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. Below is a link to 60+ Kid Bloggers in an Amazing Alphabet Series in five categories.

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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.

FREE! educational computer games, printables, authors' activities, and ebook resources are available on my right sidebar.


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.

Click here for The ABCs of
Thrifty Teaching Tools:
  A to E, K to O, P to T and U to Z

Another category in the ABCs Series:

• Art History for Kids from B-Inspired Mama
• Cardboard Box Creations from Here Come The Girls
• Children's Music With Art from Rainbows within Reach
• Crafts and Art from Red Ted Art
• Crafting on a budget from Housing a Forest
• Creativity from Little Artists
• Paper Plates from Domestic Goddessque
• Toddler Crafts from Rainy Day Mum
• Upcycled and Recycled Crafts from Craft to Art
• Valentine Crafts and Recipes from Local Fun For Kids

Just click on the above button to find all in the ABC Series.
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