20 Easy Preschool Activities - Teaching Expertise (2024)

This fun activity is quick and easy to pull together. All you'll require is paper, cookie cutters, pencils, and markers. If your learners want to add some extra flare to their creations, we'd recommend letting them glue on assorted paper shapes, tissue paper, glitter, or pom poms.

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To DIY your very own fossil, you'll need to begin by making a salt-based dough. Your learners can then press in their favorite dinosaur toy to leave a fossil imprint. This activity is wonderful for sparking discussion on the history of life on earth.

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Looking to introduce the seasons to your preschoolers? This simple activity allows you to do just that- and in a fun visual manner no less! You'll need paper, tape, green paper to represent the leaves of Spring, colorful confetti for Summer, white pom poms for Winter, and autumnal-colored confetti for Fall.

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Learn about chemical reactions with the help of this cool STEM activity! Cut off the top and bottom of various citrus fruits. Place them in a container and mash up the inside of each fruit before inserting dish liquid and food coloring. To ignite a reaction, simply sprinkle in some baking soda and let the fun begin!

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This will soon become your preschooler's favorite activity and they'll want to explore stamping with other fruits and vegetables. Help your students cut a few apples in half before allowing them to press them into paint and stamp them onto a piece of paper. Once the paint has dried they can add the details of stems and seeds by using a marker.

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Practice letter formation with the help of a standard tub of play dough. Have your learners roll a long piece of play dough into a worm-like shape. Write the letters you'd like them to recreate up on the board and challenge them to shape their dough so that it resembles each letter.

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Assign a different colored pompom to each letter in your formation. For example green to "A" and yellow to "B". Write a letter sequence on the board for your students to recreate using pom poms. This will help develop good letter recognition and imitation skills.

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Your students will feel like little magicians whilst completing this activity! Prepare by using a white wax crayon to write letters on a white piece of paper. Give them colored water to then paint over their page and discover the letters. They should then be given a separate piece of paper to record what letters they have found.

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Complex math activities in latter grades are better understood if learners have spent time in preschool building a good base of knowledge. This activity is a fun way to teach number sequencing and all that's required is a string, tape, a marker, and sticky notes.

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This sensory activity encourages learning through exploration. Oobleck is a simple mixture of cornstarch and water and has the properties of both a liquid and a solid. It can be colored with assorted drops of food coloring.

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Puffy paintings are another excellent activity for preschoolers. Not only is the mixture really simple to whip up, but they'll also adore their 3D artwork once completed. All that's required is flour, shaving cream, white glue, food coloring, plastic cups, a mixing bowl, and a spatula.

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In order to make this unique piece of art learners require tinfoil, colorful sharpies, black acrylic paint, and a paintbrush. Simply have your little ones paint their name on foil and use sharpies to decorate once the paint dries. They can then take their art home or use it to label their classroom locker.

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This educational activity is a familiar game for many generations, but this version has been adapted so those little ones can learn the alphabet. The aim of the game is to match a paper letter with its magnetic counterpart- then find as many things in the classroom that begin with the same letter.

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Similar to the activity above, this activity requires students to place their lowercase letter acorn onto the corresponding uppercase letter written on a piece of paper. Alphabet activities such as these are the perfect introduction to learning to read and write.

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This sensory bin would make an awesome inclusion in a lesson about the arctic. Students can solidify what they have learned about the various animals whilst exploring more about the creatures in a sensory manner. All that's required is a container, plastic animals, printed cards, and plain and blue colored rice.

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Making fruit kebabs is a great way to get your preschoolers involved in the kitchen. Not only is this activity amazing for developing fine motor skills but it will also encourage them to eat more fruit.

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Learning about the solar system? Why not make these fun marble-painted planets? Place a circular paper cut out in a container. Drop in a marble covered in paint and swirl it around to make patterns on the cutout planet. Once dry, have your students glue on cut-out ovals to act as the rings.

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This adorable craft is the perfect way to teach your students how to form each letter in their name and then connect them in chronological order. All they'll need is some colored cards, markers, glitter, glue, cut-out stars, and a little supervision and assistance.

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This magnificent wreath is sure to catch your eye! It can be an individual project for each learner or can be completed altogether in order to make a singular classroom decoration. Students can paint popsicle sticks before gluing them onto a circular ring and then hanging the wreath up with string.

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From bees and butterflies to birds and people, this clothespin activity can be adapted to suit just about any learning theme. Using tissue paper, water-colored paint, a clothespin, black pipe cleaners, glue, and smiley face stickers, these butterflies will be brought to life in no time!

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