Totschooling - Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten Educational Printables

Happy Friday! Next up in my guest blogger series is Meghan from Playground Parkbench! Meghan blogs about kid's activities and crafts, parenting, financial and household tips. Some of my favorite posts are Montessori Animal Match, 9 Ways to Ease Daily Transitions, and Yoga for Toddlers. Today she is sharing a really unique activity and a free printable to go along with it.

Big M, my overly imaginative 3 year old, has become fascinated by animal tracks. It started last summer, going for walks on the beach boardwalk by our house. She loved to make footprints in the sand, and check out the tracks left behind by the seagulls. Fast forward a few months to winter, and she was over the moon that she could make visible footprints again in the snow… and better still, see all kinds of animal tracks in it as well. MerMer, our Texas Grandma, further fueled the fascination by sending us Whose Tracks Are These?: A Clue Book of Familiar Forest Animals for Christmas.

Now, every night after her bath, she stomps back and forth, and stares with pride at her “paw prints” all over the bath mat.

I’ve started correcting her:

“M, only animals, like bears and dogs, make paw prints. What do people make? FOOT prints!”

“Oh, right, Mama… foot prints!”

But her continued fascination with the topic, got me to thinking – how excited would she be to make her own paw prints and animal tracks? So I set out to make it our activity one snowy afternoon.

Supplies:
Cardboard box
Animal Track Template Printable
Hot glue gun
Ribbon
Paint
Builder’s paper
Painter’s tape

Cost: Less than $10

Prep Time: 30 minutes, to make two sets of animal tracks

Clean Up Time: 10 minutes

While the girls had their daily quiet time (Lil’ M, my 18 month old, naps while Big M plays quietly in her room), I printed off page size animal tracks – a bear paw, dog print, wild cat print and a moose track. I used these as my templates to create pairs of animal tracks out of a cardboard box. I first cut out the outline of the track, then made a second cardboard layer with the track details, attaching the two layers with hot glue. To make the matching pair, be sure to flip the track over so you create a left and a right track.

To attach them to her feet, I made two 1.5” long incisions with an X-Acto knife, about a 3 year old foot width apart, and threaded through a 2-3’ long piece of ribbon. If I did this activity again, I would have added the ribbon BEFORE gluing on the track details, so the ribbon didn’t show up in our tracks. But that didn’t stop Big M from having a great time…

When quiet time was over, I told her we were going to make “paw prints!” She was so excited. I rolled builder’s paper down the length of our dining area, and taped it to the floor with painters tape. A roll of builder’s paper has over 150’ of paper on it, and is great for murals, wrapping gifts, or as a quick clean up surface for messy crafts. You can buy it for $5 to $10 on Amazon or at your local Lowe’s or Home Depot. We are still on our first roll after almost 2 years.

She wanted to try on the bear paws first. I tied them to her feet, and had her sit down on the floor while I painted a thick coat of paint on them. Then, I helped her stand up and let her walk up and down the paper. Next, she tried the moose hooves. As always, her 3 year old ingenuity drastically exceeds my own - when she tired of making the big animal tracks, she asked me if we could make some smaller ones with her plastic frogs and lizards.

While she ran to grab them, I cut a sponge in half, wet it and added some paint to it on a plastic plate. She spent another half hour making small animal tracks with her plastic animals. Lil’ M got in on the fun with these too. Now, every time we read Whose Tracks are These?, she talks about the time she made her own animal tracks.

To create your own animal tracks, download our free printable. It includes templates for four different animal tracks, as well as a fun Whose Tracks Are These? matching game to play after reading the book and making your own animal tracks.

What animals leave tracks around your house? Have you ever gone on a nature walk to look for tracks? If you enjoyed Making Animal Tracks, be sure to check out all our At Home Activities on Pinterest!

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Meghan is mom to two girls, Big M (3) and Lil’ M (18 months). A former hedge fund professional turned stay-at-home mom, she was frustrated by the lack of online resources to find engaging, age appropriate activities for her toddler in her town. Her best information came from fellow parents while at mommy and me playgroups or on the Playground Parkbench as her kids played in the sandbox… she founded PGPB to capture all those tips and share them with other parents.

In addition to maintaining a database of local family-friendly events and activities, she also writes as the PGPB Guru, offering weekly household and parenting Tuesday Tips, shares kids’ crafts, adventures and recipes in At Home Activities, and informed by her former career, publishes Financially Savvy Fridays.

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It's time for another guest post! Next up is Megan from Twin Talk. Megan is a mom to toddler twins blogging about cheap and easy educational activities for toddlers. Some of my favorite posts are What are Tot Trays?, DIY Zipper Board Tutorial and The Cheapest, Easiest Sensory Bin Ever! She's joining us today with an easy, educational sensory bin idea that anybody can whip up in a few minutes.

I have 19 month-old twins, B & C. They’re quite a handful and I find myself constantly looking for new and exciting activities for them to do. During the week, we have an amazing nanny who has helped us in teaching the twins their letters, numbers, shapes, and colors. Learning the alphabet, in particular, has been thrilling for the toddlers. They love to identify letters in matching games or books, and know just about all of them. In addition to the rapid pace in which they’re learning, my son, B, is highly sensory-stimulated. Typically impatient and strong-willed, I’ve discovered in the past few months that when he’s knee-deep in a sensory activity (like our Valentine’s Day Soup water bin), he’s calm, focused, and determined. A whole new toddler.

It’s for these reasons that I decided to implement our latest sensory bin (and themed for St. Patrick’s Day!) – the alphabet rice bin. Now, after a year on maternity leave, I’m back at work full-time as an elementary school teacher. My husband has a good job as well, but money is tight. When I choose what activities and crafts to do with the twins, the first thing I look for is the money factor. I’m looking to go as cheap as I can– under $5 if at all possible. In addition to money, I don’t have time to spend setting up and taking down an activity. I need it to be easy and quick! The alphabet rice bin fit all of my criteria and was a huge success. Here’s what I did:

I purchased foam letters from the dollar store, which was, of course, quite cheap. Then, the night before the activity, I colored some rice green for St. Patrick’s Day. That wasn’t necessary in the implementation of this activity, but it was something I had been meaning to do anyway, as it can be used for all sorts of crafts and activities. I also recently colored rice for Valentine’s Day and it took me about 10 minutes. Here’s my tutorial for dyeing rice– two ingredients; so easy and quick!

I have used both large and small bins for our sensory activities. When contemplating which to use for this one, I wanted the main focus to be on the alphabet and less the rice, so I used a small bin. I prepped the activity by popping the letters out of their holders and burying them in the green rice. I put out a few spoons, threw a cheap tablecloth down on the floor and let the twins go to it!

As usual, they loved the sensory bin the moment they sat down. They have always thoroughly enjoyed scooping, dumping, and the way the rice feels in their hands. However, this bin took an educational turn (which was what I was hoping for!). I had put out the letter holders on the ground, hoping the twins would see that letters were missing. As they began unearthing letters from the rice bin, they would shout out the letter they were holding and desperately search for the spot to put it. This activity kept them busy for almost an hour!

In the end, it turned into a 3-part educational activity: They scooped and poured rice, digging up the letters. They identified the letters and the colors that they held in their hands. Finally, they used their fine motor skills to place the letters back into the foam puzzles. It was tricky and they needed assistance at times, but it was very rewarding for them as they realized that yes, they knew each letter coming out of that bin.

It was rewarding for me as well. For one thing, I’m still in awe that my young little “babies” know the alphabet and are so excited to practice and demonstrate their new skills. In addition to that, this activity was unbelievably cheap, simple in its construction, and a breeze to set up and clean up. I’ll be adding it to our sensory bin rotation for sure!

If you wanted to do this activity but skip the mess that a sensory bin can bring, just using the foam letters could be fun enough. Popping them out, identifying them, and putting them back would be not only great fine motor practice but educational as well!

My name is Megan and I have 1.5 year old boy/girl twins. I started blogging at Twin Talk when I was struggling with infertility treatments and needed a supportive community who knew what I was going through. After the babies were born, I began blogging about surviving life as a mom of twins. But my true passion started when my babies grew into toddlers. The more they learn, the more I aim to teach them, and I have recently reshaped my blog. Now, I blog about super cheap and easy educational activities and crafts for toddlers and I'm loving every minute of it!

A great way to teach number recognition and addition is to play "roll and cover" math games. Here is a fun St. Patrick's themed game, although it can be played at any time of the year. All you need is "gold coins" (see affiliate link below) or you can use anything else like playdough or pom poms.

This Pot of Gold Roll & Cover game includes 2 levels of difficulty:

For younger children and toddlers, use the first page with numbers 1-6 and a single die. Roll the die and place a "gold coin" on top of the correct number. This can be played with multiple players or just one.

The second page is a more advanced version, which is great for learning addition. It includes numbers 2-12 and you roll two dice, add the numbers together, and place a "gold coin" on top of the correct number.

Reading a regular die can be hard for young children, so I have included a printable paper die that is larger and easier to count the dots. You can also find larger dice at a dollar store or through my affiliate link below.

Click here to Download your Free Pot of Gold Roll & Cover Game

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The next fabulous blogger in my guest post series is Deborah from Mommy Crusader and Her Knights and Ladies. She is mommy to five young children, and blogs about kid's activities, crafts, parenting and even creates free printables like the one she is sharing today! You can find a lot of great ideas for preschool educational activities, such as C is for Counting, D is for Dots and E is for Equals, all of which include free printables, so definitely check them out!

I’m so excited to be guest posting for Totschooling today. Educating my little ones is something I take rather seriously, and Totschooling is a great blog that gathers fabulous resources for parents who work on educating their toddlers and preschoolers. Today, I am sharing a Math activity geared for three to five year olds. We had a lot of fun with it, and I hope you do too.

Easter Basket Matching – One to One Correlation Math Activity

Who doesn’t love to go Easter egg hunting? I know my children love to, so I thought I’d make a Math card game based on an Easter egg hunt. The game is based on the classic card game war, but with a slight twist.

Setup:

Print out the cards here: Easter Matching Game (Cardstock is best, it makes them easier to shuffle and easier for little hands to handle.)

Shuffle the cards and deal them all out.

Play:

The youngest player goes first. Everyone turns over their top card and the player examines the cards to see if there is a match. If there is a match, that player keeps the match and has another turn. Any cards that aren't part of a match are discarded. Continue until there is a round with no matches.

Move to the next player. They play the same as the first player, with everyone turning over their top card and the player examining them to see if there is a match. This player keeps all matches and discards any non-matching cards. This player keeps playing until there is a round with no matches.

When any player runs out of cards, shuffle the discard pile and re-deal the cards to the players.

Continue the game until every card has been matched.

This game is really helpful for little ones who are working on one-to-one correlation and also very helpful for number recognition. They also really like it because they can win. My preschooler considers the game a 'win' whenever she gets a match.

Deborah is the Mommy behind Mommy Crusader and Her Knights and Ladies. The name of her website was chosen because her children are always playing princess and knight, and sometimes being a mommy feels like a crusade. She has five children, 10 and under, and one awesome and supportive husband. With her bachelor’s degree in Interpersonal Communication, she writes about parenting tips and fun kid’s activities and crafts with a focus on preschool learning activities. Check her out at MommyCrusader.com.

I am pleased to introduce the next guest blogger in our series, Jamie from Hand Made Kids Art. Jamie is an art teacher and a mom who shares creative art ideas and projects for kids of all ages. She is here today sharing a fun way to put the "A" in STEAM.

Learn and master your colors with a rainbow color hunt. This STEAM activity combines science, technology and art for a fun twist on preschool color learning.

STEAM is the combination of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. Hand Made Kids Art believes the inclusion of the Arts to STEM is essential to our young children’s future success. Teaching children how to think creatively and learning to be problem solvers is how we can prepare our children for the future.

With STEAM activities, the final product of the activity is not as important as the process or creating the product. Through the process of experimenting and exploring your child is using creative and critical thinking skills. Scientists, mathematicians, engineers and artists all use the same critical thinking skills to find new and innovative solutions.

Activity Objective: Child will observe and identify the use of color in their environment. Child will use technology to document their exploration of color with photography.

Materials:
Rainbow Hunt Printable
Clipboard
Pencil
Digital Camera (or Cell Phone Camera)
Printer
Hole Punch
Key Ring

Tutorial:
Step 1: Print off the rainbow hunt printable (or create your own) and place on the clipboard. My three year old requested her favorite color pink be included in the color hunt so I made two versions, one including pink.

Step 2: Go exploring and identify each color either outside in nature or inside the house.

Step 3: Document your “color” finds by taking a photograph of each color. Use the printable to keep track and check off what colors you have found.

Step 4: Once you have completed taking a photo of each color, download and print the photographs. We printed our photographs on 4x6 photo paper. Below is a collage of our final color photographs. All color photographs were taken by my five and three year old.

Step 5: Create your photo book. Punch a hole in the corner of each photograph and slide the photograph on to the key ring. You may print off the rainbow printable to use as the cover for the book or let your child create their own book cover.

Activity Extensions:
Write the color names on the back of the photographs.

Provide additional art experiences by letting your child experiment and explore making marks with color using a variety of materials, such as crayons, markers, and paint.

Related links from Hand Made Kids Art:

Photography Made Easy for Kids

How to Turn STEM into STEAM

How to Use Technology to Enrich Preschool Learning

Jamie is a certified Art Instructor having taught children of all ages. In addition to inspiring young minds and creating for Hand Made Kids Art, she is a busy mother of 3 children. Hand Made Kids Art focuses on quick, easy and inspiring art activities to grow creative kids. It doesn’t matter if you only have 5 minutes or 20 minutes, you can find time to create art with your children with Hand Made Kids Art. Follow along with our art adventures at HandMade Kids Art, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

My daughter has really been intro tracing letters lately, so to encourage her interest, I created a set of Easter themed tracing printables. This is a fun way to practice handwriting and fine motor skills while getting ready for Easter. Trace the word, then trace the picture and color it in!

This Free Easter Tracing printable set includes 4 different designs: a rabbit, an egg, a basket and a cross, in both upper case and lower case letters.

Click here to download your Free Easter Tracing Printables

If you enjoy this set, you might also like our Free Alphabet Picture Tracing Pack.

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The next wonderful guest blogger in our series is Tarana from Sand In My Toes. Tarana is mommy to a toddler, writing about parenthood, activities and crafts for preschoolers. Some of my favorite posts of hers are Alphabet Matching Activity (with free printable), Hidden Letters Painting and Pasta Counting Activity. She is here today sharing a fun counting activity with orange trees!

Counting is one of those skills which gets better with practice. Toddlers can start counting pretty early if they are interested, and we have been doing counting activities since my son was two (he’s three now).

The reinforcing is important too, so counting is something preschoolers and kindergartners should practice routinely.

The only thing is that they tend to get bored with numbers at that age (or pretty much anything!), so I’m always looking for new ways to make counting interesting.

We loved doing this Orange Tree Counting Activity. Kids love anything bright and colourful, so this is a great activity to get them interested in numbers! And there’s a free printable too (link below), so you can set it up pretty easily.

The printable has tree cards from 1 to 20, but I only used the cards from 1 to 6 when we did the activity.

I cut out circles from orange craft paper to make the ‘oranges’, but you could use stickers, play dough, pom poms, or even finger paint!

I set out the cards randomly and placed the right number of oranges needed for completing them.

We first read the number on the card out loud and then glued on the oranges in the correct quantity. You don’t need to glue them on if you plan to use the cards again. You can even laminate the cards to make them last longer.

It didn’t take too long for us to complete the activity, and we’ll soon do it with the bigger numbers. Hope you have fun doing this too!

Click here to Download the Free Printable Orange Tree Counting Activity!

Tarana Khan is mom to a toddler, living an expat life. She loves writing and has done her stints as a copywriter, reporter and content editor, before embracing parenthood full time. She blogs at Sand In My Toes, where you can drop by to read more of her parenting and other adventures! Tarana also has a series called Busy Hands where you can find more activities and crafts for toddlers and preschoolers. You can also catch up with her on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest or Google+.

You are going to love my next guest blogger, Tanya from Finding the Teachable Moments! Tanya is a homeschooling mom of three, blogging about educational activities, ideas and crafts. Some of my favorite posts of hers are Free Printable Rhyming & Cutting Activity, Huge List of Early Learning Themes and What Does my Child Need to Learn? (age 2 to grade 2). She is here today sharing a Free Printable Letter Sorting & Matching Activity!

Upper and Lowercase Sort & Match Free Printable

One of the very first steps to learning to read is the ability to recognize both upper and lowercase letters. My daughter knows her uppercase letters, and she also knows many of her “baby letters” (as she likes to call them). But matching lowercase to uppercase letters is something she needs to practice, so I made this printable letter matching activity for her. I included a set of uppercase letters in a variety of fonts as well for children working on uppercase identification alone.

Each page works on five letters at a time. Just print out the uppercase letter page and corresponding lowercase (or uppercase) letters. Cut out the lowercase letters and spread them out. Your little one will choose one letter at a time and place it in the correct column.

The first page contains just vowels so the activity can double as a vowel-consonant lesson as well. There is no reason to try and do the entire alphabet in one sitting. My daughter was only interested in doing one page at a time.

You could laminate the letters and use it as a busy bag activity for a child who may be able to use it independently or do it alongside your child as an introduction to new letters.

Download your Free Printable Letter Sorting & Matching here!

Tanya is a homeschooling mom of three who is passionate about hands-on learning. You can visit her at Finding the Teachable Moments where she shares learning activities and teaching tips for children age 2 to grade 2. You can also follow along with her on Pinterest and Facebook.

I am very excited to introduce my next guest blogger, Malia from Playdough to Plato. I'm a huge fan of her blog, where she shares tons of free printables and hands-on learning activities for preschool, kindergarten and first grade. She is here today with a set of fabulous and free Earth Day puzzles!

Earth Day Puzzles:

As a former kindergarten teacher turned hands-on mom, I get a little bit giddy about creating fun ways for my kids to learn. These free Earth Day puzzles are a simple way to learn some ways to help the environment AND practice ABC and 123 order at the same time.

Getting Ready:

Prepping the puzzles couldn't get much simpler. I printed a copy of the puzzles { HERE } on cardstock to give them extra durability and cut along the thin grey lines to separate the strips. Easy peasy.

My boys and I have talked about Earth Day before so they knew it was a celebration of all-things environmentally-friendly. We worked together to brainstorm a long list of different ways we can help the planet: picking up litter, watering trees, recycling...

Then I showed the boys the mixed up puzzles and invited them to sort the pieces into the correct order, building a photo of one awesome Earth Day activity we'd work on together. I gave each excited child a scrambled puzzle. Piece by piece, they started building.

And in just a couple minutes, both puzzles were complete.

I slid the pieces into separate snack-sized Ziplocs and placed them in my bag so I could easily entertain the boys when we’re waiting in doctors’ offices, restaurants… you name it! Then we set out to make a positive impact on the planet by taking our plastics to the outdoor recycling bin and hunting down the perfect spot for a new tree. Happy Earth Day!

Meet Malia:

Malia is a National Board Certified teacher turned hands-on mom to three little ones {ages 5, 3 and 1}. When she's not digging in sandboxes or playing with paint, she's sharing fun learning activities on her site, Playdough to Plato. Hop over and grab all of her FREE printables- including a super popular Matchbox car alphabet tracing book and road trip activity pack!

Coloring pages seem like the perfect quiet time or busy activity for kids. However, my daughters (and I'm sure my kids aren't the only ones) will spend about 5 minutes or less if I give them a coloring page and crayons. Granted, this may be because they are still young (3 1/2 and almost 2 yrs), but I wanted to find a way to engage my kids and also get some educational value out of a simple coloring page.

Recently, we went on a vacation which involved an airplane flight as well as multiple car rides. While I thought I had packed enough activities, I ended up running out of things to keep them busy. I went out and bought some coloring books and decided to get creative!

Here are 12 ideas for creative ways of using and learning with coloring pages, as well as a list of my favorite free coloring page resources at the end!

12 Creative Ways to Learn with Coloring Pages

1. Color By Number
This is a super easy way to turn a coloring page into an educational activity! Just create a legend of numbers and their corresponding colors, and write the numbers on the picture where the colors go. For a fun twist, you can play a roll & color game by rolling a die, calling out the number and then coloring one of the numbers in the picture. Keep rolling and playing until the picture is complete.

2. Color by Letter or Sight Word
This is the same idea as number 1 but you can use letters, words, shapes or anything else that your child is learning.

3. Color by Dots
Use a marker to create little circles, essentially labeling which colors go where on the page. Great for color recognition in young children.

4. Color by Sequence
Write numbers or letters throughout the picture and ask your child to color in numerical or alphabetical order.

5. Sticker by Number/Letter/Word
This one is a favorite at our house! Hide letters, numbers or words throughout the picture and also write them on a set of stickers (I like to purchase these circle labeling stickers at the dollar store). The child then places the stickers over the correct letter or number.

6. Cut & Make into a Puzzle
This one is really easy to prep. Just cut the paper into 4, 6, 9 or 12 pieces and let your child put it back together. You can also let the child do the cutting and it doubles as cutting practice!

7. Cut in Half and Complete Picture
Learn about symmetry or just let your child use their imagination to complete the picture.

8. Find & Color
Depending on the type of coloring page, ask your child to find a specific shape, object or character and once they find it they color it. Repeat until the whole page is colored. This would be great with a more complex coloring page with many different elements.

9. Make a Collage
We do this one a lot at our house. I give my kids craft supplies such as tissue paper, pom poms, feathers, googly eyes, scrap paper, buttons, etc and have them glue these things onto the coloring page. It usually comes out like a work of art! You may need to reinforce the paper or, if you are printing, you can print on cardstock or heavy paper.

10. Turn into a Playdough Mat
Any coloring page can be turned into a playdough mat. Just laminate the sheet (or not) and give your child playdough to "color" in the picture. Tons of fun and great for fine motor skills.

11. Turn into a Lacing Card
This one works best if the coloring page is mainly one animal, object or character. Laminate the page (or print on cardstock), then cut out the main object and punch holes around it. Give your child a shoelace, string, yarn etc. to lace around the picture.

12. Cut out Characters/Animals/Objects and Make Story Puppets
Another idea that works only for certain coloring pages. Cut out the main characters, animals, etc. and turn them into puppets by taping a craft stick to the back. Ask your child to come up with a story and use the puppets to act it out.

Free Coloring Pages & Resources:

300+ Disney Princess Coloring Pages by What Mommy Does
35 Free Disney's Frozen Coloring Pages by The Kid's Coloring Pages
1000+ Free Disney Coloring Pages for Kids by The Farm Girl Gabs
Famous Paintings Coloring Pages by Super Coloring
Marvel Superhero Squad Coloring Pages by On Coloring
Robots Coloring Pages by The Art & Craft Giraffe
32 Free Zoo Animal Coloring Pages by Raising Our Kids
Animal Coloring Pages by Better Homes & Gardens
Eric Carle Coloring Pages by Mom Junction

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Q-Tip painting is a fun and challenging fine motor activity for kids. Since my daughter loved the Christmas and Valentine's Day Q-tip painting printables, I created one in celebration of Earth Day. This is a great way to spark discussions about geography, science and nature while painting in a unique way!

This is such a quick activity to set up. Just print out this sheet, grab some q-tips and paint, and you have an educational and fun activity for your child!

Click here to Download your Free Earth Q-Tip Printable!

For more Earth Day activities, check out the Free Earth Day Activity Pack:

For more ideas and printables for learning with Q-Tips, see the following post: 20 Learning Activities with Q-Tips

Next up in our guest blogger series is Sarah from Me Plus 3 Today. Sarah is an inspirational mother of 3 young children, a widow, a business owner and a blogger, writing about kids' activities, parenting and how to make a difference in the community. Some of my favorite posts of hers are 5 Ways to Teach Kids that They Can Make a Difference, High 5 Today Campaign, and 12 Outdoor Learning Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers. Today she is sharing an awesome set of Free printable Weather themed Word Tracing worksheets!

The weather during the spring months can be very fickle. One day it will seem like the warmth is here to stay, only to have the temperatures dramatically drop and snowflakes falling on the next! Eventually, the sun starts to shine more and the precipitation will finally change to rain, with some lightning and thunderstorms occurring too!

While the changes in weather become second nature to adults, it is a novelty for toddlers. My toddlers absolutely love to talk about the weather. Each day after breakfast, we look out the window to see what the weather is like. I will open our slider door so we can feel the wind, rain, or warmth from the sun, while I also give a very simple explanation of the science behind the weather.

Since we have been doing a variety of activities to work on letter recognition, like these snowflake crowns during the winter, I thought I could use the weather as another great opportunity to work on their pre-reading and pre-writing skills.

I decided to create this printable set of some of the most common weather types that we witness during the spring. My 3-year-old twin girls love to name and trace the letters while also discussing what the weather is like. The weather graphic on the printable helps them to "read" each word.

Free Weather themed Word Tracing Printables

These printables are free and would make a great addition to a weather unit for preschoolers. The 6 spring weather types included in this printable pack are: cloudy, lightning, raining, sunny, windy, and thunder. I hope your children enjoy them as much as mine!

Click here to Download your Free Weather themed Word Tracing Sheets!

Hi there! I’m Sarah, a mother of 3-year-old twin girls and a 2-year-old boy, and a young widow since August of 2013. I work at home as a virtual assistant and owner of Star Thrower Virtual Services. I also blog at Me Plus 3 Today, where my goal is to provide inspiration today because tomorrow isn’t guaranteed. Topics on the blog include parenting, kid’s crafts and activities, widowhood, and ideas for making a difference. I’d be honored to have you visit my blog, or follow me on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.

Welcome to a special Earth Day edition of the Love to Learn Linky. Today I am featuring over 20 educational Earth Day printables and printable packs. Don't forget to check out my co-hosts' Earth Day posts as well as the ones linked up!

Printable Packs:

Earth Day Activity Pack by Totschooling
30 Page Free Earth Day Pack by Happy and Blessed Home
Earth Day Do-a-Dot Printable Pack by Gift of Curiosity
Earth Day Packs by Royal Baloo
Earth Day Learning Pack by 3 Dinosaurs
Earth Day Printables by Homeschool Encouragement
Earth Day Printables by Wise Owl Factory

Printable Learning Activities:

Sorting Recyclables by Totschooling
Earth Day Letter & Number Puzzles by Totschooling
Waste Sorting Sensory Bin with printable by One Time Through
Earth Day Recycling Sorting Activity by A Little Pinch of Perfect
3-Part Montessori Recycle Cards by Living Montessori Now
Earth Printables for Preschoolers by Life Over C's

Learning through Fun & Games:

DIY Raisin Box Puzzle with printable by Totschooling
Earth Q-Tip Painting Printable by Totschooling
Earth Day Bingo by Gift of Curiosity
Earth Month Scavenger Hunt by Edventures with Kids
Earth Day Memory Game by Learn Create Love
Earth Day Dominos by Storytime Standouts
Earth Playdough Mat by The Preschool Toolbox
Earth Day Action Reminder Cards by Cutting Tiny Bites
Earth Day Board Game by Play 2 Learn with Sarah

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Visit my co-hosts to see their posts and features!

Hands On Learning Earth Day Activities from A Little Pinch of Perfect
Earths Elements for Kids: An Earth Day Activity Roundup from One Time Through
Earth Day Science Activities for Kids from Left Brain Craft Brain

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My next guest blogger is Monique from Living Life and Learning. Monique is a homeschooling mom of 3, blogging about educational activities for kids. Some of my favorite posts are her (free printable) Dinosaur Counting Cards and her Felt Storyboards for Mo Willems' Pigeon Books.

Felt Butterfly Craft

Spring is in the air, so it's a great time to learn about butterflies. Felt crafts are a great way to get little ones imaginations flowing and it's such a quiet activity. It's perfect for when you need to focus on something like teaching an older child or making a phone call. This felt craft is super easy to put together and if you have any felt lying around the house then you can do it in no time at all. All you need is felt and a pair of scissors and you can make your own set.

Felt Butterfly Craft Supplies:

- purple: wings
- black: body and antennae
- red, yellow, pink and blue: different shapes
- scissors

For this craft I didn't draw out a template but just cut free form. For the wings I folded the purple sheet of felt and cut out the wings so that it would look symmetrical. The black felt was used for the body, head and antennae. I used various colors and cut out diamonds, lines, circles and zig zag patterns. I'm not super creative but I was going for simple and this felt craft is definitely easy to put together.

My felt crafts are stored in ziploc bags so she can take them out on her own to play with them. My daughter was being silly and enjoyed throwing the felt pieces onto a pile on the butterfly. She was very proud of her work and asked me to take pictures of it along with herself as well. My daughter had a blast playing with the felt flowers craft and felt pizza that I've made as well.

Meet Monique:

Monique is a biology graduate, web designer and homeschooling mother to 3, you can find her blogging about homeschooling, activities and printables at Living Life and Learning. You can follow her on Facebook, Pinterest or Instagram.

I can't wait to try this super fun and educational "fishing" game created by Tiffiny from Spark and Pook. Tiffiny is an elementary school teacher turned stay-at-home mom, blogging about playful learning ideas, children's books and traveling with kids. Be sure to check out her (free printable) Make Way for Duckling Matching Activities and her 10 Apples Up on Top Book Activity.

Gone Fishing Game

For my daughter’s third birthday party, I put together a game I call “Gone Fishing” using simple materials I happened to have around the house. The game was such a hit with Pooky and the other kids that I decided to share it with you. The game is quick to set up and provides oodles of educational fun (a win-win in my book).

What you will need:

- Gone Fishing Printable (or draw your own simple fish outlines)
- small dowel rod (you can also use a wooden spoon or unsharpened pencil)
- baker's twine, yarn, or some form of thick string (about 10-12 inches in length for each "fishing pole")
- construction paper or foam sheets in a variety of colors
- paper clips (one per fish)
- dot magnets
- a "pond" of some sort in which to place the fish

Assembly:

1 - Make the fish. I wanted more durable fish, so I printed the Gone Fishing Printable onto plain paper and then used that to trace and cut foam fish in a few different colors. If you don't have or want to use foam, just print the fish onto colored construction paper, and then cut them out. I created a total of nine fish for our game, but you can make as many as you'd like.

2 - Once the fish are cut out, attach a paperclip to each fish in the place where a mouth would go.

3 - Assemble the fishing pole by tying a double knot of one end of the string to one end of the dowel rod (or the straight end of a wooden spoon). Using the other end of the string, tie a double knot around the dot magnet. (If using foam fish for the game, use two dot magnets together instead of one.)

4 - Place the fish inside their bucket (or makeshift pond).

Ways to Play:

- Since we had multiple players ranging from ages 2-3, I made a "fishing pole" for each fisher. The initial goal was simply for each child to "catch" a fish with their "fishing pole" (without touching the fish with their hands). For toddlers, this takes a good deal of concentration and coordination. Pooky and her friends played this game repeatedly taking turns to catch the 9 fish.

- Once children become skilled at using the "fishing pole," challenge them further by asking them to fish for a specific color. (This takes greater hand-eye coordination.)

- You can practice other skills by drawing shapes, numbers, or letters onto the fish and asking the child to "fish" for specific ones. (To make the fish re-usable use a small sticky note instead of drawing directly onto the fish.) See the examples below.

- Write numbers on the fish (one on each) and have the child "fish" for the numbers in order. If they accidentally "catch" the wrong number, throw it back in.

- Draw some shapes that your child is familiar with on the fish so that there are multiples of each shape (i.e. three fish with a square, three fish with a circle, etc...) Create a landing spot for each type of fish so the child can sort their fish into the correct shape "bucket."

- Label the fish with some letters your child has been learning. Choose only a few letters and mark one fish with the capital letter and another fish with its corresponding lowercase letter. Then have the child fish for a specific letter and match the uppercase and lowercase into pairs.

Those are the ways we've been playing "Gone Fishing," but I'm sure there are many other ways you could play. Once Pooky knew how to play, we turned it into a Busy Bag activity. I take it out periodically and it's fun and educational all over again. You can find more busy bag ideas here.

Skills addressed with this activity:

- gross motor: hand-eye coordination
- social skills: taking turns
- math: counting, sorting, ordering, matching
- literacy: letter identification

Happy Fishing!

Meet Tiffiny:

I am a certified elementary school teacher turned stay-at-home mom. I’m a foodie, traveler, and avid reader. I love to share these joys with my husband, daughter, and the blogosphere. On my blog, Spark and Pook, you will find tips for traveling with children, children’s book reviews, and learn-though-play activities for toddlers and preschoolers.

I am very excited to announce my next super talented guest blogger: Sue from One Time Through. She has many amazing parenting posts and great educational ideas. Also be sure to check out her (free printable) Parent & Child Connection Coupons!

Playful Alphabet Garden

Spring is arriving late to my neighbourhood this year, so I decided to get a head start and create a playful alphabet garden for my 3 year old son to plant inside. I'm Sue and you can usually find me blogging about hands-on learning activities for young kids over at One Time Through.

Because I'm a teacher, I often try to find a way to turn fun activities into learning opportunities and I thought this idea would be perfect to share with the Totschooling readers!

I found the idea for a playful alphabet garden at my local early years drop in centre where they often share creative and fun ways to introduce young children to their letters.

My son didn't have enough time to really play with the "garden" that day - so I decided to make my own at home for him to use.

What is the Playful Alphabet Garden?

The alphabet garden is a simple plastic tub filled with play sand, a pair of child- sized garden gloves, some small gardening tools, a few plastic plant pots, a small watering can, and of course, the popsicle stick alphabet "flowers."

The flowers (as well as a few bugs and butterflies for fun!) each have a capital letter of the alphabet on them. I created a printable PDF A to Z set of these that you can download for free {HERE}.

How to Prepare the Garden

You Will Need:

- the Playful Alphabet Garden printable (1 or 2 copies)
- 26+ popsicle sticks
- play sand and a plastic tub/container
- small garden gloves, planting tools, watering can, and plastic plant pots

To set up the garden activity, print off your alphabet flowers and cut them out. I decided to print out 2 copies so that I would have lots of letter doubles. I also laminated mine so that they would last longer. Tape each flower/bug to the top of a popsicle stick.

I also found some small plastic flower pots that I wrote some garden-related words on with a permanent marker, like: water, dirt, rocks, flower, and my son's name (a big favourite right now!)

Garden Play

When my son first played with the bin, I didn't give him any instructions except to put on his gardening gloves. His first instinct was to scoop the sand and fill the pots, and dig, dig, dig! And that was okay with me.

After some exploratory play, I showed him how he could "plant" the flower letters in each pot to match the words on the pots. We did this activity for a little while together - focusing on his name and then one of the plant pot words that he was interested in (incidentally the one that also started with the first letter of his name).

Eventually, his focus moved back to scooping and digging, but the letter flowers now became a part of his pretend play.

I got this gardening activity out several times this week, and each time my son seemed to get something different out of it. The first day was about exploring, the second day was more about pretending to plant flowers, and the third time was more about matching the letters to the words.

In all cases, he was having fun, learning to recognize the letters, and by talking with me as he played, incidentally learning letter sounds. All perfect practice activities for an early writer!

Meet Sue:

Sue is an Elementary School Teacher currently on leave to be at home with her preschooler son. She shares ideas for connecting and learning with kids through meaningful, play-based activities that nurture curiosity and creativity, as well as positive parenting tips.

Puzzles are a great hands-on way for kids to learn. They are a favorite at our house! My daughters love the challenge of solving puzzles and putting pieces together to create a picture. With Spring here I thought it would be fun to practice our alphabet and letter cases using this set of colorful, free printable Butterfly Puzzles.

This set includes 26 different butterflies with an uppercase letter and lowercase letter on each wing.

Since all the butterflies are unique, it is a great way for kids to check their own work to make sure the butterflies and letters match up. Great for independent and quiet time!

Click here to download your Free Alphabet Butterfly Puzzles!

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Spring Activities for Toddlers & Kids from A Little Pinch of Perfect
Inspiring Kids to Protect Our Oceans: Oil Spill Activity from One Time Through

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Reading comprehension skills can easily make children soar as wonderful independent readers or a lack of can leave them frustrated, confused, and upset. Adding a few simple techniques to your toddler’s story time can give him a great foundation of reading comprehension skills even before he is an independent reader. Try some of these easy techniques to make the most out of story time with your tot.

1. Make Predictions

Before reading a story with your tot, take a picture walk through the book. Look at the pictures together and describe what it looks like is happening. Ask questions like, “How do you think this character feels? What do you think is making him sad?” This will help your child to look for details in the pictures while you read the story and it will help him make predictions about what is going to happen. While reading the story, stop before turning the page occasionally to ask, “What do you think will happen next?” This will help to build his internal dialog of how to make predictions while reading.

2. Make Connections

Connections can be made before, during or after a story is read. Help your child to see similarities between events or characters in the story and in her own life. Maybe a character has a dog like your kiddo, maybe they both like pizza. After reading a story, you might find yourself in a similar situation as a story you read. Take this learning opportunity to bring up the story and remember what happened to the characters. Connecting a story to a tot’s life brings the story to life for her and really helps her to understand it better.

3. Ask Questions

Asking your tot questions, even if he might not be able to answer them yet will help to build his internal dialog that will help him to understand stories for many years to come. Try asking questions before, during, and after reading a story. Here are some questions you might ask.

Before Reading
What do you think this story will be about?
Why do you think the character is doing or feeling like this?
How do you think they will solve the problem?

During Reading
What do you think will happen next?
What would you do if this happened?
Why did the character do that?
What started this argument?

After Reading
What did this story remind you of?
How could the characters have acted in a better way?
Why do you think the story ended like that?
What was your favorite part?
Who was your favorite character?

4. Think Out Loud

Thinking out loud while reading with your tot will teach her how to respond to a story, to monitor her own understanding and to clarify confusions when she becomes an independent reader. Your example will help to shape her internal dialog or self talk as she reads.

Thinking out loud is really just as simple as it sounds. If you get to a point in the story where you don’t understand something, say what you are thinking. It might sound like, “Why did they go to the store again? Let me look at that last page once more. Oh yeah, they forgot to get sugar while they were talking to their friends.” This simple technique will help your child to become very skilled at monitoring her own understanding when she is reading on her own.

5. Act It Out

Acting stories out adds a greatly needed element of play to reading with toddlers. It also helps to bring stories to life. Tots love to engage in make-believe play and will soon be independently incorporating stories into make-believe play.

You may also use dress –up clothes, figurines, toys, and puppets to help children act out stories from books. Let your kiddo choose what seems most interesting and introduce him to new ways to act stories out over time.

5 Skills to Teach your Tot that will Lead to Reading Comprehension

Interested in learning more about developing your child’s language and literacy skills? Click here to get the FREE guide: 5 Early Literacy Toys that will SKYROCKET Your Child’s Language Skills.

Meet Lindsay:

Lindsay Drewes is a former 4th and 5th grade teacher and current stay-at home-mom and Momprenuer of Kiddo Korner. Lindsay holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in education. As founder of KiddoKorner.com, Lindsay followed her passion of mothering to research and offer the best educational, Eco-friendly and innovative products made for babies and toddlers.

My next guest blogger is one you will definitely want to visit: Kristin from SmartE partE! Kristin is a homeschooler who blogs about her tot-school and preschool learning activities, themes, and free printables. She specializes in tot and prek "trays", such as her Hockey Tot Tray + Free Hockey Pack, 12 Science Preschool Trays + printables and 15 Spring Preschool Trays + printables.

Sourdough Bread Science

Long ago, my husband took a job as a bagel baker, which led to a career in bread baking. Sourdough was just a way of life! It took until later to understand the science behind it.

The actual maintenance of a sourdough starter is likely outside the scope of preschool science. If you are interested in learning more today, Cultures for Health has some helpful tips, videos and projects all about sourdough! We wanted to share an easy-prep science experiment that can be done with regular yeast and everyday household liquids.

Yeast + Liquid Science Experiment + Free Printable

For this simple experiment, you will need:

-Yeast (not instant)
-Various liquids (see below)
-Cups or bowls
-This printable

You could try this with any liquids you like! Other than the various water temperatures, be sure to have the liquids at room temperature.

-Ice water
-Warm water
-Hot water
-Soda water
-Almond milk
-Dairy milk
-Apple juice
-Cider vinegar
-Soda w/ sugar
-Soda w/ corn syrup
-Soda (Diet)
-Water & baking soda (let sit 5 min before using)
-Water & aspirin (let sit 5 min before using)

Simply mix about 1 tsp. of yeast into 4-6 oz. (or 1/2 - 3/4 C) of liquid in a cup or bowl. Label or note each mixture. Watch mixtures as they change. Look from above and record the results on the printable! (We used dollar store plastic cups for this. But, another option would be to do these mixtures within Ziploc bags! Please be wary though as the bags could explode due to the activity of the yeast.) We were surprised at what liquids had the strongest reactions. We invite you to investigate this, too!

Download the Yeast + Liquid Bread Science Printable here!

Bonus: Free Bread Cutting Pack

Though my boys make bread all the time, I decided to have a special Bread Preschool Week in our homeschool. So, I have created a free, printable bread mini-pack that I am honored to share with Totschooling readers! I always appreciate the free printables from Totschooling that makes our homeschool preschool journey oh-so much easier!

This bread mini-pack includes:

-Cutting Strips
-Cutting Shapes
-Slicing Bread
-Symmetry

Download the Bread Cutting Practice Pack here!

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoy learning about bread and how it works in your homeschool!

Meet Kristin:

Hi! I am Kristin and I blog over at smartEpartE.com. When our son, E was 2 I jokingly called him a "smarty party," hence the name of the blog! It served as inspiration to keep up with weekly tot school themes, and perhaps, share some ideas with others! Thank you for visiting over at smartEpartE.com or on Pinterest!

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Easter Printable Packs

Easter Hands-On Printable Activities

Easter Printable Coloring Pages

Easter Fun & Games with Printables

Hands-On Alphabet: Rice Sensory Bin

Pot of Gold Math Game (Love to Learn Linky #33)

Free Easter Basket Matching Game

Rainbow Photo Hunt STEAM Activity

Easter Picture & Word Tracing Printables (Love to Learn Linky #34)

Orange Tree Counting Activity with Free Printable

Upper and Lowercase Letter Sort & Match Free Printable

Free Earth Day Puzzles for Kids

Earth Day Puzzles:

Getting Ready:

Meet Malia:

12 Creative Ways to Learn with Coloring Pages (Love to Learn Linky #37)

Earth Q-Tip Painting Free Printable

Free Weather themed Word Tracing Printables

20+ Free Earth Day Printables for Kids (Love to Learn Linky #38)

Felt Butterfly Craft

Felt Butterfly Craft

Meet Monique:

Gone Fishing Game for Preschoolers

Gone Fishing Game

Playful Alphabet Garden with Free Printable

Playful Alphabet Garden

Free Alphabet Butterfly Puzzles (Love to Learn Linky #40)

5 Skills to Teach Your Tot that Will Lead to Reading Comprehension

1. Make Predictions

2. Make Connections

3. Ask Questions

4. Think Out Loud

5. Act It Out

Bread Science Experiment + Free Printable Bread Cutting Pack

Sourdough Bread Science

Bonus: Free Bread Cutting Pack