beach
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Classroom Beach Day Supplies
The best thing about a day at the beach is that it stimulates ALL of your sense. You can definitely recreate this in the classroom with a little planning. Here are my favorite supplies for a multi-sensory classroom beach day. All links are affiliates Striped Beach Towels Kinetic Sand Beach Sand Beach Fragrance Spray Kids’ Sunglasses Nature Sound Machine Mixed Seashells Sand Toys If you are lucky enough to get a day at the REAL beach, make sure to check out this post with all of my favorite supplies for a trip to the beach.
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Preschool Beach Day in the Classroom
Visiting the beach isn’t always possible, BUT you can always create your own beach experience. This is one of my absolute favorite ways to celebrate summer in the classroom. Here are some fun posts to inspire your beach day plans – make sure to check back in on Friday for some of my favorite supplies for a multi-sensory beach setup. Friday Freebie – Beach Counting Books about the beach Dramatic Play Beach Props Beach-themed Sand Play Beach Play – Without the Beach
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Preschool Beach Theme
It’s not summer without a day at the beach – even if that day at the beach happens in the classroom! Here are my favorite printable Beach Preschool Activities to support your summer beach theme. Click on the images for more information.
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Beach Vacation Must-Haves
Whew! Have you ever felt like you needed to recover from your vacation?! We took a beach trip a couple of weeks ago and getting back to “normal” after coming home has been ROUGH. I don’t know if it was all the sun, being off of our daily schedule, or overstimulation, but we weren’t good for much of anything last week. It also gave me a little time to reflect, and I always appreciate time to consider what I’d do the same and different on another similar trip. I packed a lot of the same things that we took for our cruise, and I’ve learned that being on a cruise…
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Friday Freebie – Beach Counting
Happy Friday! I hope that you are enjoying these summer weeks, I still haven’t figured out why they seem to fly by so much faster than the rest of the weeks during the year. Today’s freebie is perfect for summer, or for your beach theme. These play dough counting mats from Over the MoonBow encourage children to practice math skills while being creative. Go download your set and have a wonderful weekend!
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Books about the Beach
I feel like summer themed books don’t always get the attention that they deserve because there are so many things to do in the summer besides read. There are a ton of beach books that will add new elements to your discussions about the beach. Here are a few of my favorites (all links are Amazon affiliates): At the Beach Good Night Beach Beach House A Day at the Beach Check these out and be sure to take some time examining the pictures, which might help you add to your list of dramatic play props to add to your own beach play!
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Dramatic Play Beach Props
While you may not be able to get to the beach this summer, you can definitely make your classroom feel a little more like the beach. Here are a list of props that you can collect for your dramatic play center to help create imaginative beach days: Beach towels Empty sunscreen bottles Sunglasses Beach umbrellas Sand toys Rafts and inflatable pool toys Beach balls Sun hats Flip flops Snorkel and flippers Your students can help you make a list of all of the things that they would need to take to the beach, they might come up with additional items that you had never even considered!
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Beach-Themed Sand Play
We may have hit the official halfway mark for summer when we celebrated the 4th of July last week, but that just means that we still have half of summer left to enjoy! What better way to enjoy all things summer time than with a trip to the beach?! While I would love to live near the beach – and around here we can make a day trip to Lake Erie happen – it’s not exactly a place that you can take a field trip to. Child care licensing tends to frown on large bodies of water, so we usually have to bring the beach to us. The perfect place…
