April Tot School Plans & Supplies

Happy April. Man did March go fast. This month we will be doing activities for Colors, Shapes, Earth & Water, and Spring.
These April tot school curriculum plans will help you prepare for an entire month of learning fun with your littlest toddler. Themes and skills include colors, shapes, Earth (Land & Water) and Spring.There are many great toddler learning activities including fine motor activities, gross motor activities, crafts for kids, sensory activities, and fun food ideas. A supply list for the entire month is also included.
This month we are starting a new system for tot school that will hopefully make things easier to manage. I was finding that with a newborn we weren’t able to get to all our activities in one day according to my schedule. I also found that Little Miss liked going back to some of her tray activities all throughout the week. So we are going to start putting more of a focus on our tray activities which will be more fine motor practice activities and then supplement with other themed activities and ideas as we have time. Most of the trays will be available to Little Miss at all times throughout the whole week so that she can go to them when she wants.
After our initial introduction to colors and shapes, we will be “focusing” on one or two colors/shapes a week within the context of our given theme. Little Miss is very interested in her colors and shapes right now so it is the perfect time for her to start learning more about them and learning to differentiate the colors and shapes in real life.
I use Pinterest for planning so many of our activities can be found on our themed boards: Colors, Shapes, Earth, and Spring. You can download our plans in pdf form HERE.
These April tot school curriculum plans will help you prepare for an entire month of learning fun with your littlest toddler. Themes and skills include colors, shapes, Earth (Land & Water) and Spring.There are many great toddler learning activities including fine motor activities, gross motor activities, crafts for kids, sensory activities, and fun food ideas. A supply list for the entire month is also included. Slide5
These April tot school curriculum plans will help you prepare for an entire month of learning fun with your littlest toddler. Themes and skills include colors, shapes, Earth (Land & Water) and Spring.There are many great toddler learning activities including fine motor activities, gross motor activities, crafts for kids, sensory activities, and fun food ideas. A supply list for the entire month is also included. These April tot school curriculum plans will help you prepare for an entire month of learning fun with your littlest toddler. Themes and skills include colors, shapes, Earth (Land & Water) and Spring.There are many great toddler learning activities including fine motor activities, gross motor activities, crafts for kids, sensory activities, and fun food ideas. A supply list for the entire month is also included.
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I have rounded up all of the supplies you will need to complete all of the activities listed on our weekly themed activity sheets above. I have broken the supplies down by week so its easier to manage. The tot school plans download also includes a list of supplies broken down by week. This will allow you to print the lists and make gathering supplies much easier.  I have included Amazon Afilliate links for your convenience (read my full disclosure HERE), but you can also find the majority of these items at places like Walmart and craft stores. I personally find it easier and cheaper to buy in bulk from Amazon so that is where I will link to.
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BOOKS // There are so many books to choose from for all the themes.Activities are not specifically focused on any one book so feel free to supplement with your own books. We tend to read many each day anyway so I didn’t want to designate one book a day. Each week I will share a round up post of books that are perfect for the theme/skill and will add links here.
COLOR WEEK BOOKS
SHAPE WEEK BOOKS
EARTH WEEK BOOKS
SPRING/PLANTS/GARDENING BOOKS
 COLORS WEEK
*DIY Clothespin Paint Palette Busy Bag: Foam, clothespins, scissors, hot glue
*Pom Poms
*No Spill Paint Cups
*Pipe Cleaners
*Colander
*Tongs: HERE, HERE, HERE
*Construction Paper
*Rainbow Stacker Toy
*Rainbow Pounding Toy
*DIY Magnetic Fishing Pole/Colored Fish: dowel rod, felt, washers, magnets, sewing machine
*cake pan with lid
*marble or golf ball
*tempera paint
*Sensory Bin with filler material
*Various Toys & Objects of every color
*Sprinkles & Sugar Cookie Ingredients
*Rainbow Playdough Mat
*colored hand cutouts (trace your child’s hands and cut out)
PRINTABLES BY MAC-N-TATERS
*Colored Animal 2 Piece Puzzle
EXTRAS WE USED THROUGHOUT THE WEEK:
*Melissa & Doug Water Wow Color Cards
*Lauri Peg & Peg Stacker Toy
 
SHAPES WEEK
*Shape Sorter Toy
*Melissa and Doug Shape Puzzle HERE, HERE
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*Car
*Sidewalk Chalk
*tempera paint
*paint brushes
*contact paper
*markers
*paper towels
* Painters tape
*pom poms
*circle magnets
*homemade shape dice: box, paper, markers
*Misc. objects in various shapes for sorting
*Shape Road Mats
PRINTABLES BY MAC-N-TATERS (coming soon)
*Shape Puzzle Busy Bag (Velcro dots)
*Shape Lacing Cards
*Shape Magnet/Dot Printable
*Sticker Shapes Printables
EARTH/WATER WEEK
*Green & Blue Playdough (homemade)
*Pom Poms
*Magnet Circles
*tempera paint
*Ziploc bag
*qtips
*broom & dustpan
*blue and green gems
*sponge
*Styrofoam bowl
*construction paper
*cotton circle pads (makeup pads)
*pipettes
*blue and green watercolors
*coffee filters
*markers
*sugar cookie supplies & blue & green food coloring
*pudding & oreo cookies
*blue & green jello
*bowls
*water
*Misc. land/water objects/animals to sort
*Toilet paper tubes
PRINTABLES BY MAC-N-TATERS
*Earth Magnetic Pom PomPage
SPRING WEEK
*colander
*Tongs: HERE, HERE, HERE
*yellow pom poms
*spring stickers (preferably in a square shape)
*brown pipe cleaners
*child scissors
*river rocks
*tempera paint
*paper plate
*construction paper
*playdough
*plastic fork
*sidewalk chalk
*fast growing seeds
*fake flowers
*honeycomb shape
*square and circle objects for sorting
*robin made out of recycled materials
*misc. items from nature found during nature walk
PRINTABLES BY MAC-N-TATERS
*For the spring printable sheet I used an image from this clipart set. I inserted it on an 8.5x11 powerpoint slide and saved as a pdf, printed, and laminated. Due to the fact that I didn’t add to the clipart in any way and just printed it for personal use, I cannot offer it as a free printable.
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That about does it for our April Tot School Plans. Please feel free to ask any questions and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest to see peeks into our week.
Be sure to check out all of our Tot School Posts.
Color Week: Books // Tot Trays // Misc. Activities
Shape Week: Books // Tot Trays // Misc. Activities
Earth Week: Books // Misc. Activities
Spring Week: Books // Misc. Activities






























































































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