$5 - $10 Pre-K Summer Activities

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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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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This Summer Activities Bundle is a collection of engaging and educational resources designed to keep your students entertained during the summer months.

It includes coloring pages, sentence scrambles, and word search puzzles, all centered around summer themes.

The coloring pages feature various illustrations related to summer, allowing the students to unleash their creativity and bring them to life with vibrant colors.

The sentence scrambles challenge their language skills as they rearrange jumbled words to form coherent and meaningful sentences.

Lastly, the word search puzzles present a fun and stimulating way to improve the student's vocabulary by searching for hidden summer-related words within a grid of letters.

With this bundle, your students will enjoy a range of activities that combine entertainment and learning, making their summer days even more enjoyable.

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This set of adapted books focuses on ordering ice cream and counting scoops (#1-10). This is great summer, end of the year, or ESY! Followup activities allow for writing, play, and task cards. This is a perfect activity for students who love adapted books, and enjoy imaginative play!

What is included?

This set includes 2 adapted books & extension activities.

Book 1: Students will read about going to the ice cream shop and ordering some ice cream! This book includes 8 interactive pieces.

Book 2: Practice counting ice cream scoops with this interactive book. Numbers 1-10 are included (thereby there is 10 interactive pieces). Count the scoops and find the matching number.

Followup activities allow for additional practice with numbers 1-10, and imaginative play / communication practice.

• Writing activities- 3 levels of writing activities allowing students to write about their favorite type of ice cream
• Play - Use the ice cream stand (4 pages that will be pieced together using a poster board) communication board to ask for ice cream. Students will match the correct ice cream (from the order) and prepare for your enjoyment! Take turns and have some fun!
• Task cards - Counting and matching ice cream scoops to the correct number & matching clip cards.

Do you love adaptive books & want a lot of options for you students? Check out my growing bundle: Growing Bundle! Adaptive / Interactive Books for special education

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Looking for some fun seasonally-themed handwriting activities for the year? This bundle includes all seasons and 14 holiday-themed worksheets. These sentence practice worksheets will help your child or student build sentences and write sentences independently while connecting the image with the sentence's meaning.

Students can use the finger-spacing tool (in three different skin tones) to assist them in perfect word spacing. Students can also color the seasonally-themed pictures that illustrate the sentence they are practicing writing.

✏️ This bundle will save you 20% on all enclosed products!

✏️ NOTE: You can use the finger-spacing buddy as is, laminate it, and/or attach it to a popsicle stick for further support of little hands. It’s recommended to print the finger-spacing buddy on thicker paper, such as cardstock.

✏️ This resource includes:

   ✏ 140 seasonally-themed sentence-building worksheets

   ✏ 3 diverse skin-toned pointer-finger hands

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute with scissors and glue

✏️ Seasons and Holidays included:

   ✏ Christmas

   ✏ Chinese New Year

   ✏ Valentine’s Day

   ✏ St. Patrick’s Day

   ✏ Easter

   ✏ Father’s Day

   ✏ Mother’s Day

   ✏ Back to School

   ✏ Thanksgiving

   ✏ Halloween

   ✏ Winter

   ✏ Spring

   ✏ Summer

   ✏ Fall

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Kick off the summer with learning fun! This pack includes fun and engaging activities, games, and crafts to keep you learning all summer long.

This activity bundle includes:

- Go Fish Emotions

- Let's Go Letter Fishing

- Make Your Own Summer Scene

- Summer Counting Book

- My Ice Cream Scoop Name

- Summer Shape Bingo!

- Sunshine Q-tip Painting

- Sunshine Letter Match

- Sunshine Number Memory

-Teddy Bear Rainbow Bingo!

- Tidal Wave Card Game

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These May math activities for Kindergarten are designed to help Kindergarten and Pre-K students practice reading and math skills at the same time! These make the perfect summer themed math center where students can work on making teen numbers, subtraction story problems, addition story problems, fine motor skills and more!

These 7 emergent readers are the perfect activity for End of Year in your Pre-K or Kindergarten classroom! Plus each book comes with multiple versions for easy differentiation.

These mini-books include themes such as ocean, counting fireflys, treasure & MORE!

This May Set includes:

7 different emergent readers with and without dots to help students with 1 to 1

• There Are Fish in the Ocean (composing teen numbers. (How many fish are there? There are __ fish in the ocean.) includes numbers 10-20

• I Can Count by 10's Catching Fireflies (We caught 60 fireflies.) includes numbers up to 120

• We Found Treasure (There were 7 gold coins in the sand and 2 gems in the treasure chest. How many pieces of treasure did we find?) includes numbers 0-9 with answers 3-10 and 3 addition problem types

• Starfish Subtraction (There were 5 starfish on the beach. Then 4 washed away. How many starfish are left?) includes numbers 1-10 with answers 0-9

• Measuring in the Ocean (How tall is the jellyfish? The jellyfish is ___ links tall.) objects are 4-9 links tall *with 2 versions

• Making 10 With Shells (The shark sees 9 shells.He needs ___ more shells to make 10.) *includes 3 versions

• Where is the Crab? (Where is the crab? The chick is above the sandcastle.)

*bonus interactive version where students read the sentence and move the object to match

includes: over, above, below, under, next to, beside, on, between, on top of, in front of, behind, close to, far from, and near

*Books with numbers also include a book without numbers for students to practice counting and writing the number in.

(Each book that is linked is the digital AND printable version of these books. This is a listing for the printable books ONLY. If you are interested in the digital and printable bundle, you can view it HERE.)

Each reader has:

• a black and white PDF version with 2 books to a page (no shuffling pages, just staple and cut!)

Plus:

• A Reference page to see which skills and sight words are addressed in each book
• A Parents Tips page with an editable version included

What teachers are saying about the these books...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The dots under the words help so much for those students just learning concepts about print. Thank you for sharing your resources!" -Peggy

⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This is a great way to combine reading and math. My kids love these books!" -KinderStarStyle

**Please note these books are already included in the digital and printable math emergent reader bundles listed in my store. If you have any questions, please email me or ask in the QA to keep from purchasing a duplicate item.

The best way to teach vocabulary to kids is by playing educational games.

In this bundle you will get:

• Moon Phases Word Search Puzzle Activity Worksheet Fun Back To School Ressource
• Moon Landing Day Word Search Puzzle Worksheet - Activity Games For Kids
• Days of The Week Word Search Puzzle Worksheet
• Months of The Year Word Search Puzzle Worksheet
• BIG Summer Vacation Fun Word Search Worksheet - End of School Year Activity
• Classroom Objects Word Search - Back To School Students Activities Worksheets
• 118 Beach Related Words Word Search Puzzles - End of School Activity Worksheets
• 10 Summer Vocabulary Word Search Puzzles Worksheets Activity - 100 Word to Find
• Halloween October Word Search Vocabulary Activity Worksheets
• Fourth (4th) of July Word Search Puzzle Activity Worksheet | 63 Word to Find
• Spanish Days of The Week Word Search Puzzle Worksheet
• Italian Days of The Week Word Search Puzzle Worksheet
• French Days of The Week Word Search Puzzle Worksheet

Also, I'm open to suggestions about other word searches to add to this set.

Note: This product is not for resale and absolutely not for Commercial Use.

If you have any requests we can help.

Looking for a simple and fun way to get your learners excited about reading? These 16 Seasonal Bookmarks are an easy, inexpensive, and a great way to excite your students about reading! Grab these printable bookmark templates that cover all 4 seasons of the year! Featuring spring, summer, fall and winter themes you're sure to have a simple way to keep your learners excited about reading all throughout the year! These Color Your Own Seasonal Bookmarks are a great way to allow students to express their creativity by coloring their very own bookmarks.

They’re perfect for holidays, or for the days right after a long break because they’re a great way to calm your students down and let them demonstrate their creative side.

You can use these as student gifts or prizes.

What is in this Seasonal Bookmarks Bundle printable?

• Summer Bookmarks
• Spring Bookmarks
• Fall Bookmarks
• Winter Bookmarks

What is included in each bookmark set?

Each bookmark set has 4 fun and cute bookmarks!

The bookmarks come in 3 different versions.

• Black and White: Allow students to use their own coloring skills to create their own vision!

• Partial Black and White: Allow students to color some of the bookmark but doesn’t become too time consuming.

• Full Color: Have vibrant bookmarks ready to go for students to use in their fresh books!

Have fun learning and reading!

Other Bookmarks:

Dinosaur Bookmarks

This Preschool Summer Packet is a comprehensive collection of engaging and educational worksheets and activities designed for young learners. The activities are tailored to capture the essence of summer while fostering essential skills in various areas. Here’s a detailed description of what’s included:

Land or Water Picture Sort

Fish School Alphabet Sort

Ocean Life Beginning Sounds

Sand Castle Color by Letter

Beach Time Color by Number

Happy Whale Dot to Dot

Watermelon Seed Counting

Fish School Missing Numbers

My Name Ice Cream Cones

Ice Cream Number Tracing

Falling Coconuts Numbers or Letters

Pirate Treasure Same or Different

Happy Pirate Tracing

Seasons of the Year

Pirate Ship Shapes

The Bigger Fish - Comparing Size

Seashell Counting

Summer Patterns

Colorful Starfish

How to Make and Ice Cream Cone Sequence Story

Happy Crab Number Order

Ice Cream Cone Letter Matching I

Ocean Animals Counting

This packet is perfect for preschoolers to enjoy during the summer, keeping them engaged and learning while having fun with seasonal and thematic activities.

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Fun Spring Butterfly Coloring Pages For Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, Girls, Boys Kids. This paint dauber coloring Pages is perfect for younger to practice pre-writing skills and have fun at the same time. Makes a fun gift For spring !

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WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• ( PDF + PNG )

• Large 8.5'' x 11'' designs that can easily be printed on regular sized paper

• High-resolution images

• Unlimited prints

• Great for kids, boys and girls

JUST DOWNLOAD, PRINT AND GET STARTED

• This item comes as a high-resolution PDF + PNG files that you can download straight after purchasing.

• You can print as many copies as you want.

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• This is a digital item.

• No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

• No refunds as this is a digital product.

These alphabet recognition games are designed for the pocket chart but can be used on a table top. There are 4 different Where's the _____? games with this bundle. The games can be used for letter recognition or for letter sound recognition.

1. Where's the Acorn: Students must find the acorn hidden behind a fall leaf.

2. Where's the Penguin: Students must find the penguin hidden behind the igloo.

3. Where's the Ladybug: Students must find the ladybug hidden behind the flower.

4. Where's the Sun: Students must find the sun hidden behind a cloud.

To play, a poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the letter they think the object is behind. Once guessed, the letter is removed. If the object is behind the letter, then the onject must be hidden again to play further. If the object is not behind the letter, then the poem is chanted again and a new letter is guessed. This game has letters in both capital and lowercase forms.

These cards can also be used as a matching game, where the capital and lowercase cards can be matched.

More Alphabet Resources

Alphabet Playdough Mats Bundle

Alphabet Cards and Puzzles Bundle

Featuring different themes and Symmetry Puzzles, this ultimate Matching Games Bundle is sure to captivate and inspire young learners while fostering critical skills.

Ideal for preschools, pre-K programs, and early childhood education classrooms, these games bring so much joy into your educational activities. Whether you're a homeschooling parent or an educator, this bundle is an excellent addition to your different themed centers.

Themes included in this printable Bundle:

- Hearts Matching Game

- Butterflies Matching Game

- Spooky Donuts & Mugs Matching Game

- Fall Matching Game

- Snowman Matching Game

- Ugly Sweaters Matching Game

- Popsicle Alphabet Matching Game

* A4 paper Size

* Best to print on card stock (Colors will vary depending on printer used)

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This Sunflower Faces Clipart set is perfect for creating cute resources for your class! Plus It is amazing in teaching Kids different Facial Expressions. The Set includes 21 different Expressions in both color an B&W with and without a stem

( Total 88 Clipart )

This set includes The following Emotions:

• Neutral
• Happy
• Angry
• Amazed
• Annoyed
• Bored
• Calm
• Cool
• Challenging
• Crying
• Sad
• Embarrassed
• In love
• Sexy
• Shocked
• Surprised
• Silly
• Suspicious
• Thinking
• Tired
• Yawing
• PLUS a Blank rainbow WITHOUT expression

All Sunflower Faces come in colors plus Black & White version!

All images are provided in 300 dpi (png) which allow images to stay crisp even after resizing. Please make sure to follow me on TeachShare https://www.TeachShare.com/Store/Arteam-Studio (click on the green star on my profile page) to get the latest updates on all products and latest deals.

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Practice counting, adding, and subtracting with these fun, themed, roll and cover games! This bundle includes the Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer themed units at a 20% savings.

Themes included are apples, pumpkins, raking leaves, Halloween, Thanksgiving, gingerbread man baking, Christmas, snowman building, making hot chocolate, Valentine's Day, garden, picnic and kite flying, St. Patrick's Day, Earth Day, Easter, camping, making lemonade and lemonade stand, Fourth of July/Independence Day, Canada Day, road trip, and pool party.

Each theme comes with five versions of the roll and cover game: roll and count the dots, add one, add two, subtract one, and roll two dice and add, for a total of 100 roll and cover games.

These are great for classroom math centers or for homeschoolers to add to their gameschool collection. Low prep...just laminate and add dice!

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Looking for other seasonal activities?

Fall Holidays Word Wall Cards

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip Unit - Elementary School

Label the Parts: Winter

Winter Holiday Vocabulary/Word Wall Cards

Winter Color by CVC Word

Label the Parts: Spring

Spring Color by CVC Word

Summer Fun Tracing - Prewriting & Writing Activities

Thematic Weekly Vocabulary - Full Year Bundle

Seasons Sorting Mats

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It’s a perfect coloring Pages to practice and perfect your coloring skills. Whether you’re just beginning your creative journey, or you’re a coloring connoisseur, everyone can have fun with this exciting and varied collection of patterns. A Gorgeous Activity Sheets Coloring develops motor skills while fostering creativity and imagination.

What You will Get

• PDF + PNG Format
• HIGH QUALITY
• 8.5x11

NOTE

• This is a digital item.

• No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

• No refunds as this is a digital product.

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Thanksgiving Day is right around the corner! Special education teachers, take advantage of these NO PREP file folder games for your small group math centers and independent work stations. These 7 activities are perfect for that short holiday week right before everyone goes on break! This bundle includes a Thanksgiving social story, practice for number identification, addition, subtraction and counting within 20!

• Pumpkin Pie Addition and Subtraction File Folder Game
• Thanksgiving Number to Number Match File Folder Game
• Thanksgiving Turkey Tablet Subtraction
• Thanksgiving Turkey Tablet Addition
• Thanksgiving Dinner Count File Folder Game

Download 6 ready made file folder games as well as a special BONUS Thanksgiving Day Social Story to share with your students.

Get kids excited about summer with this engaging and educational activity! Four Seasons Write the Room is a fun, interactive activity for kids to explore the seasons! This engaging printable encourages children to find and record seasonal words or images around the room, enhancing vocabulary and observational skills for each season. Perfect for classroom use or homeschool settings, it offers a hands-on approach to learning about spring, summer, fall, and winter.

• 12 Pictures related to each season (Color and B&W, with words and without)
• 4 different recording pages

Just print, cut, laminate, and hang up! Students will love walking around the room to find the pictures and record on their page!

Words included

Summer: Sun, Sunscreen, Sunglasses, Flip-flops, Watermelon, Seashell, Sandcastle, Beach Ball, Pineapple, Ice Cream, Palm Tree, Crab.

Spring: Umbrella, Watering Can, Rain Boot, Bee, Flowers, Rain, Rainbow, Sun, Snail, Wheelbarrow, Tree, Fence.

Fall: Leaf, Acorn, Squirrel, Rake, Apple, Corn, Pumpkin, Wagon, Tree, Hay, Sunflower, Crow.

Winter: Snowflake, Mittens, Sled, Hot Chocolate, Scarf, Sweater, Earmuffs, Hat, Igloo, Snowglobe, Tree, Skiis.

US Letter Size

Directions: Use these sheets to help students practice subitizing and array identification of objects. Subitizing is the ability to instantly and accurately recognize groups of objects between one and three items. Array identification refers to the mental counting of objects and can be assessed with arrays containing four to seven objects. These sheets should be flashed in front of a student for less than 1 second, and the student should be able to recognize the amount of objects.

Included:

• Fall

• Winter

• Spring

• Summer

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Beat the Heat with 10 Summer Color by Number Coloring Pages!
Unleash your inner artist and cool off this summer with this exciting collection of 10 summer-themed color by number coloring pages. Dive into a world of vibrant colors and bring these cheerful scenes to life!
This download includes:

• A high-quality PDF file with 10 unique summer designs