Wither you want some educational toys for your kindergartner or elementary school student, or maybe a play based preschool routine for younger kids. We have some fun ideas for you!
Fun with shapes:
Check out some some awesome play based activities with shapes! Your kids might want to draw the shapes on paper, or trace them from a fun shapes bin.
You might also be interested in A full week of preschool lesson plans.
You could draw the shapes for younger kids and then play a game of “name that shape” and have them tell you what the shapes are. When you are ready, can grab a pack of fun paper here!
You can get this awesome set of shapes and have the kiddos draw around them. Furthermore, this set also comes with awesome puzzle mats for the kids to learn how to make cool things our of just shapes. grab a set from amazon here.
Letters Tic-Tac-Toe!
Kids learn well when they are playing games! For this preschool activity you can draw out a tic-tac-toe board on anything and use two different letters for each game you play! Is it going to be X’s vs O’s or A’s Vs P’s? You decide!
Grab a dry erase board for your tic tac toe for fun hours of reuse. You can find many fun dry erase boards on amazon for little games, lessons, and more at home! Now, feel free to check out this amazing set with markers and erasers here!
Motor Skills Development:
Play based preschool activities wither they are used to teach sensory, fine motor skills, or the traditional ABC’s are always a hit! You might want to start a play based preschool program! We have the guide to starting one here! One part of a play based preschool activity is working with motor skills. BUT you can also work with fine motor skills for older kids as well. One way you can do this is to get some of the play food that velcros together and have the kids chop it apart with the wooden utensils it comes with.
Playing with the toy food was literally one of my daughters FAVORITE play based preschool activities! She still loves to play shop and cooking. We have the wooden Melissa and Doug sets, the play stoves, and Toy Velcro cakes! You can shop these items ALL on amazon!
Pretend Shop:
Another favorite play-based preschool game around our house was to set up a toy shop with all of the fake food or some house hold items. We have the perfect printable set for making a shop on the fly!
With this printable you have all the fake coins, price tags, and various other methods of “payment” you might be interested in teaching your kiddos about! The coins and tags are color coordinated as well! This helps the little kids who haven’t learned numbers yet have an easier time playing. You can get your copy of the pretend shop printable here!
More about the printable:
Pretend Shop Printable set with 6 printable pages including sales tags, open and closed signs, and much more! Everything you need to set up a fun shop for the afternoon!
Grade Level: Pre-K to 2nd
Subjects: Numbers, Life skills, Economics
Spring Flowers Craft!
You can purchase this item on our teachers pay teachers store here!
Classroom Based Game:
You can print out as many copies of this item as you like. If you are in a classroom you can split the students into table groups of 3 and have them each cut out 1 of the “make your own flower” pages. Then they can work together to cut out and put together the design your own flower pot activity. You can have the students take turns playing the tic-tac-toe game. While one student isn’t playing they can work on their flower or keep score.
Home Based Game:
If you are at home you can use this activity for a game or for home school. You can have your child work with their fine motor skills and cut out some of the pages (you can help since it is a lot to cut out for one child). Then you can take turns putting together the make your own flowers to create a flower garden. Afterwards you can create the cute flower pot activity and play tic-tac-toe for the afternoon with your little student.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Brie
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- Free Phonics Game for kids!
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