Color Matching Printables for Toddlers

 

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Kids are naturally drawn to colors, which is why simple color matching activities are usually a hit with young children. Toddlers who are learning about colors will love these hands-on activities using pom poms, pouch caps, playdough balls, or anything round and colorful that you have at home.

These free printable activities are great for fine motor skills, visual discrimination practice, learning colors, patterns, and even to practice counting and letters!

Here is what I have included:

 

-Make a House

 

 

 

-Make a Fish

 

-Flowers

 

 

-Car

 

 

-Counting/Number Quantity

 

 

 

-Complete the Patterns

 

 

-Blank: Create your own!

This one can be used to make anything you might think of such as letters, numbers, or any other picture or pattern. We used it to practice the letter M - see picture below.

 

 

 

I hope you enjoy them and I would love to hear about what you did with the blank page - leave me a comment!

 

Download your Free Color Matching Printables for Toddlers

If you don't have pouch caps, don't worry! These printables work GREAT with pom poms. You can buy them at any craft store, or use my affiliate link below:

 

30+ Activities for 4th of July + $1500 Cash Giveaway!

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1 - First, I have collected over 30 ideas for 4th of July activities to do with your kids, including very creative arts & crafts, Montessori activities, Free Printables, Sensory Activities, and Book Lists with the best patriotic books to read with your kids.

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Arts & Crafts

Kids Fireworks Craft Using a Dish Brush by Sassy Dealz

Toilet Paper Roll Fireworks Craft by Sassy Dealz

Fireworks in a Bottle by No Twiddle Twaddle

Simple Patriotic Craft for Toddlers & Preschoolers by Mamas Like Me
 

4th of July Crafts for Baby by House of Burke
 

Super Easy 4th of July Wreath by No Time for Flash Cards
 

Letter of the Week (Flag F) by No Time for Flash Cards

Flameless 4th of July Mason Jar Luminaries by To the Moon and Back
 

4th of July Craft by Loving My Nest

Firework Painting by Juggling with Kids
 

Easy Jar Candle Craft by Fantastic Fun and Learning

Color Rice American Flag Exploring by Powerful Mothering

Salt and Glue Fireworks by School Time Snippets

Patriotic Hand Print Craft by B-Inspired Mama

Fourth of July Crepe Paper Flag Craft by Meaningful Mama

 

American Flag Collage by Meaningful Mama

 

4th of July Sparkling Fireworks by One Perfect Day

 

Montessori Activities

4th of July Montessori Activities by Gift of Curiosity

 

Patriotic Practical Life and Math Activity by Living Montessori Now

 

Red, White and Blue Tot Trays by Fantastic Fun and Learning

 

Free Printables

Free American Flag Playdough Mat by Totschooling

Free Patriotic Do a Dot Printables by Totschooling

 

4th of July I Spy Game by The Pleasantest Thing

 

Free 4th of July Pack by 3 Dinosaurs

 

Sensory Activities

4th of July Activity: Make Slime by The Pleasantest Thing

 

Shaving Cream & Paint Fireworks by No Time for Flash Cards

 

4th of July Patriotic Rice Sensory Box by Pink and Green Mama

 

In 1776 and American Revolution Sensory Bin by 3 Dinosaurs

 

4th of July Fun with Water Beads by I Can Teach my Child

Fireworks Play Dough by Fantastic Fun and Learning

 

Books Lists

 4th of July Books for Toddlers and Preschoolers by Love, Play, Learn

 

 Best Fourth of July Picture Books by Ready-Set-Read!

Patriotic Picture Books for 4th of July by No Time for Flash Cards

 

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Free Summer Printable Pack for Toddlers - PreK

 

Summer is finally here but the learning doesn't stop! This printable pack is great for toddlers & preschoolers on long car trips, airplane rides, rainy days or simply for every day learning to practice those essential skills like counting, number & alphabet recognition, letter sounds, letter cases, size, colors, shapes, patterns, visual discrimination, prewriting, scissor skills and more!

 

This is my biggest printable pack so far, featuring 37 summer themed activities, and I am making it available for Free to all email subscribers. Here is what's included:

 

Literacy Activities:

-Cut & Paste the Missing Letter

-Letter Sound Matching

-Circle all things that begin with the letter S

-Match the upper and lower case letters

-Sight Word Matching

-Tracing words

-Tracing Letters & Pictures

 

Pre-Writing:

-Trace the Circles

-Horizontal Lines

-Vertical Lines

-Maze

 

Math Activities:

-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle

-Color by Number

-Counting

-Cut & Paste the Correct Number

-Patterns

-Cut & Paste in Order from Smallest to Biggest

-Sorting by Size

-Sorting by Color

-Match the other half of the Shapes

 

Visual Discrimination:

-Matching kids at the pool/beach

-Matching ice cream cones

-I Spy BBQ

-I Spy Beach

-Circle the one that is Different

-Matching Flip Flop pairs

 

Scissor Skills:

-Cutting straight lines

-Cutting zig zag lines

-Cutting page in 4 sections

 

Puzzles:

-Cut & Paste Puzzle

-Numbers 1-10 Puzzle

-Summer Word Puzzle

 

 

Below is a Sneak Peek:

 

 

This Summer themed Printable Pack is FREE for all Totschooling email subscribers.

What can I expect as a Subscriber?:

-You will receive free printables that are not available for download on the website. This includes holiday and seasonal packs, as well as other themed activity packs.

-You will get access to a growing collection of Board Book Printable Activities.

-You will receive 2-3 emails per week with new posts, freebies, sales and additions to the site.

-You will receive a special subscriber discount for the Online Store.

-Your information will never be shared with anybody else.

 

Watermelon Seed Fine Motor Activities

Like most kids, my daughter loves watermelon. It's quite possibly her favorite fruit. However, she refuses to eat it if there are any seeds in it. Even those little white seeds that you find in the seedless variety. So needless to say, I've been pretty busy removing seeds from her watermelon on a daily basis. Whenever I find something that I am constantly throwing away, I think to myself, can I find a creative use for this instead of throwing it out? Just like egg cartons or raisin boxes or those little caps from baby food pouches, why not find a creative use for watermelon seeds?

Watermelon seeds are pretty small which make them difficult to pick up, even for adults. That makes them perfect for fine motor practice and to help develop the pincer grasp, which is an important skill for developing writing readiness.

So I made these free printable activities which are great not only for fine motor skills but also for letter recognition, number recognition, number quantity, and one to one correspondence. If you don't have any watermelon seeds on hand, you can use anything that is small and dark colored: beads, raisins, small black pom poms, apple seeds, etc.

1. Tracing the letter W with watermelon Seeds

2. Letter Hunt - Place a watermelon seed on each letter W

2. Number Recognition & Quantity (1-10) - Place the correct amount of watermelon seeds on each watermelon

4. Coloring Page and 1 to 1 Correspondence - Place a watermelon seed over each drawing of a seed

Click here to Download Free Watermelon Seed Printables

Summer Playdough Mats

 

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Now that summer is here (or almost) we've started with the barbecues, the yummy foods like hot dogs, burgers and watermelon, and all the fun outdoor activities which I will write about in more detail soon. But what do we do on rainy days? Take all that summery goodness and make it out of playdough, of course!

 

Playdough mats are great because it allows your child to use their imagination and be creative, while also helping to develop their fine motor skills and strength in their little hands which will get them ready for pencil and scissor control.

 

I made 5 summer themed printable playdough mats: Make a BBQ, Create a watermelon, Make hot dogs, Make an ice cream cone, and Create a beach! For more summer playdough fun, check out my Free American Flag Playdough Mat as well!

 

Download your Free Summer themed Playdough Mats!

Playdough mats work best when laminated! This is the laminator that I use below: (affiliate link)

 

Occupations & Vehicles Matching Activity

Father's Day is coming up and I wanted to make an activity similar to the Mother's Day matching activity I made not too long ago. Except instead of matching mother & baby animals, the child matches the "daddies" in different occupations with the vehicles associated to each occupation. Of course there are women in all of these professions, but I wanted to make this specifically as a fun Father's Day activity.

This is a great language learning exercise to teach the names of different types of vehicles and occupations. You can do it as a cut & paste activity, or for toddlers I recommend that you laminate both sheets, then cut out the vehicles on the second sheet and use Velcro for all the pieces.

Click here to download your Free Occupations & Vehicles Matching Activity!