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FREE Can You Build This? Block Center Building Cards | TPT

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Are you doing a community helper theme, family theme, or learning about maps? If you are then this is the perfect activity for you to add to your lesson plans! As students make a giant community map mural, they will be learning all about maps, shapes, special reasoning, and art. Plus they will be building tons of social skills as they create this map mural as a team with their friends.

>If you need community helper math and literacy centers, you can grab them HERE <<

To create the map mural, you will need to cut rectangles and triangles for the houses. I took a piece of cardstock and cut it in half to create the rectangular part of the house. I then cut triangles to match the size. Students picked if they wanted a tall house or a short house and then had to find a matching roof. When students have to find a matching roof, they are developing spatial reasoning skills, measurement, and comparing items by size.

Next, students need to color the houses. For a few reasons, I chose tempera paint sticks for students to use to color the houses. The paint sticks dry super fast, are not messy, and the colors are gorgeous.

Once the houses are dry, either that day or the next day, students can draw details on the houses with black sharpie markers. We talked about things houses have and what shape those things can be. Students added windows, doors, doorknobs, and/or shingles. It was their house, so they decided what details their house needed. Students shared their structures with the class, which was a great opportunity for students to make connections with each other.

If you have younger students, they will scribble on their house. Some of my students did, and that's ok! Scribbling is an important stage in development!

Now the fun part: making the roads! Grab a piece of white butcher paper and tape the houses to it. I made a road with black paint for students to use as a guide. Place cars in paint (you can see the yellow paint plate in the top left corner) and roll the car back and forth to get paint on the wheels. Then students can drive the cars on the roads!

As students drive the cars on the road, they have to share space, the road, and the paint plate. It's an activity that allows students to practice sharing, taking turns, waiting, problem-solving, and expressing their wants and needs (ex: I need the paint when you are done).

Every community map needs grass or trees. Students can use sponges or luffas to paint green grass on the map.

Once the map is complete, students can play on it with cars, or you can hang it up to decorate the classroom or in the hallway.

Here are a few more pictures of our map!

If you need more community helper freebies, activities, and centers, check out this post.

If you need more activities to teach positional words, check out this Positional Words Unit from the Little Learners Math Curriculum!

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PinterestFacebookemailTwitter Are you doing a community helper theme, family theme, or learning about maps? If you are then this is the perfect activity for you to add to your lesson plans! As students make a giant community map mural, they will be learning all about maps, shapes, special reasoning, and art.

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Tinyville Town Gets to Work! by Brian Biggs

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Tinyville Town Gets to Work! by Brian Biggs

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Tinyville Town Gets to Work!: Kids books read aloud by Books with Blue

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Maisy Goes to the City by Lucy Cousins | Read Aloud | Story Time for Kids/ Toddlers/ Children

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Parts of the City I - Vocabulary for Kids

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Parts of the City II - Vocabulary for Kids

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Where are you Going? Places in my Neighborhood

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Where are you Going? Places in my Neighborhood

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All Are Neighbors by Alexandra Penfold & Suzanne Kaufman

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Signs in my Neighborhood by Shelly Lyons

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Neighborhood Read Aloud - Signs in my Neighborhood by Shelly Lyons

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The Three Little Pigs and the New Neighbor by Andy Blackford

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Snippets: A Story About Paper Shapes by Diane Alber

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Snippets: A Story About Paper Shapes by Diane Alber

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Snippets by Diane Alber - Videobook For Kids

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Thank you to Katy Davis at Salt Creek for the inspiration for this activity!

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You can also use green Easter basket grass and real paper plates.

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Hundreds of easy crafts & activity ideas for having fun with Preschool age children.

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The Singing Walrus - English Songs For Kids

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The Singing Walrus - English Songs For Kids

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Handwashing keeps us healthy. Be like Elmo and make sure to wash your hands often for at least 20 seconds. When you feel a tickle in your nose or throat, remember that there’s a right way to sneeze and cough! Sneezing and coughing into the bend of your arm or elbow helps keep hands germ-free.
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3. For more resources, visit: Sesame Street in Communities.

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Germs are Not for Sharing by Elizabeth Verdick

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Germs are Not for Sharing by Elizabeth Verdick

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Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli by Barbara Jean Hicks

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Sesame Street: Learn to Sneeze and Cough with Grover

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Sesame Street: Learn to Sneeze and Cough with Grover

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When you feel a tickle in your nose or throat, remember that there’s a right way to sneeze and cough! Sneezing and coughing into the bend of your arm or elbow helps keep hands germ-free.
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.

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I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child

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I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child

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Read Aloud I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato

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Learn how to make DIY Road Blocks for small world play and other kids activities. You’ll love this fun and easy 10-minute project.

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Another great idea from Allie Barnhill at Parkview!

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Simple sensory table using popcorn kernels and dry split peas with pattern blocks. Throw in some plastic scoops and bowls and you are good to go!