The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter M. My 3 year old had a capital M and lowercase m with tracing arrows, along with a monkey to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing M’s and m’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the M is for Monkey, Mouse / Mice, & Magnet Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
M is for Monkey Craft
I printed this M is for Monkey Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the Capitol “M” for them to paint brown. After that dried they glued it to a piece of green construction paper. Then I cut out the head, tail, and feet for them to glue on.
Five Monkeys
The girls each had a similar number 5 paper for counting monkeys. My 3 year old had the number 5 with tracing arrows, along with a helpful poem, and 5 monkeys to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added more tracing 5’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the M is for Monkey, Mouse / Mice, & Magnet Teachers Pay Teachers pack.
Monkey Emotions
I printed out the Monkey Emotions Matching game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. First we talked about different emotions and then she matched them up.
Playdough Bananas
I printed out and laminated the Monkey Play Dough Mat. She rolled yellow Play Doh into banana shapes to place the appropriate amount of bananas on each page.
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 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
The girls each had a similar number 4 paper for counting igloo. My 3 year old had the number 4 with tracing arrows, along with a helpful poem, and 4 igloos to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added more tracing 4’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the Letter I is for Inchworm, Igloo, & Insect Preschool Pack Digital Download.
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.
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.
She also reviewed her shapes with the Shape Globe paper.
Playdough Globe
I printed out and laminated the Globe Dough Mat. She rolled out green and blue Play Doh and placed the appropriate colors for the water and land on the 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.
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.
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
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!
