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One of our favorite ways to use plastic Easter eggs is for painting! This Easter craft is perfect for little toddler and preschool hands. Children love using the plastic eggs to stamp and make circle collages and designs.
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Every year about this time plastic Easter eggs seem to always appear out of nowhere in our house. Today Theo and I were using one of them to reenact The Golden Egg Book (one of our favorite Easter stories) when he brought up the idea to paint. Since Theo has loved our last two art projects involving stamping ( Sponge Painted Easter Eggs and Sponge Painted Caterpillars), I asked him if he wanted to try using the eggs for painting. He was more than excited!

Materials for Plastic Egg Stamping

Start by squirting some tempera paint onto paper plates and add an opened plastic egg to each plate.

Now you're ready to create! Place the open end of a plastic egg in the paint and use it to stamp circles on your paper.

Theo was excited to see the shapes on his paper after his first few times stamping and noticed they resembled letters.

He enjoyed trying all the colors to form a line.

I love how excited he was of his completed artwork!

We also did some circle collages together using the eggs!

Check out our ebook ABCs and 123s! You'll find 40+ ways to encourage children to explore letters and numbers through play!

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Easter Crafts for Kids: Painting with Plastic Easter Eggs - Buggy and Buddy

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One of our favorite ways to use plastic Easter eggs is for painting! This Easter craft is perfect for little toddler and preschool hands. Children love using the plastic eggs to stamp and make circle collages and designs. Follow our Easter for Kids & Family Pinterest board! (This post contains affiliate links.)

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Sing ba ba black sheep song.
when it is student's turn, he/she takes out cotton wool from the body of a sheep toy.
(Learning sound of the sheep: baba)

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Here's a farm animals free printable for toddlers and preschoolers. This farm animals printable is perfect for playing a guessing peek-a-book game or using while you sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm!

Does your toddler or preschooler love farm animals like mine? Theo is just enthralled with sheep, cows, horses, and pigs and loves to imitate their different sounds. To build on his interest, I created a simple farm animals activity that we both can do together! (This post contains affiliate links.)

How to Set Up the Farm Animal Activity

To set up the activity, you'll first need to print out one farmhouse (in color or in black & white) and one sheet of farm animals (in color or in black & white). Once you've printed out both sheets, circle cut around the farm animals. Now you're ready!

Theo and I first took turns placing one animal inside the barn window. We'd talk about the animal and say it's sound. After we were done exploring the animals and barn, I cut out a little peek-a-boo flap from red construction paper, placed it over the black window on the printable, and taped it down only along the bottom edge (allowing it to open and close from the top).

Theo just loved taking turns hiding the different animals behind the door! We'd take turns hiding an animal and playing peek-a-boo to discover what it was.

Using the Printable with Old MacDonald Had a Farm

It was also fun using the activity to sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm. First, one of us would hide one animal behind the door. Together we'd start singing the song, "Old MacDonald had a farm. E-I-E-I-O. And on his farm he had a _____________." When we came to the part where you name the animal, we'd open the flap and discover which one was hidden inside and then add it to our song. We'd take turns changing the animal after each verse. So much fun!

Using the Farm Animal Printable with Older Children

Lucy (my 5 year old) and I played the game a bit differently. We would take turns hiding a farm animal behind the barn door. Then we would give each other clues using describing words to help the other person guess which animal was hiding. It was a great opportunity to introduce Lucy to adjectives through play!

Our Favorite Children's Books about Farms and Farm Animals

Here's a few of our absolute favorite farm-themed children's books. These get pulled out of the bookshelves often to be read all throughout the year!

This has to be one of our most favorite books of all time! It contains so many beautifully illustrated pages of different farm animals with fun little stories about each one. This is definitely a must-own!

What a great book for observing and learning about the changing of seasons over the year on a farm! This book is one of our favorites from our Books to Read Year Round book set.

Lucy loved this board book growing up, and now it's becoming one of Theo's favorites as well. The rhythm of the text is very calming and soothing making it a nice book for any quiet time of day. Such a beautiful and simple story describing the day of various farm animals.

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Peek-A-Boo Farm Animals Activity (Free Printable) - Buggy and Buddy

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· by · Here's a farm animals free printable for toddlers and preschoolers. This farm animals printable is perfect for playing a guessing peek-a-book game or using while you sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm! Does your toddler or preschooler love farm animals like mine?

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Old Mac Donald had a Farm is a favourite nursery rhyme in our house at the moment and we have read (and sang) the book many times over.

To continue the learning and love of this nursery rhyme, I thought I would set up a fun Sensory Hide and Seek activity. This activity is also provides a learning opportunity that encourages oral language and fine motor development.

Old Mac Donald had a Farm Hide & Seek Sensory Tub involves hiding all the plastic farm animals and characters in the rice and split peas mixture. Then using the mini tongs, searching through the mixture to find and catch each of the farm animals. This is all done while singing Old Mac Donald had a farm.

What you will need?

You will need a large plastic tub, mini tongs, farm animals and characters, rice and yellow split peas.

I have used the rice and split peas for many activities and store them in this container with an air tight lid. This tub of rice and split peas has lasted for over a year and is showing no signs of needing to be thrown out. The life expectancy of the sensory tub will depend on how many children use the tub and the items that added to the tub.

Some Ideas:

Hide all the farm animals in the rice and split peas mixture. Using the tongs to find and catch them. The first animal to be found, add them into the song Old Mac Donald. For example, when we found a horse, we sang; "...and on that farm he had a horse".

Use your hands, instead of using the tongs to find and catch the farm animals in the rice and split peas.

Read a nursery rhyme book and sing Old Mac Donald had a Farm.

Talk about what sounds each animal makes.

Let's Learn

Sensory play promotes many learning experiences:

Sensory play encourages children to manipulate and mold materials, building up their fine motor skills and coordination.

Sensory play uses all 5 senses, but the sense of touch is often the most frequent. Toddlers and children process information through their senses. They learn through exploring these.

Benefits of singing nursery rhymes:

Develop and extend vocabulary.

Rhyme - understanding rhyme in our spoken language helps children learn to read.

Rhythm- helps children to remember words and develop auditory memory skills.

Phonemic awareness - hearing and understanding that words are made up of individual sounds and other word patterns.

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The Animals on the Farm

(Sung to: "The Wheels on the Bus")

The cow on the farm says,

"Moo, moo, moo!

Moo, moo, moo!

Moo, moo, moo!"

The cow on the farm says,

"Moo, moo, moo!"

All day long.

Mooooooooooo!

Additional verses:

Pig ~ "Oink, oink, oink!"

Sheep ~ "Baa, baa, baa!"

Horse ~ "Neigh, neigh, neigh!

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Set up a simple washing farm animal sensory bin for your preschoolers. They'll love getting the dirty animals clean! So simple, but so fun!

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aligning animals in the farm (e.g., aligning all the pigs in one straight line)

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This inventive Harvest Sensory Bin gets kids exploring farming and connecting with the food they eat.

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sort the farm animals by colours

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Counting More or Less with Farm Animal Rainbow Counters

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Use Farm Animal Rainbow Counters to teach preschoolers to count and compare more or less. It's an important math skill for preschoolers to learn.

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spreading jam on bread/biscuits.
aligning smaller biscuits on the "house".

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Barn snack- farm week. #speech therapy #preschool

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farm animal kindergarten activities - Google Search

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Peek-a-boo Barn Craft | All Kids Network

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Make this fun barn craft for kids with farm animals. Use our printable barn template to make this peek a boo barn with farm animals. This is a great barn craft for kids.

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Objective: Color of chicken, Sound that chickens make, chicken produces eggs and chicken for our meals, colour sorting

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Objective: Counting eggs, one to one correspondence, identifying numbers in written form.

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matching numbers from eggs to egg trays

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learning objectives: color of the chicken, drawing lines on the chicken

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Fairy Dust Teaching Kindergarten Blog: Handprint Little Red Hen

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Identify the farm animal - Cow
Identify the sound of the cow - Moo
Identify the food that cow eats - grass
Uses of Cow- gives milk, meat and other foods such as dairy products, transportation too.

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Count the spots using one to one correspondence

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Match the number to the correct spots on the cow

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Match the number to the correct spots on the cow

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Chicken Mathmat

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Farm animals theme activities and printables for preschool and kindergarten

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Farm theme activities, printables, centers and games for preschool, pre-K and Kindergarten.

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Identify the farm animal- Sheep
Identify sound of the sheep- BaBa
Identify shape of the sheep- Circle wool

Uses of Sheep- produce cotton wool for clothes.

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sensory: shaving foam, exploring the sheep, identifying the sound of the sheep

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Farm themes are always popular with preschoolers, because they easily incorporate so many of their favourite activities: pretend play, sensory, small worlds and more! We love it too because we can really think outside of the box with the activities and provocations we present to the children.

One of our farm days focuses on sheep, sheep farms, and the wool they provide for us. We teach the children that the sheep's wooly coat gets a haircut with clippers; the same way their daddy or maybe they might get a haircut! The special clippers used on sheep are called shears, and it is called shearing a sheep when a farmer gives a sheep a haircut.

To show the children a visual of sheep shearing there are lots of great videos on Youtube.com like this one from Bee Bright: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtP63IOhg1Y.
After learning all about sheep we put together an activity where the children could pretend to be farmers and shear some sheep themselves.

Sheep Shearing:
Materials:
-A Large Picture of a Sheep (we painted one on poster board)
-Shaving Cream for "Wool"
-Foam Paint Brushes or Large Popsicle Sticks for "Shears"
-Bucket or Tray to collect the "Wool" in

Directions:
Attach the picture of the sheep to a wall or post and spray shaving cream all over the body of the sheep. Set up the provocation by placing paintbrush "shears" and buckets beside the shaving cream sheep. And you are all set!
Our kids didn't need any other prompts to start pretending to shear sheep because they had already learned all about it in an earlier circle time and seen a short video about it. So when they saw sheep ready for them to shear they jumped right into the activity, enjoying pretending to be farmers, and also the messy fun of the shaving cream!

Try it yourself and let us know what you think, and for more early learning activity ideas find us here:

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embedded learning opportunities: color sorting with colored cotton wool/pong pong ball.
Template of shirt and pants for boys/ Template of Shirt and skirt for girls. stick the correct colour wool (matching) on the template base.

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put cotton wools/marshmellow on the circles found in sheep

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25 pages of printable farm-themed do-a-dot worksheets for kids ages 2-6.

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A special thank you goes out to Lionsgate for providing my family with a copy of the Shaun the Sheep: Animal Antics DVD and inspiring this Paper Sheep Craft, opinions expressed are that of my own.
Carlee at Fun Learning Life

Shaun the Sheep: Animal Antics DVD is out on DVD and Digital HD on June 13th and after seeing these characters, I have a fun Paper Sheep Craft that your family can create together.

My kiddos and I have enjoyed watching this fun animated series in the past and really liked the film that came in 2015.

When I saw that there was a new DVD being released, I was excited to laugh and watch it alongside my kiddos, and it also inspired a fun activity.

If you would like to recreate our craft, check it out below. Plus, keep reading for more details about Shaun the Sheep: Animal Antics DVD.

Paper Sheep Craft

Supplies you will Need:

Various Colors of Construction Paper (White, Black, Green, Blue)

White Crimped Shredded Paper

Glue

Googly Eyes

Directions:

Use the blue construction paper as your base. Next, cut out rolling hills from the green and glue this to the blue.

Then cut out clouds from the white, and attach this to the paper as well. Next, cut out a face and legs from the black.

Then, place a large amount of glue on the blue and place a hand full of the white shredded paper on top and press down. (FYI, I happened to have the shredded paper from packing material I had received.) Want to know how to make by hand? Here is a tutorial Confetti Paper DIY.

Next, add the face and the feet. To complete, add the eyes and a little shredded paper to the top of the head.

Feel free to also place a sun, flowers, or even a tree to your sheep's meadow. Once dry, you then have an adorable Paper Sheep Craft!

Have you watched this series before? Who is your favorite character or characters on Shaun the Sheep?

About Shaun the Sheep: Animal Antics DVD-

Shaun the Sheep and his farm friends are "baaack" with all-new, hilarious adventures! Just in time for summer fun, the whole family will enjoy the one-of-a-kind slapstick comedy from the creators of the Academy Award® nominated film, Shaun the Sheep Movie (Best Animated Feature Film, 2015).

With seven laugh out loud episodes and new special features, the Shaun the Sheep: Animal Antics DVD is rated TV-Y7, runs for 45 minutes, and will be available for the suggested retail price of $9.98.

You will definitely want to check out the DVD/DIGITAL HD SPECIAL FEATURES, which include "Building-a-Pig" Video and "Timmy's Tune #2" Song" Music Video. My kids were totally mesmerized with how the Pigs were made.

We really enjoyed the episodes and thanks to Lionsgate, (1) One Lucky Fun Learning Life Reader will receive a copy of the Shaun the Sheep: Animal Antics DVD!

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My little girl is obsessed with Paper Plate crafts right now! We made a Rainbow Cloud last week and the ideas are flowing!

We made this simple sheep craft and wanted to share it with you. It would be great for play dates, a kindy project or an after school activity.

To make your own you will need

A paper plate

Cotton Balls

2 x Googley eyes

Black Cardstock

School Glue

Scissors
Step 1
Cover the paper plate with the glue and stick on the cotton bal.s until fully covered.
Step 2
Cut out a sheep face from the black card stock (as above - I just 'eyeballed' it)
Step 3
Cut 4 strips from the black card stock and fold them accordion-style and glue to the back of the plate
Step 4
Glue on your googley eyes and you have yourself the most adorable little sheep craft ever!

Jen x

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My little girl is obsessed with Paper Plate crafts right now! We made a Rainbow Cloud last week and the ideas are flowing! We made this simple sheep craft and wanted to share it with you. It would be great for play dates, a kindy project or an after school activity.

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Counting with Cotton Balls Instead of Buttons for High functioning kids

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Counting with Cotton Balls Instead of Buttons for High functioning kids

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Buttons make great math manipulatives! I have a whole bag of different sized colorful buttons that have been useful in hands-on math. They can be used for sorting, making patterns, counting, etc. Today I combined some of my buttons with a math puzzle for a simple and unique math activity for preschoolers.

I first came up with this activity while reading Eric Litwin's classic book Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons. My kids love reading that story, and combining it with this simple math activity made for a great extension to the book!

Button Counting Math Activity
Supplies
Foam puzzles are my favorite. They are so versatile and can be used for countless activities (besides just being a puzzle!). You can use the puzzle pieces inside of sensory bins, or you can use the empty frame for other math activities. If you look closely you can see marker spots because we've even used the frames as stencils. See? So versatile!

Setting Up the Activity
For this activity, we removed the puzzle pieces and used just the frame. (You could use the number pieces in a sensory bin center in another spot in the classroom.)

I set out the puzzle frame with a handful of buttons and invited my kids to fill the numbers with the matching number of buttons.

Button Counting and Math Skills

Filling each number with the corresponding number of buttons is great math work! It gives kids the opportunity to work on number recognition, counting, and one-to-one correspondence (the skill of counting one item per number counted).

There's also some great fine motor work going on here. Pinching each button and arranging it into the small number space helps strengthen the muscles of the thumb and pointer finger (important for developing proper pencil grip).

There's also a little bit of planning and critical thinking skills going on when kids do this activity. Since the large buttons won't fit in some of the small spaces (like the number 1 or 7), kids will have to think about which buttons would fit best in each number.

Safety note: Small buttons may present a choking hazard. Make sure children are properly supervised when doing this activity.

BIO: Clarissa is a former elementary teacher and writer of the blog Munchkins and Moms. She loves to share creative preschool activities that are both playful and educational. Check out some of her popular posts such as Watercolor Numbers Art, a perfect accompaniment to this activity! Don't forget to follow her on Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for more creative ideas!

More Ideas-
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5 Green Frogs Printable
Homemade Counting Game
Counting Games and Activities for Preschoolers

Follow myCounting Pinterest Board for more great ideas!

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Button Counting Math Activity - Pre-K Pages

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Buttons make great math manipulatives! I have a whole bag of different sized colorful buttons that have been useful in hands-on math . They can be used for sorting, making patterns, counting, etc. Today I combined some of my buttons with a math puzzle for a simple and unique math activity for preschoolers.

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Identifying Plant (knowing what's plant)
Experience growing seeds by themselves (growing the plant by themselves/pouring and watering)

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Here are some great ideas for fast growing seeds - perfect for kids!
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Whether you are introducing your kids to gardening, or making crafts or science projects that involve growing seeds - it can often be beneficial to use seeds that sprout quickly! I did some research and tried out various options. One of our favourite ways to plant seeds is in plastic cups. Cheap, transportable (great for classrooms!) but also you can actually see the roots forming!
Vegetables and Herbs:
Radishes, lettuce, basil and salad cress (more common in the UK than in the US!)

We planted radish and basil seeds and grew them inside. The radishes were SUPER fast, sprouting in just three days. This photo was taken after six days:

The basil took a little longer, this was after two weeks:
Annual flowers:
Sweet alyssum, celosia, cornflower or bachelor button, marigold, cosmos, zinnias, sunflowers, morning glories and nasturtiums.

We planted some sunflower seeds outside but they didn't sprout for two weeks - although we did have a couple of unexpected cold days during that time that may have delayed them.
Perennial flowers:
Dianthus, black-eyed Susan, Sweet William, blackberry lily, blanket flower, rose campion and gaura.

We planted some Sweet William seeds in plastic cups and although not as fast as the radish, they were fairly speedy! This photo was after a week:

And don't forget grass! We didn't have any grass seed to try out but they are perfect for crafts like this Grass Head activity from Red Ted Art.

To increase the chance of any of these seeds growing faster - you can also try planting them in Seed Starter Mix! Or try this wildflower mix of annuals and perennials - everything you need in one bag!
Growing Plant Seeds with Kids What Plants Grow the Fastest From Seeds?

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Here are some great ideas for fast growing seeds - perfect for kids! The following post contains affiliate links, which means that at no extra cost to you I can make a tiny bit of money to help support this blog. Thank you!

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Nature walk around the park. Pointing and plucking trees in the park. Picking/plucking interesting things in the garden (plant, flower, leaves, branch)

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There are so many cool ways to teach your kiddos about the parts of a plant. Whether you're looking for a simple worksheet or a more hands-on approach, we're certain your kinders will love any one of these great activities!

Here's a simple worksheet from Made By Teachers. Students can cut out the labels and glue them next to the proper plant part.

Have your kinders review the parts of a plant with this colorful puzzle from Homeschool Creations (included in the Gardening Preschool Pack). You can add a handwriting component by laminating the pieces and inviting your kinders to use a dry erase marker to trace the new vocabulary words once all of the puzzle pieces are in place.

Throw in some fine motor fun with a "Parts of a Flower" play dough mat like this one from Mrs. Drake's Room. Students review as they form each part of the plant!

Models are always fun; especially when they provide unique textures and materials! Gregg Aultman had his kiddos make and label a plant model created from a cupcake liner, beads, foam, a craft stick, and yarn. {We especially love the yarn 'roots'!}

Three dimensional models are also sure to be a hit! Check out this awesome tree model from A Little Learning For Two! [NOTE: This could also be tweaked to create a flower model too! Simply create a 3D tissue paper flower, attach it to a chenille stem for stability, and thread the pipe cleaner through a green drinking straw 'stem'. The roots can be created from yarn - tie multiple strands to the pipe cleaner hidden in the drinking straw and let them below the edge of the straw - and leaves can be created or purchased, then glued to the straw!]

There's one more activity - one that we've featured a few times, but that we figured we'd pass along again because we're certain your kiddos will get a kick out of it. Click on the picture to see how Mrs. Stensland and her students reviewed the parts of a plant by eating them!
We hope you have fun with these activities & happy learning!

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There are so many cool ways to teach your kiddos about the parts of a plant. Whether you're looking for a simple worksheet or a more hands-on approach, we're certain your kinders will love any one of these great activities! Here's a simple worksheet from Made By Teachers.

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Moving flowers
Stand in a circle. Select two or three types of colour plants. For example, have two or three children represent red plant, two or three other children represent green plant, and the other children represent yellow plant. Say, "red plant, move!" The children who represent red plant must quickly change places. Continue the game.

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Match the Dots Printables for Alphabet Letters, Numbers and Shapes is a great activity for fine motor development, control and concentration. It is also a great way to introduce children to learning letters, numbers and shapes.

This activity involves placing tokens, gem stones, buttons or pompoms onto the circles inside the shape of the letters, numbers and shapes. Children become familiar and begin recognise the shape of letters, numbers and two-dimensional shapes.

What you will need?

These printables can be used with a number of manipulatives such as buttons, transparent tokens, pompoms and gem stones. Other ideas may include, sticker dots, dot pens or play dough rolled into small balls. We have laminated our templates for durability so they can be re-used again.

To set up this invitation to play, we place one or two templates on a tray with a basket (container) of one of the manipulatives pictured above, such as pompoms for the shapes. You may like to put a number of tokens out in separate containers to provide a choice.

Alphabet Letters A-Z

Depending on the age and ability of the child, I would suggest placing out only one or two letters at a time when setting up this invitation to play. 26 letters would be overwhelming for young children and they may lose interest in the activity quickly.

Talk about the letter name and what sound the letter makes.

Talk about some words that begin with that letter and point to objects in the room beginning with the sound.

Create patterns with the tokens.

Match the coloured dots to the coloured tokens.

Click here to download and print A-Z Alphabet Letters: Printable Alphabet Letters A to Z Templates

The Match the Dots Number Templates consist of numbers 0 to 9 and also show the value of that number providing an opportunity for children to count out loud.

Talk about the numbers and practice drawing it by tracing over the number with your finger.

Look for objects in the room and count how many. For example, when completing number four, count four 'lights' in the room.

Create patterns with the tokens.

Match the coloured dots to the coloured tokens.

Click here to download and print 0-9 Numbers: Printable Numbers Templates

The Shapes Templates have been created to also encrouage the learning of colours, such as the circle has green dots and we provided green pompoms to match. Children will search and sort for the matching colour pompom to the pictured shape on the template.

The printable includes circle, triangle, rectangle, square, kite, heart, star and oval.
Click here to download and print these shapes: Printable Shapes Templates
Learning Opportunities:

Letter recognition

Oral language development - hearing the sound and saying it out loud.

Development of fine motor skills

Eye & hand coordination - watching and doing and coordinating these actions.

Sensory- Development of the sense of touch. Feeling and manipulating objects.

Learning alphabet letter name and letter sounds.

Spatial awareness

Creativity

Identify and recognise Colours

Mathematical concepts, measurement, shape and patterns

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What happens when you plant just one little bean? The book One Bean is a wonderful, simple book to use as an introduction to any From Seed to Plant unit for your preschool and kindergarten classroom or home school. The book takes children through a plant's growth cycle, from planting the bean to the tasty end result. Children will also learn what plants need to grow (water, sun, soil, and air).

Book: One Bean

About the Story:
This science concept book follows two children as they plant one bean and watch it grow. Through the curious eyes of young children, readers are led through the step-by-step process of plant care and the plant growth cycle. One bean eventually becomes many beans that taste delicious straight from the pod. Each step of the bean's growth cycle is presented in simple, straightforward text as the children in the story carefully tend to their potted bean. Readers learn about what a bean seed needs to grow and how the resulting bean sprout develops leaves, buds, flowers, and finally, pods.

Story Time Activity:

Background Information: When a seed gets warmth and has air and water, it starts to change. When the stem and the root emerge from the seed, it's called germination.

Bean Sprout Vocabulary:
bean: a seed that develops in a bean pod on a bean plant
skin: the thin covering on the outside of a seed
root: the plant part that brings nutrients and water into a plant from the soil

sprout: the first growth of a plant appearing above ground
leaf: the plant part that absorbs sunlight to make energy for the plant stem: the plant part that carries nutrients to the leaves and flowers and supports the plant

soil: dirt for planting seeds
grow: to get bigger, to develop
sun: a large star that provides warmth and light on earth to plant: to put a seed in the ground, so it can grow

Show children a variation of beans. Discuss how they look, feel, and smell.

(NOTE: Instruct children not to eat or put the raw beans into their mouth. Explain to children that beans need to be cooked before they are safe to eat. Especially, do NOT eat lima beans raw. When eaten raw, lima beans produce a poison.)

I'm a Little Seed
(Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)
(Author unknown)

I plant a little seed in the cold, cold ground.
Out comes the yellow sun, big and round.
Down come the raindrops soft and slow.
Up comes the plant grow, grow, grow!

Explain to children that a bean is the seed of the bean plant. Tell them that we eat cooked beans and soybeans and that they are also used in many common foods, such as soy sauce, vegetable oil, salad dressing, and snack foods. They are even used in building materials, ink for newspapers, crayons, on CDs and DVDs, and in sunscreen, lip balm, hand lotion, and other makeup products. Read the book One Bean.
One Bean Story Sequencing and Re-telling Activity (KidsSoup Resource Libary Members only)
One Bean Extension Activities

Five Little Bean Sprouts Felt Story

Print our free Pots, Beans and Bean Sprouts printables (option: use real beans), laminate if desired, and cut apart. Attach magnet strips or dots to the backs of each one. Begin with all five pots lined up on the magnet board. As you recite the words in the rhyme, remove one bean and add one bean sprout above each pot at the end of each verse.

Five little beans planted in pots.
One bean wakes up and pops right out!

Four little beans and one bean sprout.
Another bean wakes up and pops right out!

Three little beans and two bean sprouts.
Another bean wakes up and pops right out!

Two little beans and three bean sprouts.
Another wakes up and pops right out!

One little bean and four bean sprouts.
Another wakes up and pops right out!

Five little bean sprouts growing toward the sun.
How many beans are left? Now, there are none.

10 Little Beans Movement Activity

Talk about how the little bean sprout pushed itself through the dirt.

Draw ten bean shapes on to green paper. Cut out each bean and mark it with a number from 1 -10. Laminate the beans if desired. Tape the beans in sets of five (in order by number) to a flat surface in an open area, either in the classroom or outside.

Choose ten children to stand on a bean. Let them call out the number they are standing on, and then curl up on a bean.

Introduce the following rhyme, recited to the rhythm of "Ten Little Indians." Explain that children complete the action (in numerical order) if their number is called.
(Children pop up in order from 1 to 10.)
10 Little Beans
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One little, two little, three little brown beans, ix little brown beans, beans pop!
four little, five little, s
seven little, eight little, nine little brown beans,
ten little brown (Pop)

Repeat the rhyme with additional actions, beginning again at one: hop, jump, turn, etc., until beans are tired out.

Let all children curl up in a circle. Explain to children that you will walk around and tap some children. If the children get tapped they neeed to pop up. Repeat with the remaining children. When all children are standing, repeat with the other actions: hop, jump, turn, etc.
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Planting a Bean Extension Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten: (KidsSoup Resource Libary Members only)

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What happens when you plant just one little bean? The book One Bean is a wonderful, simple book to use as an introduction to any From Seed to Plant unit for your preschool and kindergarten classroom or home school. The book takes children through a plant's growth cycle, from planting the bean to the tasty end result.