This puffy shell craft is available to you on a page in the Pond Coloring Club! Your children will color, draw, cut and assemble a clam shell, making it 'puffy' or 3D using some crumpled, or scrunched paper scraps! The paper scrunching is an additional fine motor strengthening activity and helps your children to learn to think creatively.  Scrunching Paper for Fine Motor Strength Scrunching paper is a great way to strengthen fine motor skills - it's fun, easy and an ideal way to use up paper scraps left from your classroom activities.  Use paper scraps in collage, art projec ..read more

In the vibrant world of kindergarten, where learning is an adventure, color pattern activities play a starring role! Among these activities is the delightful task of copying dot picture cards—a simple yet powerful tool that helps children develop essential skills while having fun. Here are some ice cream cards for students to play with in a reading center, as a morning activity or part of your math lesson.  Color pattern activities are designed to nurture children's visual perceptual skills. These skills are like superpowers that allow us to make sense of the visual information around ..read more

Ladybugs are one of the most popular insects in the world, and they're a great way to teach your class about the natural world. This craft project is a fun and easy way to learn about ladybugs, and it's a practical classroom activity with one sheet of paper needed per student. It's just one of 26 projects in my Alphabet Animals One Page Craft pack! You can work your way through all of them over the year, or just select a few at a time for students to choose from in your writing center.  Materials: One page craft template Crayons, pencils or watercolors Scissors Glue Writing page from ..read more

Counting Up Addition StrategyCounting up from one number (not always starting to count from 1) is a valuable addition strategy for kindergarten students to learn. It helps them develop number sense, understand the concept of addition, and solve simple addition problems efficiently. It involves starting from one number and counting forward to the total or to find the total.  For example, to solve the problem 3 + 2, start at 3 and count on 2 more numbers: 4, 5.  When numbers are close together, we are aiming for this counting to be eventually replaced with known number facts (memoriz ..read more

While learning to skip count, your students may notice a number pattern. A number pattern follows a rule. If you're learning to skip count or working with number patterns in math - why not make it visual with a display of math crafts. Here is our Number Pattern Frog. After learning a number pattern or the sequence of a skip count, your children can record it on the 100 or 120 chart on the their craft.  Here is a math warm up you can play to practice counting by 3s with some equipment you may have in the classroom. For each count to 30, a spot is scored on the frog game mat ..read more

Aardvarks are fascinating creatures with long snouts, big ears, and powerful claws. They are also very shy, so it can be hard to see them in the wild. But with this fun craft, your kindergartners can bring an aardvark to life in their own classroom! The craft is just one of 26 projects in my Alphabet Animals One Page Craft pack! Each project is very fast to prep - using just one sheet of paper per child. Materials: One page craft template Crayons, pencils or watercolors Scissors Glue Writing page from this pack Instructions: Color or paint the pieces on the One Page Craft page. Cut out ..read more

Encourage your children to embrace their inner artist and draw lovely bright happy pictures with crayons before painting with watercolors. You'll build fine motor skills, nurture their creativity and ignite their imaginations! Remind them how to hold a crayon correctly Demonstrate a few simple steps that also build writing skills (our packs give you the steps) Encourage students to use different shades of colors and experiment with different lines and techniques as they draw multiple versions of the picture Have some photographs or picture books in your classroom for students to observe ..read more

 Here is another way to play with any of the game mats in my Grid Games pack! I'm using the fish mat with dotted squares. Students: find ways to make 7 roll a dice  find a number to make 7 - e.g. if they roll a 6, they find 1 cover the number keep rolling, finding the difference and covering numbers until their game mat is complete Dice are a simple yet versatile tool that can be used to introduce and reinforce a variety of mathematical concepts, making math more accessible and interactive for students. By using dice, you can create hands-on activities that cater to different lea ..read more

Find these pages to color over in the Pond Coloring Club! Coloring pages help children develop fine motor skills.  Coloring requires children to use small muscles in their hands and fingers, which helps them develop fine motor skills - ready to write and play games to learn at school.  Coloring pages help children learn colors.  Coloring pages help children learn colors by associating different colors with different objects. This helps them develop their vocabulary and learn about the world around them. Coloring pages help children develop their concentr ..read more

  Subitizing is the ability to instantly recognize the number of objects in a small group without counting them one by one. It's a foundational skill that helps kindergarteners develop number sense and lays the groundwork for future math learning. Here are three fun and effective ideas to help develop subitizing skills: Use Number Flashcards:Create flashcards with different numbers of dots (up to 5) printed on them. Show a flashcard to the children and ask them to identify the number of dots quickly. Play Dice Games:Provide each child with a dice. Ask them to roll the dice and instantl ..read more