Category: Tot School

I is for Igloo (preschool)

The girls had fun learning about igloos today. The girls especially loved that it snowed last night. We got our recourses for today from the Letter I is for Inchworm, Igloo, & Insect Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Igloo Science

Igloo Writing

  • The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter I. My 3 year old had a capital I and lowercase i with tracing arrows, along with an igloo to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing I’s and i’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter I is for Inchworm, Igloo, & Insect Preschool Pack Digital Download.

Snow Dough

  • First we mixed 1 cup cornstarch and 1/2 cup dish soap, but the snow dough turned blue because our dish soap was blue.
  • Next we mixed 1 cup flour with 1/2 cup vegetable oil, but this was just crumbly.
  • I printed out and laminated the Counting Igloo Playdough mats for them to use with their snow dough.

Igloo Shapes

  • I printed out the Igloo Shape game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. Then she reviewed her shapes as she matched up the igloo doors with the igloos.

Four Igloos

Ice Painting

  • We placed a drop of food coloring into each ice cube hole, then added water and froze.

Igloo Color Matching

  • I printed out the  Igloo Color Matching game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. She reviewed each color as she matched up the colored child with the matching colored igloo.

I spy the letter I

Marshmallow Igloo

  • I cut an opening in a paper bowl and then glued it upside down onto a paper plate.
  • Then the girls glued mini marshmallows all over the bowl to make an igloo.

AlphaTales

We read the I book in our AlphaTales collection. The girls really enjoy these funny phonetic stories.

More Igloo Videos

Snow Day

  • Luckily we got the most snow that they have ever seen last night, about a foot and a half.

Here are some of our other alphabet preschool posts:

G is for Globe (preschool)

The girls had fun learning about the globe today. They enjoyed painting as always and playing catch with an inflatable globe. We got our recourses for today from the Letter G is for Goat, Garden, Globe Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

Globe Learning

Globe Writing

  • The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter G. My 3 year old had a capital G and lowercase g with tracing arrows, along with a globe to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing G’s and g’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter G is for Goat, Garden, Globe Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

G is for Globe Craft

  • I printed this G is for Globe craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the capital “G” for them to paint gray. Then I cut out the earth for them to glue onto a piece of black construction paper. Last they glued the capital “G” on the globe.

Three Globes

  • The girls each had a similar number 3 paper for counting globes. My 3 year old had the number 3 with tracing arrows, along with a helpful poem, and a globe to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added more tracing 3’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter G is for Goat, Garden, Globe Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

3-D Globe Painting

  • We looked at our globe to talk about the blue water and the green land. Then the girls used watercolors to paint the Globe Printable. We cut them out and slid them together to make a globe.

Compass Rose

  • We learned about the Compass Rose with this poster and then reviewed the directions with the Compass Rose cut and paste paper.

Globe Worksheets

Playdough Globe

Inflatable Globe

  • They loved playing catch with the inflatable globe. We reviewed where the water was and where the land was when they caught it.

AlphaTales

Here are some of our other alphabet preschool posts:

Preschool Shapes Lists (books, song, flashcards)

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.

Shapes Flashcards

These FREE Preschool Shape Flashcards English & Spanish Homeschool Toddler from Teachers Pay Teachers in fun pastel colors. I used my Scotch Laminator to make them into more durable cards for the kids.

Shapes Books

We really enjoyed this Shape Book Series by Molly Dingles (also have Spanish edition):

Here is a smaller shape series by Anita Loughrey, only has 4 of our shapes though.

Here is a creative book series for preschool age kids too, by Christianne C. Jones.

Colors Coloring Pages

We use this FREE Shape Worksheets Tot School, Preschool, Homeschool (Learn 9 Shapes) from Teachers Pay Teachers . The coloring sheets feature shaped items for circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, star, heart, and crescent.. I let the kids use different ways to color each page; markers, crayons, paint, dot daubers, and colored pencils.

Here are some of my other book list posts:

Here are some of my other toddler/ preschool shapes posts:

Preschool Colors Lists (books, song, flashcards)

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.

Colors Flashcards

These FREE Preschool Color Flashcards English & Spanish Homeschool Toddler from Teachers Pay Teachers feature fun fruits and vegetables. I used my Scotch Laminator to make them into more durable cards for the kids.

Colors Books

We really enjoy the book series about colors by Christianne C. Jones. Each page has a hidden crayon that my kids loved to try to find.

We also love the colors book series by Patricia M. Stockland.

  • Red by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Yellow  by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Blue by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Green by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Purple  by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Orange by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Black  by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Brown  by Patricia M. Stockland
  • White by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Gray by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Pink by Patricia M. Stockland

And the series by Molly Dingles. These books are also available in Spanish.

Colors Coloring Pages

We use this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK from Teachers Pay Teachers . The coloring sheets feature animals, foods, clothing, toys, and nature. I let the kids use different ways to color each page; markers, crayons, paint, dot daubers, and colored pencils.

Here are some of my other book list posts:

Here are some of my other toddler/ preschool colors posts:

Preschool Mixing Colors

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.

Monsters Love Colors

We read Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin and decided to make some marble painting monsters.

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.

Mix It Up! and Press Here

For today we read Mix It Up! and Press Here by Herve Tullet. She really enjoyed the actions in these books. We used our Primary Science Lab to mix colored water. I placed a few drops of red, yellow, and blue food coloring in the beakers.

She used an eye dropper to mix the primary colors to make the secondary colors.

Red and yellow to make orange, blue and yellow to make green, and last red and blue to make purple.

Once she had all the colors, she experimented with the colored water to make new colors. Most of them ended up as a brown color.

She really enjoys playing with this Primary Science Lab. Just be sure to place it on a cookie tray on top of a towel if you have very young children.

Mouse Paint & White Rabbit’s Color Book

We read Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh and White Rabbit’s Color Book by Alan Baker.

I printed the color mixing page from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities from Teachers Pay Teachers onto cardstock. She only had the primary colors of paint and she had to mix those to make the primary colors.

Color Dance

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:

Or some more of our preschool units here:

Preschool Spelling Colors

This month my 4 year was learning how to spell colors while the 2 year old also learned to identify the colors. We used books, songs, worksheets, and hands on activities to learn, red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, black, brown, white, gray, and pink. We used two packets from Teachers Pay Teachers; Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities and Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK.

Red

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the red strawberries and the write the word “RED” at the bottom.
  • Color the red fire truck and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the red dot dauber to make dots around the word “RED”.

Activities:

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and crayons and she painted a page too.

Yellow

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the yellow sun and the write the word “YELLOW” at the bottom.
  • Color the yellow school bus and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the yellow dot dauber to make dots around the word “YELLOW”.

Activities:

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and she painted a page too.

Blue

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the blue bird and the write the word “BLUE” at the bottom.
  • Color the blue butterfly and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the blue dot dauber to make dots around the word “BLUE”.

Activities:

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and she painted a page too.

Green

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the green caterpillar and the write the word “GREEN” at the bottom.
  • Color the green dino and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the green dot dauber to make dots around the word “GREEN”.

Activities:

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and she painted a page too.

Purple

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the purple violet and the write the word “PURPLE” at the bottom.
  • Color the purple grapes and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the purple dot dauber to make dots around the word “PURPLE”.

Activities:

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and she painted a page too.

Orange

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the orange carrots and the write the word “ORANGE” at the bottom.
  • Color the orange tiger and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the orange dot dauber to make dots around the word “ORANGE”.

Activities:

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and she painted a page too.

Black

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the black spider and the write the word “BLACK” at the bottom.
  • Color the black bat and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the black dot dauber to make dots around the word “BLACK”.

Activities:

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and she painted a page too.

Brown

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the brown football and the write the word “BROWN” at the bottom.
  • Color the brown guitar and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the brown dot dauber to make dots around the word “BROWN”.

Activities:

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and she painted a page too.

White

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the white dice and the write the word “WHITE” at the bottom.
  • Color the white snow flakes and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the white dot dauber to make dots around the word “WHITE”.

Activities:

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and she painted a page too.

Gray

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the gray hammer and the write the word “GRAY” at the bottom.
  • Color the gray shark and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the gray dot dauber to make dots around the word “GRAY”.

Activities:

  • “I Can Spell Gray” YouTube Song
  • Spell “GRAY” with gray play dough and letter cutters. We mixed some black and some white to make the gray play dough.
  • Spread sand on a cookie sheet and use your finger to spell “GRAY”.

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and she painted a page too.

Pink

Book List:

Worksheets:

I got all of these worksheets from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color the pink pig and the write the word “PINK” at the bottom.
  • Color the pink flower and then cut out the letters from the bottom of the page and glue them in the proper order.
  • Use the pink dot dauber to make dots around the word “PINK”.

Activities:

Tot Time:

I printed out this Bundle “I Know My Colors” Coloring Book Jumbo for Toddler and Preschool PreK for my 2 year old granddaughter to have fun learning colors too. She colored them with markers and she painted a page too.

Review

We also played some games from Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.

  • Color BINGO
  • High Five Colors
  • I Spy Colors
  • Color Parking Lot

She also did some coloring sheets that had all of the colors to read and trace.

She also did some coloring sheets with Bible verses She wanted to use sliver and gold so we added Esther 8:15.

We also worked on her favorite color.

I printed the cut and glue Spider Colors and Flower Garden from this FALL FUN pack and VALENTINE pack on Teacher Pay Teachers.

You might find some more good ideas for learning toddler colors here:

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Or some more of our preschool units here:

Valentine’s Day Preschool

My 4 year old wanted to have some fun this Valentine’s Day. I printed out Valentine’s Day Preschool / Toddler Math & Literacy Activity Pack Worksheets from Teacher’s Pay Teachers, which had lots of fun activities.

Strawberry Shapes Cut & Glue

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.

Painting Ceramics

She got a ceramic butterfly bank to paint with acrylic paints.

Flower Play Dough

We made this homemade flower play dough using the recipe from the Valentine’s Day Preschool Pack. We added lavender essential oils and glitter to make it more fun. Then Storm rolled out the dough and used my Wilton heart cutters to place hearts on the Flower Play Dough Mat.

Heart Colors Matching Game

I printed out and she helped me cut up the colorful hearts from the Valentine’s Day Preschool Pack to play the heart matching game together.

Butterfly Life Cycle

We printed the butterfly life cycle and the 2 Corinthians 5:17 Valentine’s Day Preschool Pack. Then we got out our Butterfly Life Cycle Stages figurines for her to play with as well.

Coloring Pages

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.

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Ocean Theme School Lunches

We had a fun ocean themed lunch at school for our “Anchored” week at school. Each day we found creative ways to incorporate all of the food groups. We also had to keep the calories and sodium counts down to meet the state requirements for serving food to the school children.

We used clear plastic cups for the pudding, jello, and the banana cup. We also offered milk everyday even though it is not pictured.

Monday

Ham & Cheese Sea Monster Sandwich
Goldfish Crackers
Broccoli Ocean Sprouts
Coral Reef Fruit Cocktail
Shark Pudding (Gummy Sharks)

Tuesday

Fish Shape Nuggets
Barnacle Baked Beans
Sea Dragon Punch
Blueberry Bubbles
Teddy Graham Beach Jello (Umbrella Toothpick)

Wednesday

Peg Leg Chicken
Sea Shell Pasta Salad
Green Sea Beans
Dolphin Banana in Grapes
Mermaids Delight Ice Cream (Mermaid Sprinkles)

Thursday

Hot Dog Octopus on Seaweed Spaghetti
Crab Leg Carrot Sticks
Sea Cucumber Slices
Green Sea Turtle Apple

(We added the hotdog bun to get enough whole grain. And we added a banana, because we had extras left from yesterday.)

Friday

Sand Dollar Pancakes
Sea Foam Scrambled Eggs
Treasure Tater Tots
Poseidon’s Red Pepper Sticks
Orange Boats

You might enjoy some of my other party posts:

Christian Board Book Library

Here is our toddler Christian Board Book Library. I usually put a small board book in the kids Easter baskets and I also get them a book each Christmas as well. I have included the books that we have with links to purchase them yourself if you wish.

We read books each night before bed. It is the best time for cuddles and kisses too!

We also love Masterbooks preschool books, they have a few board books too. You can use the link below to explore Masterbooks.

https://www.masterbooks.com/?acc=1d095528ec191047c59a7fe2adab47ab

Here are some of our other Book List Posts:

Preschool Learning Numbers

She is 3 years old and learning how to identify her numbers, count, and number sequence.

Numbers Book List

One Foot Two Feet by Felicia Zekauskas was one of my favorite books. It gives the singular and plural of some of the more challenging English words for young children to understand. Goose-Geese, Foot-Feet, etc…

Numbers Resources

Number 1

Number 2

Number 3

Number 4

Number 5

Number 6

Number 7

Number 8

Number 9

Number 10

10 Apples up on Top

First we read 10 Apples up on Top by Dr. Seuss. Print out the free 10 Apple Stack from Teachers Pay Teachers. Then Storm glued a picture of herself to the bottom of the paper and cut out the apples and glued them in numerical order on top of her head.

Ten Little Rubber Ducks

First we read Ten Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle. Print out the free 10 Ducklings Number Sequencing from Teachers Pay Teachers. Then Storm painted a paper with blue watercolor. She cut out the ducklings and glued them in numerical order following the momma duck.

Number 12

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