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Free preschool printables
Real classroom tools from a working preschool director — free, no ad maze, no affiliate links.
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Every file is a print-ready preschool printable PDF, pulled from a routine in our own classrooms and tested there first. Browse freely — no email address required.
An arrival routine in one card set: each child points to the face that matches their morning. Three-feeling and eight-feeling versions included.
Download FreePost the day in pictures so “what comes next?” answers itself. 20 routine cards plus blanks for your schedule’s quirks.
Download FreeOne open-ended prompt per day — 30 cards, enough for six weeks of circle time without a repeat.
Download FreeDot, dab, or circle the target letter hiding among lookalikes. 26 pages, one per letter, sized for chunky dabbers.
Download FreeType your class list once and print a full set of practice pages — correctly sized rules, dashed letters, nothing hand-made at 9 p.m.
Download FreeTurns weather into a daily helper job: observe out the window, mark the chart, report to the class.
Download FreeNumeral, quantity, and ten-frame on every card. Use 1–5 with twos and threes, the full 1–10 with pre-K.
Download FreePredict what red and yellow will make, mix, then record what really happened. Four lab sheets with a prediction box.
Download FreeThe library grows by one most Sundays — the email list hears about it first. And if your classroom needs something that isn’t here yet, ask for it; most of these files started as a teacher’s request.
A note from Ariel
Every printable here started as a request from a teacher down the hall. As an Assistant Director I spend my mornings in classrooms, and when a routine keeps wobbling — arrival is chaotic, circle time stalls, a child can’t tell us how their morning went — my job is to hand that teacher a tool the same week. This library is those tools.
Each one runs in real classrooms before it’s posted. I watch where it breaks: our young twos needed three feelings choices instead of eight, dabbers swallowed the small letters until the letter finds printed bigger, and the weather chart lasted exactly two days until it became a helper job. Then I revise and publish the version that survived. That’s also why every file carries an age band — a tool that works at 4–5 usually needs a different version at 2.5–3, and you deserve to know which one you’re printing.
And why free: these are the pages I’d hand any teacher who walked into my office, so I won’t charge for them or make you click through ads and affiliate links to reach them. When a freebie earns a permanent spot in your routine and you want the fully planned week around it, that’s what the weekly units are for.
The freebies solve single moments; the weekly units plan the whole thing. We Belong — Community Unit, Week 1 — is 72+ pages of lesson plans, centers & activities, assessment tools, and a parent newsletter for ages 2.5–5, for $9.00.
Prefer everything at once? Playbook+ opens at 10+ units — $7/mo or $69/yr founding rate, locked for life.
The blog is where the how-to lives — the routines and scripts these printables plug into, written from inside a working preschool. Start with circle time ideas or how to plan a preschool week.
New to the job — or to September? First week of preschool activities pairs with half this library.
One new printable lands in the library most Sundays, and the email list gets it first — with a short note on how we use it in our classrooms. Everything already here stays free.
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