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8 Earth Preschool Trays!

8 simple ideas for Earth preschool trays!

We have certainly learned around the Earth before as shown in our Earth Day Tot Trays and Earth Day Preschool Trays! I did scale this down just a bit. In nine small cups you’d find rocks, pinecones, nuts, artificial flowers […]

Posted in Tot Tray Themes Tagged dry erase, earth appreciation, earth day, matching, play dough 1 Comment

14 Preschool Pi and Pie Trays!

Pi Preschool Ideas!

Most people love Pie, and Pi is pretty cool, too. Why not combine the two for a rounded week of Preschool Pi and Pie Trays? I liked that we have several ways to explore and explain the parts of a […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged fine motor, games, math, measuring, pi, play dough, puzzles, tracing Leave a comment

17 Moon Preschool Trays!

Free printables, links and ideas for a great moon preschool theme!

We have had a great time learning with 16 Space Preschool Trays (and before that, 10 Space Tot Trays), but we were ready to jet and go with this set of 17 Moon Preschool Trays! (Do you like these Moon […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes Tagged coloring, coloring pages, cutting practice, matching, moon, outer space, play dough, space 2 Comments

10 Groundhog Day Preschool Trays!

Here are some fun ideas and links to free printables for Groundhog Day Preschool!

Before I get into the resources I used for this week of school, I wanted to thank what was likely the sources for the fun Groundhog Day activities we did at the library! Groundhog and shadow craft from Owls and […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged coloring pages, counting, crafts, groundhog day, numbers, paper crafts, play dough Leave a comment

17 Lego Preschool Trays!

Lego preschool ideas!

We have used Legos many times in preschool before, but we had never made it the week’s theme. I went ahead and printed the Lego Movie Pre-K Pack several months ago and decided to make a theme with it. Thank […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged books, coloring pages, crafts, cutting practice, legos, play dough, science, tracing 3 Comments

11 Fall Preschool Trays!

Fall preschool theme ideas!

Hooray, it’s time to celebrate Fall! I was going to say that it doesn’t quite look like Fall around where we live. But, if I compare to last year, it seems more like the season for fall preschool. It’s a […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged fall, measuring, play dough, pumpkins, seasons, sensory bin, sight words, sorting, writing Leave a comment

Fall-Inspired Sticky Dough Play

Sticky fall play dough!

Cleaning out the pantry is a generally unfulfilling task. You come across that snack that you were sure would be a hit in your house (not) some new grain that looked tasty (wasn’t!) and some buy 1 get 3 free […]

Posted in Fun Activities, Preschool Tagged fall, play dough, sensory Leave a comment

9 Healthy Foods Preschool Trays!

Healthy Foods Preschool Trays

Our week of Healthy Foods Tot School was one of our favorites last year! This is when we got to use our DIY play food recipe cards and make custom healthy food charts. I can only wonder if that was […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes Tagged cutting, healthy foods, measuring, play dough, pretend play, toys Leave a comment

12 Trays for a Robot Preschool Theme

Easy robot preschool theme ideas!

We did a Robot Preschool Theme just a couple months ago with our 10 Robot Preschool Trays! But, per E’s request we decided to do one more. This worked out well as he was out of the house at a […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes, Trays Tagged coloring pages, fractions, magnets, play dough, robots, sensory bin 2 Comments

16 Pond Animals Preschool Trays!

Pond Animals Preschool Activities

Since day one of this blog, I knew there were certain things I couldn’t spent a whole lot of time on. Exhibit A: Photos. While I don’t want BAD photos, I just can’t take the time to do much better […]

Posted in Preschool, Preschool Themes Tagged animals, math, play dough, pond animals, sensory bin, stickers, tracing Leave a comment

13 Tractors Preschool Trays!

13 Tractors Trays!

When you live where we do, there is nothing odd about having a farm theme, farm animal theme, AND a tractors preschool theme in the same school year! So watch this week as 13 Tractor Preschool Trays help us learn […]

Posted in Preschool Themes Tagged matching, math, photo activities, play dough, printables, sensory bin 4 Comments

19 Cars Preschool Trays!

Cars Preschool Theme!

Once again, the first car show of the season is the perfect reason to have our week of 19 Cars Preschool Trays! We had fun in car tot school this time last year. Starred* items below are from the Cars […]

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