Preschool Activities in a Box

Continuing the trend to be organized, I have a number of preschool activities set to go. Each activity has the items needed, ready to go in its own ziploc bag. Pictured here is a "practical life" activity -- button flowers. I saw this Montessori activity that someone else had made and put it together last night (in about 1/2 hour). Also pictured is a matching activity (match the foam pieces with their mates). I have animals, cars, ocean creatures as one activity and letters as another. Finally there's an activity to string straw pieces to make a necklace.

It took very little time to put this file box together since we had all these materials around the house -- and Delenn spent over an hour this morning doing some of the activities! Looking for preschool activity ideas? I keep an eye on these websites for ideas:

http://mymontessorijourney.typepad.com/
http://chasingcheerios.blogspot.com/
http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/preschool_activities.htm
http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/

Also, I get a lot of great ideas and worksheets from http://kidssoup.com/ -- I paid for a subscription (well worth it for preschool/kindergarten aged kids), but they also have some free activities and ideas posted there if you'd like to check it out.


 

 
 
 

By the way, someone shared a link to some free online e-books if you're interested. The illustrations are lovely and the pages load reasonably quickly. Some titles include My Even Day, My Odd Day, Kersplatypus, The Rainforest Grew All Around, and more. Sorry for the long link:

http://homeschooling.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=homeschooling&cdn=education&tm=7&gps=188_94_1148_617&f=10&tt=13&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.sylvandellpublishing.com/sitelicense.php%3Fsc%3DR2OFNK