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Preschool Ideas

  • DIY Superhero Inspired Pattern Stones for first and second grade mathematics pattern and sequence work
  • Hands-on Multiplication activity based around the Chicka Chicka Books by Bill Martin Jr
  • Support your early years child at home with these tips and resources that will help your create hands-on activities to prepare them for a future of learning
  • Simple craft for kids, a paper plate fish collage ideal for the favourite children's storybook tiddler by Julia Donaldson
  • Scaredy Squirrel inspired learning activities
  • Woodland Nature hike and extension activities to do at home with young kids, bringing books about the forest alive for kids this summer.
  • BBQ spice recipe and simple skewers that kids can make as well. Ideal Summer recipe to throw on the grill
  • Fun and interactive kids craft to make a bouncy bee
  • Over in the Garden – Activities & Food
  • Black Dot Printing, creative art project for mixed age groups of children creating pictures created with black dots similar to old style newsprint
  • Investigating Insect Camouflage with the favourite children's storybook Dot & Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery by Ellen Stoll Walsh
  • Read Whatever Happened to the Dinosaurs and play along creating your own sensory excavation bin as well as be a Paleontologists as your children investigate making their own fossils.
  • Addition & subtraction bug fun for elementary kids, working on adding and subtracting double digit numbers
  • Math Manipulatives, take learning outside this summer and save money with this free resources for learning, sorting, ordering and estimation
  • Explore colour theory with this simple experiment that involves no mess - bringing the classic childrens storybook Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni to life whilst learning at the same time.
  • Pie Tin Boats - challenge the family this summer with this simple engineering challenge to see who can make a boat out of pie cases and get it to go the fastest across the water.
  • Setting up for summer learning with chalks - give your children the resources and inspiration this summer with one of our favourite materials Chalks and watch the learning happen
  • Bug and Butterfly Summer Camp - a weeks worth of crafts, outdoor, snacks and learning activities for kids that you can do with the kids at home
  • Letter recognition flowers - help preschoolers learn their letters with this DIY summer flower garden to work on letter recognition skills
  • Learning to read the days of the week with The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Ladybug Maths - Symmetry and Doubling
  • Ladybug Prepositions - speech and language play for young children
  • Skip Counting Battlements - Castle themed math activity for counting in 2's, 10's and 5's
  • What makes balls bounce? Preschool Science investiagion

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