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Canada Day Activities for Kids

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Celebrate Canada Day by learning more about Canada and doing some Canada themed activities. I’ve already featured Canada in our countries of the world posts, so you can go there are read all about it and come up with more activities from there. We also have a Canada coloring sheet in our nations of the world pack.

Grade Onederful is a Canada-based blog so it has lots of good ideas for celebrating Canada Day in the classroom. I love the idea to go on a walk to collect rocks so each child can build an inuksuk and also draw them (here’s more on inuksuks if you don’t know what they are). They also made paper plate beavers, illustrated the national anthem and more. You’ll find a printable pack in the post as well.

Happy Hooligans is another Canadian blogger with a fun collection of Canada Day crafts. It includes a God’s eye, shaker sticks, wind socks (shown here) and more you could make to celebrate whatever country you want.

Projects with Kids has a sweet printable wand craft for Canada Day with five maple leaf templates kids can cut out and color before making into a wand. They could also be a garland or used in other crafts if you like.

Homemade Heather has a cute Canada themed matching/memory game kids can play again and again.

I love a good sensory bin, and this one from Happy Toddler Playtime uses painted chickpeas in red and white to make a fun base for kids to play with. She also has a cute paper plate Canada flag craft.

If you’re looking for even more Canada themed crafts, East Coast Mommy has a great collection. I love the paper bag beaver puppet project.

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Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more. 

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs. 

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition. 

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter. 

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters. 

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again. 

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like. 

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there. 

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

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