to the rock. Cut out a star shape and cover with glue and rice. 
• What's in the Ocean?- I found these foam ocean stickers at the dollar store. Sweet Girl stuck them on our ocean paper while we talked about the different animals.                                               

I loved this unit. There are so many amazing things to learn about in the ocean, and I learned a lot of new things right along with Sweet Girl. I hope you enjoy learning more about it too.

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I promised a few more printables to go along with our O is for Ocean preschool unit, and here they are. Click on the picture and you can print them off for your own personal use. They aren't perfect, but I hope you have fun using them with your preschooler.

 

Ocean Animal Pattern Cards: We used these for making patterns, but you could also use them for basic sorting.

Ocean Counting Clipcards: These go along with the Beginning Sounds Clipcards. Count the number of sea creatures in the box and clip a clothespin over the correct number.

Ocean or Land Animal: Cut the pictures apart and have children sort them by which animals live in the ocean and which live on the land.

Ocean Writing Page: I used this at the end of our ocean unit, so we had already talked about a lot of different ocean animals. I wrote what Sweet Girl said, and then she drew a picture of her ocean animal.

I have a few more O is for Ocean preschool activities still to come. It was a really fun unit.

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We have been working on our O is for Ocean unit in preschool. I made these clip cards to help Sweet Girl with her beginning sounds. She is so good at recognizing letters, and she even knows most of their sounds, but she struggles with attaching those sounds to words. We hear a lot of things like "Mmm, mmm, house. House starts with m." This activity was great for putting sounds and words together.

If you aren't familiar with clip cards here is the basic idea. Say the name of the picture and then isolate the beginning sound. Then find the letter that makes that sound and clip a clothes pin over it.

I am just experimenting with making some of my own preschool printables, and thought I would share them with you. All you need to do is click on the picture, print, and cut them out and you're ready to go. I printed them on cardstock and laminated them for durability, and because I just really like to laminate things.

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Even though it is still almost 100 degrees here, fall is in the air and I am excited! I love fall. I love the holidays, the food, wearing sweaters, and lots more. Fall is also a great time for crafting. I love word art. I think they are such a fun decoration for every season. I decided I wanted to experiment with making my own word art for fall. So here is my first attempt. I included all the things I love about fall. Feel free to click and download this fall word art printable to add to your fall decorations.

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A few months ago at play group some of the moms were talking about looking for a preschool for their kids this fall. I mentioned that I wanted to start up a preschool someday. Turns out someday came sooner than I thought. This fall the kids from play group will be coming to my house for a little preschool. I have to admit I am super excited. It's going to be kind of low key because my house is very small, but I already have a whole bunch of great lessons and activities all planned out.

Since this isn't going to be a big money maker, I have been saving money by making things myself instead of buying them. One thing I wanted was cards to show our daily schedule so the kids would know what to expect each day. I made up these simple cards. They aren't fancy but I like them. I printed them on cardstock and laminated them for durability.

I love free stuff, and I love when people are so willing to share the things they make. So, if you are interested in these preschool schedule cards, you are more than welcome to print them by clicking the link at the bottom of this post. Please just be respectful in how and where you use them.

 

Here are the preschool schedule cards in PDF format for easy printing.

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