Free Easter Lacing Cards

 

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Lacing is a great activity for young children to help develop fine motor skills, concentration, and hand-eye coordination. Try it out with these 3 Easter themed lacing cards!

 

Print the cards out, then laminate them and cut out the picture along the dashed lines. (If you don't have a laminator you could glue them to a thin cardboard like a cereal box). Then use a hole puncher to punch holes where indicated. For young children I suggest starting with the egg or the chick as those are easier. For older children you can add challenge by punching extra holes in between the holes that are already there.

 

Give your child a shoe lace, or a piece of yarn that is reinforced by tape at the end. Tip: to make it easier you can add a bigger piece of tape at the end, as big as 1 or 2 inches to form the lacing "needle". Enjoy!

 

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Egg Carton Recycled Easter Crafts

After you boil all your Easter eggs what do you do with the egg carton? The possibilities are endless! I am going to show you a few ideas for recycled and eco-friendly Easter crafts, including a flower, a bunny rabbit, a cat, and a caterpillar.

Flower

Cut out one of the cups from the egg carton. Every egg carton has a slightly different shape but you should get a flower-like shape after cutting. You may have to cut it a bit more to form the petals.

Use a sharp instrument to poke two holes at the bottom of the flower. Then you will thread a chenille stem through one hole and back out the other hole.

Twist the two ends together to form the stem.

My daughter painted the flower and glued a pom pom in the middle. This is the finished product:

Caterpillar

Cut the egg carton down the middle lengthwise to make this caterpillar. You can add more cups to make it longer. Let your kids have fun painting and decorating it!

Cat

For the cat you will need two cups - one for the head and one for the body/legs. Make sure to cut the legs to be the same length otherwise it won't stand.

For the head you use another cup and you may have to cut and shape the ears.

Glue or staple the head and legs together.

Let your child paint the cat, add eyes, whiskers, tail, and any other accessories.

Rabbit

The rabbit is the same as the cat except the ears are longer.

Paint it, add eyes, whiskers, a pom pom tail and anything else your child wants!

Prewriting Game with Doodle Board

 

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I was playing with my daughter and her doodle board today, and I got inspired to make a little game that would be fun and also help kids with their prewriting, drawing and tracing skills!

The game is very simple. Print and cut out these game cards which tell you to draw a shape or trace an object. Each player picks up a card and draws or traces what the card says. I also included some blank cards so you can make your own and customize it to your child's skill level.

DRAW this:

TRACE this:

 

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Free Do a Dot Spring Printables

 

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Happy Spring!

 

Enjoy these 4 Spring themed Do-a-Dot sheets. You can choose if you want to print in color or black & white. If you haven't tried Do-a-Dot markers with your kids yet, they are really awesome and easy to use. I highly recommend them for toddlers and up! 

 

Download Free Do-a-Dot Spring Printables Here! 

Also try these Free Patriotic Do-a-Dot Printables for Memorial Day & 4th of July

 

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Free Easter Printables for Toddlers and PreK

Spring is in the air! And that means Easter is right around the corner. Get ready for the season with this fun Easter Learning Pack for your toddlers and preschoolers!

This Free Easter Pack includes 31 activities featuring number recognition, number quantity, counting, shapes, patterns, alphabet letter cases, letter sounds, sight words, letter tracing, sorting, visual discrimination, coloring, puzzles, pre-writing tracing, scissor skills practice and more!

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Free Board Game for Toddlers and PreK: Feed the Monkey

 

FEED THE MONKEY!

This board game will get your tots to practice counting, number recognition, and number quantity skills while having fun feeding the monkey!

 

Includes: printable board game, bananas, paper cube with colors

 

Directions:

1. Choose a token for each player. This can be a bottle cap, a miniature animal, etc.

2. Divide the bananas equally between all players. (If you need more bananas, print multiple copies of the banana page)

3. The player rolls the paper cube and moves to the next circle that matches the color on the cube.

4. The player says the number that they land on.

5. The player then "feeds" the amount of bananas that matches the number they landed on. (To feed the monkey just place the correct amount of bananas on the monkey's mouth)

 

Example: Player rolls the cube and gets green. They move to the green circle. The green circle has the number 2 so they feed 2 bananas to the monkey. The players take turns moving around the board and feeding the monkey. The player who arrives at the finish first is the winner.

 

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Free Alphabet & Picture Tracing Printables

  

Say goodbye to boring letter tracing sheets! In this fun pack, your child can trace a picture, color it in, and trace uppercase and lowercase letters on each page. Practice writing and drawing skills at the same time! Also great for reinforcing letter sounds!

You can laminate the pages or put them in sheet protectors, then just wipe them clean and reuse!

Download FREE Alphabet & Picture Tracing Printables

Please note: I recommend that you save the file to your computer before printing. If you print straight from google drive it may cause the dashed letters to not show up. Thanks! 

FREE Printable Art Collages

4 Free Art Collages for your child to practice their art skills! Includes Build a City, Build a Farm, Create an Ocean, and Create a Face. Includes both color and black and white cut-outs.

There are 3 levels of difficulty depending on your child's age and skill level:

1. Parents cut out the colored pieces for the child to glue.

2. Parents cut out the black and white pieces, the child glues them and also colors the picture at the end. 

3. The child cuts out the pieces, glues them and then colors them in. They practice cutting, gluing and coloring at the same time!

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For more art skills practice, take a look at The Ultimate Art Skills Pack for ages 2.5-6 years. This is a unique set of 20 printable activities that help kids practice cutting, gluing, tracing, coloring and drawing!

FREE Daylight Savings Time Board Game

 

Teach your child about Daylight Savings Time, clocks, seasons, numbers and counting in this fun game for the whole family!

Each player moves clockwise across the board, traveling through the 4 seasons, and moving the hand on the clock. If you land on the "spring ahead" or the "fall back" spaces, you also move the clock an hour ahead or an hour back.

 

Ages 2+. Simple enough that a 2 year old can play but fun enough for older kids and adults to join in.

 

Includes Board Game, Playing Instructions and 2 Paper Cubes.

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15 FREE St. Patrick's Day Printables for Toddlers and Pre-K

This is a fun activity pack for toddlers and preschoolers featuring number recognition, number quantity, shapes, patterns, sorting, alphabet letter cases, letter sounds, visual discrimination, coloring, tracing, and scissor skills practice.

 Download the Updated Pack here!