It’s so important to introduce healthy eating while children are young. And that’s something I love to do. Today, I have a free fruit rainbow do-a-dot printable for you! It’s an instant download and is super easy to prepare.
Montessori-Inspired Printables at Living Montessori Now
My daughter, Chrissy Chitwood (a former Montessori child), and I are partnering to bring you a series of Montessori-inspired printables. The printables are typically themed and use a number of Montessori principles (although you don’t need to be a Montessori teacher or homeschooler to use them):
- They use isolation of quality.
- They use photographs or realistic images to emphasize reality. Whenever I can, I’ll tell you the name of the object or animal featured.
- They typically use traditional Montessori colors such as red for consonants and blue for vowels.
- They use lowercase letters, which are what we introduce letter sounds with in Montessori education. (Children tend to pick up the uppercase letters without being introduced if they’re introduced to the lowercase letter sounds.)
- They often feature themed printable versions of Montessori materials.
Free Fruit Rainbow Do-a-Dot Printable for the Letter F
To download the fruit rainbow do-a-dot printable, click here and then click on the file image in the upper right corner of the PDF to save to your computer (just choose where you want it saved).
Montessori-Inspired Activities Using the Fruit Rainbow Do-a-Dot Printable
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Fruit Rainbow Do-a-Dot Letter F Tray with Do-a-Dot Markers
Fruit Rainbow Do-a-Dot Letter F Tray with Do-a-Dot Markers
I used a Montessori Services large plastic tray and Do-a-Dot markers. At other times, I’ll have a variety of transfer activities with do-a-dot printables, using tools such as quick sticks, sugar tongs, or toast tong.
You could add a tracing activity to the printable. If you laminate your printable, you can use an erasable crayon like the Melissa & Doug Learning Mat Crayons or Crayola Erasable Crayons. For a 2-year-old or other young preschooler who’s not ready to write letters, you can just leave off the crayons.
Fruit Rainbow Do-a-Dot Tray with Do-a-Dot Markers
Using Do-a-Dot Markers to Make a Fruit Rainbow Letter F
My 3-year-old granddaughter, Zoey, had so much fun making a rainbow-colored letter “f” using Do-a-Dot markers.
After she completed the fruit rainbow do-a-dot page, Zoey chose a number of pages from the Healthy Food Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack to complete. She worked with this for a long time!
If you want to know how to introduce the letter sound for f, check out my post on how to teach letter sounds using Montessori principles.
More Eat-a-Rainbow Posts
Free Eat-a-Rainbow Printables and Montessori-Inspired Activities
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Free Do-a-Dot Printables and Ideas for Using Them
I love the versatility of do-a-dot printables! If you’re doing a month-long theme, you could easily change out the type of do-a-dot activity weekly to add interest. Here are four ideas of hands-on activities for any of our do-a-dot printables from my frog do-a-dot printable post (see post for details and materials used).
Just click on an image to go to the post with the related free printable!
Note: I’ve arranged the following gallery in alphabetical order, although some posts have two do-a-dot printables (and two different letters). You’ll find at least one free do-a-dot printable for each letter of the alphabet!
Also, I don’t introduce letters in alphabetical order. You can find out the order in which I introduce letter sounds here. I deviate from that order for our unit studies, though, and focus on a letter that’s simply related to our unit. That’s in addition to our other letter work.
You can see all our free do-a-dot printables with the latest at the top here.
For complete themed alphabet do-a-dot packs, see our Animal Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack, Spanish Animal Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack, and Healthy Food Alphabet Do-a-Dot Pack available for purchase in the Living Montessori Now shop.
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Its a great way to get kids to color in things. Kids have a tendency to simple things and it sure is that.