A wonderful exploration in block building only this time we used the easel as our platform for block play. Super cool idea taught to me by one of my students!

Today was a wonderful exploration of birds and nests but this post also shares a few observations on creating a successful preschool experience.

Yesterday I made my own Easter grass and I am using part of the colorful shredded grass to make a sorting game for the kids… I started by gluing a handful of colorful shredded grass to paper plates. This gives a little bit of a bird nest look but with lots of spring colors… I [...]

Here are a few potato activities to keep your preschooler busy while you are making potato soup! Paper Potatoes This is simple and but I thought it was kinds of fun… Simply cut or tear a potato shape from a brown paper bag… Set out a little green paint and make fingerprints on the potato for [...]

I wish everyone could have seen the delight in this little girl’s face as she was playing in the shave cream today… Shave cream play was one of several activities the teacher had out on the classroom tables to explore… But this little girl just kept going back to the shave cream table… Once she [...]

As part of our color review week, the children tried out a little brown finger painting but instead of using brown paint, they used chocolate pudding. After mixing up a bowl of chocolate pudding, they dipped their fingers in the pudding and began making brown pudding prints on a piece of paper… To this point [...]

I have already shared how we integrate the letter of the week with a tactile experience but I wanted to take a minute to elaborate on what we did for the letter E. Trying to find something that the children could glue on the letter E that started with the sound of the letter E [...]