I love Jean Warren activities books if I am in doubt of a good preschool age activity whether Math, Science or Language Arts related I simply need to open one of her books and I'm set. This is a shadow game board shown in her Math book you simply take a piece of cardboard (or paper) and trace random objects then have the kids match up the objects on the board. Great for hand eye, sorting and recognition. The boys just thought this was fun and not "school" they wanted to play the game over and over.
In the spring we did a little flower counting and adding. We have focused so much of this year on learning all our letters and the sounds they make that I'm afraid our numbers went a little neglected. However we did throw in this activity to practice our recognition, one to one correspondence and a little beginning addition. A great thing to do in the spring when so much of our time is spent planting. Fun with Flowers!
We finally finished our cardboard Alphabet letters will post pics of some of my faves (L for Lego and U for underwear) having trouble thinking of something for V and Y any suggestions? Anyway for X we did a treasure hunt X marks the spot game ( just hid little X's all over the house to find) after we painted our X and learned its sound.
For Easter we made these great grocery sack bunnies so simple just stuff one grocery sack with a bunch of sacks, tie the top (ears) and rubber band the middle. Then add eyes, nose and whiskers with furry balls and pipe cleaners or whatever you have on hand googly eyes maybe? Super cute little fellas!
A while back we did an amazing project that I saw on a blog (I think it was adventures in unschooling) any who we tweaked it a little and made our own game. I think you could either call it Plink o or Pinball. We started out with a scrap piece of would used our math skills to measure two inch squares on the board. Then we pounded nails at all the crossroads of our lines then the fun began with our rubber bands pulling and twisting and stretching them all over our board to form different paths for our ball to go down. We used gum balls for our game pieces rather than marbles since we still have a baby in the house plus our rules were if you made your gum ball get through the maze you got to eat it! An intensive project that was unique and so much fun!
