The girls had fun learning about a bus today. They discovered that they love Honeycomb, and enjoyed creating the beehive. We got our recourses for today from the B is for Bee, Bus, Bear Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter B. My 3 year old had a capital B and lowercase b with tracing arrows, along with a bus to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing B’s and b’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the B is for Bee, Bus, Bear Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
B is for Bus Craft
I printed this B is for Bus Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the capitol “B” for them to paint yellow. After that dried they glued it to a piece of brown construction paper. Then I cut out the tires for them to glue on.
I printed out the Shape Wheels on the Bus game on cardstock and then cut the pieces and laminated them. Then she reviewed her shapes as she matched up the tires with the bus tires.
We found this Wheels on the Bus with Jesus song that they seemed to like, I think because it is familiar yet different.
Color Bus Match
I printed out the Bus Color Match paper, she matched the bus with the word color. The words are in color to make the matching easier.
Bus Snack
We placed a slice of cheese on the graham cracker and then added Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the windows and mini Oreo‘s for the wheels.
I printed out the Name Bus pieces on cardstock and cut them out. The girls glued them to a piece of black construction paper. Then they added a picture of themselves to the driver window and the letters of their names to the following windows in the bus.
The girls had fun learning about bees today. They discovered that they love Honeycomb, and enjoyed creating the beehive. We got our recourses for today from the B is for Bee, Bus, Bear Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter B. My 3 year old had a capital B and lowercase b with tracing arrows, along with a bee to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing B’s and b’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the B is for Bee, Bus, Bear Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
B is for Bee Craft
I printed this b is for Bee Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the lower case “b” for them to paint yellow. They let it dry and then add black paint stripes. After that dried they glued it to a piece of blue construction paper. Then I cut out the wings and antenna for them to glue on.
I printed out the Beehive Shape game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. Then she reviewed her shapes as she matched up the bees with the honeycomb.
I printed out the Pollen Playdough game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. I showed the girls how to make small balls with yellow Play Doh. Then they put the appropriate number of playdough pollen balls on the matching hexagon.
Bee Emotions
I printed out the Bee Emotions Matching game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. First we talked about different emotions and then she matched them up.
The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter A. My 3 year old had a capital A and lowercase a with tracing arrows, along with an astronaut to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing A’s and a’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the A is for Alligator, Apple, Astronaut Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
Astronaut Balancing Tree
I found this little Astronaut Balancing Tree for the girls to play with today. They had a hard time balancing it, so we just set it on the table for them to place the tiny astronauts on.
Straw Rocket
We printed out the Straw Rocket Outlines and then cut them out. We each colored one and then attached the larger end of the pipettes to the back of the rocket with tape. We inserted a straw into the pipette to launch the rocket by blowing up on the straw.
Space Dress
She wore her favorite dress today, her space dress.
Moon Dough (cloud dough)
She got some Butter Cloudz for her birthday and we decided to use it to create a moon for our astronauts from our Astronaut Balancing Tree to stand on. I gave them each a number tile from Math Box, and then they each placed that number of astronauts on their moon dough.
Star Count
I printed out the Star Count Activity game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. Then she counted the number of stars on each piece and placed them on the proper number.
We had some indoor astronaut training. She jumped on her mini trampoline, then hopped on her two handled hippity hop and last she spun around on her gymnastics bar.
The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter A. My 3 year old had a capital A and lowercase a with tracing arrows, along with an apple to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing A’s and a’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the A is for Alligator, Apple, Astronaut Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
A is for Apple Craft
I printed this A is for Apple Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the lower case “a” for them to paint red. After it dried they glued it to a piece of green construction paper. Then I cut out the stem and seeds for them to glue on.
I printed out the Apple Shape Matching game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. Then the girls took turns making a match as they told me the color and shape that was on the apple.
Apple Observations
Then they each got an apple to measure with their Linking Cubes. The colored how many cubes it took to get the height of the apple.
Then they, felt it, smelled it, and then I cut it and the tasted it.
They counted their seeds and colored in that many seeds on the paper. (Save the seeds for the Jumping Apple Seeds experiment).
Jumping Apple Seeds
We placed some apple seeds into a clear plastic cup with a fourth cup of vinegar. Then they added a teaspoon of baking soda and watched the seeds jump around.
Apple Picking
We went to a local farm to pick yellow and red apples. The trees were pretty low, so the girls could reach them.
The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter A. My 3 year old had a capital A and lowercase a with tracing arrows, along with an alligator to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing A’s and a’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the A is for Alligator, Apple, Astronaut Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
A is for Alligator Craft
I printed this A is for Alligator Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the capital A for them to paint green. After is dried they glued it to a piece of blue construction paper. Then I cut out the teeth and eyes for them to glue on.
Alligator Pie
We read the poem by Dennis Lee:
Alligator pie, Alligator pie… If I don’t get some… I think I’m gonna cry! Give away the green grass, Give away the sky, But don’t you give away my Alligator pie!
We made vanilla pudding and dyed it green, then we folded in 8 ounces of cool whip, and placed this in a graham pie crust. Refrigerate it for a couple of hours, then enjoy!
Each of the girls got to choose a number to place on their side of the board, then they placed the same amount of buttons to match their number. After they did this, we talked about it together to figure out if we should use the “greater than” or the “less than” alligator.
Alligator Crawl
The girls didn’t get to do the Alligator Crawl today, but they liked the idea. One of them had a stomachache today and the other had a nasty fall and scraped up her elbow the day before. We will probably try it in a few days when they are all healed up!
She had this little alligator finger puppet craft in her Abeka Arts and Craft with Amber Lamb book. You just color, cut, and tape. She is growling like an alligator in this picture!
Alligator Color Match
I printed out the Alligator Color Match game, and the girls helped me cut them out. I laminated them and the cut them again. Then we turned them all upside down and took turns flipping to try to find matching colors. They enjoyed this game, but had a hard time when the other girl found their favorite color.
Alligator Swamp
I took a big, clear, shallow, empty tub outside with the kids. I asked them what was in a swamp. First they said water, so I added some water to the tub. Next they said grass and leaves, so they all gathered some grass. And last they said that a swamp has mud, so we added a couple small shovels of dirt. I added some foam hand soap to make it bubbly, and last they put in their Schleich Alligators and Fisher Price Little People Alligators. They loved this sensory tub and played in it for quite a while, and one of them got all wet!
Whenever I start teaching my toddlers their shapes, I start with one shape and then add another once they have mastered the first one. I keep adding shapes while always review the shapes that they have mastered. We use videos, books, flashcards, and coloring pages. I keep adding shapes until they know circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, star, heart, and crescent.
Shapes Songs
Here is my Shape YouTube List that we watch when one of my toddlers is learning their shapes. The list starts out by reviewing songs and then teaching each shape individually near the bottom of the list. Songs for each shape; circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, star, heart, and crescent.
Whenever I start teaching my toddlers their colors, I start with one color and then add another once they have mastered the first one. I keep adding colors while always review the colors that they have mastered. We use videos, books, flashcards, and coloring pages. I keep adding colors until they know red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, black, white, and gray.
Colors Songs
Here is my Color YouTube List that we watch when one of my toddlers is learning their colors. The list starts out by teaching each color individually and then has review songs near the bottom of the list. This list has Color Blocks songs, Frog Street songs, and The Good and the Beautiful songs for each color; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, black, white, and gray.
This month my 4 year was learning how to mix colors. We used books and Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities from Teachers Pay Teachers. First I taught her the primary colors; red, yellow, and blue. Then we read the books over and over and she learned how to mix red and yellow to make orange, yellow and blue to make green, and blue and red to make purple.
First we drew a monster outline on a large piece of paper and placed the paper inside a cookie tray. Then we dropped some red and blue paint on the paper and added a few marbles to the cookie tray. She moved the tray back and forth to have the marbles move through the paint and mix the colors. We did another monster with red and yellow paint drops and a third one with blue and yellow paint.
Finally she wanted to do one with all three primary colors of paint.
After the paint dried we cut out black paper to look like mouths and eye brows. We also added googly eyes to the monster.
She loved this book and asked to read it every night for a while.
The Dot
We read The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds and she make several paintings with all sizes and colors of dots on her easel. She even experimented with mixing paint colors to make new colors of dots.
Painting on her easel is one of her favorite activities.
Today we read Color Dance by Ann Jonas and then tried to mix white with each color and black with each color.
We made 3 circles of each color and then added white paint to each color on the column on the left and added black paint to each color on the column on the right.
Mixing Colored Ice Cubes
I froze red, blue, and yellow water. Then she placed the ice cubes in the jars to mix the colors.
red ice cubes in the first jar
red and yellow in the second jar
yellow in the third jar
yellow and blue in the fourth jar
blue in the fith
and blue with red in the last jar.
Painting with Primary Colored Ice Cubes
I also let her paint with the ice tubes. She could make a rainbow by mixing the primary colors.
You might find some more good ideas for learning toddler colors here:
Storm cut out the strawberry shapes. She told me the name of each shape as she glued it to the Strawberry Patch. The shapes included circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, star, heart, crescent.
Flower Colors Cut & Glue
She cut out the flower colors. She told me the name of each color as she glued it to the Flower Garden. The colors included red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, black, white, gray.
The Valentine’s Day Preschool Pack also included many other cut and glue pages that she enjoyed.
Here are a few of the coloring pages from the Valentine’s Day Preschool Pack. These covered shapes, colors, and numbers. There are also some Bible Verse pages too.
Valentine Volcano
This was one of her favorite activities today. We made the volcano in a clear glass heart dish and added glitter. After we made the volcano she played with it for a long time. We got this Valentine Volcano from the Valentine’s Day Preschool Pack too.
Trace & Color Pages
Here are a few of the tracing pages from the Valentine’s Day Preschool Pack. These pages covered the shapes and the numbers.
