My younger kiddos love doing pattern block printables in our homeschool day. My four year old calls it his Math.

These 4th of July Pattern Block Printables are so much fun and a great way to talk about Independence Day. If you are looking for hands on learning these preschool learning manipulatives do just that while teaching math concepts.

Let me show you all of the things you will create using geometric shapes. The packs includes nine different pattern block templates.

• eagle
• Statue of Liberty
• rocket
• red star
• firecracker
• firework
• star firework
• star
• green and blue star

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There are many great skills that are built when doing pattern block activities.

Do Pattern Block Mats Help with Problem Solving?

Yes, they do! When kids are using the geometric shapes to create they have to use problem solving skills to determine which shapes work to create other shapes, what will fit in a space, etc.

These are great for your math centers (if you are a teacher) or great for every day homeschool learning. They make great math manipulatives without focusing so obviously on numbers, adding, subtracting, etc.

Building Fine Motor Skills with Geometry

Building and creating with these shapes is a great way to work on Geometry. They are also great for colors and shapes recognition, they help children work on measurements, spacial awareness, and more.

We have a large bucket of plastic shapes that I ordered on Amazon, but you can certainly use the wood or foam shapes.

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On these printable mats, I’ve includes two other skills your kiddos can work on. These are optional, but fun.

There is a space for them to trace the vocabulary word of the object they are making with the shape.

There are multiple star shapes to make but they all look different. Your little one will notice there are many different ways to make stars out of tangram shapes.

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On the printable there is also a place for them to tally how many pieces of each shape was used to make the design on the mat. They can then all all of those numbers up and give the total number of blocks used for each creation.

I hope that you have lots of fun. Just print these out, grab your shapes and get to building.

Let your preschool try to extend the creation and make it larger or manipulate it a but with their own creative spin.

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Best Pattern Block Activities:

• Ocean Themed Pattern Mats
• Cinco de Mayo Themed Pattern Mats
• Easter Themed Pattern Block Mats
• St Patricks Day Pattern Mats

June 14 is Flag Day. Do you incorporate it into your homeschooling, school lesson plans or summer camp?

These Flag Day Printable Worksheets are perfect for kiddos. These flag ideas for school are great resources to keep handy. This is perfect to add to your social studies or history lesson.

Let me show you all of the worksheets that are in this pack. These worksheets are perfect for preschool through second grade.

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This pack includes ten printable pages of Flag Day information and activities.

One page does a great job explaining what Flag Day is, when it is, and talks about the American flag looks like today and what it looked like when we were a colony of 13.

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There is also a crossword puzzle full of Flag Day related vocabulary words.

There is also a page to trace the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.

There is a page of facts and another page to test yourself on reading comprehension. Some of the facts include who designed the flag and who sewed the flag (Betsy Ross).

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There is also a puzzle where you will cut along the dotted lines to the put the flag puzzle back together.

I hope you enjoy celebrating Flag Day and the United States flag with your young learners.

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Did you know that June is Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month? Your young learner will love these fruit do a dot printables that we made for you.

Preschool do a dot printables are a staple in our homeschool for our little kids. We love them these and so do the kiddos.

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This pack includes 6 different fruit pages. You get:

• watermelon
• strawberry
• coconut
• lemon
• orange
• pineapple

You get a color set and a black and white set.

Which Skills Do These Do a Dot Activities Promote?

Do a Dot marker printables are great for building hand eye coordination and other fine motor skills.

Are Bingo Daubers and Do a Dot Markers the same thing?

Yes, you can use either one. If you don’t have either, you can use pom poms, small erasers, any small items that will fill the space.

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Just give your preschooler the dot markers and let them crate these precious pictures.

The name of each fruit is at the bottom of the each coloring page. They can color the name of each fruit if they would like.

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Themed color by number printables are a great way for preschoolers and young learners to work on color recognition and numbered recognition.

These ocean color by number printables are some that kids love! They are also great for building fine motor skills.

This pack includes six printable coloring pages.

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OCEAN ANIMALS

This pack includes the following animals:

• shark
• seahorse
• whale
• dolphin
• octopus
• orca

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WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF COLOR BY CODE WORKSHEETS

Color by number worksheets build problem solving skills, since kids may not be able to see the results of what they are creating until all of the numbers are colored in.

They help build fine motor skills and pencil grasp.

These color pages encourage kids to focus and supports color and number recognition.

WHAT ARE COLOR BY NUMBER PRINTABLES?

These worksheets are very easy for children to use. There is a key code that tells you which color to use for each number. You will notice the image (or picture) on the page is brown down into lined sections with numbers inside the spaces. Identify the numbers in each area and color it according to the legend. In the end, they will have a beautiful picture created.

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WHAT AGE ARE COLOR BY NUMBERS FOR?

Obviously any age can do these coloring worksheets, but they were created with children ages 4-8 years old in mind. They are super fun and give kids a great feeling of accomplishment.

Have you ever read the book Make Way for Ducklings by the award winning Robert McCloskey? So many of his books are classics.

We made these Make Way for Ducklings Companion Printables and they are perfect for preschoolers and young learners. My preschoolers always love when we have book companion worksheets to go along with the stories we are reading.

Let me show you all of the worksheets you get in this printable pack.

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The pack includes three different activities that help preschoolers and young learners develop skills they need to master.

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What preschooler does not love some do a dot pages? Over the years all of my kids have loved doing this activity!

This printable page has a bunch of letters on it. Your preschooler will use a do a dot marker to find all of the letter Ds and mark them.

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The next set of pages encourages kiddos to work on their early math skills.

Each duck nest has a number on it. Have students use their do a dot marker to make the correct number of “eggs” for the nest.

They will work on numbers 1-8.

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The last page is a very simple word search which helps a lot with simple vocabulary and words from the story. You can help them if needed.

All of these pages are great to do with your kiddos and to add to your upcoming lesson plans.

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We also offer a full Make Way for Ducklings printables pack with even more pages of fun. It’s over in our membership Printables for Young Learners.

More Book Companion Worksheets for Preschoolers

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
• Blueberries for Sal

If you have a young learner who needs help with fine motor skills, pattern blocks are the perfect way to work on this.

These Ocean Pattern Block Printables are the perfect preschool learning manipulatives. Your young learner will love these themed templates. We love to use these in our homeschooling and teachers and day care providers find them useful as well.

This pack is perfect for preschool, kindergarten and first grade. Some teachers use them as morning work activities or put them in their math centers.

This pack includes ten pages of ocean themed printable templates.

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Ocean Animal Pattern Block Templates:

These are the pattern block templates:

• dolphin
• fish
• whale
• crab
• seahorse
• stingray
• lobster
• seal
• shark
• octopus

Does Pattern Block Work Help with Critical Thinking Skills?

Yes, they do! Using the pattern blocks to create other shapes encourage kids to critically think about what fits and what does not fit, which shapes work together to build bigger creations, etc.

These pattern block mats include handwriting practice for kids. Each page has a place for them to trace the name of the animal that is on the printable.

Each page also includes some simple addition work, asking students to count how many of each pattern block is used and to then add up the total number of pattern block pieces used for each template.

Learning activities like pattern blocks are great for small groups or for individual learning.

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You can also laminate them so they can be used again and again without having to make multiple sets of copies. You could also use page protectors if you’re looking for a less expensive option.

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What Skills Do Pattern Blocks Help Build?

• color recognition
• shape recognition
• counting and numbers
• measurement
• spacial skills
• logic and reasoning
• fine motor

You can do all then pages or just the pages of your favorite ocean animals.

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Themed Pattern Block Printables:

• Cinco de Mayo Pattern Block Printables
• Easter Pattern Block Printables
• St Patricks Day Pattern Block Printables

Ocean Activities for Young Learners

• Ocean Cutting Practice
• Ocean Color Play Dough Mats
• Ocean Clip Cards
• Jellyfish Craft
• Narwal Egg Carton Craft

You might also like these ocean themed preschool activities and crafts.