Education resources for parents and teachers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today I'm sharing a free matching memory game for kids. Today I decided it was time to try a Memory game with my Two (almost three). Free Matching Memory Game First I gave him the stack of cards. He went through each picture and named it. He needed help with quite a few: helicopter, submarine, zeppelin, and bus (it was a red double-decker that he thought was a fire truck). What a great vocabulary-building ... Read More
We're working our way through the alphabet, and we include a sensory bin idea for each letter. This week we took advantage of the (finally!) beautiful spring weather and made a volcanic sensory bin outdoors. Do you know how to make your own volcano? It's a fairly common science activity -- but throw in some mud and it's extra fun. Here's what we used to create a volcanic sensory ... Read More
