Preschool Boxes

This is an old post found in my draft folder, being published a year later (4/08/2016).


I was inspired by blogger Hafsa over at The Peace of Christ to try making Quiet Boxes. The idea is to have a box of independent, quiet activities for a child to do when he has dropped his naps. Maybe I should call mine Preschool Boxes because my initial intent is to offer these to Margaret (4) in the mornings when I'm doing school with the Kindergartner and second grader. The poor girl and her two-year-old brother are shooed from the room innumerable times while I try to focus on the older kids. Will this help?

I picked up these five boxes at Costco recently without knowing their purpose, but knowing I always have uses for plastic bins and my stash had recently run out. I filled the boxes with five to six activities each using items we already had around the house. (Many of the homemade activities are free printables from the 1+1+1=1 blog.)

Clear Box
Zebra color dominoes
Shape tracers
Yarn stitching
Picture strips by number
Eric Carle's Match-ominoes

Pink Box
Religious coloring book
Stickers
Numbers tracing
Letter matching
Missing numbers
Picture strips by number

Green Box
Religious coloring book
Wiki Stix
Yarn stitching
Number matching
Kumon book of mazes
Picture strips by number

Orange Box
Religious coloring book
Stickers
Number (numeral/word) matching
Color matching
Kumon book of cutting
Picture strips by number

Purple Box
Religious coloring book
Picasso matching game
Yarn stitching
Kumon book of alphabet games
Picture strips by number