Apple Tree Sensory Box

From: the art photo








Includes:

• Dried split green peas
• Brown craft foam tree
• Tiny rake and broom
• Small wooden scoop and buckets
• Cinnamon sticks
• Tiny red styrofoam balls
• Faux apples & metal bucket
• Felt trees (made with TP rolls)
• Red pom poms

Dinoland Sensory

From Play Create Explore:

Scented Rice

From Play Create Explore:

Button Ideas

From Child Care Land:

Popcorn and Buttons:
   Fill a tub with popcorn seeds and add buttons.  Using fingers or tweezers, students pick the buttons
   out and sort them into cups.

Button Counting:
   Using a picture of a snowman found here, students count out the appropriate number of buttons.

Buttoning Practice:
    Make these cute little squares with a button sewn in the middle.  Student buttons on or unbuttons
    off the circle.

Button Play Dough:
   Make play dough.  Fold buttons in.  Students take out as many as they can.

From Motherhood On a Dime:

Lots of Dino Ideas!

The following activities were found here.


Here are some of the activities you may want to consider in your preschool dinosaur unit (links will follow as detailed activities are added):
Dinosaur Mural (Creative, Social)
Five Silly Dinosaurs  (Music, Math, Language)
Crayon Melting, Dino Style (Creative, Science)
Dinosaur Erosion Table (Sensory, Science)
Fossil Imprints (Science)
Frozen in Time (Sensory, Science)
Preschool Paleontologists  (Science)
Rhyme-A-Saurus(Language, Pre-Reading)
Dinosaur, Dinosaur, What Time is it? (Social, Large Motor)
A Visit to the Museum (Science, Social, Language & Literacy)
Dino Scales (Fine Motor, Creative, Science)
The Classic Volcano (Science)
Hot Lava Hop (Large Motor)
We are the Dinosaurs (Music and Movement, Language)
How Big is a Dino?  (Math)
Dinos Invade the Block Area (Math, Science, Language)
Best Dino Books  (Language)

Colored Cloud Dough

From: Inner Child Fun

Walking on Water

From: I Can Teach My Child

Sandpaper and Yarn

From: I Can Teach My Child




Use this to make shapes, numbers, or letters.  You can also sort by length or color!

Finding Letters in My/Your Name

Materials:

• Rice
• Small Tub
• Magnetic letters
• Name cards
• Sentence strip, if desired

Activity:

1. Before activity begins, hide letters from all participating students' names in a small tub filled with rice.
2. Ask students to find their name cards before beginning.
3. In turn, allow students to sift through and find a letter.  Instruct child to first name the letter and then decide if it is in his/her name.  
4. If desired, student can repeat "The letter ___ is/is not in my name."
5. If the letter is in his/her name, allow child to keep letter.  If not ask child to give it to someone who does have that letter in his/her name.  Instruct receiving child to say sentence, if desired.
6. Continue until all letters have been retrieved.
7. Instruct students to now put all the letters in order to spell his/her name.

Variation: Include all letters to give students more practice naming letters or when working alone.

Apple Theme Sensory Tub

From: I Can Teach My Child

We had a great time with this sensory tub this morning.  The oatmeal is a great texture!  Big Brother, who typically flitters from one thing to another every 5 minutes, spent 40 minutes just playing with the sensory tub!  And the only reason he stopped is because Little Brother woke up from his nap and we had to go inside to get him.  I’m all about simple, engaging versatile fun!

You may want to opt to make this an outdoor activity.  If you do this inside, I would recommend putting a vinyl shower curtain liner underneath your children so that when they are done, you can just wad up the liner and shake it off outside.  



Here’s what you’ll need:  a large tub of oatmeal, measuring cups, and apples with numbers written on them.

Use an egg carton.

Line up the numbers and have them identify them.