Preschool Graduation Tshirts

Spring has sprung and flowers are not the only thing growing up this season. It’s the end of the school year and your hard working students are getting ready to move up into the next grade.

Our Graduation T-Shirts are great for classroom pictures or as an end of the year gift for students. Each shirt can be personalized with the school name or teacher name and comes in Kids sizes small, medium, and large. These brightly colored, short sleeve t-shirts are made of 100% cotton for a comfortable fit.

Our many themes cover Pre-k through upper elementary school grades. We carry different designs for your star students who deserve the Olympic gold medal, as well as traditional graduation themed shirts. We even have the famous Dr.Suess inspired Oh, the Places You’ll Go! themed graduation t-shirt.

A shirt can come with just the current year printed on it or it can include “the class of” before the current school year. Graduation t-shirts make a great keep sake item for a child's younger school years that will help them remember the good ole’ days.

Indoor Kids Fort Idea for Preschools

Need a fun way to turn a bad weather day into a fun filled day of indoor activity? We have a great idea to share with you! Let’s build a classroom fort!

There are several ways to make a fort. Materials such as blankets, tables, cardboard boxes, chairs and other furniture are perfect for fort building. If you need some help with the design plans, just ask your students! They are practically professionals at making forts. Forts can be made large enough to fit the whole class, a small group or each student could create their own.

Larger Forts might be created by hanging sheets from the ceiling or draping them over tall cabinets. The same could be done for a fort to fit a smaller group.  Another quick and easy fort is to simply put a sheet over a table and let students crawl in underneath the table.

If large cardboard boxes are available to you, they are a great addition to any fort! The cardboard allows you to construct any shape you would like. It also gives the ability to cut out windows, doors, and the children can color and decorate it. 

If students have individual desks, you can have everyone bring a towel or a blanket to drape over their desk. Now you have mini forts for each student to read or do class work in!

For even more fort fun, plan a Reading Day! Send out a preparation list for parents a few days ahead. You can ask students to bring their favorite books, snacks, a blanket or towel, and even wear some comfy pajamas. Students will enjoy having a relaxing day of reading and won’t think twice about playground time or the weather!

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Daycare Classroom Bowling Alley

Turn your classroom into a Bowling Alley! Here’s what you will need: 10 water bottles, a ball, enough space for a “lane”, and some team spirit!

Start by clearing enough space in your classroom to make the lane in. Next, you will need to set up the water bottles in a triangular pyramid shape to look like bowling pins. The pins will be on one end of your lane. On the other end, you will need some sort of marker to make the starting line. This could be something simple like a strip of masking tape, a yard stick or even just a piece of string. Students will roll the ball from behind this line. This is our “do not cross” line.

The rules are the same as regular bowling. They can easily be modified to best fit your students. This could mean they get three turns every time instead of two or they can continue to bowl until they knock down all the pins. You can keep score and have a class bowling tournament or just play for fun. You could even set up more than one lane so students can bowl at the same time!

If empty water bottles are too easy for your students, try putting a little water or sand in the bottom of each bottle. The added weight will make it a bit more challenging for the kids to knock the bottles over.

Feel free to take your bowling lane to the next level by adding bumpers and other fun features! You could do this by placing two 2x4s, or a pool noodle cut in half, on each side of the lane to help little ones direct the ball.

For an even bigger surprise make your bowling alley into a cosmic one! Grab a few glow in the dark sticks and drop them in your bottles. Now all you have to do is turn off the lights and watch the fun!

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Indoor Scavenger hunt for preschoolers!

Need a fun project for your little ones on those rainy days when you’re stuck inside? We have some great ideas to share with you!

An easy option is to create an Indoor Scavenger Hunt. You can choose any items you would like to hide around the room. Students could work as a class, individually, or in teams. You will need to set up the hunt while students are out of the room. Before school or even during lunch or music would be a great time to do this! You can place items anywhere in the room or restrict it to a smaller area. Remember that your students are shorter than you. You will want to keep their height’s perspective in mind when placing your items. Under tables, on top of cabinets, or just in plain sight, there are lots of fun places in the classroom to hide things!

Now you will need a list of the items that the students will be searching for. You could provide them with a check list or write the items on the board. Items can either be collected or simply located. If students are locating the item, have them write down where they found it. This will allow you to check their page to see if they’re right. If you have enough items for everyone to collect, then we suggest taking that route. Students will love collecting the items as they go!

Items can be just about anything you want. You could use more generic items that could easily be found around the room, like a paper clip or a pencil, or something a bit more advanced and specific, like a crayon in the color sky blue or a yellow sports ball. It will all depend on how challenging you want the hunt to be.

You can even take your Indoor Scavenger Hunt to the next level by adding in some curriculum. For example, you could focus on letter or number recognition and have them find different letters or numbers. If you wanted to take it even further you could have them spell out words with the letters they find or calculate a math problem with their numbers.

Easter is on its way! Change this up to make an Easter Egg Hunt by hiding eggs instead of just random items. You can fill the eggs with fun little things to give your students a surprise with each find.

Got a fun idea for your scavenger hunt? We want to hear from you! Be sure to share with us by leaving a comment down below.

We have more Rainy Day Activities coming your way! Keep an eye out for more great ideas throughout the month of March.

Indoor activities for Preschoolers

Little ones can get antsy quickly when they are kept inside all day. They need a good activity to help them get their wiggles out and to keep you, teacher or parent, from going a little crazy too. Here’s a fun one that students are guaranteed to enjoy!

Create an indoor obstacle course!

You can even let your students help you create it. All you need is a room with enough space to play, a few obstacles for students to pass through, and a lot of team spirit to cheer on your class as they make their way through the course.

Start by making sure that the area you are placing your obstacle course in is clear and safe for the students. This might mean moving a table or two or making sure items are picked up off the floor. Next you can begin to construct your course.

Obstacles can be created from anything you want. You can easily use items around your classroom or in the toy chest. You could even incorporate some class material. For example, they could write their name in cursive or complete a math problem on a sketch pad as one of the obstacles. The possibilities are endless when it comes to the obstacles you choose! This also allows you to create a new course every time. Students will be excited to see what you’ve come up with on rainy days. Plus, it’s a great way to make sure they are getting their daily exercise.

Here’s an example course:

 Hula hoop 5 times, crawl underneath the table, circle a chair 3 times, correctly answer the math problem, do 10 jumping jacks, go down the slide, make a basket in the basketball goal and sit down. The first team to have everyone through the obstacle course and seated quietly wins!

Foamnasium products are great for indoor play and obstacle courses!

Be sure to check those out HERE!

If you need to keep the noise level to a minimum, have your students cheer silently. The faces and expressions are sure to make you giggle as they cheer on their team without making any sounds! This will allow them to show their team spirit, maintain good sportsmanship and not disturb nearby classes at the same time.

Planning on trying out an indoor obstacle course? We want to see what you come up with! Send us pictures of your course and you may see yours featured in a future post! Stay tuned for more indoor activities and ideas for those yucky weather days.