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30 Activities for Preschoolers Includes (pages: 58):7 Coloring Pages

Letter Z for sensory tracing2 Connect the Zippers

Zebra Puzzle CraftZebra Shark and Zone Puzzle Crafts

20 flashcards with words that start in “Zz”Letter “Zz” Dolch sight words (none)

7 Do-a-dot Pages Letter Zz with Zippers5 Tracing Pages Zero Lace-Up CardShapes, Cutting and Matching Cutting Practice Align and Count Counting with Zippers Identify Living Things Zipper Math in the Basket

Zebra Puppet Craft

Letter “Z” Activities

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Tools we’re using in our Preschool Classroom

Set-up:

Our set-up for crafts is at a Mickey and Friends Activity Table. It's perfect for preschoolers with an easily accessible table and chair height.

For our lesson materials I use a Board Dudes 18" x 22" Magnetic Dry Erase Board.

We enjoy matching games and painting on our Melissa & Doug Deluxe Standing Easel.

Supplies to create Printables:

• Scissors• Blu-Tack Reusable Adhesive• Paper Cutter• Single Hole Punch• White Card Stock• White Copy Paper• EPSON Printer• EPSON Ink• Scotch Thermal Laminator 2 Roller System (TL901)• Scotch(TM) Thermal Laminating Pouches, 8.9 Inches x 11.4 Inches, 50 Pouches

(TP3854-50)• If you want to create stickers you'll need some Avery® White Full-Sheet Labels for

Inkjet Printers with TrueBlock(TM) Technology, 8-1/2 inches x 11 inches, Pack of 25 (8165) and you will just cut each sticker to size.

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Melissa & Doug Self-Correcting Letter Puzzles - Practice letter recognition and matching skills with this wooden storage box with slide-in lid. It has 52 wooden pieces and it’s great

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Letter “Z” Flash Cards

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These flash cards are designed to be printed from

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zebra finch zenith

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zink zebuzest Zaire

Letter “Z” Tracing Cards







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Letter “Z” Craft


Use the zippers to create the letter “Zz”.






Puzzle Crafts

Directions: Print, laminate and cut out puzzle pieces. To assist child, you may want to print an additional page as a guide.

Activities: Grown-ups can help the child assemble the puzzles. Talk about the colors you see. Help your child piece together like colors, patterns and more.

Have fun creating these puzzles with your little-one(s).

Special Note: The zebra puzzle is considerably more advanced. You may or may not be able to complete this puzzle with your child. Simpler puzzles are also included.




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Directions: This zebra craft can be used to create a zebra puppet.

Activities: Grown-ups can help the child assemble the puppet. Use yarn, string, pom-poms or other “furry” embellishments for animal’s fur. You can add “google” eyes for the eyes. Use puffy paint, finger-paints, colored sand, or other art supplies to add texture.

You can use this puppet to tell stories or you can use it in song, such as “Old McDonald had a Farm.” The zebra can be used as a teaching tool – tell your child about the sounds he makes, where he lives and what food he likes to eat.

These puppet pieces are designed to be used with a standard brown bag lunch sack that measures 10 5/8 x 5 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches.

Have fun creating this zebra storytelling puppet with your little-one(s).

Zebra Craft

Easy to assemble version. Just cut into two parts – the head and the body. Paste the face/head onto the bottom of the brown paper sack so that when you move the “mouth” of the sack it looks as though the puppet is talking. Feel feel free to embellish as desired. �

Zebra Craft

Zero Lace-UpPrint, laminate and cut out the picture. Use a hole punch to punch holes into circles near the edge of the picture. The card can be used to practice lacing with a shoestring or piece of yarn.

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Cutting Practice Grown-up: help child cut out along dotted line. Discuss shapes.




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hexagon � square�

triangle�rectangle�

Cutting Practice Point out qualities of variousshapes. Cut out and align.




Which ones are living things?Talk about the differences between living things and inanimate

objects. Circle the living things.




Cutting Practice Parent: Cut at dark lines. Have child cut along dotted lines.




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Align & Count




Counting Zippers These zippers can be used for a matching game or forcounting and tracing.




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Counting Zippers Print zippers with either solidor dashed numbers on the back.




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Counting Zippers Print zippers with either solidor dashed numbers on the back.



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Tracing NumbersPrint pictures with either solidor dashed numbers on the back.




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Tracing NumbersPrint pictures with either solidor dashed numbers on the back.




Add and subtract zippers to the basket.

Letter “Z” Do-a-dot


This is a great activity to complete with do-a-dot paints. You can also

provide your child with stickers, pom-poms or some other small object to

fill in the white circles.




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Letter “Z”Dolch Sight Words


There are no “sight words” for the letter “Z”. For more info on sight words and on what age to

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Sight Words.


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