Free Printable Build A Snowman Craft

2 January, 201510 January, 2015 ~ Grace ~ Leave a comment

Happy winter!

I’ve been working on a snowman activity packet for my preschool and kindergarten students. This is one of the crafts from the packet! Hope you and your little ones each enjoy making a unique snowman. 🙂

Click on the link below to open the pdf file and print your snowman template.

Free Build A Snowman Craft

I will add a link to my snowman activity packet as soon as I get it finished. 🙂

Okay, I finished my snowman activities packet. There are four fun activities in this packet that include: counting, number and letter recognition, and number word recognition. My pre-k, kindergarten, and even 1st grade students have been loving these. Here is the link to my TPT store.

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Learning Numbers 1 – 12 Worksheets and Flash Cards

12 August, 2014 ~ Grace ~ Leave a comment

It’s already that time! Getting ready for school is bitter sweet for me. I hate to think that summer is almost over but I love the planning and decorating and excitement of a new school year! This year I’m also consumed with creating my own preschool curriculum and slowly but surly it’s coming together.

This is the latest addition to my preschool curriculum!

It includes 34 worksheets to help preschool and/or kindergarten students with counting, number recognition, writing numbers and number words, and each sheet incorporates shapes and colors. Ten of these worksheets are cut and paste number review sheets. Below are examples of each kind of worksheet.

This packet also includes 141 3.5″x5″ flash cards. Each number from 1 to 12 is represented in 12 different ways. There are soooo many fun ways to use these. As you can see I laminated them and we use dry erase markers on some of them. They can be used in centers or for sorting in many different ways.

This is a close up sample of the 12 ways each number is represented. I made these to fit in with all my preschool curriculum. On the week we are learning number 2 we are also working on the color blue, the shape is a square and the letter is B, that’s why there are 2 Bees and 2 Balloons. The ways students can sort these flash cards is endless (almost). 🙂

You can visit my TPT store to purchase this packet. It is on sale for the rest of August and through September. Best of luck to all of you getting ready for a new school year!!

Happy Fourth Of July! and “Free Flag” By: Jo

2 July, 20132 January, 2017 ~ Grace ~ Leave a comment

We are going to be out of town for a few days, so I wanted to wish all of you a Happy Fourth of July before we left. So……HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY EVERYONE!

In Honor of this special holiday I wanted to share something my eight year old daughter wrote earlier this year. Her language book had asked her to “write a story about our flag” and this is what she wrote:

It still brings tears to my eyes when I read it. It reminds me to thank God (everyday) for the freedoms that we enjoy and pray that no more of those freedoms are taken away from us.

Have a wonderful Independence Day and remember to hold your “Free Flag” up high!

Homeschool Art Project – Redneck Style

3 April, 20131 January, 2017 ~ Grace ~ 5 Comments

One of Diggers many projects over the winter was to rebuild the deck on his trailer. He just finished it the other day when we (ok, me) decided the nice new wood needed a little color.

The girls were more than happy to help out! In fact, they giggled the entire time. 😀

Yes, I was cringing and thinking of the mess!! Oh, and by the way; wet paint can be very slippery!

But the smiles and giggles were worth it!

Now every time Digger loads or unloads his excavator he will think of his giggly girls. 🙂

Snowflakes – Winter Art Project, Science, History and Bible Lesson

3 January, 201323 November, 2016 ~ Grace ~ Leave a comment

Winter has arrived!! So we decided to start working on our “winter wall”. To see pictures of our “fall wall” click here. Of course the first thing to go on a “winter wall” should be snowflakes…right? We got out the coffee filters and started cutting.

Coffee filters make great snowflakes they are round and easy to cut through, not to mention cheap. The girls came up with some great designs. But then we ran into a problem….we had beautiful white snowflakes and a very white wall to hang them on. Instead of launching a full on, home improvement project of repainting our classroom/playroom we decided to bust out the water colors and make some colorful snowflakes to hang on our white wall. I think they turned out beautiful!!

I then decided we should look at some “REAL” snowflakes. We found several websites that have up close pictures of snowflakes….WOW! They are absolutely gorgeous, every unique one of them. I then found this amazing article “Snowflake Bentley: Man of Science, Man of God” by Jerry Bergman Ph.D. on the “Institute for Christian Research” website. I shared this article with my girls and we attempted to make six sided snowflakes (like the real ones.) This was harder than it sounds…..eventually we managed to get a few decent looking six sided snowflakes. 🙂

I love that this simple art project turned into a science, history and bible lesson. It taught all three of us new things, and made us even more grateful and aware of another one of God’s magnificent creations.

Here are a few pictures of what we like to do with an over abundance of beautiful ice crystals.

Sledding!!