Make Fabric Letters
Preschoolers love playing games! They especially like games with hands-on pieces to move around and manipulate. Make this set and give your child a chance to play with a cool collection of pieces that teach letter sounds.
Make a Name Puzzle
Preschoolers love to scribble. But they might not understand yet that letters need to be put together in a certain order to make words. This activity will help teach that... and give your kid her very own name puzzle, too!
Bake Aggression Cookies: Playdough Cookies Kids Can Pound!
These cookies are a great way to deal with upset feelings. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes the dough, the better the cookies will taste!
Lace the ABCs!
Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which will help later with writing. Turn it into a fun preschool art project, by stringing up some ABCs!
Make Rice Pictures
Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry!
Explore the Senses with a Sensory Table!
It's a place designed for squishing, sifting, sorting, digging and pouring, where children can get messy, have fun and play freely. Learn how to make one at home!
Make a Decorated Clay Wall Pot
Your preschooler will love making this hanging clay pot and will develop her fine motor skills and practice color and shape recognition while she's at it.
Make Your Own Scratch Prints
Making prints can be a fun and exciting way to introduce the young child to the artistic process. Here's an activity that uses household materials to let any preschooler create multiple masterpiece scratch prints!
Make Noodle Necklaces!
This activity is the perfect project to do on a lazy summer day. And more importantly, it will help develop crucial hand-eye coordination skills in your young writer.
Bake a Batch of Crispy Kisses
This recipe makes rice crispy treats, wrapped like giant chocolate kisses, and it gives kids a reason to practice writing, too!
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