Kindergarten Morning Tubs / Bins Set 1

Start your mornings with purpose and play! Kindergarten Morning Tubs Set 1 includes 20 hands-on literacy, math, logic, and fine motor activities designed for independent exploration. These low-prep tasks are ideal for morning tubs, early finishers, or quiet centers — giving children a meaningful start to their school day.

🛠️ Preparation Instructions

• Laminate each printed page for durability and repeated use.
• Cut along the dotted lines.
• Use the hole-punch mark on each card to create easy-to-store sets on key rings.
• Included photo cards show how to use each activity — you may print and store them with the matching materials as visual instructions.

🔤 Literacy Activities

• Pre-Writing Cards
  Materials: Erasable markers, chenille sticks, playdough, small manipulatives
  Children trace pre-writing lines or build them using a variety of materials.
• Build It: Uppercase Letters
  Materials: Building bricks (e.g., Lego), base plate
  Children build uppercase letters using bricks to match the model.
• Uppercase Letter Recognition Cards
  Materials: Clothespins
  Children clip a clothespin on each matching uppercase letter.
• Lowercase Letter Recognition Cards
  Materials: Clothespins
  Children clip a clothespin on each matching lowercase letter.
• Letter Matching Cards: Uppercase Letters
  Materials: Pom-poms, buttons, or Lego
  Children match the uppercase letter on their card to letters on the board using the correct color manipulative.
• Letter Matching Cards: Uppercase & Lowercase
  Materials: Pom-poms, buttons, or Lego
  Children match lowercase letters to uppercase using color cues and manipulatives.
• Build the Sight Word
  Materials: Magnetic letters or letter tiles
  Children build each word using magnetic letters or tiles.
• Sorting: Letters, Numbers, Words
  Materials: None
  Children sort sandwich cards into the correct lunchbox: letter, number, or word.

🔢 Math & Number Activities

• Build It: Number Cards
  Materials: Building bricks (e.g., Lego), base plate
  Children build the number shown using bricks.
• Number Recognition Cards
  Materials: Clothespins
  Children clip a clothespin to each number that matches the one shown.
• Number Matching Cards: Ten Frames
  Materials: Pom-poms, buttons, or Lego
  Children cover the correct number on the board that matches the ten frame shown.
• Number Matching Cards: Number Words
  Materials: Pom-poms, buttons, or Lego
  Children read the number word and match it to the correct numeral.
• Number Matching Cards: Counting Fingers
  Materials: Pom-poms, buttons, or Lego
  Children count the fingers shown and cover the corresponding number on the board.
• Count and Build
  Materials: Counting cubes
  Children build cube towers to represent the amount shown on each hopscotch space.
• Roll a Die and Finish the Picture (House & Garden)
  Materials: Die, erasable marker
  Children roll a die and draw the matching item to complete the picture.

🧠 Logic & Fine Motor Activities

• Logic Cards
  Materials: Clothespins
  Children identify which pattern was used and clip a clothespin to the correct answer.
• Copy the Pattern
  Materials: Counting cubes or building bricks
  Children recreate the pattern shown using manipulatives.
• Sorting Colors
  Materials: Pom-poms, buttons, or Lego
  Children sort items into the matching colored gumball machine.
• Color Identification Cards
  Materials: Clothespins
  Children identify the colors in the picture and clip clothespins to the correct answers.
• Shape Recognition Cards
  Materials: Clothespins
  Children clip a clothespin to the matching shape shown.

💡 The activities from the LKindergarten Morning Tubs Set 1 support a wide range of early learning goals, including:

• Letter and number recognition
• Early phonics and sight word knowledge
• Counting and quantity matching
• Visual discrimination and patterning
• Fine motor development and pencil control

🧠 Tip: Many of these tasks can be reused across small groups, intervention time, or early finishers.

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Happy Teaching! 😊