$5 - $10 Pre-K Summer Centers

20 fun hands-on science experiments that are perfect for summer! These cool science activities will keep kids busy whether they are at home, in science camps or at summer school. Kids will experience Physics, Life Sciences, Chemistry, and Engineering. Most of the experiments include fun facts and scientific explanations that are easy for kids to understand.

All graphics (except the cover page) are black and white, so printing costs are minimum, and the pages can be easily assembled into a book for future reference.

Activities include:

☀ Bubbles!

☀ Sand Volcano

☀ Ice Cream in a Bag

☀ Ocean in a Bottle

☀ "Look Closely"

☀ Nature Scavenger Hunt

☀ Sea Shell Fossils

☀ Nature Bracelets

☀ Fireworks in a Jar

☀ Homemade Bird Feeders

☀ Sand Sensory Play

☀ Exploding Color Bags

☀ Stick Weaving

☀ Super Spider Web

☀ Homemade Butter in a Jar

☀ Bottle Fountains

☀ Fizzy Lemon Drink

☀ Plastic Cup Building Challenge

☀ Spinning Buckets!

☀ Colored Ice Exploration

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 Printable Worksheets is a great way for your little one to learn basic handwriting tracing and writing Alphabets A-Z Numbers From 1-10. This is an amazing method to teach kids how they can Learn Alphabets .

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

• 66 Pages ( 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.

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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This summer letter and number seek and find activity makes a great hands on literacy or math center for the preschool or kindergarten classroom. Students will have fun tracing letters and finding numbers with these letter recognition and number recognition matching mats. Each letter and number mat is available in color and in black and white.

What Is Included for Each Set

• 1 Capital Letter Mat
• 1 Lowercase Letter Mat
• 1 Capital and Lowercase Letter Mat
• 1 Number 0-5 Mat
• 1 Number 0-10 Mat
• 1 Number 0-20 Mat
• Capital and Lowercase Letter Cards
• Number Cards 0-20

Themes Included

• Buckets (Numbers Only)
• Crabs (Numbers 1-10 Only)
• Fish
• Ice Cream
• Ice Pops
• Sharks (Numbers Only)

Types of Activities

• Create a hands on literacy or math center by placing the mats and cards in a center.
• Create a write and wipe activity by laminating the mats or placing them in page protectors and providing a dry erase marker.
• Create a sensory bin by adding the letter or number cards inside a sensory bin for students to find.
• Write the Room activity where the teacher hides the cards around the room and students find them to write or trace on their mats.
• Find and Cover activity where students draw a card then use various magnets, mini erasers, or bingo chips to cover the correct letter or number.
• Find and Dot activity where students draw a card then use a bingo marker to dot the correct letter or number.

By having a variety of ways to complete, students will stay engaged as they look for and find each letter or number on the letter mats.

Skills Assessed with these learning mats:

• Letter Recognition with capital and lowercase letters
• Number Recognition from 0-20
• Handwriting Practice for letters and numbers

The mats to this activity are no prep. You simply print and hand out or place in the desired center. The mats can be laminated or placed in page protectors for a reusable activity. The cards are low prep, as they just need to be printed and cut apart. The cards can also be laminated for durability.

Check out this link for other Alphabet Activities

Alphabet Playdough Mats Bundle

Alphabet Cards and Puzzles Bundle

Letter Recognition Games

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

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

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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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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.

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Fun Summer Mandala 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!

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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.

NOTE

• This is a digital item.

• No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

• No refunds as this is a digital product.

Preschoolers can count to 10 with these themed counting puzzles. Students will gain practice counting real photographic images.

What is Included:

There is one puzzle for each number from 1 to 10. Each puzzle piece feature real photographs to count as well as the number and number word.

When to Use:

• Math Center
• Morning Tubs or Baskets
• Small Group Activity

These puzzles can be easily stored in a task box for an easy to set up, clean up and store math center.

Themes Included

Back to School

Christmas

Easter

Fall/Autumn

Farm

Halloween

Spring

St. Patrick's Day

Summer

Transportation

Valentine's Day

Winter

More Themed Resources

Themed Beginning Sound Clip Cards

Themed Handwriting and Tracing Cards

Themed Alphabet Mats for Sensory Bins

A full year of seasonal words, perfect for introducing seasonal vocabulary! Included in this bundle are Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer Vocabulary Word Wall sets. Buying these sets in this bundle saves you 20%!

These are perfect for writing centers, flash cards, word walls, or as an introduction to the holidays. Low prep...just print, cut, and laminate. Each season comes with a full-page poster/title page. Also includes a write and wipe version of the cards so you can laminate them and use them in writing centers!

Includes words like acorn, apple, turkey, football, mitten, snowflake, fireplace, hockey stick, rain boots, butterfly, robin, jump rope, bathing suit, sandcastle, wave, seashell, and more!

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Weather Vocabulary Cards

Four Seasons Vocabulary Cards

Winter Sports Vocabulary Cards

Christmas Nativity Vocabulary Cards

Winter Holiday Vocabulary Cards

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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

Students will have fun counting to 10 and practicing fine motor skills with these themed counting clip cards.

What is Included:

There is one clip card for each number 1 through 10. Each clip card includes colorful and bright real photographic images to keep students engaged in counting.

How to Use:

Students will grab a clip card, count the number of objects, and then place a clip on the current number.

Themes Included

Back to School

Birds

Christmas

Easter

Fall/Autumn

Farm

Spring

St. Patrick's Day

Summer

Transportation

Valentine's Day

Winter

More Themed Activities

Themed Beginning Sound Clip Cards

Themed Handwriting and Tracing Cards

Themed Alphabet Mats for Sensory Bins

Practice preschool skills with this summer themed preschool activity bundle. This bundle includes a wide variety of center activities, worksheets and games specifically for preschool and pre-k.

What is Included:

Alphabet Clip Cards

Alphabet Puzzles and Cards

Counting Mats 1-20

Tracing Lines Center

Where's the Sun? Letter Identification Game

Worksheet and Activity Packet

Related Links:

Winter Themed Preschool Bundle

Groundhog's Day Themed Preschool Bundle

This bundle includes a variety of literacy and math activities all using real photographic images. Practice counting to 10, recognizing numbers up to 20, simple addition, sorting, writing, beginning sounds, syllables, and letter identification with these activities.

What is included:

Tracing Cards

1-10 Puzzles

Number Sequencing Puzzles (counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s)

Alphabet Sequencing Puzzles (capital and lowercase letters)

Alphabet Mats

Counting Mats

Addition Mats

Vocabulary Cards

1-10 Counting Clip Cards

Beginning Sound Clip Cards

Syllables Counting Cards

Ordering By Size Cards (Coming Soon)

More Themed Center Bundles

Fall Themed Center Bundle

Farm Themed Center Bundle

Christmas Themed Center Bundle

Winter Themed Center Bundle

Where is the sun? This summer sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for all of the 200 sight words.
• Sun cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the Sun is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a sun is hidden behind a cloud. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the sun is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the sun is behind the cloud, then the sun must be hidden again to play further. If the sun is not behind the cloud, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

These alphabet clip cards are the perfect way for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice letter recognition and matching capital and lowercase letters. Students can also practice building fine motor skills by using clips to mark each letter.

What is Included:

There are 4 clip cards for each letter of the alphabet. Activities include matching the capital letter to a matching capital letter, matching a lowercase letter to the matching lowercase letter and matching capital letters with the correct lowercase letters.

How to Use:

Students will take one clip card, look at the letter on the card and then clip the letter that matches. The teach may choose to use small manipulatives, like mini erasers, bingo chips or counters to mark each correct response. The cards can also be laminated for students to use dry erase markers to mark correct answers.

Where to Use:

• Literacy Center
• Morning Tubs or Baskets

Skills Assessed

• Recognizing and identifying capital and lowercase letters
• Matching a capital or lowercase letter to their letter counterpart

These letter clip cards are a low prep option for teachers to give to students to complete. The cards simply need to be printed and cut apart before being placed inside a learning station.

This bundle contains the following products:

Fall Themed Alphabet Clip Cards

Spring Themed Alphabet Clip Cards

Summer Themed Alphabet Clip Cards

Winter Themed Alphabet Clip Cards

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These themed number games are a great addition to any themed center for students who are practicing number recognition up to 100. This game is for small group instruction or can be used as a whole class game.

Designed for the pocket chart, Where's the Object? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an object is hidden behind another object. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the number they think the hidden object is behind. Once guessed, the number is removed. If the hidden object is there, then it must be hidden again to play further. If is is not there, then the poem is chanted again and a new letter is guessed. This game has numbers 1 through 100.

Themes Included

Apples (Where's the Worm?)

Fall (Where's the Acorn)

Halloween (Where's the Black Cat?)

Spring (Where's the Bug?)

Summer (Where's the Sun?)

Winter (Where's the Penguin?)

More Math Centers

Themed Addition Center Bundle

Counting Mats 1-20 Bundle

These seasonal letter and number cards and puzzles are a great activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20, as well as matching numbers and pictures up to 10. The cards and puzzles include spring, winter, fall and summer sets.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters
• 2 piece number and number word match
• 2 piece number and counting object match

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Counting to 10
• Number Words to 10
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.

** The sets in this bundle are currently being updated and may not include all of the puzzle and card options listed above. The winter set and fall set already have the number cards added.

This bundle contains the following products:

Fall Themed Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

Spring Themed Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

Summer Themed Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

Winter Themed Alphabet Cards and Puzzles

Where is the Object? These seasonal sight word game is great for students who are practicing sight word recognition and beginning reading skills. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for an early education classroom.

Products Included:

• Winter: Where's the Penguin?
• Spring: Where's the Ladybug?
• Summer: Where's the Sun?
• Fall: Where's the Acorn?

What is Included:

• Sight word cards for the preprimer sight word list.
• Penguin cards for hiding

The cards are available in two formats, 6 to a page and 4 to a page to accommodate different sized pocket charts.

Ways to Use:

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific sight words for struggling students

How to Play:

Where's the ________? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where an object is hidden behind a sight word card. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the sight word they think the object is behind. Once guessed, the sight word is removed. If the object is behind the sight word card, then the object must be hidden again to play further. If the object is not behind the sight word card, then the poem is chanted again with a new sight word.

This packet contains the following sight words:

a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you