Today is your lucky day for fun and engaging activities for your kids to practice their counting skills. I’m so excited to share this mystery math counting puzzle for St. Patrick’s Day! This mystery math counting activity holds their interest and attention in one punch!
The puzzle covers numbers 1 – 10 with 2 free spaces on the puzzle board acting as clues.
This is a very low prep activity for teachers looking for resources to use again and again. I highly recommend printing on card stock and laminating for durability and repeated use in your centers.
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I’ve got a great no prep Valentine’s Day preschool shapes printable activity I want to share with you. This one covers basic shapes and few that are not covered as much. I’m talking parallelograms and heptagons so let’s get started!
The activity is quite simple all you need is a game spinner (or paper clip and pencil) and paper and you’re all set. Have the children spin the spinner and mark the appropriate shape on the recording sheet.
Your manipulatives for this activity are limitless. You can use pom poms, playdough (if you laminate your board), handy items you might already have or my personal favorite and right in line with the holiday, festive Hershey Kisses or M&Ms.
Our Valentine’s Day party is usually not attended by parents so I always like for the activities to be quick, easy and fun. Since the classes are half day I stuck with around 5 activities I’m sharing with you here.
We get the party started by decorating plain white treat bags for all the loot that would be exchanged! This would allow for the children to be occupied while others were arriving.
I like to grab the traditional Valentine’s festive colored markers and stickers for the table (pastels along with pinks purples and red) and have the children select from that to make the treat bags really pop!
Set up at the children’s cubbies if possible and have them to take turns filling their classmates bags. I usually did this at snack time or during free play so those that finished early could easily transition over to this activity before grabbing a book on the mat.
To keep the party from slowing down we play a couple rounds of musical hearts. It’s exactly like the musical chairs version only we use heart shaped sticky notes on floor.
Musical Hearts
During our free play time the children also have the opportunity to make bracelets for their friends. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you with cereal being the “bracelet”jewelry” it was the most popular center of the day! All you’ll need is loop cereal and pipe cleaners.
Friendship Bracelets
Friendship Bracelets
The Marshmallow Race
Using straws and mini marshmallows the children play in pairs as they blow through the straws to get their marshmallow to the other side of the table other children cheer as they wait their turn.
Marshmallow race
Since 2020 I have also included a minute to win game it with marshmallows and chopstick due to health concerns but this one is still the most highly requested.
Mrs. Valentine
Mrs. Valentine
You can shake things up by heading right into our fan favorite, Mrs. Valentine
You’ll need a poster or chalk or white board and markers and a blindfold, masks will work in a pinch too! I’ve done both and they both work great!
Draw Mrs Valentine’s face leaving her lips off
Blindfold the children gently turn them around once and allow them to pin Mrs Valentines’ lips to her face. For variation: You can have the children pin on her heart shaped locked to her neck.
I always wrapped the party up by giving everyone a Valentine’s day treat.
