Leaf Art for Preschoolers.
Autumn is finally here and as we walk the dog we can see the leaves changing colour almost before our…
Writing Activities for Kids
Dinosaur Sand Writing Tray for Preschoolers
Using a sand tray with your preschoolers is a great way to get them mark-making and practicing letter formation. This…
Bear Stays Up Late for Christmas 3 Part Montessori Cards
My kids and I love the Bear and Friends books by Karma Wilson. The stories are gentle and applicable to kids,…
Write Silly Space Sentences
For today’s Storybook Summer post we are writing and making up sentences all about Space – this is a great…
Making Your Mark!
For the last 4 years, I have heard over and over again how my eldest struggles with writing, particularly handwriting…
Pinkalicious Sand Tray for Pre-Writing Practice
My daughter has one colour that is her uttermost favourite in the world – Pink and discovering Pinkalicious by Victoria…
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…
Place Value Leaves: Read and Write
As a child I remember learning my hundreds, tens and units and then moving onto decimal places, thousands, millions etc……
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.
Prewriting skills – draw and erase
Prewriting skills is an important stage in child development, it’s those squiggles, lines and circles that eventually will form individual…
Simple Fine Motor Activities for Home
School means writing and although teachers may work on the actual writing your child needs to have the fine motor…
Preschool writing activity – Salt tray
Developing preschool writing skills – salt tray At some point in preschool years children start to develop an interest in…