Prewriting activities don’t have to be hard. I know that not every child is ready for prewriting lines. That is what the dot marker prewriting printables are for. Dot markers are loads of fun and a great way for kids to work on prewriting without tiny lines. The is fun and easy to use. The…
I love having a lot of variety for my prewriting activities. But sometimes, it is just nice to have the dotted lines all going in the same direction. These are easy to use and great for kids that need lots of practice with their prewriting. There are several different pages to use with your kids….
Easter is such a fun theme and it is always fun to do new activities for each season. I know that fine motor is one skill that people are always looking for more and different ways to do it. Today I have a fun free Easter Egg Prewriting Printable activity, that is sure to be…
I know that the seasons change a lot that we are always looking for new ways to work on prewriting. And today I have something fun just for St. Patrick’s Day! A really fun free St. Patrick’s Day Roll & Trace Prewriting. This is an easy way to get do your prewriting by adding a…
The free Christmas Light Shape Tracing printable is a fun printable to help with some Christmas fine motor skills. It is like having a string of lights in a shape. I always have people looking for more Christmas fine motor skill work! It can be boring to always trace the same lines and kids love…
I love working different learning skills together. Today I have a printable that works on fine motor, shapes, and colors altogether. Candy is a favorite theme for Halloween and also around Valentine Day. I love that it is a theme you can use all year round. Today printable is a free candy jar shapes to…
We love to build on activities we have done before. We made a wonderful torn paper mountain a few years ago. We had a blast making them. My girls wanted to do that again. So I said let’s change it up. I’ll tell you 3 things you have to have in your picture and we…
We have had so much fun making wreaths over the last few years. We did a Christmas version with washi tape wreath. And this year we have a fun new twist on it. It is often fun to take one craft and change it up. My girls came up with different parts of the craft….
I know that it is often hard to find a fun way to work on fine motor skills with older kids. And these washi tape crafts have been a fun way for us to work on our fine motor without calling it that. The washi tape corn is fun to do and a great Thanksgiving…
We have loved all the different washi tape crafts. The season change and as they do my girls ask if I have a new washi tape craft for them to do. We have done several over the last year and have been slowly using up my supply of washi tape. It has been fun to…
Looking for a fun Easter decorating activity then try this. It was a fun last minute idea that my girls wanted to do. We enjoy doing a lot of project with different materials. We have done a lot with Washi tape crafts and loved to create things with it. The Washi Tape Easter Eggs makes…
Space is one theme you can do at almost any time. There is always something you can do. It can be as simple as walking outside and looking at the moon and stars. My girls have been interested in stars for a long time. My husband put stars on their ceiling in their room, and…
Every now and then we do crafts that change things up. I always love the ideas that my girls come up with. Today was one of their suggestions for a craft. My girls wanted to read the book Snow by Uri Shulevitz. It is one of our favorite winter books. We have always done some…
Every fall we are always doing some fun fall tree craft! It is one of our favorite activities. This year our washi tape fall tree activity was the idea of my 11-year-old. She picked out all the craft items for it, and we made it based on what you wanted us to do. Plus this…
One of our favorite parts of our trip this summer was seeing lots of mountains. We don’t have any mountains in Massachusetts. They thought it would be fun to do something to remind us of part of our trip. I got reminded of the scrapbook paper from the other day and they asked to make…
I have been having fun getting rid of things in our house and my girls just wanted to have fun with the scrapbooking paper I bought and have never done anything with. I challenged them to come up with craft time with mom, that we could do after school. Their first craft is a torn…
This year we have been doing something different after school. We have done tons of activities, but a lot of them have been just simple challenges to try something new of different. Kids love to be challenged in fun ways. We have been using the Keva Plank Set. We normally do lots of building up…
Every month, we look forward to our Virtual Book Club Activities! October’s book is a fun one! Llama Llama Red Pajama has been a favorite at bedtime for a while. It is a great book for reminding kids that some times mom just get busy and will always be there. We made a fun pajama…
We loved making these torn paper fall trees. They are fun to make and everyone has a different idea just how their tree should look. Plus, you get a lot of great fine motor while you are working on the trees. One of our favorite fall books is Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. We just love…
This months Contributor post at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom is about gross motor equipment I like to use during the summer. I have several ways that I use each of them in the post. Be sure to read it! There are always different wants to use things and be creative as well! The place I had…
I get asked for more Q-Tip printables a lot. I would love to have time to do nothing but make them! But that does not always happen. I thought I would show you a quick and easy way to make a Dot Marker page into the size for a q-tip. I did a post a…
Christmas trees are a great theme for this time of year. There are so many ways to decorate a Christmas tree. We did this fun q-tip painting activity to get some fun fine motor activities in. This is also and easy activity that the child can lead where they want to go with it. I…
We are on day 10 of the 12 Days of Christmas Activities. I got lucky with 10 Lords a Leaping! I had so many ideas of what I would do. But for this I’m going back to my roots: gross motor. I love doing gross motor activities with my girls. I thought it would be…
Christmas is a great time to explore many different things. My girls love to do coloring activities. We have been working on some writing of Christmas words as well. There are many words to learn at Christmas time. It is fun to be able to learn all of them. These printables are a great way…
One of the great themes of Christmas is the Christmas lights. My girl love looking at the lights. This was a fun change in the activities with the lights. We have been working on colors and fine motor. This was a great way to combined the two activities. This makes such a great activity for…
Every month I love working on my gross motor post. They are something I love to work on. This months post at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom is about jumping with two feet. There are several activities in the post for you to do. What I like best about this post is that it is something that…
With Thanksgiving coming up we have been doing a few counting activities for it. We have doing lots of fun turkey activities. Today we did some fine motor and counting. This was fun and got her thinking. Turkeys are always a popular activity at this time. This ties in perfectly to that theme. This is…
We have been having fun exploring some fine motor activities with Halloween themed cookie cutters! This is tons of fun to explore the colors and how creative you kids can be exploring different combination of items to make the picture in the cookie cutter. This activity works in creative and fine motor at the same…
In the fall we love learning about leaves and doing activities with them. We are always doing some activities with them. This year we did a full 2 weeks on the study of leaves. As part of that we did these hands on activities and sensory bin. When we have a sensory bin I always…
How do you do dot marker printables is one of the top questions that I get. I thought I would show a few ways that we used the Dot Marker printables for the Fall Tree in the Fall Dot Marker Extras. The ways to use these fall tree dot marker printable pages is open ended….