The ABCs of Thrifty Teaching Tools: F - J

F - J

This is Part 2 in my series of the ABCs of Thrifty Teaching Tools. Click here for A to E, K to O, P to T and U to Z.

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Items for Activities, Alphabet Boxes and Blocked Letters: Frogs, finger paint, food, feathers, farm animals, foam stickers, fur, football,  flowers, food coloring, felt, fruit, fruit loops, fun, funnels.

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FIVE SENSES IDEAS

• Touch: The Good Long Road, Nurture Store Playdough and Teach Preschool
• Sight: Crystal's Tiny Treasures
• Hearing: Carrots are Orange
• Taste: Crayon Freckles, Train Up a Child
• Smell: The Pleasantest Thing, Rainy Day Mum and Housing a Forest
  

Wildlife FUN 4 Kids

FEELINGS

• Stop Bullying - It Starts at Home
• How to Build Self-Esteem in Young Children
• "I Luv U" Self-Esteem Sensory Bag & Books 

FINE MOTOR SKILLS

• How to Improve Fine Motor Skills
• Activities to Improve Fine Motor Skills 

FINE MOTOR Activities on Love, Play, Learn

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Items for Activities, Alphabet Boxes and Blocked Letters: Glue, googly eyes, graham crackers, gardening, games, grasshoppers, guitar, grapes, ghosts, green, gum, glitter, goop, giggle.

• Garage Sales: gently used books, games, puzzles. Sometimes the person having the garage sale with give items to you for free if they know it will be used in a classroom.
• Grants: Perhaps a parent or the grade level teachers can write a grant for supplies, books and resources.

Make Up GAMES with Whatever Interests a Child

Benefits of Playing GAMES:

• Social Skills: Playing games fosters skills in healthy competition, taking turns, sharing, listening, cooperating, good sportsmanship, how to handle disappointment, sense of belonging, and the development of problem-solving skills.
• Vocabulary and Language: Interaction and communication increases word usage and comprehension
• Math Skills: Following rules helps children learn to think logically and in sequence to reach a desired goal 
• Reading Skills: Read or write down the rules.
• Inspires Creativity: Encourage children to make up their own games with whatever they have or whatever interests them 
• Physical Exercise: Outdoor games and  many indoor games work the muscles, improve coordination and release stress
• Increases IQ: Playing games increases the number of new brain connections

Ideas for Games:

• Housing a Forest Games
• Teach Preschool Game Mats and  Pizza Box Games
• 3 Dinosaurs: Pom Pom Games

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Taming the GRASSHOPPER as Pets

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Items for Activities, Alphabet Boxes and Blocked Letters: hand, home, happy, heart, hammer, hospital, hot dog, hug, hopscotch, horse, hedgehog, hog, hop, hair.

Hands: Trace childrens hands for reindeer antlers, turkey feathers, wreaths. Teach children how to make animals shadows using their hands.


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Items for Activities, Alphabet Boxes and Blocked Letters: Ice, ice cream, igloo, icycle, insects, imagination, idea, ivy, iris, ice skaters, iguana, index cards.

Ice Experiment:: Have children drop food coloring into ice trays filled with water. Freeze. Some warm day, take ice trays outside and watch cubes melt.

Igloo by Giggle, Giggle Kindergarten

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Items for Activities, Alphabet Boxes and Blocked Letters: Jump, jump rope, jacks, jello, jelly, jam, journals, Jamberry, Journeys of TX Bear and Kindergarten Lunboxes Need Kids' JOKES.

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