All of my kids have always loved using do a dot markers in our homeschooling. I think you are going to love these Valentine Dot Marker Printables that we have to share.

If you love this themed do a dot pack you will love our entire preschool do a dot printables collection.

What is Included in These Dot Marker Pages?

This eight page pack is perfect for your Valentine’s Day festivities.

Young learners will enjoy creating these free do a dot creations which include:

• heart
• cupcake
• candy
• mailbox
• bouquet
• flower
• present
• balloon

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What if I Don’t Have Any Do a Dot Markers?

No problem at all! If you do not have any markers, there are so many alternative items you could use.

Bingo daubers, pom poms, small erasers, stickers, markers, crayons, paint, small trinkets, cotton balls, etc. The list goes on and on.

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How to Use Do a Dot Markers

If you do not have do a dot markers in your homeschool closet or classroom you need to get some. They are so fun, easy to you and encourage so many different skill building ideas. This video shows you how easy they are to use.

What Are Dot Marker Activities Good For?

Building fine motor skills, hand dexterity which is great for building hand strength, hand and eye coordination, color recognition, spacial awareness, encouraged creativity, builds confidence and more.

Handwriting Practice

Each page includes the do a dot image as well as handwriting practice where students will trace the word associated with the image they’e created.

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Color the Creation

After your preschooler creates their image with a dot markers, they can color the the picture the rest of the way using crayons or markers. They can be as creative as they want and make it their own. Kids will love sharing their creations with you!

VALENTINE SENSORY AND PRETEND PLAY IDEAS:

• Valentine’s Day Pretend Felt Cookies
• Valentine Play Dough Jars
• Valentine Sensory Kit
• Valentine Sensory Rice

Valentine Activities for Kids

• Valentine Preschool Sorting Activity
• Valentine Cutting Practice
• Make Cards Using Veggie Stamping
• Panda Valentine Craft
• Valentine Count and Graph
• Valentine Monster Letter Recognition

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If you are looking for some fun activities to add to your February lesson plan, this is a great one! These Groundhog Day Book Companion Printables are perfect to use as you read the well known book by Gail Gibbons.

When I incorporate book companion worksheets with a story we are reading it really helps my children comprehend the story better. This pack is perfect for preschoolers and young elementary students.

Free Groundhog Day Printable Activities

Groundhog Day is February 2nd. This educational pack is perfect for teaching kids the history of this holiday, but also the book is very informative on the subject of hibernation and how groundhogs live their life.

This pack includes three printables:

• Shadow Matching
• Letter Matching (uppercase and lowercase)
• Do a Dots

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Shadow Matching

This one page worksheet is great for practicing cutting skills. but also understand shadows.

Kids love to see their shadows.

They will cut out the images of the snowflake, groundhog, sun, tree, flower and hat and glue them shadow image to the color image.

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How Are Shadows Formed

Does your young learner understand how shadows are made? This is a great video to let them watch.

Listen to Groundhog Day by Gail Gibbons

If you don’t have access to the book, here is a read aloud version of the story. The story will help them learn about groundhogs day but also the life of a groundhog and other animals that hibernate. Students will love this book.

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Letter Matching

My five year old loves to use scissors and a glue stick. This printable one he will love.

They will cut out the letter on the hats, following the cutting lines. All of the letters on the hats are lowercase letters.

Then they will use glue or a glue stick to match the lowercase letter to it’s uppercase letter. All of the uppercase letters are on the groundhogs.

This makes for a great literacy activity.

More Groundhog Day Educational Resources:

• Groundhog Felt Board Patterns
• Groundhog Day SVG
• Groundhog Cookie Cutter
• Groundhog Day Finger Puppet

Groundhog Do a Dot Page

Do a dot activities are great for building muscles in kids’ hands and building dexterity. Do a dot activities also help with hand and eye coordination and builds motor skills.

Let your young learner pick their favorite color and use the do a dot marker to fill in the groundhog.

Add even more fun by having them count the number of dots they make.

More Book Companion Printables for Preschoolers

• The Snowy Day
• Caps for Sale
• There Was a Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell
• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
• Room on the Broom
• Pete the Cat and HIs Four Groovy Buttons
• Rainbow Fish
• Eating the Alphabet
• Make Way for Ducklings
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• If you Give a Mouse a Cookie

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More Groundhog Day Activities

• PreK and Kindergarten Groundhogs Day Pack
• Hibernation Printable
• Groundhog Letter Match Activity
• Groundhog Headband

There is a great series of childrens books about an old lady who is always up to different antics. For winter There was an Old Lady Wh Swallowed Some Snow Printables are perfect to have handy as you read the story to your young learner. .

These book companion worksheets really help my preschool engage with the story as I read it aloud.

Here are the activities included in the free pack:

• Patterning
• Tracing
• Do a Dots

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Trace the Snowflakes

Line tracing is important for teaching and practicing pre-writing skills for preschoolers. It help build those hand muscles and is a great way to strengthen their hands/wrists and work on pencil grip.

While you are reading the book, have your preschooler trace the snowflakes on the page.

When they are done they can color the snowflakes as well.

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Listen to There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow

Are you ready to hear this fun childrens story about an old lady who swallowed some snow. Then, she swallowed a pipe, some coal, a hat, a stick and a scarf. Follow along on her journey to see what happens next.

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Patterning

Working with patterns fosters early math skills and reading skills. We read from left to right and we do patterns from left to right.

Activities like this are great to add to your centers or morning time, but also just letting your kiddos so the pages as you read.

What I love about this pattern page is that it works in many of the story elements which allows you an opportunity to talk about the things in the story and see how well they are comprehending the story.

This is also a great activity that allows you to have your child retell the story based on the items on the page.

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Hat Do a Dot Page

Do a dot activities are great for building muscles in kids’ hands and building dexterity. Do a dot activities also help with hand and eye coordination and builds motor skills.

Don’t have do a dot markers? Use pom poms or small erasers or stickers. Think outside the box and make it fun.

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More Book Companion Printables for Preschoolers

• The Snowy Day
• Caps for Sale
• There Was a Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell
• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
• Room on the Broom
• Pete the Cat and HIs Four Groovy Buttons
• Rainbow Fish
• Eating the Alphabet
• Make Way for Ducklings
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• If you Give a Mouse a Cookie

More Snow Activities for Kids:

• Snow Animal Printables
• Puffy Paint Snowman
• Winter Snow Sensory Bottle
• Snowman Cut and Paste Book

Kid color pages are beneficial to preschoolers and young learners for many different reasons. They help with number and color recognition, but also with skills such as dexterity and hand and eye coordination. They are a great resources to add to your morning time, centers, etc.

These free arctic animals color by number printables are ideal for the traditional classroom but also for homeschoolers.

We have used these with preschoolers, but Kindergarteners and even first graders can use them. Honestly, kids of al ages love creating beautiful pictures.

If you are doing an arctic animal unit study, these are a great resources to add!

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Do Color by Number Worksheets Help Build Math Skills?

Yes, they do. They work on number recognition, color recognition, teach how to properly use a legend, they encourage geometric concepts and more. They are perfect for your math center and they are great for building fine motor skills!

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What Animals Are Included in the Arctic Animals Printable Pack?

This set in autumn themed color by code set includes six coloring pages.

1. penguin
2. walrus
3. polar bear
4. fox
5. moose
6. 2 different whales

Each page includes a legend with the number and color pairs indicated, handwriting practice and simple math.

What Age is Color by Number For?

These pages are created for kids ranging in age from 4-8 years old.

They certainly could be used by kids older if they are interested.

They also are perfect for kids under the age of 4 as long as they are supervised with crayons.

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One of my favorite childhood books to read to my kids over and over again is Caps for Sale. Have you ever read it?

If this is a book you will be reading the first time with your young learner or if you’ve read it over and over again, these book companion worksheets are perfect. Printables like these really helps kids comprehend the story that is being read to them.

This free printable pack includes three pages:

• a do a dot find the letter page
• cotton swab painting page
• line tracing printable

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Find the Letter

Use do a dot markers or crayons to find the letter M on the page. Activities like these are perfect for fine motor development.

Listen to Caps for Sale

Come along and listen to the story of a man with a pile of caps on his head and how he works to sell them, but decides to take a quick nap under a tree only to wake up to all of his caps missing. This classic story by Esphyr Slobodkina should be on your homeschool bookshelf! It is a story that begs to be read aloud.

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Trace the Lines

Line tracing is great for building fine motor skills, fosters early reading skill development (moving from left to right) and can be used as cutting pages as well if you prefer.

Help the mischievous monkeys get to the hats working from left to right.

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Cotton Swab Painting

Talk about the letter C and caps while your preschooler or kindergartner uses a cotton swab dipped in acrylic or finger paint to fill in the circles/dots.

This is an excellent activity that builds concentration skills, fine motor skills, color recognition, letter recognition and more.

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More Book Companion Printables for Preschoolers

• The Snowy Day
• There Was a Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell
• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
• Room on the Broom
• Pete the Cat and HIs Four Groovy Buttons
• Rainbow Fish
• Eating the Alphabet
• Make Way for Ducklings
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• If you Give a Mouse a Cookie

If you have a preschool kindergarten or first grade student who enjoys problem solving, math activities like this are something they will love. These Winter Pattern Block Printables are a great way to make learning fun.

We love using preschool learning manipulates like this in our morning work as we homeschool.

This winter pattern block mat set is sure to be a hit wit young learners. You can print these mats off in black and white or in color, you choose.

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This pattern block puzzle set includes five images to create.

Winter Pattern Block Designs Include:

1. snowflake
2. pinecone
3. mitten
4. penguin
5. hot chocolate

What Geometric Shapes are Included?

There are six geometric shapes that we use in these pattern pages. Each shape is a different color. There is a green triangle, an orange square, a blue parallelogram, a tan rhombus, a red trapezoid, and yellow hexagon. All of these shapes are used to create designs.

How to Use Pattern Blocks

Pattern blocks can be made of wood, plastic or foam. They are all used the same way and are very easy to use. Here is a video that shows you how.

How Are Pattern Block Activities Helpful to Kids?

Obviously these activities help kids learn their shapes, but they are also a great way to introduce other math skills like fractions, measurements, problem solving and more to young learners.

Homeschoolers and classroom teachers use our printables, but we also have folks like librarians and occupational therapists who regularly use them with students.

Handwriting Practice and Math Included

These pages also encourage kids to use simple addition and fine motor practice with handwriting.

How Are Teachers and Homeschoolers Using Pattern Block Printables?

Some teachers and homeschoolers like to use them for morning time, small groups, math centers, morning baskets, pretend play, fine motor skill development and more! You can also laminate them to use the same pages over and over again.

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Pattern Block Themes:

• Christmas Themed
• Thanksgiving Theme
• Farm Theme
• Fall Theme
• 4th of July Theme
• Ocean Animal Theme
• Cinco De Mayo Theme
• Easter Theme
• St. Patricks Day Theme

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One of our all time favorite children’s stories is The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. If you’ve never read it you should add it to your list! Its a favorite of millions of parents and kiddos

When we read stories during our homeschooling day, my preschooler and kindergartener love when I have book companion worksheets to go along with the story. These printable pages are perfect for that!

This free printable pac includes three different activities for young learners to do:

• uppercase and lowercase letter sort
• retelling the story
• draw a snowman

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Draw a Snowman

In the story, Peter makes a snowman. One one page we invite your young learner to draw a snowman that looks like the snowman Peter built.

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Listen to The Snowy Day

If you do not have a copy of The Snowy Day on your bookshelf, watch the video below for the read aloud version.

This book is a childhood favorite and is also a winner of the Caldecott Medal. Join a little boy named Peter as he makes a snow angel, builds a snowman. and more.

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Letter Sorting Printable

Sorting items is a great skill for children to work on. It encourages children to compare and contrast, encourages them to use their senses and builds confidence.

Being able to recognize the difference is uppercase and lowercase letters is important. On this printable, we will sort the uppercase and lowercase letters.

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Retelling the Story

Having a young chuild retell a story builds so many skills. It helps with language skills, confirms comprehension, increases their vocabularuy and builds confidence.

In this printable pack there is a page that allows your student to retell the story in drawings or words.

In this printable your child will use a different color do a dot marker to

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More Book Companion Printables for Books for Young Children

• If You Take a Mouse to the Movies
• There Was a Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell
• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
• Room on the Broom
• Pete the Cat and HIs Four Groovy Buttons
• Rainbow Fish
• Eating the Alphabet
• Make Way for Ducklings
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• If you Give a Mouse a Cookie