Preschool Activities
Preschool activities to keep your little guy busy. Preschool is all about developing skills for kindergarten. We have many preschool activities sorted by subject. From getting your child comfortable with the alphabet, to number recognition, we've got fresh preschool activities to keep your kid learning on the fly, all year long.
Make Claydoh Beads
Your preschooler will love the hands-on fun of making and shaping homemade clay. When she's done, she'll have a beautiful hand-painted necklace.
Quick and Easy Apple Pizza
This recipe is a great one to share with your child, especially if they like the concept of pizza and enjoy the taste of apples. Baking together is a wonderful sensory activity that combines the visuals (sights) with the sounds, smells, tastes and textures (touch) of being in the kitchen.
Spaceship Countdown
Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, you can teach your child to count backwards from ten down to one and then BLAST-OFF!
Plants Suck: Observing Natural Capillary Action
How do flowers get water up from the ground or a vase and into their stems, leaves, and petals? Use food coloring to demystify this gravity-defying feat of nature, and watch as a white flower changes color before your eyes!
Color Blending Rainbow
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet â create a rainbow of colors out of the three primaries (and white)! Help your child to learn about the science of color through this thoroughly experimental art activity.
Walk a Human Number Line
This fun human number line is a great teaching method to introduce the idea of basic numbers and numerals to your child. Having him actually take steps and stand on the corresponding numeral will make these concepts more real to him.
Play Egg Carton Shake!
Strengthen your child's understanding of numbers while improving her reaction time and critical thinking skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!
Indoor Hopscotch
Donât let the cold winter days take the fun out of play. Recycle your way to an afternoon full of hopping, counting, art, and giggles for all! Turn any indoor space into a colorful hopscotch board using simple materials.
Fossilize Your Footprints!
Paleontologists, best known for studying dinosaurs, investigate prehistoric life by digging up and looking at fossils, or remains (like imprints or skeletons) that have turned into rock.This fun-filled plaster cast activity is sure to leave an impression!
Make a Bungee Scale
Teach the concepts of weight and scales to your child with this fun bungee scale. By becoming familiar with the weight of household objects, your child will get ready to understand more complex scientific principles.
