Putting The Pretty In Preschool

Finding Beauty In Everyday Early Childhood Experiences

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Welcome to my preschool blog. I am passionate about helping caregivers and teachers offer young children creative, educational activities that foster development and a love of learning.

On this site, you will find numerous seasonal activities and other learning through play ideas that early learners love. Many activities suit older children so that everyone can join in.

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Popular Themes and Activities

Here are some popular themes and activities that get a lot of love and enthusiasm:

Try this stunning salt and glue moon art activity. It's a process art project that displays well. Ten moon facts are included in the post.
Octopus theme facts, crafts, and small world play. The stunning feature art activity uses kitchen supplies. Art and science fun with learning for all ages.
An inviting pet-themed playdough tray featuring dogs and cats. Three long-lasting playdough recipes are included.
Your little learners will love this painting with construction vehicles process art activity. They'll get to make muddy tire tracks on paper.
Create stunning coffee filter sunflowers in two different ways. An easy to do, all-ages craft and science project.
A chickpea-based gingerbread sensory bin children will love. Shop the dollar stores for gingerbread accessories to fill the bin.
Remembrance Day butterfly craft. Squish painted butterfly accented with beadwork, glitter, and a poppy.
Little learners will love to explore this Chinese New Year tablescape set up filled with Asian artifacts and red and gold loose parts.
Five gorgeous Black History Month crafts that celebrate diversity. Easy-to-make crafts the whole family can do.

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Free Printables

This site has a number of free printables to download to make craft preparation easy. Here are some favorites:

Gingerbread man printable for art and craft activities.
A free prickly pear cactus template to use for art and craft projects. Paint, glue, and create using this unique cactus design.
Shamrock template for a collage or painting activity.
Download this free octopus template for art and craft projects.
Download this free, user-friendly tree template for art and craft activities. The template is perfect for bulletin board art.
New Year's Countdown template to use for art and math activities with young children. Invitation to add paint print fireworks, count down from 10 t0 1 and match numbers.
Download this free heart gnome template to use to make adorable gnome valentines.

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