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Bug Learning Activities + Free Measuring Printable

Please enjoy this collection of bug learning activities for tot school and preschool! Get links to several bug printable packs, other activity ideas and more.

We have enjoyed learning with several bug learning activities over the years! Sometimes this has coincided with a local bug event, and it is always a fun theme in the Spring! First I wanted to share the Inch by Inch […]

Posted in Fun Activities, Preschool, Preschool Themes, Tot School, Tot Tray Themes Tagged animals, bugs, legos, math, printables Leave a comment

11 Rabbit Preschool Trays!

Ideas for rabbit preschool trays!

E was born with a pet rabbit in the house and she has since passed (though she lived to a be a teenager)! We certainly do miss that bunny every day. Many don’t believe us when we say she was […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged animals, bunnies, games, perler biggie beads, rabbits, reading Leave a comment

10 Ducks Preschool Trays

Printables, games, and other ideas for a fun week of Bird Preschool!

We have certainly had ducks in preschool before between pond animals preschool, birds preschool and birds tot school. But today we are just focusing on ducks with 10 Ducks Preschool Trays! Canada Goose Paper Craft Boggle, Jr. Word Puzzles Shape […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged animals, ducks, photo activities, photos, pond animals, printables Leave a comment

15 Sharks Preschool Trays!

Here are 15 ideas for sharks preschool! Celebrate Shark Week!

Well, we may not have had the 2016 Stanley Cup Final result we wanted (despite our Sharks preschool playoff preview) but we still enjoyed learning with Sharks! Here are 15 ideas for sharks preschool: Sea Scene Reusable Stickers Silly Shark […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged animals, books, drawing, fish, ocean, octonauts, sharks, toys 1 Comment

#StanleyCupFinal Preview: Sharks Preschool!

Sharks Preschool Playoff Preview!

I have often mentioned my family’s affinity for hockey around here. We have had fun with our FREE hockey printables time and time again, and I just wrote Hockey Twitter and the Working Mom, highlighting when Greg Wyshynski of Puck […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged animals, fish, hockey, ocean, sharks Leave a comment

10+ Animal Tot School & Animal Preschool Themes!

Animal Themes for Tot School + Preschool

Kids and animals – a perfect match! Animal tot school and preschool themes have been such a hit in our homeschool. Last summer we actually did some sort of animal theme almost every other week! Not only was it fun […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Tot School, Tot Tray Themes, Trays Tagged animals, arctic animals, birds, bugs, crafts, farm, fish, pond animals, sensory bins, woodland animals 1 Comment

Penguins & Polar Bears Preschool Trays!

Polar Bears and Penguins Preschool Theme

Barnacles and Peso! They work hard together on the Octopod and are the only Octonauts who like cold weather. They seemed like a fun pair to focus on as we had some arctic animal fun in preschool homeschool. Check out […]

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14 Cats Preschool Trays!

Ideas for cat themed preschool!

My involvement with homeschool is not what I desire it to be these days! It’s been so busy between my day job and my clients! I appreciate that I can at least set up school each week, whether or not […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged animals, cats, colors, crafts, sensory bin 2 Comments

Cardboard Landforms for Sensory Bin Environments

Add some dimension to a sensory bin with these cardboard landforms!

Sensory bins are what first attracted me to young home-based learning, and we used them all the time in tot school. When E graduated to preschool I shifted my focus away from sensory bin environments, using more trays and other […]

Posted in Fun Activities Tagged animals, DIY, practically free, recycling, sensory, sensory bins, sensory trays 5 Comments

15 Woodland Animals Preschool Trays!

Creatures found in the forest are the stars in this week of Woodland Animals Preschool!

Back in the summer I had the honor of writing a feature post on Rainy Day Mum during her Storybook Summer series! I did activities around the book Scaredy Squirrel, and at the time, I thought I would do this […]

Posted in Free Templates/Printables, Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged animals, numbers, sensory bin, tracing, woodland animals 2 Comments

13 Ocean Animals & Fish Preschool Trays!

Fish Preschool Theme

It seems like it has been so long since we did an actual fish theme! We actually did fish tot school very early on! We also had a big Octonauts preschool theme earlier this preschool year (but with some new […]

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14 Dinosaur Preschool Trays!

Dinosaur preschool trays!

Here is a theme revisit that took us a while to get to: Dinosaurs! He loved dino tot school and it’s about time that we got back to it again! We used printables from a few different sources so I […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged animals, coloring, cutting, dinosaurs, lacing, magnets, printables, sensory, silhouette cameo 10 Comments

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