Laminate the pages. Cut out the clip art. You might want to do this as a story time activity first. Tell the children during story time that they are going to create their own story. Tell the children that it is going to be a Imagination Land story. Show the children a few pieces of clip art; then ask one child to choose a clip art. If the child chooses a tree, say the story is going to take place in the forest. Then ask another child to choose a clip art. This time choose clip art that will be a character. If the child chooses a super hero, say that the story is going to have a superhero in the forest. Lastly, ask another child what will happen. If the child chooses an ice cream, say that the superhero is eating ice cream in the forest. Keep asking children one by one to add to the story. Hold the laminated pieces of clip art up for the children to see as you help them tell their story. Next, put the clip art into three small boxes; one box for setting, one box for characters, and one box for plot. Place the boxes on a table in your literacy center. Show the children the storyboard. Show them how to use it. Explain that the first part is for where they want the story to take place, the second box is for the characters, and the third box is for what they want to happen in the story. Show the children that they may place clip art on each section. They may have planets on the setting part, they may have pirates and superheros on the character part, they may have camping things or treats, etc on the plot part, and so on. After the children understand how to use the board, let them place whichever pieces of clip art they choose on the board to create their own stories on their own. You may place Velcro on the board and the clip art if you wish, or you may just let the children lay the clip art on the board. Personally, I would just let them lay the clip art on the board. I also wouldn’t worry about cutting out the clip art out perfectly; I would leave some white. The clip art is on the small side, and this should be a helpful product for you! Don’t make it too tedious! Seven storyboard pages included. 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.

Allow children to learn about various things associated with summer, and allow them to learn about colors through this Bingo game! Bingo games are wonderful for introducing children to math skills such as finding matches, for improving critical thinking skills, for improving concentration skills, and just for making learning into a fun game! This is a great addition to your summer math center, and it is especially perfect to play during groups. I hope your students enjoy playing Summer Fun Bingo. Laminate cards. Cut out the calling cards. Give children the bingo cards. Call out the pictures and colors. Let children use bingo daubers, washable dot markers, dry erase markers, or math counters to mark their squares. Play as a typical game of bingo. If washable markers are used, just wipe the laminated cards clean to be used again. Game includes six Bingo cards plus calling cards.

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.

Included in this activity packet are the following: Mother’s Day bookmarks, Mother’s Day cards, two writing craftivities, and a Mother’s Day toast recipe. Cut out the bookmarks. Some book marks are colored, and some book marks are not so that the children can color them. For the Mother’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 mother or mother figure; mother day can be for any special people in our lives! 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 Mother’s Day picture or paint hand prints. For the recipe, just help the children follow the simple, child friendly recipe. There are four simple steps. When the recipe is complete, enjoy! Children and their loved ones will love these Mother Day activities! Eight pages of activities and one recipe example page are all included.

Laminate; cut out eggs. Tape the eggs onto Popsicle sticks to make puppets. The puppets can be used for finger plays, songs, stories, dramatic play etc. Sing songs and read stories about feelings. Then encourage children to identify the expressions on the puppets, and encourage children to discuss feelings. Later, allow the children to play with the puppets; engage in conversations about feelings with the children as they play with the puppets. The egg puppets have different expressions: happy, sad, angry, confused, and excited. The expressions are emoji faces. Three pages worth of Easter egg emotions.

This booklet is filled with cute, baby animal pictures. It is informative; it contains the name of each baby animal, and it also contains sight word sentences. Your students will enjoy reading along with you and learning baby animal names. I hope you find this resource to be a helpful, interactive read along booklet. To prep, fold the pages in half, cut the pages into two parts and trim if necessary. Next, staple the corner of the pages. When putting the book together, the page with words goes first, and the page with the picture that matches the word goes next. After the books are prepped, give the books to the children and read along with them. The booklet includes the sight words I, see, the. You may allow the children circle the sight words as they read along with you, or you may use the color code provided and allow the children to color the sight words. The booklet also includes “My favorite baby animal is___.” page. Ask the children what their favorite baby animal is; write their answer on the line. Older children may be able to write their answer without help. Also included is a “My drawing page.” Let the children draw their own animal pictures. Ten pages of book pages.

This bear themed activity packet includes five activities. The included activities are B is for bear, bear paw prints, what do bears eat? activity, bear hole punch/lacing card activity, and bear cave gross motor activity idea. Your students are sure to have fun as they learn about bears through these play based, engaging activities! Print several pages of the bear paws. Laminate and use in a follow the bear prints game. As an extension, you could do hand print art. When their hand prints are dry, allow the children to examine the bear paw print cut outs alongside their own hand prints. Ask the children to compare and contrast the bear paw prints to their hand prints. A black and white ink saving option is included for bear paws. For the activity what bears eat, laminate the cut-outs. Put Velcro on a poster board, and put Velcro on the cut-outs. Ask the children to Velcro to the boards only the foods that bears eat. Make as many copies of B b is for bear, and place the pages in your literacy center. You may wish to laminate B b is for bear page and give children dry erase markers. The children can use dry erase markers to write letter B b, or they can copy the letter on other paper. Both colored and black and white versions are included for B b is for bear. For fine motor hole punch, let the children use a hole puncher on the circles around the bear. After using the hole puncher, the children can use string for lacing. And for gross motor bear cave activity, set up a bear cave area for children to crawl in and out. There are seven pages of activities included.

This color words booklet is filled with many different color words and accompanying pictures. On the second part of each page, the children can color the color word. Older children can be encouraged to color the color words the correct color; don’t worry too much about which colors younger preschoolers use. The main goals for younger preschoolers are that they are being introduced to colors, and that they are handling a book. The last page is “My favorite color is” and “My drawing.” Help children write their favorite color, and let them draw a picture. For prep, fold the pages in half, cut the pages into two parts and trim if necessary. Next, staple the corner of the pages. After the books are prepped, give the books to the children, read along with the children, and let them color. Thirteen book pages. My children love this book, and I am sure your students will enjoy it as well!

This math and literacy packet includes complete the patterns, two number puzzles (1-5 and 6-10), Hh is for hat, dot letters, and “My wish is…” writing project. All the activities are St. Patrick’s Day themed. For dot letters, write a letter on the paper provided; give the children dot markers or paint and Q-tips; finally, allow the children to find the matches, and to dot the matches. Dot letters includes a page of blank shamrocks; add your own letters to the shamrocks! “My wish is…” literacy activity can be done as a craftivity, or it can be done just as a writing project. Make copies, and cut out the literacy activity paper below. Ask the children what their wish is; write what they say on the paper. Lastly, the paper can be pasted onto a paper bag puppet project; or it can be left as is. Your Early Learners will enjoy all of these hands on math and literacy activities!

This St. Patrick’s Day theme activity gives children many opportunities to practice their names. Write children’s name on the rainbow strip. Next, let children build their name with magnet letters. Let children stamp their name with letter stamps. Finally, let children write their name in rainbow colors; they may use crayons, markers, or pencils. 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 these other St. Patrick’s Day activities. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-activities-packet-12075884 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/st-patrick-s-day-math-and-literacy-activities-12082182