Teacher Inspiration Guide July 2025
In our July 2025 Teacher Inspiration Guide, you'll find Summer activities, ready resources, and projects for your early childhood classrooms.
Bright & Beautiful Branches
Winter Keepsake Process Art
Create a one-of-a-kind seasonal treasure with clay and items from nature.
Button Flowers
Looking for new button crafts? This button art activity is all about creating decorative flowers using colorful craft stems and buttons!
Nature Wands
Looking for nature arts and crafts activities for kids? Check out this fun nature wands activity for young children.
Nighttime Animals
Looking for animal paper crafts for kids? Try "Nighttime Animals" animal crafts for preschoolers!
Loose Parts Pizza
Loose Parts Pizza is an art activity involving loose parts. Find loose parts play ideas for preschoolers here!
Thankful Pie for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Create a class “Thankful Pie” with handmade fruit pieces that show what children are grateful for. A fun Thanksgiving craft that builds community, creativity, and gratitude.
Pumpkins, Patterns & Possibilities
Explore the world of math with our Pumpkins, Patterns & Possibilities Math Activity. Engage children in measuring, estimating, sorting, and comparing pumpkins for playful mathematical exploration!
Under the Sea Dance Party
"Snow" Activity
Here are some indoor snow activities for preschoolers to do while inside during the winter months.
Five Fruity Questions Activity
This “fruity” activity introduces children to the defining features of different fruits and build their “sensory” word vocabulary, concept knowledge and question-asking skills.
How to Study Insects
What could be more fun than studying insects? Try this insect activity for preschool. Children will go BUGGY over it.
Soups On!
Using chicken soup and alphabet noodles, this is a great activity to teach young children temperature differences and rhyming.
Summer Science Activities for Preschoolers
Looking for summer activities for preschoolers? Young children will LOVE learning all about the sky, the sun, and the moon!
Seasonal Science: Spring Activities
Check out spring science activities for preschoolers. Young children will LOVE learning all about nature in the Springtime.
Nature Science: Animal Adaptations Activities
Get young children interested in animals and observing animals with these nature science animal adaptation activities.
Kitchen Science: Bubble Experiments
Kitchen Science: Bubble Experiments explores Fun with Bubbles! Fun bubble experiments for preschoolers.
Teacher Inspiration Guide May 2025
In our May 2025 Teacher Inspiration Guide, you'll find Spring activities, ready resources, and projects for your early childhood classrooms.
Teacher Inspiration Guide March 2025
In our March 2025 Teacher Inspiration Guide, you'll find Spring activities, ready resources, and projects for your early childhood classrooms.
Clothespin Bugs
Looking for new clothespin crafts? Use a variety of “loose parts” and clothespins to create friendly clothespin bugs.
Breathing Activity Cards
Looking for breathing strategies for kids? Make a set of activity cards to help practice breathing techniques with young children.
Knock Knock Boxes Activity
Knock Knock, Who’s There? This simple activity with an element of surprise is sure to capture the attention of older infants and young toddlers! Great first knock knock game for kids.
Let’s Have an Alphabet Picnic
Looking for new alphabet activities for preschoolers? Check out Let's Have an Alphabet Picnic activity for preschool letter recognition.
Outdoor Artists
Take your indoor art supplies outside for these outdoor art activities for toddlers! So much fun!
Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall
Discover fun and educational leaf activities for preschoolers to explore the science behind leaves changing colors in the fall through interactive experiments.
Nature Science: Worm Activities for Preschoolers
Explore nature science for preschoolers involving worms. In this blog article, we explore worm activities for preschoolers.
Teacher Inspiration Guide January 2025
In our January 2025 Teacher Inspiration Guide, you'll find mindfulness and winter activities, ready resources, and projects for your early childhood classrooms.
Teacher Inspiration Guide December 2024
In our December 2024 Teacher Inspiration Guide, you'll find winter activities, ready resources, and projects for your early childhood classrooms.
Simple Line Painting
Learn simple techniques on this line painting art activity for preschoolers to create shapes and designs with paint.
Frozen Loose Parts Treasures
Foster creativity and imagination with this open-ended frozen activities for preschoolers using versatile loose parts.
Mixed Media Collages
Create mixed media collages out of a variety of differently colored, textured, and sized materials.
Float and Sink Activities for Preschoolers
Fall brings us a host of new materials to use in sink and float activities for preschoolers.
Create a Maze Activity
Mazes for kindergarteners and preschoolers is a must for your early childhood classroom. This is a great free play time activity!
The Dirt on Dirt
Kids love playing in dirt. Here is a nature activity for preschoolers all about dirt and soil! Have fun!
Wild Winter
During the cold winter months, introduce this scientific preschool winter activities into your classroom or home to extend seasonal STEM learning.
Kitchen Science Experiments: Fun with Mixtures!
The first article in the Beckers blog series for Kitchen Science Experiments explores Fun with Mixing Colors! Fun color mixing science experiments for children.
Teacher Inspiration Guide August 2025
In our August 2025 Teacher Inspiration Guide, you'll find Summer activities, ready resources, and projects for your early childhood classrooms.
Woven Shapes
Use craft sticks and yarn to create colorful decorations to be hung and displayed.
Buggin' Out
Young children will learn how to snack like a bug with these bug activities for preschoolers.
Ice Sculpting
Looking for ice activities for preschoolers? Explore this fun ice sculpting science activity for preschoolers.
Give & Take with Nature
Looking for a nature activity for preschoolers? With just a tote or basket, go outside and allow children to explore their world!
Kitchen Science Experiments: Fun with Water!
Water is the perfect laboratory for young scientists! Learn some fun kitchen science experiments using water here!
Teacher Inspiration Guide September 2024
In our September 2024 Teacher Inspiration Guide, you'll find Fall activities, ready resources, and projects for your early childhood classrooms.
Modeling Dough Prints
Create interesting textured prints in modeling dough by pressing in different manipulatives.
Pre-Writing Painting
Practice pre writing skills by tracing a variety of lines using animal figures or corks dipped in paint.
Colorful Glue Creations
Glue painting is a fun craft idea for young children. Check out this color glue painting craft idea for preschoolers.
Craft Stem Bubble Wands
Create this bubble wand craft activity with craft stems and watch the bubbles soar! Bubble wand craft activities are fun!