Big paper and crayons are great for your children to use for their daily fluency practice and handwriting. You can turn some of them into drawings, backgrounds and art projects too. Here is reindeer to draw from some fluency practice patterns.  At this special time of year, your children may also like: 2D Shape reindeer pages to color more directed drawing activities ..read more

Are your children learning to count forward from a given number? My Missing Number Snowmen activity cards will support them to count, count-on and write numbers. They will order of numbers, thinking about numbers before and after, next and before. The set covers numbers up to 120. If you're working with kindergarten or PreK you could print a smaller set for students to work with - e.g. numbers to 20.  After completing the cards, put them together to create a giant number line. This is a fun way to conclude your math learning and also review and extend the skills you've been practici ..read more

Your children can color and cut a dove to celebrate December holidays with this dove window art page from my Pond Coloring Club.  Just print, color and cut! I like to use crayons and give the back a quick spray of cooking oil to help the light shine through brightly - but that's optional.  Find out more about window art HERE I'll see you over in Coloring Club ..read more

My snowman name craft pack can help your make a lovely classroom display for the winter holiday season. Here are some tips! print the pages at a smaller ratio for less cutting (these images show the snowmen at full size) use the plain snowball option and have students write the letters of their name  spend a math lesson creating a numbered list of the all the letters needed for the class a week before you start the craft write a chart of all the class names and for a brain break or warm up each day, take a few letters and count the total Craft in the classroom not only suppo ..read more

Make some adorable gingerbread houses to display after your children have completed their morning handwriting fluency. Here are the steps:  After drawing, provide watercolors for painting and display them when dry. If you love having a gingerbread theme in your lessons and classroom activities, welcome your children to the school day with a door display or interactive attendance board. Write student names on the gingerbread to be moved onto a board each morning when they arrive! Here is one of my favorites: I hope your students have fun making their gingerbread house! Joi ..read more

My Snowman craft now has more options for you! Your children can use a Quick Craft template or 2 Page Craft template to make a snowman for display. I hope you love these new additions and they make it easier for you to differentiate and prep for your lessons.    Here is a snowman themed math warm up to engage your learners too! Snowman Melting Order 3 cards before the snowman melts!  use number cards (1-100) from the Math Kit place them face down children flip one card each to start building their snowman (a snowman is a 3 cards sequence from smallest to largest number ..read more

Let's draw an Arctic hare!  You'll need: art paper crayons watercolor Here are the steps: Find some printable steps in my TPT store. here are some more Arctic Animal drawings join me more regularly on my newsletter ..read more

Practice skills for handwriting and create an art project for display in the classroom for winter with evergreen trees scribbled by your children.  You'll  need: art paper crayons watercolors Here are the steps: I hope your learners enjoy creating their tree. They could also: draw a beach background, some crows in the branches and the sun in the sky (if you're in Australia) draw white stars in the background so they shine through (crayon resist) after applying the paint have more fun with another Christmas or winter tree learning activity ..read more

I love sharing folded-paper crafts with you - here is a cute little frog from our Pond Coloring Club! After creating them you can combine them for a classroom display on your bulletin board, hang them from a string line or sit them on a theme table for language games and play.  Here is a short video for you to see it being made: Crafts are a minimal-prep way to help support your students' fine motor skills, creativity and providing an experience for students to recount or to inspire their writing.  You may also like: to get my additional paper folding and cutting crafts to ..read more

A display of numbers can contribute to your kindergarten math activities as well as adding some color and fun to your classroom. Students can reference number order and counting skills, participate in daily counting and use them in games and warm ups. I just added some Rainbow Trucks to the Number Display Bundle, available in my TPT store and would love to share with you a few ways to use them.   Matching Mats have students make a set of objects (plastic math bears or hippos work well) to match the number on each truck Comparing Numbers ask students to take 2 trucks and b ..read more