Arctic Animal Puzzles and I Spy Game (Free Printables)

We have been running slow at our house.  Here's our next set of activities in our Arctic Animal Theme. 

First up is a a set of 3 number puzzles.  Each one has an adorable animal and numbers 1-10 on the side.  Simply print and put the puzzle together.  You can do the puzzle over and over again or glue to a paper.

 The second activity is an I spy game.  It includes 1 board game and 1 answer sheet.  Print both and see how many of each animal you can find.  Write the answer in the blank.  This is a fun way to practice counting and writing numbers.  I like to laminate these and use them over and over again.

 Download this mini pack here

Adorable graphics from Prettygrafik design, and KHDigi . Fonts from Hello Literacy.

You can find our other arctic and penguin themed posts here

Letter P preschool mini pack

Here are a few fun ways to teach the letter P.  I like to do these three activities with every letter I teach.  They do not take much time but are great for review and I find having some consistent activities work well for my little one.

The first activity is a Mini Letter Book.  Print in color or black and white.  Cut across the line and staple.  Cover page is included.  I keep all of mini books together for review and my little one loves that she can "read" her books.

I usually print the black and white to save ink but also it makes a fun coloring book.  It a cute way to make their book just a little more personalized.  Don't worry there are no watermarks on the downloads.

Here's our letter poster.  I print and leave this out all week.  We go over each picture and say the letter sound.  For example parrot-p-p-parrot.  This also comes in black and white (makes a really cute coloring page) and a color but no boarder version to save on some ink.  Just print what you need.

Download the mini book and posters here

The third activity is our tracer page.  I don't really do a lot of worksheets at this age but my 4 year old thinks its pretty cool to have "homework" like her big sisters so this is perfect.  You can also laminate and reuse it.

Download the tracer page here.

Letter P Penguin Craft

This little guy turned out so cute!  I love using letter crafts to introduce our theme and its a fun way to recognize letters.  All of our letter crafts will eventually end up in an abc book and I'm excited to have this little keepsake.  

You probably don't need a tutorial for this one.  She wanted to paint snow so the day before she used my acrylic glossy white paint and a large sponge brush to paint her paper.  It gives it a shiny look and kind of looks like snow.

I had all the pieces up out for her and she glued them together.  

I love these quick and easy crafts that teach something!

Feed the Penguin Counting Mats

We are continuing our arctic theme and I decided to post some of our activities separate and then one large post as we finish up that will included all of these activities and any extra activities that do not have an individual post.  I'm hoping it will be easier to find and pin the specific activities you are looking for. We'll see how it goes.

For this game download your free counting mats, print, and cut (download is at the end of this post).  I printed mine on card stock and laminated.  We are using them for a few other activities so I wanted them durable.  

Grab some goldfish and start feeding your penguins.  If there is a number 6 have your little one put 6 goldfish on that penguin. 

Another great activity is to mix them up and have your little one put the cards in order from smallest to biggest or biggest to smallest.  

These cards might look familiar if you have already downloaded our Penguin Number Hunt game.   We used the same counting mats.  If not this fun game included in the download and you can check out this post to find a fun bonus game to use with these mats.

Adorable graphics from Prettygrafik design, and Krista Wallden-Creative Clips. Fonts from Hello Literacy

You can Download your Free Counting Mats here!

Penguin Number Hunt

We have been working on our new Arctic Unit and will be sharing all of our fun activities soon! Today is actually Penguin Awareness Day and goes right along with our theme (you can find our January calendar full of fun holidays here).  

I thought I would pop in and share one of our penguin activities a little early in case you need something fun to do :)

This Free Download (located at the end of this post) includes these adorable number cards (1-10) all ready for you to print and cut.  I printed mine on card stock and laminated.  We are using them for a few other activities so I wanted them durable.

 Hide them around the room and let your little one go on a penguin hunt.

After you find them you can use this cute tracker to match up the numbers.  They can be colored or crossed out.

We like to laminate ours so we can reuse it.

Adorable graphics from Prettygrafik design, and Krista Wallden-Creative Clips. Fonts from Hello Literacy

You can Download your Free Penguin Hunt Activity here!

P is for Princess

This was one of our very first preschool themes we did and its still my favorite.  We might need to do it again now that I have another princess loving 3 year old.
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P is for Princess of course!

For our preschool activities this week we focused on the letter P. Our theme of course was princess. Here are some of the fun activities we worked on.

Princess letter complete with purple crown with pink polka dots and pasta hair. Aubrey cut out the polka dots, glued everything on, and helped draw the smile. She loved this activity.

Of course what princess doesn't need a crown. (Sadly this printable is no longer available but there are lots of cute crowns crafts on pinterest) We used the jewels to practice her shapes (most cut out to basic shapes), We practiced colors, and gluing.Here are the two books we used this week-Princess Sparkle and I'm going to be the best princess ever. Both are great books and both of my girls love them. Two other activities we did were coloring the letter P. Aubrey even added polka dots (remembering them from the previous activity). We used this template.She practiced "writing." She is a little young for this still but we are going to continue this with each letter. She had a lot of fun "doing her work" as she called it. I put the page in a sheet protector and let her write with her washable markers (it wipes off very easy with water). The template was found here.We did a big activity on Thursday by having a princess party just like in the book. We ate pizza, drank pop, and had princess pops (cake pops) for dessert. The girls dressed in their pretty princess dress. To finish up the girls and I had a pajama party with popcorn and watched the princess movie (Enchanted). We tried to watch it in our palace/fort but the girls didn't really like it and it kept falling down. I guess we need daddy to make the next one.

Through out the week we pointed out items that start with the letter P. We practiced the sound it makes, and we found all the P's in her princess books. It was a really fun week.

Painting Pigs with Pudding Activity

Here's a fun Letter P or Farm theme activity.  We did this one a while ago but it is one of my favorites... Painting piggies with pudding.  We talked about how much pigs love the mud and how they use it to keep cool.  Then we covered our own pigs with mud (chocolate pudding).

First I drew a pig for each of them on tin foil (I'm not an artist).  Then gave them a plate of chocolate pudding and let them use it to finger paint their pigs.

So much fun! 

My computer crashed last week and I hope to be back up and running sometime next week. Until then I'll be popping in with some fun posts from my old blogs like todays.