Colorful Resources & Ideas for Teachers with a Teaching Heart
I have a free game for you to print and use. It will help with counting and sorting review. The Gingerbread Man Game. The object is to collect as many Gingerbread Men as you can. To play: Shuffle cards face down in center of two to four players. Players take turns drawing one card. If […]
Trying to find things to go along with a Gingerbread unit that use our senses. I wanted to paint Gingerbread houses and thought it would be great it they could smell yummy after they dry. I figured out how… Grab some Kool-Aide or the Generic brand like I used (it is much cheaper and works […]
I love these BLANK foam dice that I can program how I like. I use them all the time. Here is one way I use them and you get the free printables to make your own! It’s your lucky day! 😉 You will need a blank dice or just put the pictures over a dice that […]
I love all the Holiday Themed Marshmallows they have out this year. Not sure if they had the snowmen last year or if they are new this year, but they are yummy!!! I have a free set of printables to go along with the Gingerbread, Snowmen, and Holiday shapes. You just need to buy the […]
Found these at Target the other day. They are cute Christmas themed fruit snacks in the shapes of Santa, trees, stars, and candy canes. So of course I had to make a sorting and graphing sheet!!! Above is a simple sorting sheet. Great for Pre K and Kindergarten classes. Below is a sorting and graphing […]
I made a flour based puffy paint to use with a Gingerbread craft this week. I love that you can add spices to make this paint smell yummy and thus the craft will too! Here is my recipe!!! 1 Cup of Flour, 3 tsp Baking Powder, 3 tsp salt, and pinches of Ginger, Nutmeg, and Cinnamon! (after […]
I will be having fun all month with Gingerbread and a few fabulous Preschool students! So you may be seeing many Gingerbread related posts in November… Here are some more highlights from the fun we had last week with Gingerbread Friends! Above we are playing the catch the Gingerbread Friend Dice game found here. – […]
In Preschool we made sensory Gingerbread Baby Friends! They turned out cute and they smelled yummy too! You need sandpaper, cinnamon sticks, scissors, wiggly eyes, glue, magnets (walmart makes them in packs of 54), stickers, marker, and the template found here (more instructions included). Above we are working hard to color in our forms. Then […]
Ok, I will admit that I have never made homemade play dough until the other day… I am hitting myself as it was soooo easy to make and it does not seem to dry out like regular play-dough. It is awesome. I thought I would share the great recipe I used as well as a […]
I just uploaded a very fun Gingerbread Themed Packet for Preschool and Kindergarten to my store here… If you teach 1st or 2nd, be sure to take a look at this Gingebread and Snowman Friends Packet too. Here are a few pics. of some of the goodies found in the new packet!!!
