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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!)  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!  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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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.  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!  Grab the Full Packet Here: 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! 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: |
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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!
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!
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!
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:
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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!
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:
Shop the Mother's Day Craft Bundle here, Temporarily Discounted at 50% OFF:
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.
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.
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:
1) 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.
1) 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.
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??
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.
The best part is all you have to do to create a flower is pull the two sides together.
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!
With all of these components, my farmhouse bulletin board came together in full bloom!
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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