We’re going to take a fun break this week and offer a few exciting giveaways to our readers from our sponsors!
FBS Books is a wonderful family run business offering a wide selection of homeschooling materials, a wealth of books and inspiration for the Christian home. Today we are excited to offer a cute little preschool pack to one lucky winner!
Preschool Gift Pack includes:
Pattern Blocks (Retail: $16.99) This Melissa & Doug activity is perfect for little preschoolers and includes 10 wooden pattern boards and helps develop early color, shape, and matching skills. Fun for ages 2 and up.
Shape Sorting Clock (Retail: $12.99) – A great tool for early introduction of teaching time recognition along with color and shapes in this fun wooden clock. 12 removable wooden shapes and a movable hour and minute hand make for a creative educational toy. Alphabet Bob Books (Retail: $16.99) this set of My First Bob Books includes 12 books of 12 pages 
each, presenting the letters of the alphabet in a gentle, fun, easy-to-understand way as only Bob Books can! With upper and lowercase examples of each letter, animal characters and charming stories, your child will have fun learning new letter sounds.
each, presenting the letters of the alphabet in a gentle, fun, easy-to-understand way as only Bob Books can! With upper and lowercase examples of each letter, animal characters and charming stories, your child will have fun learning new letter sounds.A wonderful fun set for a special family!
To Enter:
1. Please leave a comment below and share your favorite learning idea that you have used with a preschooler.
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I received my package today!! THANK YOU!!!
My preschoolers are very active and I really try to celebrate that. I let them play a lot. They use their imaginations a lot. it’s great to see what their little minds can come up with when given the time and opportunity.
Great giveaway!
Oh, so many ideas for my twin preschoolers
Reading books to them everyday
Prompting imaginary play
Manipulatives
Learning through doing – cooking, exploring…
I don’t have a preschooler yet, but I have found that turning everyday objects into “lessons” always grabs my daughter’s attention.
Oops. I think I’m too late. Sorry!
One of my favorite things to do with young kids is think up ways to make usual household chores fun. Since my girls are only 16 months and 4 weeks, I haven’t done so as much with them (though I have done some things with my older daughter). But in high school I strapped sponges on the hands and knees of some kids I was watching while their parents were out of town and then they “mopped” the kitchen floor. From what their parents told me years later, they were still talking about how fun it was.
My daughter loves to sing with me so we sing all day long! We love to sing songs about letters, numbers, etc. Plus, reading bright, colorful informative books is a must!
My son and I have a letter of the day…For instance, with the letter N, I print out a large N on card stock and he glues noodles into the letter space…..or the letter P with dried peas…we’ve used cotton for C, beans for B. rice for R, etc….it’s lots of fun and a great way to learn.
My two-year-old son LOVES letters, and his favorite activity lately is for me to point at signs and he’ll tell me the letters. This is a game we can play just about anywhere–the store, waiting rooms, restaurants–and he constantly asks me to “play letters” with him.
I like to put shaving cream on the table and help them learn how to “write” their letters and numbers. They LOVE playing in it!
My favorite is to have a special color or shape for the day. We then point it out and talk about it and craft it that whole day.
Well, I don’t know about my favorite, but the best educational tool has come from necessity. My son comes to work with us and when I have to deal with customers the computer has been helpful and educational…Emmett knew his abc’s before his second birthday via online educational games.
At this point my little monkey is teaching ME more… about patience, as he climbs everything in sight! But, as for me teaching him, so far the best thing has been modeling. He loves to copy my husband and I, and has figured out how to use hammers and drills properly just by watching us. At 19 1/2 months I watched him take out a screw with Daddy’s drill, with no guidance from me! So I guess, while I spend time thinking of what and how I am going to teach my kiddo, I should be spending more time doing and being what I want him to reflect back!
My 16 month old loves nature walks, he loves to hold different types of leaves and flowers and explore the world around him!
Use a puppet to teach. My almost 3 year old is much more willing to do what the “puppet” asks her to do than if I asked her to do it. She’s so much more engaged.
Because I have a very energetic boy, our favorite learning exercise is letting him run around outside and explore. At this stage (almost 3) I think this is very important for him to do (especially so I can keep my sanity).
I’ve been reading various books/articles on parenting/homeschooling at the preschool age and they all seem to emphasize the importance of reading aloud to your children (throughout all the years of schooling), so that is also something we try to do. Thankfully, this is the one thing our son will slow down and sit down for! 
My 4 yr old loves her nature table. She adds things (and once a live snake in a jar!) that she finds each day. When daddy gets home, he helps her identify what she’s found.
Thanks for the giveaway!
i would LOVE to win this set!!!! We can’t afford to buy “real” preschool tools, so this would be such a blessing. I am starting preschool with my daughters in the fall!!!!!
I hope my daughter is learning by my reading stories to her. Also, I try to always have time throughout the day to explain things (and on a working farm there’s always something to explain)
We love to read. I’m so thankful that my 2 year old daughter is content (most of the time) to sit on my lap and read for an hour. I cherish this time together and know that she learns so much from it as well. She is learning a lot through puzzles as well.
We have a big bulletin board that we decorate every week. Every week we have a new theme, space, dinosaurs, plants etc and the board is decorated with the theme of the week. I break out my Cricut and cut out circles for planets, flowers and butterflies to teach pollination and letters my daughter has learned. We have an envelope tacked on our board that contain those letters she knows so we can make words with them, and she can practice sounding out the words I lay out. When we are done we stuff the letters back in the envelope tacked to the board no mess!