My Three and Four are learning to write the letter X: today we found 13 different ways to make the letter! The letter X is a simple letter to make with manipulatives because you just need two straight pieces. My just-turned-Three made an X in a number of different ways: with rulers... with chopsticks... with flatware... and with Q-tips. He had fun using office stickers to complete this Letter X Dot ... Read More
Free Printable Book: Ten Little Monsters
10 Little Monsters: A printable book for early readers I created this fun little book as a read aloud to reinforce the concept of subtraction. You might recognize the PinkPueblo monster clip art from some of my other printables. These little guys are just too cute to leave alone! Please indulge me and tell me it's adorable. All right - even if the story itself doesn't thrill you - it's FREE! I hope you can use ... Read More
5 Letter X Crafts
5 Letter X Crafts Handprint X-Ray Fish These x-ray fish are my favorite. After letting our black handprints dry overnight, the kids added fish bones and a googly eye. For this and many more handprint alphabet crafts, visit Red Ted Art. Q-Tip X-Ray This is a popular children's craft which would look a little better with plain white Q-tips. But since they've started telling us not to put Q-tips into our kids' ears, I ... Read More
Silly dinosaur books
Looking for some books to go along with a preschool dinosaur theme? Here are are favorite funny tales! These books may not teach dinosaur facts, but they're sure to bring some laughs and spark some fun conversations. Add a few of these to your preschool dinosaur theme! ... Read More
Easy Sensory Activity for Kids: Make an X-Ray Light Box!
You can do this too - talk about simple! Here's what you need to do: 1) Search for "x-rays" on google images. Print a few on plain paper and copy them onto overhead transparencies with a copy machine. That's the hardest part of this, I promise. 2) Get out some white Christmas lights and place the lights inside of a large plastic container. My container is transparent. Either ... Read More
Letter X Printable: X is for Xylophone
Here's another page in our collection of dot sticker printables. (This post contains affiliate links.) Letter X Printable: X is for Xylophone This is one of our favorite ways to make letters! You can use round office stickers like we do, or try filling in the circles in other ways: pom-poms with magnets hot glued to the back (set the page on a magnetic baking sheet) Do-a-Dot Markers round magnets ... Read More
Rhymes for Letter X: Little Letter X Book
Please forgive me for not filling the letter X book with words that begin with X. Xylophone doesn't exactly teach the sound of x, anyway. Instead, the mini-book's rhymes mainly consist of words that have x within them. Rhymes for Letter X: Little Letter X Book You are welcome to use any of my original rhymes in any way, as long as you credit themeasuredmom.com right next to the ... Read More
Transportation count & clip cards #1-20
I love Count & Clip Cards. They're easy to make (just print on card stock and laminate!), and they give fine motor practice right along with the math lesson. Free Transportation Printable Here's a sample page from the download. I cut around the blue border so that it was a frame inside each of the cards (see above). I laminated each card, trimmed again, and we had a durable set of colorful cards to ... Read More
8 Preschool Math Ideas — using toy vehicles!
Our beautiful spring weather has taken a turn for the worse, so we're spending some time indoors. Today was the perfect time to round up some preschool math ideas using toy vehicles. 1 - Ordinal Numbers - Car Race First we turned a wooden puzzle upside down and rested it on a plastic storage bin. My boys had fun letting the cars go. Then my Four assigned each car to its proper finishing place. I showed him the ... Read More
Creative ways to make the letter V
My Two used dot stickers on this printable. You could also use round magnets or pom-poms with magnets hot-glued to the back. For your copy, see this post. My Six made a V out of toy vehicles. V is for vegetables! I am forever telling my Four that the vacuum is not a toy, so he jumped at the chance to make a V out of vacuum parts. My Two loves using power magnets to complete these magnet ... Read More