Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Feeling Lucky?

After my Valentine's rundown, I thought I'd go ahead and share with everyone what I've got available for St. Patrick's Day, or as I like to call it, St. Paddy's. So, without further ado, let's see what I've got available if you are feeling the luck of the Irish... or just want to celebrate a bit.

See the complete set here on TpT!

Similar to Valentine's I have plenty of St. Paddy's goodies and more in the works. One pack in particular, I'm hoping to get completed for this year, but more about that later!

St. Patrick's PreK Unit - My first St. Patrick's installment is a great all around pack, featuring the awesome works of Laura Strickland with MyCuteGraphics. It's a fantastic set with 40 pages of activities like tracing, coloring, picture paths, word cards, and more. This set is my top selling St. Patrick's Day pack in my Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) store.



Leprechaun Pack - The Leprechaun pack is still growing! I have so many ideas for this pack. Featuring the adorable art of Krista Wallden with Creative Clips, the Leprechaun pack currently includes a preK pack with 40 pages of activities. One of those activities is shown in the picture - a set of memory or matching cards. The set includes colored images as well as shadows for helping little ones match images as well as their unique shapes. The Leprechaun PreK Pack is listed at "Part 1" in my TpT store because I have begun piecing together a second prek pack which will feature another 40 pages of unique activities. The two packs can be used independently or together. None of the activities repeat between the packs, so they are truly independent of each other. This year, I also added a coordinating set of 3-part color cards which are available for a limited time as a Fan Freebie on Facebook, so check out my Facebook page to grab yours while it's still available! Keep your eyes open for that second prek pack.



Pot o' Gold Pack - The Pot o' Gold pack is a different type of pack. I have a few others that are similar, like the Lots of Hearts Pack available for Valentine's. The pack started out as a sampler pack available in my TpT store. With this mini sampler, you get 8 pages of activities totally free so you can see what types of pages and activities are included in my packs. You can try them out, see how you and your kiddo or students like them, and grab more and bigger packs from my store. With the Pot o' Gold pack, the images are created by Krista Wallden of Creative Clips and they coordinate with the Leprechaun Pack, so while the text and overall color scheme are unique, the images tie them together and they can be used as parts of a single unit. Last year, I offered a set of 3-piece number cards as a Fan Freebie on my Facebook page. I absolutely love these cards because they help kiddos learn to recognize the numerals, number words, and introduce them to 10-frames. The cards were only available for a limited time, as are all my Facebook Fan Freebies, so it's important to check them out regularly and grab them when you can. I may offer them again for free in the future, or I may offer a bundle with several coordinating activities. For now though, you can grab the sampler absolutely free here.

Pot o' Gold Number Cards - currently unavailable,
but you may be able to grab them sometime in the future!

Lucky Owls Pack - I love using unique images to add to the traditional ones associated with holidays. These precious owls created by Pretty Grafik are too cute to pass up! They add a new twist to St. Patrick's Day in this adorable set. The Lucky Owls Pack features 30 pages of activities for preschool and is newly available in my TpT store for this year. You can grab yours here.


Now that we've talked about all the currently available packs and reached the end of my post, are you ready for something exciting? I've decided to give my readers a sneak peak at what I'm working on. I'm hoping to get the first installment out for St. Patrick's Day this year, so keep an eye out! My latest set is a math pack! Once again, I'm using Krista Wallden's adorable Creative Clips images for this pack, so they coordinate with the Leprechaun and Pot o' Gold sets. This pack has all unique activities, though, so you won't get duplicate pages if you use them together! The focus of this latest pack is all about math including activities like number tracing, matching, counting, patterning, etc. I am so excited about this pack! Current plans are for a 35 page pack and an activity pack.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Boisterous Boys Valentine Collection

A couple years ago, I compiled some images that included previews of some holiday sets. It's fun to see the whole spread all together. This year, I'm putting together a list of my Valentine's sets. I have a sizable collection of sets with more in the works so you can find a set for your own niche when it comes to that very pink holiday we often associate with flowers, hearts, and chocolates. So, without further ado, here is your intro to the currently available Valentine's sets, what's included, and where to get it:




Lots of Hearts Pack - The main set in this pack is a sampler that is available via my Teachers Pay Teachers store. This sampler is offered free so you can get an idea of what you'll find in my other packs. I was inspired by the simplicity of this freebie and have created some additional supplements which I offer as freebies here and there. Keep an eye out for these as they are offered randomly and usually for a limited amount of time. At some point, I may compile a collection of supplements that will likely be available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

 Love a Bug Pack - This adorable mini pack includes 20 pages of activities for toddler-Kinder. A great starter set with a modest selection of activities. And who can resist the adorable love buggies?
 Valentine Cupcakes Pack - Another mini pack full of delicious looking cupcakes on 20 pages of activities! Makes you hungry just looking at it. This set is fantastic if you need to be modest about printing. While color printing is ideal for most of my sets, this set was purposefully made to function just as well when printed in monochrome. 




Valentine's Hearts Pack - This awesome pack was one of my first creations with Boisterous Boys. There are 28 pages of activities offering a lot of variety for early learners. This set features some challenges which require kiddos to differentiate between colors as well as match letters, which is great for honing skills.




Valentine Letter Practice - This set of pages is unique compared to the majority of my packs. It's the newest in my Valentine collection. This pack includes 52 pages of letter practice. There is one page for each capital letter and one page for each lower case letter. The pages can be selected to go along with current letters being worked on during this time of year, or it can be used as an overall refresher. In addition to printing practice, these pages feature bold letters with little hearts that can act as a correspondence exercise with conversation hearts, other candies, stickers, or manipulatives. Another great feature of this pack? No prep! Just print and go!


Valentine Sweets Pack - If I'm being honest, this is quite possibly my absolute favorite Valentine Pack I've created so far. This pack is huge, with 50 pages of activities. There are so many options to choose from, from worksheets to interactive activities like clip cards. This set was actually featured in a previous post talking about how to prep and use clip cards as well as alternate ways to incorporate the activity pages other than the obvious uses.



Check out these and my other available packs in my Teachers Pay Teachers store!