Looking for a Camping Preschool Unit? This Preschool Pack is jam packed with fun and engaging camping themed activities! As with all of my preschool units, they are play based and options to differentiate for various abilities. You can purchase my Camping Preschool Unit in my TPT shop! Camping Preschool Pack Food is SO motivating for little learners. We spent a lot of time playing with (and eating)marshmallows this week! Hayden practiced counting to 20 with marshmallows. Then we worked on identifying numbers 11-20, which have been a little trickier for him. I named a number, and if he could find it, he got to eat that marshmallow. All of a sudden, he was identifying numbers with amazing accuracy!! Hayden has always loved puzzles, and how cute are these s'more numbers? He worked on 1:1 correspondence by counting each amount of objects, and then matching them to the number. Yep, another marshmallow activity. He traced the number with dry erase marker, and then counted marshmallows onto each ten frame. You could also use play dough for these mats. Dry erase markers make writing more FUN! He worked hard at tracing capital letters on these camping themed alphabet cards. We love these letter beads from Learning Resources. Seriously, we use them for everything. Hayden identified the beginning sound of each picture. Name crafts have been a huge motivator in writing. Hayden made a giant s'more, while writing his name. We worked on creating and extending patterns with colorful goldfish. Nature loose parts are one of my favorite tools to use for learning activities. We have a tray of our favorite treasured saved. Hayden picked a shape card, and then built the shape from rocks, stones, and other nature treasures. Beginning Sounds Tents- For this activity, I folded a notecard in half and added an animal sticker. My son placed the beginning letter for each animal in the tent. Hayden matched uppercase and lowercase letters, while identifying beginning sounds, to make s'mores. Sponge Painting Campfire- We used brown construction paper as logs, then dipped a sponge into orange and yellow paint! I love how this cute craft came out. We built letters by using toothpicks and marshmallows! It was a fun theme, I wish we would have had time for a few more activities. Here are some other activities included in this pack. Bear tracks read and stamp. This comes with letters and sight words. Camping roll and cover. Again, there are two options for this game. There is an addition roll and cover and just a simple roll and cover pictured. Make 10- Build a ten frame by following each recipe card. Practice subitizing and recognizing numbers in a ten frame, with this ten frame camping puzzle. Identify the beginning sound of each picture, OR identify the CVC word. Practice nonstandard measurement by measuring with a marshmallow ruler! You can grab this pack in my TPT shop, or it is also included in the year long bundle!! Looking for more preschool fun? Be sure to check out the year long themes bundle. It is a DEAL! Camping Preschool Pack Year Long Preschool Themes Bundle For more play based learning ideas, follow us on Instagram @michele_dillon

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The end of the year is within reach (2 more weeks) and we finally got to let loose a little bit now that testing is over. Can I get an amen?! Last week we learned all about camping and I can't wait to share our fun with you. Please know, this post does contain affiliate links which means that I earn a small amount when you make purchases from some of the links shared on this page. However, my promise to you is that I am only sharing my honest opinions and I will never promote something I do not believe in or love. We started by brainstorming background knowledge. I split my kids into groups and each had a different topic to discuss. We made an anchor chart and added to it each day as we learned something new. Although I am not an expert camper by any means, I was surprised to learn that the majority of my students had little to no experience with the great outdoors. We also read lots of camping and summer camp themed books. Here are few of my favorites. You can click each book image to be taken right to the book on Amazon. Their favorite part was when they got to bring in towels (aka "sleeping bags") and flashlights to read with. Seriously, they would have read all day long if I let them! On the last day I set up a tent and campfire and the kids took turns reading around the fire and inside the tent. Sidenote, the "campfire" was pretty much like a never ending STEM challenge. I must have built and rebuilt that darn thing 20 times. I used rolled brown paper bags for the logs (and a lot of tape!), construction paper flames, mini glass gems as rocks and to weigh it down, and a shallow pan to put it in. When I create it again next year I am going to try to cover the logs in wood grain contact paper. I also had to tape some of the logs and flames in place so it didn't tip over (can we say real life Jenga?). We made special snacks two of the days. The first day we made campfires using mini marshmallows as rocks, small and large pretzel sticks as the logs/twigs, and gummy peach candies as the flames of the fire. I also saw online where people used candy corn flames and potato stick twigs but I couldn't find those so we worked with what we had. I gave the same ingredients to each child and let them use their imagination to build their campfires. I love how different they each came out! One little one even had marshmallows roasting over her fire. We also practiced How To Writing and made s'mores. We wrote down our ingredients and the steps to make their treats. They then followed their directions and enjoyed the snacks. Instead of regular marshmallows, I gave each child a spoonful of marshmallow fluff to spread. While it was a little messy (one kid got fluff on his head, don't ask hah), it worked well since we don't have a microwave in the classroom to melt regular ones. To tie in art we made Handprint Campfires. First they ripped brown construction paper into logs for their fire. Then, I painted their hands with yellow, orange, and red paint and they stuck it to their paper. You should have heard the giggles from the ticklish paintbrush :) While it all looks like fun and games, I swear we did real work too! Students each picked their own animals to research and used classroom books and online sites like Pebble Go to find facts. After they wrote a paragraph, they created talking animals using the ChatterPix Kids app on our iPads. If you have never used this app before it is AMAZING! Kids took pictures of their animal (or screenshots from an online search), added a mouth, and read their paragraph aloud. The iPad app then makes it look like the animal is talking saying their story. They are also able to save their clip and upload it to our class Seesaw site. Here is one of my little ones' stories. In writing, I found adorable camping themed napkins from Oriental Trading and stapled blank paper inside. The napkin becomes the book cover. My kids used the napkin books as inspiration for their camping themed stories. So cute! In math we used mini marshmallows as manipulatives for addition practice and solved camping themed word problems which can be found here. For added decorations (and a movement activity), I printed pictures of woodland animals from online. I laminated them and hung them around the room. My kids went on a "Nature Walk" to see how many wild animals they could find. They loved it! They recorded everything they found on a clipboard and blank lined paper. Well, that about sums up our week! We had so much fun and I am glad I could share some new ideas with you. If you are looking for more ideas, I have an entire Pinterest board for camping themed classroom ideas. Enjoy! Have you had a camping themed unit in your classroom before? To save these ideas for later, be sure to use the pin below :)

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Everyone loves a camping theme. Learning about nature, forest animals, insects, the night sky, rivers, fishing, and smores will get your students interested and excited to come to school. Parents and teachers all know that when students are interested, they are more engaged, and they develop a love of learning. In this post, I want to share some great ideas for camping centers and activities I do in the classroom with my little learners.

This foil painted campfire craft is so easy even preschoolers and toddlers can join in the fun - perfect for camping crafts and activities.

These free camping counting mats help learn to read and count numbers up to twenty. They're a fun addition to Pre-K, Preschool and Kindergarten math