Valentine’s Day Post Office Dramatic Play Props contains various props to add to your dramatic play area. They are Valentine hearts post office themed props. Included are various signs, labels, employee badge, checklist, postcards, and envelopes. Stock your dramatic play area with dress up clothes and accessories; have postal worker clothes and accessories if possible. Add various sizes of boxes for sorting. Add papers, postcards, envelops, writing utensils, stamps, and stickers either in your dramatic play area, or place your writing center close to the dramatic play area. Add a cash register and play money to the dramatic play area. Allow children to help create a mailbox to add to the area. I have included directions on how to create a mailbox. Laminate the signs, and add them wherever they fit in your dramatic play area. Laminate the labels, checklists, postcards, and envelopes; add to the dramatic play area. Allow children to write on the checklist, postcards, and envelopes with dry erase markers. Have extra non laminated postcards and envelopes for children to write, stamp, and decorate with stickers. There are two hours signs. One has hours listed; the other has no hours listed. The children can make their own marks on the blank hour signs. Other signs include Weigh Boxes Here, Sort Boxes, Sort Envelopes, Pay Here, Welcome, Open, and Closed. Labels include mail truck, tape, mailbox, hat, paper towels, parcels, envelope, and stamps. Everything either has hearts or red border with white dots included for a Valentine’s Day theme added. After your dramatic play area is set up and ready, invite the children to engage in play. Weigh Boxes Here sign included Sort Boxes sign included Sort Envelopes sign included Pay Here sign included Welcome sign included Open and Closed signs included Two Hours signs included Checklist included Heart envelopes included Postcards with heart stamp included Mail truck, tape, mailbox, hat, paper towels, parcels, envelope, and stamps labels included Sixteen pages worth of props This resource has thirteen pages of activities, one page of holiday craft ideas, and one example page. Early Learning Standards researched and referenced as a guide. This resource aligns with the following standards: UK Early Years Foundations: Early Years Outcomes Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia My Play based resources touch on universal Early Learning standards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click my linktree to follow me on social media and to sign up to my newsletter to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn

Happy Holidays Art UK version comes with holiday cut and paste collages, My Christmas Colours page, My Hanukkah Colours page, My Kwanzaa Colours page, decoration pages. The decoration pages come in reindeer, holiday llama, Christmas tree, holiday cupcake, and two gifts. I have also provided a few holiday craft ideas that can be given to parents for gifts. UK spelling version of the word colours is provided. For holiday cut and paste collages, print out the collage pages. Give your students construction paper, scissors, and glue. Let them create their own holiday collages. There are a wide variety of holiday images for your students to choose. Images include children, candy cane unicorn, holiday llamas, Christmas sloths, summer Christmas snowmen, snowflakes, elves, candy, yeti, a variety of Christmas images, a variety of Kwanzaa images, and a variety of Hanukkah images. For the colours pages, let students choose from My Christmas Colours, My Hanukkah Colours, or My Kwanzaa Colours. Provide either paints or crayons and markers. You can also provide colourful sequins, jewel stickers, craft buttons, felt stickers, etc. Allow students to colour and decorate the pages in colours associated with the Holiday that they picked. For the decoration pages, allow students to use paints, crayons, markers, sequins, jewel stickers, craft buttons, felt stickers, and whatever else you wish to provide to decorate the holiday pages. This resource has thirteen pages of activities, one page of holiday craft ideas, and one example page. Early Learning Standards researched and referenced as a guide. This resource aligns with the following standards: UK Early Years Foundations: Early Years Outcomes Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia My Play based resources touch on universal Early Learning standards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click my linktree to follow me on social media and to sign up to my newsletter to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn

Happy Holidays Art comes with holiday cut and paste collages, My Christmas Colors page, My Hanukkah Colors page, My Kwanzaa Colors page, decoration pages. The decoration pages come in reindeer, holiday llama, Christmas tree, holiday cupcake, and two gifts. I have also provided a few holiday craft ideas that can be given to parents for gifts. For holiday cut and paste collages, print out the collage pages. Give your students construction paper, scissors, and glue. Let them create their own holiday collages. There are a wide variety of holiday images for your students to choose. Images include children, candy cane unicorn, holiday llamas, Christmas sloths, summer Christmas snowmen, snowflakes, elves, candy, yeti, a variety of Christmas images, a variety of Kwanzaa images, and a variety of Hanukkah images. For the colors pages, let students choose from My Christmas Colors, My Hanukkah Colors, or My Kwanzaa Colors. Provide either paints or crayons and markers. You can also provide colorful sequins, jewel stickers, craft buttons, felt stickers, etc. Allow students to color and decorate the pages in colors associated with the Holiday that they picked. For the decoration pages, allow students to use paints, crayons, markers, sequins, jewel stickers, craft buttons, felt stickers, and whatever else you wish to provide to decorate the holiday pages. This resource has thirteen pages of activities, one page of holiday craft ideas, and one example page. Early Learning Standards researched and referenced as a guide. This resource aligns with the following standards: UK Early Years Foundations: Early Years Outcomes Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia My Play based resources touch on universal Early Learning standards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click my linktree to follow me on social media and to sign up to my newsletter to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn

This is a collection of process art and open ended art lesson plans. Lesson plans include Clay Numbers and Letters, Dry and Wet Chalk Marks, Sensory and Texture Painting, Brush and Roll Watercolors, Dribble Dye, Hand-print Banner, Foil and Tissue Paper Collages, Hole Punch Art, Textured Collage, String Print Making Painting, Circle Art, and Foil Print Making Painting. Each lesson plan is detailed; each lesson includes goal, materials, activity procedure, simplification, and extension. Just follow the plans, and modify as needed for your students. Many process art and open ended art lesson plans included Colour mixing mats also included Hole punch and lacing card templates included My Artwork frame included Mats come in yellow and blue, red and yellow, red and blue, red and green, red and white and blank mat Mats are Venn Diagrams Allow children to put paint on the mat and mix together to create a new colour Allow children to choose whichever two colors they wish to use on the blank mat Allow children to paint with the mixed colours Hole punch cards come in various animal faces and several blank Blank cards allow for open creativity and can be used in the hole punch art listed in this lesson plan collection Laminate leftover cards; allow children to hole punch leftover cards as well; add string for lacing Give children My Artwork frame to paint, draw, paste a collage, or create whatever they wish Twelve lesson plans, thirteen pages of activities, and a few picture examples are included Total of 25 lessons and/or accompanying activities Early Learning Standards researched and referenced as a guide. This resource aligns with the following standards: UK Early Years Foundations: Early Years Outcomes Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia My Play based resources touch on universal Early Learning standards. Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click my linktree to follow me on social media and to sign up to my newsletter to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://linktr.ee/ecplayandlearn

This resource includes Back to School All About Me Activities. This packet comes with two choices of writing activities, stick puppet templates, paper bag puppet templates, All about Me Poster, photo template for a family photo collage, and a Getting to Know You gross motor game. The writing activities come with diverse children clip art so that the various children in your classroom can be represented. One writing option comes with lined paper for children to write sentences; or you may help children write their sentences. The other option is for Pre-K and K children and children struggling with writing; this option provides a box for children to draw a picture. Allow children to pick which paper they want. Allow children to finish the sentence “I am very good at”, or help children write, or allow children to draw a picture of what they are good at doing. I have also provided a black and white version with a girl and a black and white version with a boy for both types of writing/drawing activities if you prefer using black and white. Very detailed instructions are included for the rest of the activities. Your students are sure to enjoy these engaging back to school activities! These are perfect to help your students ease into the school year! This packet has seventeen pages worth of activities. This version has UK spelling version of “favourite.”

This resource includes Back to School All About Me Activities. This packet comes with two choices of writing activities, stick puppet templates, paper bag puppet templates, All about Me Poster, photo template for a family photo collage, and a Getting to Know You gross motor game. The writing activities come with diverse children clip art so that the various children in your classroom can be represented. One writing option comes with lined paper for children to write sentences; or you may help children write their sentences. The other option is for Pre-K and K children and children struggling with writing; this option provides a box for children to draw a picture. Allow children to pick which paper they want. Allow children to finish the sentence “I am very good at”, or help children write, or allow children to draw a picture of what they are good at doing. I have also provided a black and white version with a girl and a black and white version with a boy for both types of writing/drawing activities if you prefer using black and white. Very detailed instructions are included for the rest of the activities. Your students are sure to enjoy these engaging back to school activities! These are perfect to help your students ease into the school year! This packet has seventeen pages worth of activities.

Various summer fine motor practice pages are included in this resource. This resource includes summer themed do-a-dot activities, summer themed scissor skills practice pages, cut and paste summer collage art activity, and fireflies in a jar dot with finger paint craft. For the do-a-dot activities, allow the children to dot the circles on the summer themed pages with a bingo dauber or a dot marker. For the scissor skills practice pages, there are straight line bugs in the grass, straight line cut in half summer graphics, cut from corner to corner summer graphics, and cut the circle beach ball. Give the children scissors; allow the children to cut the dots on the pages. For the cut and paste summer collage, there are summer graphics; there are also kids at the beach clip art for this activity. Provide the children with poster board, construction paper, or card stock. Allow the children to cut out the summer graphics; allow the children to paste their graphics onto paper to create a collage. Children will use their fine motor skills as they cut and paste, but you can also provide other art materials that allow for creativity for the children since this is also an art project. You can also provide such materials as glitter, crayons, and markers. After the children have cut and pasted and created their collages, they can decorate their pictures more! Allow for as much creativity as possible! For the fireflies in a jar dot with finger paint craft, the fireflies have circles on the glow part. Give the children yellow washable finger paint. Allow the children to dip their fingers into the paint; allow the children to dot the circles on the fireflies with the finger paint. Students will enjoy these fun summer themed fine motor skills pages. They are a great, engaging and fun way to practice these important early skills! There are seventeen pages full of fine motor activities.

Laminate the pages, and cut out the mats. Allow the children access to play-dough and mats. There are directions and creativity prompts on the mats. Read the directions and prompts to the children. Allow the children to manipulate play-dough on the mats. Children will use fine motor skills; they will learn to follow a few step directions, and they will engage in creativity. These are great station activities. Your students are sure to have so much fun with these play based play-dough mats! Let students learn skills while engaging in fun play! Twelve pages worth of play-dough mats.

Included in this packet are Father’s Day cards, Father’s Day bookmarks, two writing craftivities, two Father’s Day coloring crafts, and a Father’s Day pudding parfait recipe. For the Father’s Day cards, cut out the cards; let the children color them; then let the children color a picture or paint hand prints on the front. I have provided three different options for cards to include children who may not have a father or father figure; father’s day can be for any special people in our lives! Cut out the bookmarks. Some book marks are colored, and some book marks are not so that the children can color them. For one of the craftivity, ask the children to complete the sentence. For younger children, write what they say. The other craftivity includes a poem. Both craftivities have a space for the children to draw a Father’s Day picture or paint hand prints. For the coloring crafts, give the children markers, crayons, colored pencils, or even water colors. You can give the children glitter, sequins, adhesive jewels, craft buttons, etc for added creativity. Give the coloring crafts to the children. Simply allow the children to color and decorate the pages. For the recipe, just help the children follow the child friendly recipe. There are four easy to follow steps. When the recipe is complete, enjoy! Children and their loved ones will love these Father’s Day activities! Ten pages worth of activities and one recipe example is included.

This resource includes a Father’s Day card and Father’s Day bookmarks. This is a small part of my Father’s Day Activity Packet that I have provided to you for free. You can get the full packet by clicking the link at the bottom. Cut out the bookmarks. Some book marks are colored, and some book marks are not so that the children can color them. For the Father’s Day cards, cut out the cards; let the children color them; then let the children color a picture or paint hand prints on the front. Children and their loved ones will love these Father’s Day crafts! Thank you for taking a look at my resource. I hope you find it helpful. Don’t forget to leave feedback! I greatly appreciate all feedback. Click this link to follow me and to stay up to date on new content, discount bundles, and sales. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bekastks If you like this resource, check out my Father’s Day Activity Packet. It includes more cards and bookmarks, four Father’s Day craftivities, and a Father’s Day recipe. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/father-s-day-activitiy-packet-12129216