I find the prices on certain preschool homeschool curriculums to be outrageous. Homeschooling your preschooler doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. In fact, you can educate your child for just a few dollars with items found at your local Dollar Tree.
Your main concern when homeschooling a preschooler shouldn't be the cost of your teaching materials. Your number one concern is to teach your child to love learning. If your child has fun while learning, he or she will continue to learn for a lifetime.
Preschool curriculums at the dollar store
The dollar store offers a ton of learning possibilities. Not only do they have an actual educational section, they also have plenty of toys to help develop fine motor skills, art and craft supplies and much more.
My Dollar Tree offers a large variety of craft kits along with preschool workbooks, for only $1! It is much cheaper to utilize these workbook sin your curriculum than buying computer paper and ink to print out
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| The teacher's corner at the Dollar Tree. |
Preschool shopping list
If you think creatively, there is no limit to how you can use not-so-ordinary items in your homeschooling curriculum.For example, here are a few items I grabbed during a shopping trip:
- Shaving cream – sensory play
- Dish draining mat – weave with ribbons
- Cooking utensils – painting, imaginative play
- Divided party trays – sorting
- Hair gel – squishy sensory bags
- Cookie sheets – magnetic boards
- Pool noodles – building toys, pool noodle activities
- Muffin tin – sorting, counting
- Salt – writing tray
- Sandpaper – sensory play
- Cupcake liners – crafts, sorting games
- Sponges – painting, floating boats, building
- Water beads – sensory play
- Q-tips – painting, art projects
- Marbles – for counting, sorting
- Ping pong balls – counting
- Dress up clothes – imaginative play
- Plastic animals – imaginative play, sensory boxes, learning about the various animals
- Army men – counting, imaginative play, sensory boxes
- Squirt bottles – painting, water play
