Play Doh Fun

I teach preschoolers so of course we love to have fun with Play Doh.  I try to make all kinds of different Play Doh mats to use during centers.  I made this new set of mats using numbers and ten frames.  Let the students have some fun while learning!

Click on the link and it will lead you to my Teachers pay Teachers store to purchase these!

Ten Frame Play Doh Mats

Back to School is Almost Here!

I'm not sure about your schools but here in Alabama, school starts back in August!  We have exactly four weeks until the first day of school.  I have been updating and getting new items ready for the new school year.  

These were in my Teachers pay Teachers shop last year but have been updated for the new school year.  Click on the titles to take you to the Teachers pay Teachers store.

First Day of School Chalkboard Signs 

*These are a freebie on TpT*

Chalkboard Calendars

Chalkboard Calendars - Colored Version

Back to School Assessment Pack

Terrific Toucans Alphabet Book

Each school year, I choose a different way to showcase the alphabet with the students.  Where I teach, we learn three specific letters a month.  This year, I decided to create an alphabet book.  As we learned each letter, the children created a craft using the letter.  I know you have probably seen many ideas like this on Pinterest or other websites but I wanted to share mine with you as well!  I laminated each set of letters for each child and used a binder ring to hold them all together.  I made a special cover for each child's alphabet book also.

Letter A is for Anthill and Ants

Letter B is for Bird

Letter C is for Cookies

Letter D is for Doughnuts

Letter E is for Eggs

Letter F is for Fire

Letter G is for Grapes

Letter H is for Hearts

Letter I is for Icicles

Letter J is for Jellyfish

Letter K is for Kite

Letter L is for Lamp

Letter M is for Mouse

Letter N is for Night

Letter O is for Owl

Letter P is for Popcorn

Letter Q is for Quilt

Letter R is for Road

Letter S is for Snake

Letter T is for Tree

Letter U is for Underwater

Letter V is for Volcano

Letter W is for Wagon

Letter X if Xylophone

Letter Y is for Yarn

Letter Z is for Zebra

My Apologies...

I feel like I apologize a lot to y'all for being absent!  The past year and a half has been crazy for my family.  My father has been very sick and recently passed away from ALS.  I apologize for not posting all my school fun for y'all!  I took pictures of my crafts and activities throughout the school year but never posted!  I will post what I can now and I will have plenty to add throughout the upcoming school year.

Hooray, Hooray, It's the 100th Day!

Well, I live in the South where school starts early - August early!  So, our children celebrated the 100th Day of school on January 20.  This was the first year I have really had to get one of my own children involved with the 100th Day!  We had tons of fun prepping for it - she had to dress up as a 100 year old lady, makes poster with 100 objects and they had a big 100th Day party!  

Last year, I decided to create two fun sets of 100th Day activities and worksheets.  Both sets are for sell on Teachers Pay Teachers.  Also, I have an Etsy site and on there I sell the 100th Day t-shirt iron on transfers as well as the 100th Day treat bag toppers!

If your school is preparing to celebrate the 100th Day, go check out all my items!  I will post links and I also want to share my sweet girl as a 100 year old lady!

Her 100 Day poster - I have a girly girl who loves her bows so what better way to show the 100th Day than a girl with 50 bows on each pigtail!  She painted the poster and put the eyes on with adhesive foam pieces.She then glued the yarn on for hair.  I created the yarn pigtails and hot glued them for her.  She tied each ribbon in a knot for me and I made the bows out of that.

The 100th Day cupcake cake I made for her class

My old lady:

With her wonderful Kindergarten teacher!

Here are the links to the 100th Day activity sets and the iron ons and toppers:

100th Day Set 1

100th Day Set 2

100th Day Girl Iron On

100th Day Boy Iron On

100th Day Treat Toppers

Muffins for Moms

As I sit here and plan out this year's Muffins for Mom theme, it hit me I never shared last years with everyone!  I have done several cute and different themes each year.  I always try to do something outside the box. I begin planning for the next year as soon as this year is over.   Last year I chose a Princess theme.  Sounds normal, right?!  Well, it is but I always try to do some fun and interesting centerpieces, crafts and gifts for the moms.

We always make super cute placemats for our moms.  I always try to do some type of handprint on their placemats so they can keep them forever!  Since our theme was "Princess", we did a castle handprint.  We added glitter clouds and used green chevron wash tape as the grass.  

For one of the gifts, I had each mom and child send in a recipe that they like to make together along with pictures of them making it.  We created a class cookbook.

Another gift we gave our moms was scented salt scrubs.

Another gift we made was a decorative plate with Princess handprints.

For the table decorations, I made feather boa topiaries with princess crowns on the top and painted the pots with princess crowns.

I used some clip art I had for the place cards.

Here is a close up of one mom's seat:

Each year, each student makes a portrait of their mom and answers several questions all about her.

Then, they also made a vase of celery print flowers

And as always, one last picture of me and my sweet daughter.  This was her last year at preschool and our last Muffins for Moms together.  She started Kindergarten this year.