Are you looking for fun activities for preschool learning at home?! These easy and simple ideas are a blast and just what you need!!
- Explore Patterns:
- make snack patterns (for example: line up pretzel, goldfish, pretzel, goldfish)
- patterns with LEGOs
- patterns with stickers
- patterns with magnetic tiles on the garage door
- patterns with socks while folding laundry (white, white, gray, white, white, gray, etc.)
- patterns with buttons
- make stamping patterns in playdough
- string fruit loops on a necklace making color patterns
- pattern friendship bracelets: buy string and beads at the craft store
- make patterns gross motor movements (jump, jump, clap, jump, jump, clap; or reach high, stomp, reach high, stomp)
Fun with Sorting
- Sorting Activities
- sort coins by type
- sort silverware by type
- sort objects by shape (circles and spheres together, squares and cubes together, etc.)
- sort pompoms by color
- sort LEGOS by color
- sort cars by color
- sort letters by uppercase and lowercase
- sort numbers and letters
- sort animals figures by size (small and large)
- sort socks by size (children’s and adults’)
Letter Learning
- Practice with Letters and Letter Sounds:
- Post It Search: hide post-it notes around the house with letters – find the letters and build the alphabet
- Letter Hop: write letters on the sidewalk in chalk – call out a letter and hop to it!
- Put letter puzzle pieces in a bin of rice – kids find the pieces and place in the puzzle
- Wrap letter puzzle pieces in tin foil – kids unwrap and place in the puzzle
- Giant name painting – write kids’ names on butcher paper and let them paint
- Alphabet match – write letters on the sidewalk and have kids match the letters
- Write letters on magnetic tiles – use them to build the child’s name
- Practice letter formation in a tray of salt using a paint brush
- Practice letter formation in a gallon bag of hair gel or shaving cream – seal it and tape it down
- Sound Search! Search the whole house to find something that starts with each letter of the alphabet – gather the objects together in order and label them with their letter!
Art Activities
- Painting
- paint on tin foil
- paint with water on the sidewalk
- hot glue boxes together and paint a skyscraper
- paint ice with water colors (can freeze a baking sheet of ice or do ice cubes)
- cut a fruit or veggie in half and stamp with it
- paint recyclable materials
- paint a mural outside
- use LEGOs to stamp with paint
- use cookie cutter to stamp with paint
- make sidewalk chalk paint (2 tablespoons cornstarch, 2 tablespoons water, ¼ piece of smashed chalk – combine all and add water as needed)
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Preschool Activities for the Car
- Games for in the Car
- I spy something that starts with the ____ sound.
- I spy something that rhymes with the word _____.
- Give two rhyming words – kids think of a third word that rhymes.
- Color hunt – take along a clipboard with colors on it (kids cross off the colors as they see them)
- Give two words and kids tell if it rhymes or does not rhyme.
- Pick a letter sound and think of words together that begin with that sound (dog, dinner, donuts)
- Go back and forth counting with your child (one person says one, the next two, and so on)
- Count objects – “I wonder how many signs we’ll pass on the drive! Let’s count them together!)
- Play guess my number: “I’m thinking of the number that’s one more than 3.” – you can make this more or less challenging based on your child’s development.
- Think of animals and count the number of syllables in that animal name (bear – 1, puppy – 2, flamingo – 3) – clap the syllables together as you count.
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