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Number Playdough Mats ~ Free Printables!!

Number playdough mats from 0 through 10 - Homeschool Creations

 

You may have already downloaded the ABC Playdough Mats, so here’s a fun add-on for you to use with your kids ~ Number Playdough Mats! These were put together per a reader request {thanks so much!}.

Playdough mats are a great tool to use with your children to work on various learning skills as well as help develop their fine motor skills ~ besides, playdough is fun to play with for both kids and adults. These are a fun way to have a little downtime {and stress relief} with your kids!

Print off the number mats included in both sets, laminate them or slide them into a sheet protector, then let your child roll out playdough to form each number. Your child can also form mini balls to place on each of the dots to count along with 1:1 correspondence.

Download the Playdough Mats

Playdough Recipe

This is our FAVORITE playdough recipe – it smells SO GOOD!

FREE ABC Playdough Mats

Camping Preschool Pack ~ Free Preschool Printables!

Camping printable pack for preschool and kindergarten

Summer is already in full swing here and we’ve enjoyed our first camping trip of hopefully many this season! I’m excited to pull this out to use soon and know that we’re going to have so much fun with it!

Want a little peek at the new Camping Preschool Pack?

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The Camping Preschool Pack includes some of the parts that you all love: word and letter tracer sheets, early writing strips, a pattern page, find the different object, and beginning sound cards along with a few other favorites. It also includes a few extras special to this pack ~ a simple maze, word matching, compound words and a fun camping song.

You can download the Camping Preschool Pack here. Be sure to download both parts of the pack!

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Find more fun Preschool Packs on my website along with many other helpful {and free} Preschool Printables.

Enjoy!

Number Tracing Cards ~ Free Preschool Printables

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A few weeks ago I shared the Uppercase Letter Tracing Cards and the Lowercase Letter Tracing Cards with you and this week I have some Number Tracing Cards to share too! These cards are a great ‘take-along’ activity or just for everyday practice for writing numbers and also counting with 1:1 correspondence for the numbers 0 through 20.

To use, print the cards in this set onto cardstock, laminate, and cut along the line to separate the cards. The Number Tracing Cards also include a few additional cards for your child to work on letter formation {see below}.

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Punch a hole in the top left corner of each card and put onto a jump ring {key ring ~ see key ring in carousel below}. Let your child use a dry erase marker or vis-à-vis marker to trace the letters and write their own. If you use a dry erase marker, the letters will wipe off easily, while a vis-à-vis marker may require more scrubbing to remove {but will not smudge while your child is writing}.

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Don’t miss the Uppercase Letter Tracing Cards and the Lowercase  Letter Tracing Cards that go along with this set too! You can find MORE preschool alphabet and beginning writing activities on the following pages::

Alphabet: http://homeschoolcreations.com/preschoolalphabet.html

Writing: http://homeschoolcreations.com/preschoolhandwriting.html

Math: http://homeschoolcreations.com/preschoolmath.html

 

Wizard of Oz Preschool Pack ~ Free Printables!

Wizard of Oz Preschool Pack Button
A reader emailed and asked if I would consider putting together a Wizard of Oz Preschool Pack. While we haven’t seen the movie, I did find a very low-key book for preschoolers to use.
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The Wizard of Oz, retold by Carol Ottolenghi will work great for this unit {not a scary version although the Wicked Witch of the West is in the book}. The preschool pack itself is low key too and focuses primarily on the four main characters: Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. The clip art from JD Digi Designs via My Grafico was just too cute too!
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The Wizard of Oz Preschool Pack includes vocabulary cards {1 and 2 part}, beginning sound cards, tracing strips, letters D and  tracing pages, fraction matching, a ‘find-the-word’ story sheet, counting by 2’s, a story summary sheet, ‘find the difference’ page, and more.
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If you’re looking for more Preschool Packs, be sure to check out the growing collection on my website!

Short and Long Vowel Picture Cards ~ Free Preschool Printables

Short and long vowel picture cards

The Short and Long Vowel Picture Cards are designed to help you work with your child to identify the beginning short and long vowel sound in words. Each vowel in the sets includes three picture cards to go along with that beginning vowel sound.

Help your child match the picture cards to their beginning vowel sound. You can also use the picture cards to practice identifying objects with your child. The crisp white backgrounds on the Vowel Picture Cards, allow little ones to focus on the actual object that is being talked about.

The Vowel Picture Cards were designed to go along with the Consonant Picture Cards that I shared some time ago, so be sure to download those as well! Now you’ll have a full set of ABC beginning sound cards to use with your kids ~ and they are all free!

Here’s a little peek at the cards…

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Pictures included with the Short Vowel Picture Cards:

A – apple, alligator, astronaut

E – egg, elephant, envelope

I – inchworm, insect, igloo

O – ostrich, octopus, olives

U – umbrella, umpire, underwear

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Pictures included with the Long Vowel Picture Cards:

A – apron, acorn, ape

E – easel, eagle, earrings

I – ice, ice cream, ironing board

O – oatmeal, overalls, overcoat

U – utensils, uniform, unicycle

 

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You can download them and many other preschool alphabet printables on my website!

Have fun learning!

Lowercase Letter Tracing Cards ~ Free Preschool Printables

Lowercase Letter Collage

 


Last week I shared the Uppercase Letter Tracing Cards with you all and this week I have the Lowercase Letter Tracing Cards to share with you as well. These cards are a great ‘take-along’ activity or just for everyday practice for letter practice and beginning sounds. To use, print the cards in this set onto cardstock, laminate, and cut along the line to separate the cards.

 

The Lowercase Letter Tracing Cards also include a few additional cards for your child to work on letter formation {see below}.

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Punch a hole in the top left corner of each card and put onto a jump ring {key ring ~ see key ring in carousel below}. Let your child use a dry erase marker or vis-à-vis marker to trace the letters and write their own. If you use a dry erase marker, the letters will wipe off easily, while a vis-à-vis marker may require more scrubbing to remove {but will not smudge while your child is writing}.

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Don’t miss the Uppercase Letter Tracing Cards and Number Tracing Cards that go along with this set too! You can find MORE preschool alphabet and beginning writing activities on the following pages:

Alphabet: http://homeschoolcreations.com/preschoolalphabet.html

Writing: http://homeschoolcreations.com/preschoolhandwriting.html