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5 Easy Preschool Practice Activities to do in Five Minutes!

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These 5 preschool activities are perfect for 3 year olds just entering school! Practice important skills like name practice, cutting, tracing, lacing and matching with hands on fun that will help develop fine motor and sensory skills too!

With my son starting preschool this year, I’ve realized there is ALOT that they are expected to learn… and it’s not all on the teacher to teach it! The ideas might start at school but you can reinforce them at your house. I honestly had no idea what was expected until he start, and his teacher talked to me after his class one day. She asked if I could just give him a paper and some scissors to practice his cutting, since he was struggling. I literally had no idea … Read more

Rock Rescue Nature Sensory Bin

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A fun and easy sensory bin using natural items thats fun for kids of all ages, especially preschoolers and older toddlers! This uses rocks, sand, as well as fine motor skills to retrieve and clean the rocks!

With winter here, and normal outdoor treasures hidden, my guy is seriously having withdrawls! I actually came up with this one by accident – I was working on making a cute glowing campfire craft for our upcoming “camp day” inside, and got down our cup of “special rocks”. We pick up cool looking rocks here and there (spotted ones, funny shapes ones) and since I was making a campfire, I thought a cute rock ring would be perfect! Anyways, I left those rocks out and my preschooler saw them and … Read more