Do you want to build a snowman? Let’s do it! This Build a Snowman Playdough Activity for is preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Students will choose a learning center task card and create a snowman by following the “recipe”.
This resource allows children to practice the following skills:
– Counting
– One-to-one correspondence
– Number recognition
– Number quantity
– Set recognition
– Spatial relations
– More/less/same concept
– Language
– Social emotional
– Fine motor
– Following directions
Print these activity cards out on cardstock. For heavy use, lamination is recommended. Supply students with playdough, googly eyes, buttons, sequins, acrylic jewels, small bush or tree branches/sticks, small scarves cut from cloth or felt, and fuzzy sticks/pipe cleaners.
Be sure to facilitate conversation during this activity. Ask your students to describe their creations, and ask them which items they used more/less/same of.
Cookies make everything better, so be sure to grab this Decorate a Gingerbread Cookie Playdough Activityfor preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Prompt students to choose a learning center task card and create a gingerbread cookie by following the “recipe”.
Children will have a sweet time while strengthening the following skills:
– Counting
– One-to-one correspondence
– Number recognition
– Number quantity
– Set recognition
– Spatial relations
– More/less/same concept
– Language
– Social emotional
– Fine motor
– Following directions
Print these 10 activity cards out on cardstock. For heavy use, lamination is recommended. Supply students with playdough, gingerbread man cookie cutters, googly eyes, acrylic jewels and/or sequins, small pieces of rickrack, mini bows, buttons, and beads.
Be sure to facilitate conversation during this activity. Ask your students to describe their creations, and ask them which items they used more/less/same of.
Brr! This Winter Math and Literacy Activities pack contains 11 worksheets and 7 learning center activities that practice the following skills:
– Counting
– One-to-one correspondence
– Classification
– Shape recognition
– Number quantity
– Number recognition
– Set recognition and comparison
– Number formation
– Measurement (nonstandard height)
– Patterning
– Association
– Letter formation
– Letter recognition
– Story sequencing
– Beginning sound recognition
– Visual discrimination
– Phonological and phonemic awareness
– Fine motor
– Following directions
Please note that these learning center activities are designed to be printed (on cardstock) and laminated. This will ensure their use and enjoyment for years to come.
WINTERTIME SPIN & COUNT SHEETS (COLOR 2/B&W 2)
Attach paperclip spinners with round head fasteners (brads) to the sheets. Provide pom poms, vase gems, mini erasers or some other small manipulative for students to use. Young learners will spin, identify a number and place that amount of items on their sheets. As children pick up and place each item, encourage them to say its number name (one, two, etc.). Older children may fill all three lines, while younger ones may only complete the first or second. Once finished, have students count all of the items on their sheets.
FROSTY TEN FRAME TASK CARDS (COLOR 10/B&W 10)
Provide mini erasers or some other small manipulative for students to use. Young learners will place a numbered group of items on its corresponding card. As children pick up and place each item, encourage them to say its number name (one, two, etc.). Older children will practice their set recognition skills.
WINTER MEASURING CARDS – HEIGHT (COLOR 10/B&W 10)
Provide Unifix Cubes or another small manipulative for children to measure (nonstandard) the height of the items. Be sure to discuss which are taller, shorter, and the same size. To extend this activity, students may use the included Winter Measuring – Measure and Record sheet to record their answers.
SNOW DAY LET’S MAKE A PATTERN TASK CARDS (COLOR 4/B&W 4)/SNOW DAY LET’S MAKE A PATTERN CLOTHING CARDS (COLOR35/B&W 35)
Using the winter clothing cards, learners will work to construct the patterns featured on the task cards (AB, AAB, ABB & ABC)
Provide children with clothespins or a small manipulative to use as markers. Students will say the picture names of the items in each set and determine the featured image’s beginning sound partner. Learners will clip/mark the cards accordingly.
WINTER WRITING TRAY LETTER CARDS (COLOR A-Z 26/B&W A-Z 26)
Provide a shallow tray filled with artificial snow (salt or sugar may also be used) for children to use. Using a small branch or their fingers, learners will practice letter formation using the letter cards as guides.
Provide children with clothespins or a small manipulative to use as markers. Learners will study the pictures on the cards and use their visual discrimination skills to determine which pictures are the same as or different from the featured images. Students will clip/mark the cards accordingly.
WORKSHEETS (B&W 11)
With these 11 engaging worksheets, children will sort by size, identify winter rhyming words, sequence a snowman story, count and write numbers, and so much more!
We're Gigi and Zoey. We teach a two-year program (preschool and pre-k), and we're passionate about Early Childhood Education and the philosophy that children learn through play. Our goal is to prepare children for kindergarten while making learning fun.
We hope that our resources inspire you, and that you will share them with your little ones.
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