$5 - $10 1st Grade Arts & Music Centers

Improve fine motor skills with dot painting activities. Your students will practice hand-eye coordination and finger muscles while creating beautiful artwork.

Plus, reinforce letter formation by tracing words related to summer. From "sun" to "ice cream," your child will learn while they play.

Ideal for classrooms or at-home learning, our Q-tip Dot Painting in Summer resource is a simple yet effective way to make learning enjoyable!

Low prep, easy, and a whole lot of fun!

what's included

26 pages Q tips painting (a-z things related to summer)

a- August

b- baseball

c- coconut drink

d- daisy

e-exercise

f-flower

g-goggles

h-hot dogs

i-ice cream

j-juice

k-kayak

l-lemonade

m-mango

n-nap

o-orange

p-popsicle

q-quench thirst

r-riding

s-sun

t-tank top

u-umbrella

v-volleyball

w-watermelon

x - xylophone

y-yacht

z- zoo

Materials Needed:

• Q-tips
• Paint
• Paint tray
• Fun printable

Dot Painting – A Fine Motor Activity

Fine motor skill is the coordination of small muscles, in movements – usually involving the synchronization of hands and fingers – with eyes.

Q-tip Painting Activities are made with fine motor development in mind (helps develop a good pencil grip).

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Discover the joy of learning with our Farm-Themed Fun Bundle! Perfect for preschoolers, early elementary students, and homeschoolers, this bundle is packed with engaging activities that make learning fun and interactive.

Contents:

• Farm-Themed Lacing Cards: Develop fine motor skills with 18 different farm items. Available in one per page or two per page, each card features designated places for hole punching and lacing.
• Farm Cut and Paste Crafts: Enhance cutting skills with various farm objects outlined for easy cutting. Perfect for craft time!
• Bump It Dice Game: Make multiplication fun with this exciting game! Roll the dice, multiply the numbers, and bump your opponent off the hay bales. Great for practicing multiplication up to 12.
• Farm-Themed Clip Cards: Engage students with a farm themed clip cards. Each card has a farm object for the to count and then pick the correct number using a form of manipulative. Great for fine motor skills!

Why You’ll Love This Product:

• Teachers: Save time with ready-to-use activities that align with learning goals. Perfect for centers, small groups, or independent practice.
• Students: Enjoy interactive and hands-on activities that make learning math and language arts concepts enjoyable. The variety of activities caters to different learning styles and keeps students engaged.
• Parents and Homeschoolers: Provide your children with high-quality, educational activities that are fun and easy to use. Ideal for supplementing homeschool curricula or enhancing after-school learning.

Who This Product Is For:

1. Preschool Teachers: Perfect for introducing basic math and fine motor skills in a fun, farm-themed setting.
2. Kindergarten Teachers: Great for reinforcing math and language arts concepts with interactive activities.
3. 1st Grade Teachers: Use the multiplication game and write the room activities to challenge and engage students.
4. Homeschooling Parents: An excellent addition to your home education resources, providing a variety of activities to suit different learning needs.
5. Daycare Providers: Keep children entertained and learning with hands-on activities that build essential skills.

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Color Word Unit daily practice sheets to reinforce HFW/sight word colors. Perfect for a "Color of the Day" activity as you introduce color words to your young learners. A variety of skills included such as:

• Recognize the color word and circle
• Color the word
• Trace the word (D'Nealian font)
• Read the word in easy, decodable CVC words
• Draw a picture to represent the color word
• Trace a color word sentence

This activity is easy to pair with my Color Word Poems and Color Word Craft to round out your perfect intro to teaching color words to your kindergarten or first grade class.

Color Word Poems

Color Word Crafts

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Make Fall/Halloween/Thanksgiving art crafting fun with these 13 engaging, hands-on bat, Frankenstein, scarecrow, witch, cat, pumpkin, gnome plus home, pilgrims, hedgehog, squash and zombie making art craft activities! This includes 13 low-prep art craft templates perfect for exploring and creativity. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these art craft activities perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students to discover the art making of bats, Frankenstein, scarecrows, witches, cats, pumpkins, squash, gnomes plus their homes, hedgehog, pilgrims and zombies by coloring, cutting, gluing, and decorating. Students will love exploring how to put the bats, Frankenstein, scarecrows, witches, cats, pumpkins, squash, gnomes plus their homes, pilgrims, hedgehog, and zombies together by using their critical, creative problem solving skills through this fun activity, and won't even realize how much they're learning! Use it after you talk about facts, sing a song about bats, Frankenstein, scarecrows, hedgehog, witches, cats, pumpkins, squash, gnomes plus their homes, pilgrims and zombies or read a cute story. Pull out gems, sequins, paint, coloring utensils.. and the list goes on. Be as creative as possible. Make it spooky or cute. You can print in color if you don't want them to color or use it as a decoration in your room. You can also print in black and white to decorate yourself.

Here's what you'll get:

• 13 templates to practice cutting, coloring and gluing together a bats, Frankenstein, scarecrows, witches, cats, pumpkins, squash, gnomes plus their homes, pilgrims hedgehog, and zombies
• easy to follow directions

Your students will love making these bats, Frankenstein, scarecrows, witches, cats, pumpkins, squash, gnomes plus their homes, hedgehog, pilgrims and zombies crafts with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be engaged and exploring.

These craft activities use materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes 13 printable templates to create the whole project.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student page, gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class!

You may also like…

→ Preschool Activity Resource Packet

→ Unicorn Craft/Activity Packet

→ Pirate Craft/Activity Resource Packet

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Classroom and Children's Room Clipart

Use this clipart to create labels, worksheets, stickers etc.

Includes Copyrights so you can resell the products you create with Art.

Introducing the May Day Spring Bundle!

This bundle includes 7 beautifully designed May Day themed writing templates, a fun May Day basket paper craft, a lovely May Day floral crown craft, and an engaging May Day themed word search.

These resources are perfect for any lower elementary classroom celebrating May Day and the arrival of spring. With this bundle, your students will have the opportunity to express their creativity, practice their writing skills, and have fun with hands-on activities.

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Explore creativity all year long with the Seasons Play Dough Bundle! This bundle includes four seasonal sets of play dough mats, each designed to capture the essence of fall, winter, spring, and summer while building fine motor skills.

Contents:
This seasonal bundle includes:

• 48 Seasonal Play Dough Mats: Twelve unique, themed images per season, such as:

  • Fall: Acorn, bat, candy corn, and more.
  • Winter: Gingerbread man, gift, mitten, etc.
  • Spring: Butterfly, chick, flowers, and more.
  • Summer: Crab, pineapple, popsicle, and others.

• Themed Backgrounds: Each mat is styled with a seasonally appropriate background.

• "I Can" Statements: Self-guiding statements encourage independence in building.

Why You’ll Love This Product:
This Seasons Play Dough Bundle delivers year-round engagement that’s easy to implement. Students get excited about each season’s unique imagery, while “I Can” statements guide them through fine motor practice. These mats are easy to print and laminate, perfect for repeated use. Great for sensory learning, these mats enhance motor skills, creativity, and seasonal awareness.

Features:

• Comprehensive Seasonal Bundle: All four seasons in one resource!
• Fine Motor Skill Development: Engages students in shaping, rolling, and sculpting play dough.
• Reusable Design: Print, laminate, and enjoy season after season.
• Self-Guided: Each mat’s “I Can” statement promotes independence.

Who This Product Is For:

1. Early Childhood Educators: Perfect for seasonal stations and hands-on activities.
2. Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers: Great for developing fine motor skills through seasonal play.
3. Homeschooling Families: An engaging and easy-to-use resource for year-round learning.
4. Occupational Therapists: Ideal for fine motor skill practice in a fun, sensory-based format.
5. Parents and Caregivers: Great for home activities, providing year-long entertainment and skill-building.

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Make Halloween Fall learning activities fun with these engaging, hands-on Halloween activities! This includes 30 low-prep Halloween templates perfect for exploring and building creativity. It is great for multiple ages. Quick and easy setup, plus clear student directions make these activities perfect for centers or substitute days, too!

Lead your students in discovering the world of Halloween using coloring, cutting, I Spying, doing mazes, connecting the dots, color/paint by numbering, counting, Upper & Lower Case IDing, word searching, and decorating. Students will love exploring together by using their critical & problem solving skills through these fun Halloween activities, and won't even realize how much they're learning! Pull out your crayons, markers, magnifying glasses, paint... Have fun!

Here's what you'll get:

• 1 Halloween cover
• 2 Find & Count Halloween picture activity
• 3 different level Halloween mazes
• 1 Practice printable for scissor cutting
• 2 Halloween Counting Activities
• 1 color by number printable
• 2 Connect the dots Halloween printables
• Upper Case Pumpkin Writing
• Lower Case Pumpkin Writing
• 1 printable word search
• 2 Find & Count activities
• 16 Halloween coloring sheets
• easy to follow directions

Your students will love doing all of these Halloween activities with a variety of common classroom materials. They'll be concentrating in their seats, engaged, and exploring various Halloween activities.

These Halloween activities use materials readily available in most classrooms and homes and includes 30 printables to complete. It can be printed in black and white or in color.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather the materials listed, and you're ready for a fun and engaging class! Great for different ages!

Halloween can be a sensitive topic, so please review each activity before giving to your child. Most of it is fun, cute stuff, but there are a few activities that are spookier.

You may also like…

→ Halloween Scavenger Hunt x3 (Different Age Levels) + Halloween Gift Tags!

→ Halloween Build Your Own Frankenstein Art Craft Science Resource Template

→ Busy Mom Planner-Beautiful Butterfly Design

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Engage your preschoolers and kindergarteners with this Woodland Animals Bundle, packed with punched lacing cards, cut and paste crafts, and a fun write-the-room activity to enhance fine motor skills and learning!

Contents:
Discover a world of woodland creatures with this versatile Woodland Animals Bundle! Inside, you'll find 12 lacing cards featuring adorable woodland animals, perfect for developing fine motor skills as students lace through the punched holes. The bundle also includes 12 cut and paste crafts, where each animal is divided into pieces for students to cut out along the dotted lines and glue back together, fostering creativity and scissor skills. To top it off, the write-the-room activity encourages students to hunt for 12 hidden woodland animal images around the classroom, which they can record on one of the included sheets—making learning interactive and exciting!

Why You'll Love This Product:
Teachers will love the Woodland Animals Bundle for its ability to combine fun and education effortlessly. The lacing cards are a wonderful way to practice hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. The cut and paste crafts not only enhance scissor skills but also encourage creativity as students assemble their woodland friends. The write-the-room activity keeps students engaged and moving while reinforcing vocabulary and writing skills. Plus, all activities are print-ready, making preparation a breeze!

Who This Product Is For:

• Preschool and kindergarten teachers looking to enhance fine motor skills with engaging activities.
• Homeschooling parents who want hands-on learning resources that are fun and educational.
• Daycare providers seeking themed activities that develop essential skills in young children.
• After-school programs in need of creative, skill-building activities for young learners.
• Summer school educators searching for interactive, easy-to-prepare activities that keep students learning during the break.

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Bring the ocean to life in your classroom with this engaging Ocean Themed Bundle! Packed with activities that build fine motor skills, reading, writing, and vocabulary, this bundle is a treasure trove for early learners.

Contents:
This Ocean Themed Bundle includes four exciting activities, each designed to promote hands-on learning while keeping students engaged with ocean-themed fun:

1. Write the Room: Students will search the room for 12 ocean-themed images and record their findings on one of four tracking sheets. Two options are available for early learners with images and two with primary lines for more advanced learners.
2. Lacing Cards: Featuring ocean animals, these lacing cards have easy-to-punch holes for students to thread a string or lace through, building their fine motor skills.
3. Cut and Paste Crafts: Students will cut out pieces of ocean-themed objects and glue them together, creating fun crafts while improving their scissor and gluing skills.
4. Play Dough Mats: Each mat displays an ocean object that students will replicate using play dough, with an "I Can" statement at the bottom to encourage skill-building.
5. Three Part Cards Sorting Activity: There are two forms of flashcards included students will match. One card has the image and name on it and then other form of card has the image on one part and the name on a separate part.

How the Product is Used:
Teachers can easily prepare these activities by printing each component on 8.5x11 sheets. For the Write the Room activity, the images are placed around the room for students to find and identify. The Lacing Cards just need their holes punched for threading. The Cut and Paste Crafts are printed and ready to be cut out and assembled by students. Finally, the Play Dough Mats invite students to mold ocean objects with play dough, encouraging creativity and fine motor practice.

Why You’ll Love This Product:
This Ocean Themed Bundle is a go-to resource for teachers looking to combine fine motor skill development with engaging, hands-on learning. Each activity is not only fun but educational, helping students improve their reading, writing, and vocabulary while also reinforcing their motor skills. With ocean-themed visuals, this bundle keeps students motivated, while the variety of activities means it can be used across different centers or lessons. It’s a perfect addition for classrooms that want to dive deep into ocean-themed units!

Features:

• Write the Room activity with 12 ocean-themed images and 4 tracking sheets.
• Lacing Cards featuring ocean animals with easy-punch holes.
• Cut and Paste Crafts that feature ocean objects for cutting and assembling.
• Play Dough Mats with ocean-themed objects and “I Can” statements for modeling.
• 8.5x11 inch pages for easy preparation and use.
• Focuses on building fine motor skills, reading, writing, and vocabulary.

How This Product Can Be Used in the Classroom or Other Educational Settings:

1. Ocean-themed unit study: This bundle complements lessons about marine life and ocean ecosystems, providing hands-on activities that reinforce content.
2. Fine motor centers: Perfect for use in fine motor skills stations or centers, allowing students to practice cutting, lacing, and molding.
3. Writing and vocabulary development: The Write the Room and Play Dough Mats help students strengthen their vocabulary, reading, and writing skills.
4. Indoor recess or sensory play: The play dough mats and lacing cards can be used for indoor recess or calming sensory activities.
5. Early finisher activities: Keep students engaged with these fun, independent tasks when they finish other work early.

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