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Quick and easy letter matching activity for your alphabet center

Need a fun activity to keep the kids occupied?  Do you need some new preschool center activities?  Well bring out the clothespins! This is a quick and easy letter matching activity that is perfect for your alphabet centers.  First you write letters on clothespins and then have your students clip the clothespin onto the matching letters.  I use two different versions.  One that matches the uppercase letter to the same uppercase letter (shown in the red picture) and another version (shown in the blue picture) where you match the uppercase letter to the lowercase letter.  It's great fine motor practice as well as for practice on those pre-reading skills.

hands on literacy activity match uppercase letters by using clothespins

Literacy activity match uppercase and lowercase letters with clothespins


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Build fine motor muscles while learning to count with paper clips

I am always trying to look for ways to incorporate building fine motor skills into our learning centers.  This activity does just this.   The object of this activity is to clip the correct number of paperclips onto each card as well as to match the color of the paperclip with the color of the card.  This allows for building of fine motor muscles while learning to count.  

Math activitives learn to count with numbers and paperclips


Later on in the year we repeat this center activity but this time I write addition sentences on the papers.  The kids use the paper clips to represent the question and count and the paper clips to come up with the sum.  The kids love this activity and it is super easy to prep.

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Colorful flower craft made with painted tissue paper

Today I wanted to share with you a fun spring craft that I made with the kids the other day.  We created colorful flowers made with painted tissue paper.  We had a ton of painted tissue paper left over from making our Eric Carle butterflies so this was a great way to use some of it up.  

Flower craft for kids made with painted tissue paper




Materials that you will need:
  • Flower shape drawn on thick white paper or construction paper
  • Tissue paper
  • paint (optional)
  • scissors
  • white glue or glue stick


flower craft for kids made by cutting and gluing painted tissue paper

First I gave each kid a flower drawn on white paper.  Then the kids cut out pieces of the painted tissue and glued them to the flower.  If you didn't have painted tissue scraps already you could have your kids paint the tissue first, let it dry and then cut and glue the pieces onto the flower, or you could just use regular colored tissue paper. I like the look of the painted tissue as it shows so many more color combinations and textures but it would still be beautiful if they just used regular tissue paper.  It was great cutting practice for the kids and they were able to complete the project totally independently.



spring flower craft for kids using painted tissue paper


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