Over in the Forest Themed Clip Cards
My children and I are avid readers, so we’re always on the search for a new treat to read. Over…
Literacy Activities
Fun games, activities and ideas for literacy, from learning letters, spelling words to comprehension these fun ideas are great for kids of all ages.
The Enormous Carrot Storytelling with Props
Summertime is one of my favorite times of the year. The fresh air, the beautiful flowers and of course all the…
Story Telling Wheel for the Snail and the Whale
Hi everyone, I’m so happy to be taking part in Storybook Summer. This week is all about oceans which immediately…
Tiddler Story Telling Prompts
I always refer to my two children as water babies as they absolutely love anything to do with water, and…
100 Fun and Easy Learning Games for Kids – Supporting Learning at Home
Over the last 5 years, I have worked closely with the fabulous Kim and Amanda from The Educators’ Spin On…
Button Box ABC Creations
I don’t know whether it’s just me but I love buttons. My mum and grandmothers all had a button box…
Chocolate Cursive Handwriting Practice
For me as a parent it seems like we’ve just learnt to write and suddenly appearing in the kids school…
Using LEGO to divide Syllables
I don’t know about your kids but mine love LEGO – from the duplo that they collected as toddlers and…
Word Family Houses
It’s such an exciting time when your child learns to recognise letters and understands that blending them together can make…
DIY Sensory Letters – Cursive Alphabet
At the beginning of the school year, a letter came home with the kids about a new school handwriting policy…
Llama Llama Patterned Pajamas – pre-writing activity
Learning to write is one of the hardest things, it’s a learnt mechanism, when you can write you no longer…
Digital Journalling with Kids
There is no doubt that we live in a digital age where digital communication is the way things seem to…
Me Llamo Game – starting on Spanish
Yesterday I introduced the new year of early childhood education posts kicking off with a preparing for school, today and…
Dancing with Dinosaurs
For our first week of storybook summer this year we’re looking at the Land before time and so far we’ve…
Setting-up for Summer Learning with Chalks
We’re heading into Summer finally and the #playfulpreschool team are bringing you ideas to take your learning through the summer…
Letter Recognition Flowers
We’re embarking on learning more and more letters and I wanted to create a reusable activity that I could pull…
NonFiction Book Scavenger Hunt
We spend a lot of time reading story books with the kids and both of mine knew how you held…
Ladybug Prepositions Play
We’re presently undergoing speech therapy for our preschooler, her language and understanding are fantastic, however, over 18 months ago she…
Rocket Landings Word Families Game
Throughout schooling and life there is a point where something just clicks and we’ve reached that point in preschool with…
Upper and Lower Case Hat Match
We’re right in the middle of an explosion of understanding with my youngest – she’s grasping so many different concepts…
Letter Match Tooth Cleaning Game – healthy kids
This week’s theme for #playfulpreschool is all about healthy kids, exercising, healthy eating and healthy habits. Like always, we’re bringing…
Pete the Cat – White Shoes literacy activities
Bring the book Pete the Cat; I love my White Shoes by Eric Litwin, illustrated by James Dean to life for preschoolers by creating this simple literacy based activity for them, working on letter sounds, colours and name recognition as well as basic fine motor and scissor skills.
Feather Writing
Help children to develop good writing skills with this fun feather writing activity, use real or fake feather sand write in the salt or sand tray with shapes that make letters or letters that they knew then erase them and start again.
Exploring Scarecrows with technology
This weeks playful preschool theme is all about scarecrows – one that gave us the perfect opportunity to explore some…