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Father's Day Craft Activity for Preschool and Kindergarten Kids

5/29/2020

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Father's Day is quickly approaching, and we're sharing our most popular Father's Day craft activity with you right here for FREE!  Check out our quick tutorial, and you'll be ready to show Mr. Fix It your Father's Day love!

Grab the FREE Toolbox Craft and Poem Download Here!

(IMPORTANT NOTE - Once you get to the checkout screen, it will ask for your billing address. The system requires this and we can't change that. But once you click 'continue to payment' it will show you that it is FREE, and you will be able to finish the transaction without putting in any credit card or paypal information. A link will then be sent to your inbox where you can download the file!)
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Our Father's Day Bundles Provide Crafts for Every Dad In Your Life!

Is the Dad in your life not quite the fixer-upper type?  No problem!  We have a variety of crafts to choose from in our shop!  Check out our Father's Day Craft Bundles to find gifts for every Dad in your life, including the following: donut love, king of the grill, the business type, and one cool pop!
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AND included in our MAJOR MARKDOWNS today, our featured craft bundle is 50% off!  Crafts include the following: "Beary" special dad, a football fan dad, the sports pop, and the handy dandy dad!
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Teach Letters and Sounds with Preschool and Kindergarten Kids

5/22/2020

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This is the latest letter practice game we like to play!  It's just so, so simple.  I love that we don't have to get a bunch of stuff out for a 10-15 minute activity.  We just do as many letters as we can squeeze in, until he loses interest.  Mom says a letter.  He finds the letter on his alphabet puzzle.  He writes the letter on his board.
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There's a little jingle we do with each letter, too!  This third child has been the least interested in entertaining me with teaching him, but he's given me clues to prove that he's soaking it in.  Just today, he had the hose running into his pool, and the water was forming a rainbow.  He started singing, "R for rainbow. R-r-r!"  Gah!!!  Yay!  I wish I could've caught it on video.  He was surprised by my excitement, but that was my proof that he actually is engaged with our learning.  Such a stinker....  Check it out his little chant with the letter Aa here:
: Simple letter games like this one are included in our weekly letter learning regimen, along with work from our Letter Learning Packet.  Keep reading for more info!

After years of teaching, I have finally compiled my favorite alphabet activities into one resource!  The handwriting sheets are just right for the progression of developing the formation of the letters throughout a week of learning.  Suggested activities provide SO much fun while learning each letter, and kids are excited to find out what each day has in store!  
 

The first page of this resource includes a letter sheet.  As we learn new letters, children color the posters with yellow crayons.  They are encouraged to practice their letter poems in their free time. 

Contents for Each Letter:
Page 1: Handwriting Directions with suggested youtube links provided

AND Suggestions for:
-snack
-youtube song that correlates with the letter poster
-animal research topic
-fine motor practice
-creating the letters
-additional activities

Page 2, 3: Letter Poster (color and black and white version)
Hang these posters on your fridge for children to refer to as you learn.  With both the Zaner Bloser letters on lines and the pictures that are in the shape of letters, letter identification skills stick!  

Page 4: Letter Poem (Day 1)
Each letter has a silly poem to go along with the poster.  Child creates a color code and finds the uppercase and lowercase letters.  Child counts how many letters s/he found, and writes numbers on the lines.  Practice the poem of the week daily to learn letter sounds.  I recommend using the letter sign language with the last line of each poem.  (Note that you are to say the letter first in the sentence and the sound last.)  As you learn each letter, read the poems that go along with each one daily.  Be sure to act them out for fun and engagement!

Page 5: Uppercase Letter and Lowercase Letter (Day 2)
Child traces letters, and write letters in spaces below.  You might use crayons or markers for a extra fun.  

Page 6: Uppercase Letter (Day 3)
Child traces, writes, and draws a picture that corresponds with the uppercase letter on the poster.

Page 7: Lowercase Letter (Day 4)
Child traces, writes, and draws a picture that corresponds with the lowercase letter on the poster.

Page 8: Uppercase and Lowercase Letters (Day 5)
Child traces, writes, and draws pictures or writes words that begin with the letter.

Grab our FREE preview to the resource here: Letter Mm Posters, Handwriting, Worksheets, and Phonics Poem!
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Grab the Full Packet Here:

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Patriotic Name Craft Activity for Preschool and Kindergarten Kids

5/19/2020

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It's nearly time!!
We're looking forward to honoring our fallen soldiers this Memorial Day!  Create and celebrate with us!  This week's FREEBIES for Families craft features ways for children to work on several skills, including letter identification, writing letters, putting letters in order to build names, and of course, the fine motor tasks of coloring, cutting, gluing, and writing!  In working with my three year old, you will see that I wrote the letters and cut out the pieces for him.  He enjoyed the task of coloring "circles" over and over again.  Apparently, that's his favorite shape of the day??  He loves that glue stick, and I love that it's not messy, so he pieced his project together independently, for the most part.  It was a fun task for him to find the letters of his name and put them in the correct order! 
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Our FREEBIE of the week is included as a preview to our deeply discounted bundle, being offered for a very limited of time at 50% off!  Along with building their names, your children can practice various skills with our United States Symbols Craft Pack, including putting numbers in order on the Capitol Building, learning about eagles, and adding the stripes on the US flag.   Grab your bundle by clicking below NOW!

UNITED STATES SYMBOLS CRAFTS FOR KIDS:
CAPITOL BUILDING Number Order, EAGLE Writing and Drawing,
FLAG ADDITION, STAR NAME

TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED AT 50% OFF!

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Watch Our Quick Star Name Craft Activity Tutorial Here:

Grab Your FREEBIES for FAmilies Star Name Craft Activity for Preschool and Kindergarten Kids Download Here:

Remember to tag us on social media! We just love to see what our little KrEaTeRs are doing, and we'd love to show off their learning with our followers!
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Butterfly Shape and Graphing Craft Activity for Preschool and Kindergarten Kids

5/14/2020

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Today, Krazy for Kindyland's "FREEBIE for Families" features a super-duper engaging shape review!  Did I just say "super-duper?"  Well, yep, I guess I did.  I'll blame it on being stuck at home for waaaaay too long.  Anyway, math skills are jam-packed into this craft!  Children identify shapes, count, graph, and compare numbers!  What's so fun about our crafts is kids are practicing multiple academic skills, and they don't even realize they are learning!

Check Out the Quick Tutorial and Brotherly Love here:

Grab the (TEMPORARILY) FREE Download Here:

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Check Out the Entire Spring/Summer Math Bundle, Temporarily Discounted at 50% OFF Below! It's tHE PERFECT FILE to Kick Off  SUMMER Crafting with the BABY SITTER!

Practice adding to 10 with a truck full of vegetables, skip count by fives with a bumblebee craft, and count and add with a vegetable garden!
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Playdate Craft Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten Kids

5/13/2020

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I LOVE watching little ones interact.  Listening to their conversations, watching how they handle problem-solving together, the whole darn thing...adorable!  Getting these two little guys together to craft was no different.  At ages 3 and 4, they were the masters of their creations!  Krazy for Kindyland products are perfect for playdates or family gatherings.  Just set up a table with our printed products, along with crayons, scissors, and glue, and let the little nuggets get KrAfTy!  Oh, and PS, you'll want to have a camera handy!  Sweet little memories in the making!  Check out our Shop to prep for your next playdate!
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Caterpillar Skip Counting By Twos Craft Activity For Preschool and Kindergarten Kids

5/12/2020

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Today's FREEBIE for Families download is a caterpillar craft for kiddos who are ready for the challenge of counting by 2s!  If your child is not ready for this concept quite yet, simply working on number identification is a way to modify your teaching technique.  In our video, big bro and little bro work together.  I love watching big bros teach the little...the good things...the whole bodily functions deal I could do without....   
Along with crafting, we love snuggling up with a good book at our house, so book recommendations are noted on each of our Krazy for Kindyland product bundles.  If you don't have the books in your home library, you can pick books up at your local library, look up online stories from youtube, or pick them up on Amazon!  Book companions to go along with this sweet little craft include, but certainly are not limited to, the following titles:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Mr. Caterpillar
I'm a Caterpillar
The Crunching Munching Caterpillar
From Caterpillar to Butterfly
Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer
We can't wait to see this cute little caterpillar counting and crawling along with your kids!  Don't forget to tag us on social media so we can get in on the fun with your family!

Check out the Easy-Peasy Steps:

Grab Your (TEMPORARILY) FREE FREEBIE for Families Download Here: Caterpillar Counting Craft Activity for Preschool and Kindergarten Kids

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Shop the Entire Spring and Summer Craft Bundle here, Temporarily Discounted at 50% OFF:

Practice putting flowers in order by height, graph shapes with a ladybug craft, create patterns in a vegetable garden, and count by twos with a caterpillar!
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Easy Mother's Day Craft Activity for Preschool and Kindergarten Kids

5/11/2020

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Truly, the best part of sharing products with all of you is seeing the fun you're having in the process of creating!  We would LOVE to see your Krazy for Kindyland projects in action!  Tag us on social media, or pop your photos and videos in an email to krazyforkindyland.@gmail.com . 
​In our first submission today, two littles create our Mother's Day Bear Hugs Craft for their mommy, with the help of their nanny, Miss Kaylee.
What I love about our products is that they are easily adaptable for kiddos of all ages.  I love that Miss Kaylee precut the pieces for her little learners.  Assisting the kiddos with squeezing the glue bottle was helpful for them, too, as they continue to develop the muscles in their pudgy little dimply hands.  (Personally, I thought she was pretty brave using that liquid glue.  We miiiiiight be a glue stick only kind of a family...do you think having all boys did that to me???)  
You can choose to print your crafts on the suggested colors, but coloring is such a great fine motor task for young ones to participate in, and it helps give them ownership of the creations, too.
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Our second submission is from friends with craft creators ages 5, 4, and 2.  These three little boys had fun when their daddy printed off our Bear Hugs craft to gift to Mommy on Mother's Day morning!
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Did You Miss This FREEbie for Families Download?  Save It FOr Next Mother's Day, Or Create It Without the Poem, Just for Fun!  Grab It Here NOw, Temporarily FREE: Bear Hug Mother's Day Craft Activity for PReschool and Kindergarten Kids!

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CHeck Out the Entire Mother's Day Craft Bundle Here, Temporarily Discounted at 50% OFF:

Each of the following crafts include poems, too!  Create with the following animals: lion, turtle, sheep, and bear!
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You Are My Sunshine Mother's Day Craft and QUESTIONNAIRE Activity for Preschool and KindeRgarten! Make Grandma, Mom, or Aunt Smile!

5/6/2020

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Mother's Day questionnaires are my FAVORITE!  Soooooo today's FREEBIE for Families includes just that!  The best thing about this product is that you can pop anyone's name at the top to make them smile this Mother's Day!  If your little baby doll is too young, have Dad fill out the questionnaire for you to read Sunday!  My hope is that you can print and show your child the video for simple visual directions.  Happy Mother's Day!!

Video Tutorial for the Kids:

Download Your File Here:

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Krazy For Kindyland Is Expanding!! Now Offering Freebies for Families!

5/5/2020

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I've always loved crafting with my students in my classroom, but what I love even more is crafting with my own kids at home.  Although this site obviously welcomes teachers, I am THRILLED to now provide downloads here for PARENTS.  Over recent weeks, I have been adding products from my Teachers Pay Teachers store, and I plan to have all bundles uploaded RIGHT HERE on this site by the end of the month.  
Here's what I'm SO EXCITED to share with all of you!  Here is where you will find FREE files to download and print at home.  Your kids will LOVE to craft with you, and you will LOVE to spend some quality time with them.  After all, there's not a whole lot else to do at this point, anyway.  I know our family has played every board game we own over the last weeks. 
Below, you will find our very first FREEBIE for Families file and tutorial, just in time for Mother's Day!  

Mother's Day Bear Hug Craft Activity for Preschool and Kindergarten Kids Tutorial:

Easy Mother's Day Bear Hug Craft (Temporarily) FREE Download Here:

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Shop the Mother's Day Craft Bundle here, Temporarily Discounted at 50% OFF:

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COVID-19, Teaching From HOme, And A Room Transformation

5/1/2020

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With the school closure and virtual learning in place, being a mom of three little boys and teaching at the dining room table was quickly proven unrealistic.  I begged my husband to whip up a farmhouse-style desk, and after attempting to work from home for 7 days himself, he knew it was necessary, too.
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I was thrilled to have a space...a space where I could close the door.  Then I made a stop at Smarty Pants Findlay.  Jane was amazing at providing THE perfect products to create a beautiful display for my at-home classroom.  These are products from the BRAND NEW ​Rustic Bloom collection, which fit in perfectly with the farmhouse theme I was going for in our office.  "Bloom where you are planted" has come to be one of my most favorite quotes, so this collection truly could not have been more perfect.
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Jane also provided me with Better Than Paper for the background.  This stuff.  Is.  Amazing!!  After 14 years of teaching using everything under the sun for bulletin board backgrounds, from butcher paper, to felt, to bed sheets, this stuff FAR exceeded my expectations!!!    I would compare it to a vinyl material, but FUN FACTS:
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It doesn't show holes when you staple in it.
2) You can write on it with dry-erase markers.
3) It won't collect dust like those navy blue sheets I currently have in my classroom. 
4)  It doesn't tear like paper. 
​It basically stays perfect, meeting all of the obsessive needs in my teacher bulletin board heart.
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Jane recommended I use mavalus tape, another new discovery for me.  Oh my goodness...it is amazing.  How can tape be amazing?  Well this stuff holds everything in place.  Truly.  My bulletin board has quite a bit of weight on it, and it hasn't budged.  It doesn't take paint off of the walls.  I moved items around several times, and it didn't get less sticky, and the tape didn't pull the backing off of the bulletin board pieces.  I know.  Amazing, right??
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The final component of the bulletin board is my favorite, though.  Flowers.  These flowers!!! As a mom of three boys, there's NOTHING girly about living in our house.  What's quite incredible about these flowers is that I did not have to make them.  Shew!  I would have had so much time in them.  They came prepackaged, and there are several different options.
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The best part is all you have to do to create a flower is pull the two sides together.
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I just think these are adorable!  They would be a wonderful addition to any classroom or little girl's room.  I'm pretty sure my sweet little niece needs them in her bedroom.  

With all of these components, my farmhouse bulletin board came together in full bloom!
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I finally have my own girly space in this house that's overrun by all things boy.  Although, I have to admit that while on a Google Chat yesterday, my coworkers still asked about who had the crazy noise in the background.  The door was closed.  I tried.  
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    Hi, and welcome to Krazy for Kindyland, Kindergarten Arts and Crafts! I'm a mom of three and a primary teacher since 2006.  We are on a mission to reach all little learners, providing them with engaging, hands-on learning opportunities to practice spatial awareness skills while learning across the curriculum. Here on the blog, we share  differentiated lesson ideas that allow for teacher choice while incorporating crafting and writing into math activities, letter learning, science lessons, social studies topics, character education, and reading comprehension.  Our crafts include consistent layouts and are easy for students to understand and follow directions.  They are low prep, saving the precious time you need with your students!  Fun fact: our customers often note that our products are GREAT for subs!  They focus directly on learning content and are easy arts and crafts for kindergarten!

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