Flutter into spring with this Make a Butterfly Playdough Activityfor preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Students will choose a learning center task card and make a butterfly 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
– Symmetry
– 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, butterfly cookie cutters and/or small heart cookie cutters (these can be used to make the wings), googly eyes, craft sticks, pom poms, acrylic jewels and/or sequins, buttons, beads, pieces of drinking straws, and cut up pieces of fuzzy sticks/pipe cleaners.
Facilitate conversation during this activity; have your students to describe their creations. Ask them which items they used more/less/same of, and help them understand the concept of symmetry.
This Math Skills Practice Packet contains 68 engaging pages that will allow students to review and reinforce basic math skills. You can use these worksheets while working with a small group or your learners can use them independently. Perfect for fall and spring assessments and/or summer review. No prep required; just print and go!
This product focuses on the following concepts:
– Number formation
– Number word formation
– One-to-one correspondence
– Counting
– Number recognition
– Number quantity
– Number order
– Set recognition
– Measurement (weight and length/height)
– Classification by 1 and 2 attributes
– Patterning
– Graphing
– Ordinal numbers
– Addition
– Subtraction
– More and less
– Following directions
– Fine motor
ITEMS INCLUDED:
– Handwriting Practice Number Sheets ( b&w 1-20)
– Number Fun – Counting and Recognition (b&w 1-20)
– In the Kingdom – Measuring Weight (b&w 1)
– Schooltime – Length and Height (b&w 1)
– Sweet Treat – Size Skills (b&w 1)
– On the Job – Addition (b&w 1)
– Roll of the Dice – Addition (b&w 1)
– Monster Mash – Seriation (b&w 1)
– Where Do I Live – Classification – 1 Attribute (b&w 1)
– Button Jars – Classification – 2 Attributes (b&w 1)
– Geppetto’s Toys – Patterning (b&w 1)
– Going Camping – Pattern Identification (b&w 1)
– Having a Ball – Graphing (b&w 1)
– The Pet Vet – Graphing (b&w 1)
– First – 1st – Ordinal Numbers (b&w 1)
– Second – 2nd – Ordinal Numbers (b&w 1)
– Third – 3rd – Ordinal Numbers (b&w 1)
– Fourth – 4th – Ordinal Numbers (b&w 1)
– Fifth – 5th – Ordinal Numbers (b&w 1)
– Get in Line – Ordinal Numbers (b&w 1)
– To the Park – Number Order 1 -10 (b&w 1)
– Apple of My Eye – Number Order 11-20 (b&w 1)
– Colorful Shapes 2D Shape Recognition (b&w 1)
– Silly Shape Sort 2D Shape Recognition (b&w 1)
– Sweet as Honey – Subtraction (b&w 1)
– Bug Inspectors – Subtraction (b&w 1)
– Shop Around – Comparing Sets – More (b&w 1)
– Let’s Cook! – Comparing Sets – Less (b&w 1)
– Color by Number – Ranger Robot (b&w 1)
– Color by Number – Molly Mermaid (b&w 1)
April showers bring May flowers, which means it’s the perfect time for thisDecorate a Flower Playdough Activity. It’s blooming with learning opportunities! Students will choose a task card and create a flower by following the “recipe”.
This resource allows preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten 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, flower cookie cutters (optional), pom poms, acrylic jewels and/or sequins, buttons, beads, faux green leaves, and cut up pieces of 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.
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.
MAKE A BUTTERFLY PLAYDOUGH ACTIVITY CARDS HERE.
- Arts and Crafts, Bugs and Insects, Early Literacy, Fine Motor Skills, In My Garden, Language, Mathematics, Sensory Processing, Social Emotional Development, Spring, Teachers Pay Teachers
- butterflies, counting, following directions, more less same, number sense, one-to-one correspondence, playdough, set recognition, spatial relations, symmetry
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