Kindergarten Arts & Music Activities

Take a deep dive with your students into the classical music appreciation world of Duke Ellington! These open SEL activities invite students to color their listening experience while hearing the selected music. Each selected piece of music has a unique ocean scene to explore. Check out the preview above for a closer look!

Learning Objectives

• increased knowledge of popular composers
• familiarity with a variety of musical periods
• ability to recognize, and engage with, popular pieces of music
• social-emotional exploration of feelings and moods within the music
• creative expression by choosing colors related to a musical theme

You'll find five unique ocean scenes for students to explore: mermaids, jellyfish, deep sea divers, starfish, and sea turtles. Students choose from emojis and seasonal nature-themed images to color, in addition to bubbles, fish, and other underwater surprises. There are no wrong answers!

Featured Classical Music

1. Take the 'A' Train
2. In a Sentimental Mood
3. It Don't Mean a Thing
4. C-Jam Blues
5. Harlem

These ocean-themed listening activities are easy to implement - just print and play! The music is readily available on YouTube and your favorite streaming services. No musical training is required making these great for sub plans and summer send-home packets!

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

Are you ready for the School Feast Day? Get your kiddos busy decorating a Thanksgiving Hat to wear. Hat choices include; turkey hats, Pilgrim hats and Native American hats.

Add your own details like googly eyes, glitter and feathers!

All hats are in color and B&W.

✅ The perfect solution for FAST FINISHERS!

Product Includes:

Each hat comes in color and black and white versions.

Pilgrim Boy (2 different skin tones)

Pilgrim Girl (2 different skin tones)

Native American Boy

Native American Girl

Turkey

Boy Turkey

Girl Turkey

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How to Use

Directions page included. Copy the pages you choose. Students color hats. Teacher attaches hat to fit each student.

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Doodling is great fun, but it also provides many developmental benefits for children. Doodling helps kids of all ages to develop and refine their fine motor skills, which is essential for writing, cutting and many other activities that children will do throughout their lives. In addition, doodling encourages visual analysis, increases the ability to concentrate, and boosts creative thinking. And of course, it’s just plain fun!

This packet includes 50 pages of doodle starters to inspire children.

Some ways to use these pages:

Give children a doodle page when they need a brain break.

Print just the pages you want to enhance a classroom theme or concept that you are studying.

Have the pages available for students who finish a lesson early.

Put them in your sub tub.

Use these in your “calming corner” for children who need help with self-regulation

This Alphabet worksheet consists of 2 sections. First section allows student to trace the uppercase and lowercase with marker. Students can use pipe cleaner or playdough to make the letters. Student is required to draw an object starts with the assigned letter.

This is perfect for alphabet literacy center! This 26 page alphabet activity packet gives students the opportunity to recognize their upper and lowercase alphabet letters. This would make a great literacy station or morning work activity.

⭐What's Included⭐

• 26 Alphabet Printables-One for Each Letter of the Alphabet
• TeachShare Easel Version of These Printables

Use this alphabet activity during your:

• morning work
• alphabet introduction
• literacy centers
• small group activities
• Science of Reading Activities
• homework

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This Fun Snowflake Craft Bundle is the ultimate winter activity pack for your students ! It includes a variety of fun and educational crafts:

• Polar Bear Crown Craft template,
• Editable Polar Bear Name puzzles,
• Polar Bear Craft

Perfect for preschool and kindergarten, these activities encourage creativity, fine motor skills, and early literacy and math practice. Great for Ideal for winter-themed lessons, bulletin boards, or a festive classroom display, this bundle offers everything you need to bring the spirit of winter into your classroom!

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Shoe tying Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes Craft

Unleash creativity and motor skills with this engaging, multi-faceted craft activity inspired by Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes!

This hands-on activity is designed to teach students how to lace and tie knots, focusing on the essential life skill of tying shoes. The lesson begins with a simple knot-tying practice on a fun template, allowing students to grasp the basics of knot formation. Once comfortable, students will progress to a shoe-lacing activity, where they can apply their new skills to lacing and tying shoes.

Creative Sewing Activity: After enjoying the beloved story, students can make Pete's shoes come to life by sewing yarn to create laces on their very own shoe templates. This hands-on project is perfect for developing fine motor skills while allowing students to engage with the story in a tactile way.

Colorful Collage Option: For those who prefer a different creative approach, students can color their shoe template and then add vibrant paper strips as laces. This option encourages artistic expression while letting students experiment with different textures and materials.

Early Finishers Activity: Keep early finishers entertained and engaged with a relaxing coloring sheet of Pete's shoes, giving them the freedom to explore different colors and patterns.

This Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes craft is perfect for classrooms looking to combine storytelling with creative expression

This resource includes:

• Bulletin board displays
• 4 lesson plans
• Objectives
• Assessment
• 2 Pete the Cat shoes activity
• Coloring page
• 1 knot tying template
• Posters
• 46 Scripted Slideshow with teacher's guide

If you like this resource, be sure to check out our other NO PREP activities!

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Boost fine motor skills with this engaging Scissor Skills Bundle! Perfect for preschoolers and kindergarteners, this collection of cut and paste crafts offers a fun and educational way to develop scissor skills.

Contents: The Scissor Skills Bundle includes a variety of themed cut and paste crafts designed to help young learners practice their scissor skills. Each set features different images broken into pieces for students to cut out and glue back together, with easy-to-follow dotted lines guiding where to cut. A completed image is included in the corner of each page for reference, ensuring that students can confidently assemble their crafts. Current themes include farm, spring, letter sounds, woodland animals, and Halloween, with more exciting themes to be added in the future.

Why They’ll Love This Product: Teachers will love how this bundle effortlessly integrates fine motor skill practice into fun and thematic activities. The crafts are designed to be simple yet engaging, making them perfect for young students to build their confidence with scissors. The dotted guidelines and reference images make it easy for students to succeed while enjoying the creative process. Plus, with a variety of themes included, this bundle is versatile and can be used throughout the year for different lessons and occasions.

Who This Product Is For: This Scissor Skills Bundle is ideal for:

1. Preschool Teachers looking to incorporate fine motor skill activities into their curriculum.
2. Kindergarten Teachers who want to offer fun, hands-on learning opportunities.
3. Homeschool Educators seeking to provide their students with engaging, skill-building activities.
4. Daycare Providers aiming to enhance children’s fine motor development during craft time.
5. Summer School Programs needing creative and educational activities to keep young learners engaged.

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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.

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❤️Share the love with this delicious Valentine’s Day themed tic tac toe game!

✏️Use as a fun activity in your classroom or send a digital copy home as a Valentine’s Day treat!

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Looking for a fun and engaging Spring and Easter craft for your little learners? This Hatching Egg Craft is the perfect craft activity to celebrate the season! Kids will love revealing the surprise inside the egg as they create their own adorable chick or bunny craft.

What’s Included?

▪︎ Blank template of chick and egg

▪︎ Chick and Egg templates in 3 designs (B&W and Colored)

▪︎ Blank template of bunny and egg

▪︎ Bunny and Egg templates in 3 designs (B&W and Colored)

Why You’ll Love It!

✔ Encourages creativity and hands-on learning

✔ Great for Spring and Easter centers, morning work, and art time

✔ No prep—just print, cut, and make!

Get ready for a fun, no-fuss Easter craft that will brighten up any classroom or home! Grab your Spring Hatching Egg Craft today!

You will need:

▪︎Crayons

▪︎Scissors

▪︎Glue

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Ready for back to school? This resource contains 3 cross-curricular art projects + 2 collaborative art projects inspired by the artwork of artist Paul Klee.  Perfect for back to school, this elementary lesson helps build community in the classroom & create amazing artwork for display at the beginning of the school year! This engaging lesson is designed for Kindergarten through 5th grade students and can be used as part of an artist study, a unit on shapes and color, or any time of year. 

Individual projects can be used with or independent of the collaborative projects.  This resource contains many bonuses to make this lesson simple to successfully implement in your classroom. 

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 22 pages.  It includes: 

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions & photos for 3 individual & 2 collaborative projects
• Tips for integrating social-emotional learning, assessment
• Artist facts & artwork photos
• Tips for differentiation 
• Instructions for use as a back to school project
• Project & material variations
• Cross-curricular & literacy connections
• National Core Arts Standards & TEKS (Texas) for Kindergarten-5th grades

Start your year with an outstanding collaborative project that produces a stunning artwork display! 

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Handprint crafts are a fun, hands-on way to engage toddlers and preschoolers while building important skills. They help children strengthen fine motor control as they paint, press, and decorate, which supports early writing skills.

These Seasonal Handprint crafts also offer a great sensory experience, letting kids explore textures and colors with their hands. Plus, handprint art projects make for memorable keepsakes that capture a moment in time, perfect for sharing with families or displaying in the classroom.

This seasonal Handprint Craft is a simple but meaningful way to combine creativity with learning!

Give as a gift or keep as a holiday memory keepsake.

What's Included:

1 file -12 PDF pages

Each design comes with one blank template and one example design.

How to Use:

1. Download: Once your purchase is confirmed, download the file directly to your computer.
2. Print: Print at home or at a local print shop like Costco, Walgreens, or Staples.
3. Create: Create your unique handprint art masterpieces using non toxic paint.

Paper Recommendation: For best results, use cardstock.

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Unleash your students' creativity and celebrate the magic of music with these Taylor Swift-Inspired End of Era Coloring Pages! Perfect for a range of grade levels, these unique coloring sheets are designed to mark the end of the school year with a harmonious blend of art and fun.

What's Included:

• 8 Coloring Pages
• Educational Value: Enhance fine motor skills, color recognition, and creative expression while subtly incorporating the joy of music into your classroom activities.
• Variety for All Ages: Our pages range from simple designs for younger students to more detailed and complex patterns for older children, ensuring every student finds something they love.
• End of Year Celebration: Use these pages as a fun and relaxing activity to commemorate the end of the school year, allowing students to unwind and reflect on their accomplishments.
• Printable Easy-to-print PDF files
• Versatile Use: Perfect for art lessons, end-of-year activities, classroom decor, or as a special gift for students to take home.

Benefits for Teachers:

• Engagement: Keep students engaged and excited as they color their favorite Taylor Swift-inspired scenes and motifs.
• Stress Relief: Provide a relaxing and enjoyable activity that helps students wind down after a busy school year.

Ideal For:

• Classroom Use: Art projects, free-time activities, or a creative end-of-year celebration.
• Gifts: Great for creating personalized gifts for students to remember their school year by.

Get creative as you Build Your Own armor kid with with engaging and interactive Armor of God craft! Young learners will cut and paste the armor unto the kid image of their choice. They can then keep as is or cut out and glue unto a craft stick to make it an "Armor Kid" they can play with or display! Use this as you read from Ephesians 6 to see the kids get excited about the Bible!

Provided:

• 6 options of "Kids" on printable pages.

  • "Put on the full armor of God" on the bottom.
  • Provided in light skin girl, dark skin girl, light skin boy and dark skin boy.
  • Also provided in a light and dark skin kid from the shoulders down so you have to option to personalize by adding your child's picture!

• All 6 parts of the Armor of God with the correlating words on them

  • Shield with "Faith" on it
  • Breastplate with "Righteousness" on it
  • Sword with "Spirit" on it
  • Belt with "Truth" on it
  • Helmet with "Salvation" on it
  • Sandals with "Gospel of Peace" on them

**Note** that this does not include any descriptions or explanations of the armor. If you are looking for that, I have you covered! I have a full lesson that also includes this craft and many other activites. Find it here, it is only $1.99 more--> Armor of God Lesson

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Spark Your Imagination in Fairyland!

This enchanting coloring book whisks you away to a magical land filled with 25 delightful fairies and their fantastical world!

• Perfect for Kindergarteners: Large, simple illustrations with thick outlines are ideal for little hands to color.
• Hours of Fun: 25 unique coloring pages provide hours of creative coloring enjoyment.

Let your little artist explore their creativity and bring Fairyland to life, one vibrant color at a time!

Headbands

2 French designs and 2 English designs for the K-3 classroom

Making these fun and simple headbands are always a HIT with the littles. A quick no prep activity is just what every teacher needs. Copy, cut and paste. Students can wear these all day on the day of the Solar Eclipse or on the day after. A little sweet tongue in cheek headband!

How to use this:

Set it out as a self-guided activity with materials, pencils, glue sticks, and scissors for students to use.

Create the headbands as a whole class activity and watch as students help each other measure the headbands together.

Teacher assisted for the littles, and you can easily cut and glue (or staple if that is easier).

What's included in this resource:

-1 head band design with 'J'ai survecu l'eclipse solaire 2024"

-1 head band design with 'Je suis sain et sauf apres l'eclipse solaire 2024'

-1 head band design with 'I survived the Solar Eclipse 2024"

-1 head band design with 'I mark myself safe from Solar Eclipse 2024'

Directions:

-Colour the sun rays yellow or leave them white

-Simply cut along the dotted line around the sun rays, then cut the strips for attaching around the child’s head.

-glue each strip to either side of the sun/eclipse shape

What grade level is appropriate?

I personally feel that this resource is ideal for any students from K-2 although those in Grade 3 may love these headbands too!

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What grade level:

I personally use these texts with Grade 1 and Grade 2 students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from K-3 will find these most useful and teachers can come back to the texts with any students who may be experiencing challenges in their French reading skills. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to read and write at the Junior level.

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Some of the Benefits of this resource:

1. Students use hands on materials
2. Boost confidence in French language acquisition with whole group, small group, independent work, and one-to-one instruction using the same resource
3. Fun headband that they can wear around school and at home
4. Students grow in independence at their own pace
5. Reinforce the fun and excitement of this once in a lifetime opportunity
6. Social wellness and personal autonomy in using French in the classroom
7. Scaffold and support language acquisition, oral communication, and writing skills
8. Headbands are a 100% successful activity at this age group!

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Are you looking to have your preschooler learn color matching? This collection of color identification worksheets and sorting games will turn your toddler into a color pro!

Includes:

   ✏ 12 Color flashcards

   ✏ 12 coloring worksheets

   ✏ 12 color-sorting jars with items

   ✏ Game board with dice and game pieces

   ✏ 7 Differentiated color-matching worksheets

These sheets work perfectly to laminate and reuse over and again. Don't waste precious printer ink for printables that can only be used once!

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This is a super fun, elephant toothpaste for kids easy science experiment! It is a great way to talk about liquids, gases, and chemical reactions! I use it when we are learning about states of matter. There are directions for the experiment as well as recording sheets.

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Monsters don't need to be scary and ferocious! This learning bundle is filled with cute and cuddly monsters and designed to let your students learn through play, activities, and games. When learning focuses on themes children love they are so engaged and SO excited to begin their play.

This packet includes:

- Monster Rainbow Bingo

- What if a Monster Was in Your Room activity

- I Have... Who Has Numbers Game

- My Monster Art Activity

- Monster Shape Tracing Cards

- Design Your Own Bookmarks

- Monster Number Puzzles

- Monster Mash Game

-Monster Playdough Cards

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No Prep Thanksgiving Turkey Coloring Craft, Thankful Turkey writing activity.
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Includes 2 pages to complete your own turkey.

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