Did you know that coloring pages for kids have great educational benefits? It’s true, they do.

These Fall color by number printables are super cute and perfect for preschoolers, kindergartners and early elementary ages kids.

These pages also include handwriting practice and simple math.

Let me show you how fun these are to use and the skills your young learner will work on with these printables.

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Is Color by Number Good for Kids?

Color by number activities is really good for kids. It fosters growth and development in many different areas of learning. It helps develop critical fine motor skills, which are great for writing and even reading. It builds dexterity and hand and eye coordination.

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!

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What is Included in This Free Printable Fall Color by Number Pack?

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

• acorn
• corn
• leaf
• sunflower
• apple
• mushroom

Each page includes a legend so they know what color to uses in each space of the picture.

There is also handwriting work where they will trace the word on each page.

Then there is a place for them to count the total number of colors used to create the picture.

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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More Fall Themed Printables for Preschoolers :

• Kindergarten Halloween Handwriting Practice
• Bat Sequencing Activity
• Fall Printable Lego Builds
• Fall Pattern Block Printables

More Color by Number Printables:

• Halloween Color by Number
• Johnny Appleseed Color by Number
• Shark Color by Number
• Ocean Color by Number
• Cinco de Mayo Color by Number

If you are on the hunt for some pattern block templates to use with your preschooler or young learner while you teach them about farm animals you will love this Farm Animal Pattern Block Printables.

These pages make for great preschool learning manipulatives.

These pattern blocks activities are great for building early geometry and fine motor skills but they also include simple counting and handwriting activities on each page.

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The pack includes nine pages of farm themed pattern creations for your little one to make.

Farm Animal Pattern Block Mats:

• sheep
• horse
• goat
• duck
• donkey
• dog
• cow
• chicken
• cat

What are Pattern Blocks Good for?

Pattern blocks can be inspiring young learners to be creative, but there are also many more areas of math it works to build for your child. Using pattern blocks to create things can help children begin to understand fractions, angles, patterns, symmetry and also measurement.

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What are the Names of the Pattern Blocks?

When you buy a bucket of pattern blocks you will find six shapes inside. Each shape is a color. There are green triangles, orange squares, blue parallelograms, brown rhombuses, red trapezoids, and yellow hexagons. All of the shapes work together to create designs.

On each page there is a place for your student to count the number of each shape used to create the design. For example, how many gree trinales did they use? The will put them number next to the green triangle box on the page.

When they are done, they will count the total number of blocks used and write that number in the last box.

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There is also a traceable word on each page for them to work on handwriting practice.

Some teachers and homeschoolers like to laminate these learning activities and use dry erase markers for any of the writing work. This makes them more diarable usable for years and can be used on student after student.

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What Skills Do Blocks Shaped Like Patterns Help Build?

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

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More Pattern Printables

• Fall Pattern Blocks
• Ocean Pattern Blocks Printables
• 4th of July Pattern Blocks
• Cinco De Mayo Pattern Blocks

More Farm Animal Printables for Young Learners

• Farm Animal Color by Letter
• Cow Life Cycle Coloring and Handwriting Pages
• Farm Animal Letter Mazes
• Cow Headband Craft

One of our favorite books this time of year is Room on the Broom.

As a homeschool mom one thing I like to do when we are reading our favorite books is to use book companion worksheets to go along with the story.

I am in love with these Room on the Broom Printables for Preschoolers.

If you’ve never read this book before, you are really missing out.

I have read it with my preschoolers and young learners in our homeschooling for years.

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These printable pages are great for helping kids understand the story. When my kids are little they always love to have something to work on while I am reading.

In this pack you will get four pages.

One page has a witch, frog, bird, cat and dog for your preschooler to cut out. The second page is a broom for them to cut out. This is great for working on scissor skills.

Then, they will glue the characters onto the broom in order according to the story.

One page for for identifying rhyming words.

The fourth page is for story sequencing.

What Does Room on the Broom Teach Children

Room on the Broom is a kid friendly book and encourages kids to help others and fosters teamwork in children. It’s a fun book that can easily be worked into your homeschooling or classroom lesson plan.

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What Age is Room on the Broom Suitable For?

This book is the perfect read aloud for kids ages 3 to 7. It can certainly be great for kids older than 7 and can be read independently by them as well.

What Animals Are in Room on the Broom?

This picture book includes a witch who friends a bird, a cat, a dog, a dragon and a frog.

This is the story of a kind witch and her cat invite these other animals to ride on the broomstick.

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Read Room on the Broom

If you’ve never read this amazing story by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler or you do not have access to the book, you can always watch the below read aloud video.

More Book Companion Printables for Preschoolers

• 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

Are you on the hunt for some easy lego builds?

These Fall Printable Lego Builds are great for homeschool or traditional classrooms.

This pack includes nine pages of easy Lego build ideas.

You get:

• mushroom
• leaf
• rake
• pumpkin
• apple
• acorn
• corn on the cob
• sunflower

Just print these off and put them in your centers or morning basket and make learning fun and exciting.

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Each page also has handwriting practice and math tallying.

These are perfect for your September lesson plan!

Are you ready to celebrate Fall in your classroom? These Fall Pattern Block Printables are perfect for morning work, working independently, your Mother’s Day Out classroom, math centers and in your homeschool. This pack is perfect for preschool, kindergarten or first grade.

Pattern blocks make great preschool learning manipulates. They are perfect for teaching early math concepts. Let me show you just how easy it is to work these into your classroom.

There are many skills that are utilized and built upon using these fall pattern block mats.

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Let me show you what this set includes.

Pattern Block Templates:

• corn
• pumpkin
• pear
• apple
• acorn
• mushroom
• sunflower
• leaf
• oak leaf
• owl

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Why Are Pattern Blocks Good for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners?

Pattern blocks are a great intro to math, but also they foster so many early childhood development skills such as counting and sorting, problem solving, fine motor skills development, color and shape recognition and more.

What Can Kids Make with Pattern Blocks?

Pattern blocks allow you to take the seven basic tangram shapes and expand them to create something else with them and extend patterns.

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What Are the Names of the Pattern Blocks?

The shapes are hexagon, trapezoid, rhombus, triangle, square, and a thin rhombus.

Each page in the pack includes a place to count the total for each shape used in the design and the total number of shapes used overall. This is great for growing their math skills.

Each page also has handwriting practice which is great for fine motor work as well as vocabulary development.

Why Are Pattern Designs Good For Math?

Pattern blocks help children build their problem solving skills, introduce them to shapes, spatial awareness and concepts.

They help young learners begin to understand symmetry, patterns and measurement.

What Are Some Fun Math Activities for Kids?

Math is a vital life skill that we all need. Here are some ways to make it fun:

• counting the things they see like find one butterfly, find two trees, etc.
• guess the weight or size of something
• math bingo or math scavenger hunt
• find patterns in your every day surroundings
• play number I Spy

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More Pattern Block Activities:

• 4th of July Theme
• Ocean Animal Theme
• Cinco De Mayo Theme
• Easter Theme
• St. Patricks Day Theme

We are huge fans of Pete the Cat books and they are such fun stories to read. I kids have enjoyed every single book. It’s one of our favorite early childhood books. Such a classic.

I love when I can read to my little ones a story and give them book companion worksheets to go along with our reading. Let me show you how awesome these Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons printables are.

Grab your copy of this beloved story and give the kiddos these pages to do along with you as you read aloud. They are perfect for your lesson plan.

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These free printable pages are used to help bring to life different story elements and make it even a more interactive book.

Let me show the three pages you will get in this pack.

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The first page is this super cool and fun color by number page.

Color Pete and his groovy buttons according to the numbers and colors assigned on the legend.

My little Jack Jack and I had a lot of fun coloring this together. I love watching my kiddos hand control improve with coloring over the years.

Next we have a button coloring page.

You can use crayons, map pencils, markers or whatever you have.

Jack Jack wanted to use the do a dot markers to color the buttons, so that is what we did.

Not only does this activity foster color identification but it also encourages counting.

Also, if you don’t have crayons or the like, you can use things like buttons, small erasers, pom poms, etc.

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The last page is a fun graphing activity which is a great for fostering math skills.

Count the buttons and graph the number of buttons for each color.

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Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons Read A Loud

If you’ve never read this amazing story or you do not have access to it but you want to enjoy it with your kiddos, here is a video version of it.

It is a story written by Eric Litwin and the artwork is by James Dean.

Why is Reading A Loud to Children Important?

No matter if your child is in a traditional classroom or being homeschooled, reading aloud is incredibly beneficial. It builes speech and language, increases attention span, is a safe way to explore strong emotions and builds connections between written and spoken words. Try hard to make reading a loud part of your daily activities that you do together with your young learner.

More Activities:

• Pete the Cat Printable Math Game
• Pete the Cat Printables
• Pete the Cat Snack Activities

More Book Companion Worksheets

• Blueberries for Sal
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Eating the Alphabet

You will love this W is for Waffle Printable pack for preschoolers that celebrates Waffle Week which is in September each year. This pack includes five printable pages that are educational and focus on different skills. Your kindergartener could likely use this pack as well.

We love printables for preschoolers just like these.

These worksheets for preschoolers makes learning fun.

This pack includes math worksheets, encourages your young learner to practice counting, letter tracing, coloring pages and more.

Let me show you these awesome printables.

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This pack is one that you and your young learners will love.

Mazes are an excellent way to develop and foster observation skills and motor skills for young children.

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The first page is a maple syrup maze.

Mazes are an excellent way to develop and foster observation skills and motor skills for young children.

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Look at how fun this page is.

Count the toppings on each waffle.

This allows your child to not only practice counting but also writing out the numbers.

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Handwriting practice is very important for young learners.

This page encourages fine motor work with tracing the waffle topping option that kid might love.

Count the number of objects and match it to the correct image.

On this page they can trace the letter W in uppercase and lower case but also color the Ws for more fine motor building.

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These printables for young learners are perfect for homeschools or traditional classrooms.

Many teachers use these pages for their centers or morning time.

We have homeschoolers, traditional public school teachers, Mother’s Day Out teachers, librarians, OTs and grandparents who use our educational resources.

Are you on the hunt for printable geoboard patterns? A geoboard is a flat surface that can be used to show the patterns of symmetry and asymmetry and they are a great way to teach kids.

These Back to School Geoboard Printables are sure to be a bit in your classroom or in your homeschool.

Geoboards are used in the classroom to teach geometry and algebra. Students can use them to create mathematical problems and answers. They also make great visual aid while helping your young learner grasp how specific shapes are made and how to create other shapes.

This pack includes nine pages of geoboard patterns your young learner can make. This is an excellent STEM challenge.

These printable easy lego builds are a great way to foster creativity in your kiddos. I love that Lego mats are a great jumping off point for creating your own masterpieces.

These back to school printable Lego builds are perfect for welcoming a new school season. Many teachers and homeschool families will use them in their morning time or centers.

Back to School LEGO Themed Learning

We know that children learn by playing. Legos are a toy that offer the right mix of creativity and learning at the same time.

Legos teach children to be creative, how to use their hands to create, and a feeling of accomplishment. LEGOS are STEM focused and offer simple engineering skills as kids work to connect LEGO blocks together.

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Free LEGO Activities for Kids

These printable LEGO mats have some math and handwriting activities on them as well.

Each page has a vocabulary word for them to trace and a place for them to count or tally the total number of LEGO blocks used in each simple build.

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LEGO Building Ideas for Back to School

This pack includes seven easy LEGO mat builds. Here is the list:

• scissors
• glue bottles
• pencils
• school bell
• school house
• book
• chalkboard

These are all perfect for young builders and the kids will love creating them.

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Benefits of LEGO Play

Legos are a toy that people of all ages can enjoy. As you likely already know, they come in difference shapes and colors and allow you to build things.

The benefits of LEGO play is endless, but we know they help with motor skills, they foster teamwork, and encourage imagination play which is great for young kids brains.

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These builds use LEGO classic bricks. Nothing super fancy. You can use pieces from LEGO sets or by just the classic LEGO bricks.

LEGO Builds: