Watercolor Resist & Reading: Heart Edition

We have been working on reading some simple words recently so this little watercolor resist activity was a lot of fun for my little lady!!  

Super simple, super easy.

And we're still loving hearts at our house...just fyi!!

I started by cutting out some hearts from cardstock and then wrote some words, names, numbers and phrases on the cardstock with a white crayon.

Then I gave her the hearts and water colors and told her to find the hidden word/message.

I did encourage to try to use one color per heart because it makes it much easier to see the letters and word.

Fun, fast, easy and educational!  My kind of activity!

Preschool Painting Fun

I'm sure it's no surprise that Anna loves to paint and do crafts.  She would do them all day long....picture after picture, craft after craft.  Sometimes, though, I don't run out of ideas (like after the 10th activity of the morning) or either I just don't feel like getting all the stuff needed together.

Thankfully, I found Learn.Create.Love.  It's an amazing site with awesome painting printables.  Anna actually asks to browse the site by name to see what she feels like painting.  Below are just a few of our recent creations.  You just have to check out the site!  It's a go-to when I need something quick, easy and relatively mess free for my preschooler!!

DIY Preschool Word and Number Worksheets

My daughter loves to learn.  She loves worksheets, painting, coloring, reading.....basically anything and everything "school" related.

Recently she's been very excited about recognizing letters and familiar words so I put together these simple little word and number worksheets for us to work on together.

Basically...with these pictures/words, I am trying to introduce her to the beginning letter/sound of each word and am encouraging her to look at the picture and then look at the words to match up the picture and word.

It only took about one or two examples for her to catch on and request to do more and more and more...

Here are some of the words/pictures I used.  (And please....no judging for my drawing!!)

And these are the simple number/object matching I made.  These were really easy for her to do, but she loved them all the same!

I try to always remember that learning is fun and easy!!  

And she's off...

Anna started preschool yesterday.....sigh.

Her excitement leading up to the first day was so contagious!  She carried her lunchbox and backpack around for days and kept talking about her "new friends".  

Hoping she has a fabulous preschool year!  

Love you my super big three year old!

DIY Sea Shell Matching and Memory Game

This is a super simple activity to put together for preschoolers.

We used some of our beach shells we collected and some colored star stickers to make a matching and memory game.

So easy and so fun!!  Makes we want to sink my toes in the sand right now!

First Day of Preschool

Look who started 2-year old pre-school this week???  Granted it's a mom-and-me class, but hey...it's still pre-school.

I can't believe she is old enough to go to school!  She had a great first day!  As soon as she walked into the room she started dancing around on the rug.

Then, she quickly found the dress up clothes.  That's my girl.

We love you big girl!