P is for Paint - Printables

P is for PAINT

One of our favorite words around here!

 Here are a few printables I created with a paint theme. The free printables include: Complete the patterns, pre-writing trace, letter recognition, connect the colors, counting objects and cut and paste.

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Check out some of our other printables:

  You're a Whoot

Yo Ho Matey

Thinking about Christmas

Candy Cane Patterns

A quick, simple and fun learning activity!

I cut a candy cane shape from cardboard. Then, I cut some red and green pipe cleaners into ~1.5 inch pieces.

I would start a pattern on the candy cane and let Little Mister finish it. We tried several different repeating patterns, like:

Red, Green

Red, Red, Green

Green, Red, Green

You get the idea!

He had fun and then......

An elf in a 4-wheeler showed up and ruined everything!

Merry Christmas!

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Santa in Shapes

  Little Mister has been walking around singing,

 "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Santa Clause is Coming to Town"!

 I guess squishing 2 Christmas Carols together makes it so much better!

Since we have been singing about Santa for some time now, I thought we should add him to our holiday craft line-up!

You need:

4 Rectangles

3 Circles

2 Triangles

1 Square

some cotton balls and google eyes

 We first sorted our shapes into groups. 

We counted them (each group and then all together). 

Then, we grouped by color.

Finally, I handed him a glue stick!

 He was proud!

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Thinking about Christmas - Printables

My Little Mister is getting so excited about Christmas; the lights, the decorations, the crafts, Santa everywhere we go... Did I mention lights?? He is definitely giving me a much needed shove boost into the Christmas spirit this year!

Here are a few printables I created to keep in tune with this festive season!

As always, I hope you enjoy and give me some feed back.

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Letters from Santa

 For months I have been cutting out large letters from boxes of cereal, crackers, snacks, 12-packs... anything made of thick cardboard. 

(You might be able to tell that we like Sunkist and Cheez-Its around here!)

I confiscated an empty coffee container from Nonnie's house and cut a few scrapes of paper to make it look like Santa's belly!

 

Then, I added those seemingly thousands of letters and let the play begin.

We spelled names.

We sorted letters.

We worked on lining up the alphabet.

We sorted by color.

There is so many ways to play and learn with these letters!

Not bad for things that were rescued from a landfill! How's that for recycling?

Merry Christmas Mother Nature! 

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On a ROLL again - Name Bowling

We just can't wait to get on the roll again!

And learn the letters of our name

Little Mister went bowling for the first time this week. His Aunt Tina and I actually went early one day and we were the only folks there. (I was worried about all the noise, so it worked out perfect.)

He was so excited when he saw all the balls we had to chose from, then bummed because we couldn't keep it!

I took the ball up to the line and he pushed it down the lane. I'm glad they were not busy because the worker had to get it a few times for us. He couldn't push it hard enough to make it roll all the way down. But he had fun! 

I took this new experience and made some learning fun out of it as well. I made some 'pins' from TP rolls covered in colored construction paper. I wrote a letter from his name on each pin.

He would aim at a specific letter or color and launched the ball at it!

Then he started cheating

Then it became a hockey game

BOYS! Gotta love'em!

You're a WHoot! with printables

Owls seem to be everywhere all of a sudden. I'm not jumping on the bandwagon, but my Little Mister really likes them. I am always trying to appeal to his interests when thinking of some learning activities. So, we have owls! 

 The free printables at the end of this post include: matching, fill in the color, letter recognition, complete the pattern, counting skills, maze, pre-writing skills, trace the letter and size sorting.

I hope you will try them with your kiddos and give me some feedback. Enjoy!

But first, Whoo Loves You? We made a cute little frame to answer that question!

We painted 6 large craft sticks brown. Then, we glued them all together. We added juice lids for eyes and a construction paper beak. Little Mister picked out this particular picture that he wanted in the frame. One of my early favorites of the chunky monkey!

We also made a cute little owlet from a pine cone, two cotton balls, two google eyes, a construction paper beak and a cardboard circle. Easy and very cute!

Did you know you can dry and make your pine cones open by placing them in the oven? It also leaves a warm, earthy smell in your house! Love it.

Some great owl-ee books we enjoyed also:

Here are our owl-lovin' printables for the week! If you try them please give me some feedback. I want to know what you liked or (gulp) disliked about them. Thanks and enjoy!

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