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50 Simple At Home Activities for Preschoolers

Preschoolers are busy people. Their minds are always racing and their bodies never seem to stay still. If you are home for extended periods of time with young children, it can feel like you run out of ideas to keep them entertained. Your regular toys might not be as exciting anymore. However, there are still so many exciting activities to do in and around the house. All of these use very basic materials that you either already have or can easily obtain. This list is sure to inspire even more ideas to keep your little one happy, healthy, and active. Here are 50 at-home activities for Preschoolers broken down into 30 simple indoor activities and 20 around the house ideas.

30 Indoor Activities for Preschoolers

  1. Paint on construction paper with water.
  2. Build a fort out of pillows and blankets.
  3. Have a living room picnic.
  4. Practice fine motor skills.
  5. Plant a seed and watch it grow.
  6. Build a bird house. (or a hummingbird feeder)
  7. Make homemade playdough.
  8. Learn to sing a new song.
  9. Have a dance party.
  10. Keep a weather journal.
  11. Make a drum out of an oatmeal container.
  12. Have a tea party.
  13. Experiment with colors.
  14. Play musical chairs.
  15. Fill up measuring cups with water and transfer to a bowl.
  16. Bake a cake and decorate it.
  17. Build a castle out of blocks.
  18. Make a hopscotch on the floor out with painter’s tape.
  19. Create an indoor obstacle course.
  20. Play follow the leader.
  21. Have a slow race—who can get there the slowest?
  22. Learn American Sign Language (ASL) and practice together.
  23. Make an empty box into a car and host a “drive in movie.”
  24. Set up a bowling alley in the hall. Use plastic cups for the pins and a soft ball.
  25. Make homemade butter with heavy cream and salt in a mason jar.
  26. Build pictures with pattern blocks.
  27. Make puppets out of lunch bags and have a puppet show.
  28. Learn how to play Sudoko.
  29. Play balloon volleyball.
  30. Create a stuffed animal zoo and pretend to tend the animals.

20 Around the House Preschool Activities

  1. Draw an obstacle course on your driveway.
  2. Have a backyard camp out.
  3. Hang up a bird feeder and keep track of which birds visit.
  4. Lay down a jump rope and practice walking a “tight rope”
  5. Pick flowers to press inside a book.
  6. Have a nature scavenger hunt.
  7. Play tag and hide & seek.
  8. Set up a family car wash (bikes welcome).
  9. Find shapes in the clouds.
  10. Play hot potato with a very wet sponge.
  11. Plant a butterfly garden.
  12. Learn to identify the trees or plants around your home.
  13. Watch the sunset.
  14. Try to count the stars.
  15. Fly a kite.
  16. Roast marshmallows over a campfire or grill.
  17. Paint rocks to decorate the garden.
  18. Keep a science journal of the animals, birds, and insects you see.
  19. Plant a sunflower and watch it follow the sun.
  20. Make a map of your yard/home.

Fine Motor Skills with Stickers

Do you remember the excitement in your childhood years when you received a brand new pack of stickers? Or, maybe your teacher put a memorable sticker on an A+ test?!! Just think of the joy your preschooler will get when they find out today it’s fine motor skills with stickers!

STICKER ACTIVITY BUNDLE

Stickers are not just fun for kids — moms and teachers alike will love how they benefit their precocious preschoolers. They keep little ones busy, promote fine motor skills, concentration, creativity, and best of all — tons of fabulous fun! Here are some easy fine motor skill tasks including sticker worksheets, sticker activities, and more!

Sticker Worksheets

The challenge as preschool mothers and teachers is keeping kids busy while building new skill sets. It’s easy to find free preschool worksheets that include sticker activities — plus they’re simple, yet very effective and creative!

As busy moms and teachers, we need all the help we can get in preparing our preschoolers for the next steps in learning. That’s why these fine motor sticker worksheets are a great way to get them started!

And, I have good news! You’ll find plenty of free sticker worksheets below to help with concentration, critical thinking, fine motor, and dexterity. Let’s get started!

Sticker Mazes

Sticker Mazes are so much fun for kids — plus, they play a huge role in learning concentration and problem-solving skills. Grab your choice of stickers as your child leads each piece in the right direction.

As your little leader places each sticker in the right spot, see if he or she can create a pattern of rainbow colors. Then, ask them to find out how many stickers did it take to get to the finish line!

Looking for more free mazes to challenge your kids’ brains? Try our Brainy Maze website for a TON of FREE and motivating problem-solving resources!

Stickers on a Line

Writing a straight line with numbers is an easy way to build your kid’s math counting and practice focusing skills. Simply ask your student to add exactly 10 stickers in a straight line using the sticker resource below. Our Sticker Number worksheet allows your child to learn counting, practice concentration, and strengthen hands eye coordination.

Sticker Names and Sticker Letters

Another innovative way to utilize the versatility of stickers is by writing your student’s name. Make it large enough for stickers to line up directly on each letter. They can also use the letters in their name to guide them — encourage them to place small stickers in the right spot.

And, of course, this requires concentration and fine motor practice while reinforcing letter and name identification. See above for a great example on how to make this activity fun and effective with sticker names and sticker letters!

Sticker Patterns

Identifying patterns with preschoolers is fundamental to math concepts. It’s an important key to learning by helping children observe and make predictions. Plus, understanding patterns prepares your child for learning more complex math concepts.

Using sticker activities for encouraging patterns is another easy idea to incorporate with just a few steps. Simply grab some star stickers (or any variety of colored stickers) and show them a pattern with colors. See above Patterns with Stickers image for some helpful and creative ideas.

Sticker Shapes and Sticker Tracing

Smily face stickers are perfect for this next sticker printable — Sticker Shapes Worksheets! There are 3 shapes: circle, triangle, and square. Your student will use a color for each shape and fill it in with the right amount of stickers.

Sticker Tracing

Then, your student can grab a writing utensil (like a crayon, marker or colored pencil) to practice his pre-writing skills. Your child can start tracing each of the 3 shapes using an assortment of colors. Or, consider asking your child to trace the stickers for extra practice with fine motor skills.

Below you’ll find 2 handy free sticker shape worksheets that include 3 common shapes (circle, triangle, square) and more unique shape sizes (rhombus, rectangle, oval).

Each shape worksheet provides an exciting challenge of learning new shapes, refining their prewriting skills, building concentration, and developing hand-eye coordination.

Sticker Graphs

This is a really fun sticker printable your kids will love! It may be a bit challenging for your child but with a little guidance, it will give them a great head start. It encourages confidence, helps them identify patterns, and builds critical thinking skills.

Choose 7 different types of smaller stickers (colors or pictures). Add them to the bottom of the “graph” area. Then, randomly add those same types of stickers in the “count” section (up to 5 stickers).

Lastly, ask your child to look in the count section, and fill in each box. Try using a colored crayon that represents each sticker your student finds. Consider asking your child to draw with a different color when marking each type of sticker.

Sticker Games

This sticker game ‘Seek and Find with Stickers‘ needs a little help from moms and teachers. It’s a little like BINGO, just call out a lower case or upper case letter, and as your child finds it, they place a sticker carefully in the respective circle. Or, if you’re busy, fill up a jar or container of pre-made letters and ask your child to choose one at a time. Then, he will place the star or small sticker in the right place.

Another creative way for moms to get involved in using this preschool sticker worksheet for the game of ‘I SPY’. Simply state “I SPY with my little eye…a Big Letter A”. And, continue the process until your child is finished with a square pattern.

Sticker ABCs

You’ll certainly want to download this Sticker Letter A sheet — it’s a versatile way to gain letter-writing practice, fine motor development, and focus skills. See this wonderful sticker worksheet below! Print the entire Alphabet of Sticker Worksheets Here.

Your students will first practice writing Letter A on top of the worksheet. Then, ask them to grab circle-shaped stickers and build a Big Letter A. How many stickers does it take to make an upper case A?!!! What words also start with Letter A besides Alligator?

Peeling Stickers

Remember, peeling and re-peeling stickers require strength in fingers so continue to encourage your child if he/she tends to take them off. For ease of peeling stickers, try a protective sheet for a clean pull off.

Alternatively, there are many fantastic sets of reusable stickers and sticker mats you can purchase from you local educational supply store. A favorite of mine are these Melissa and Doug Peel & Stick Habitat Scenes. Not only are they great for small motor control, but the content is educational as well and your little one will be learning animal science while having fun!

There are so many ingenious ways to utilize stickers to their fullest potential. Don’t miss out on these wonderful opportunities! If you need stickers, buy this affordable pack of stickers on Amazon. It’s a huge assortment of stickers that is perfect for homeschool moms and classroom teachers!

Sticker Maze

Solve the maze by placing stickers along the correct path! Works great with smaller stickers and your students will be building fine motor skills along the way!

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Sticker Graph Template

Use this premade graph to make rows and columns to show you can count correctly!

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Sticker Grid Template

Like Bingo, call out a letter and see if your student can find it! Student places a sticker on each letter that you discover.

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Sticker Number Line Template

Grab some stickers and make it a counting game while your student concentrates on adding each sticker, one by one.

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More Shape Sticker Mats

Download this adorable shape sticker mat for even more shapes to add fun stickers in a rectangle, rhombus, and oval shape.

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Shape Sticker Mats

This shape sticker mat is a perfect template for adding stickers to three types of shapes using small round stickers. Find fun sticker shapes to press into squares, triangles, and circles.

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Sticker Letter Template

Your child will have tons of tun with practice writing letter A, and adding stickers, counters or stamps to fill the letter A. A is for Alligator!

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Looking for more affordable fun and fulfilling fine motor ideas? Look no more — try our Fine Motor Task Cards that contain over 165 pages of Symmetry Task Cards, ABC Bricks and Play Dough, ASL, and Popsick Stick Patterns and much much more! Click the image below for more information!

Fine Motor Task Cards

Fall Pumpkin Math Mats

Counting is a skill that all preschoolers need to work on. Not just counting on fingers, but recognizing one-to-one correspondence, that the number they are counting is represented with an object. With this free pumpkin candy counting game, your child can have fun while learning basic counting and addition skills.

Free Pumpkin Printables

With our free pumpkin printables these set works well with any fall or harvest theme. If you’re doing an “On the Farm” theme, this would work very well with that as well. There are many different ways you can use this free printable math mat, so you’re sure to keep students engaged with each method.

How to play Pumpkin Math Mat

Print and laminate the math mat. Depending on your student’s ability, give him or her one die or two dice. Tell your student to roll the dice. Students should then add the corresponding number of pumpkins to the tractor. Clear the board and play again!

Halloween Candy Printable

This free quick printable is great to pull out when you need to give your preschooler something to keep busy with. If you don’t have candy pumpkins you can also use candy corn as a substitute. The Pumpkin Truck Counting printable can be used as a busy bag, you can just put the candy and the dice in a bag with the truck sheet. Then pull it out for your child whenever!

Whether you use the printable pumpkins, buttons, candy corn, or candy pumpkins, this is a simple way to add some hands-on learning activities to your classroom without the prep-work!

Pumpkin Math Mat

Print and laminate or store in a page protector for reuse.

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School Supply Sudoku

Preschool Sudoku Game

Sudoku is an educational yet fun hands-on game for your preschool student to play. School Supply Sudoku is a great way to introduce your kids to math-related games before they are ready to do harder math problems. This free Sudoku pack comes with 4 different mats and 4 sheets of pieces that go with them. There is also an answer key included.

Fun Sudoku Printable

Print the game boards and playing pieces on card stock. If desired, laminate for durability. Cut out the playing pieces. For easy storage, consider putting each board and all of its corresponding playing pieces in a large Ziplock bag.

How to Play

Teach your student to play Sudoku there should be one (and only one) of each color in each row and column. Once the board is completely filled correctly the game is done.

Back to School Sudoku

Once your child has completed the game, teach them how to check their work. First, have students look at each row. Then each column, making sure that each back to school symbol has its own row, column, and square. With four unique sudoku boards, you can store the game and playing pieces into a file folder for easy storage.

Preschool Sudoku Game Playing Pieces

Print this cover page to glue to the outside of your storage folder. This is a great way to easily reference what game is kept inside.

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Preschool Sudoku Game 1

This first game of sudoku has students sorting globes, scissors, crayons and notebook.

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Preschool Sudoku Game 2

This second game of sudoku has students sorting books, glue, paint, and calculators.

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Preschool Sudoku Game 3

This first game of sudoku has students sorting paper, pencils, erasers, and folders.

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Preschool Sudoku Game 4

This first game of sudoku has students sorting scissors, notebooks, clipboards and folders.

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Fine Motor Skills

WHAT ARE FINE MOTOR SKILLS?

Fine Motor activities are intentional in the building of small motor control muscles found inside our hands. Think of things like pencil control, grip strength…etc. These key muscles need development for future tasks such as writing, typing, tying shoes and other small motor movements that require fine precision. The skills required to perform these small muscle tasks are called fine motor skills.

FINE MOTOR SKILLS FOR PRESCHOOLERS

Developing fine motor skills seems simple enough however, setting up a fine motor learning center in your classroom is more than just printing out a few handwriting worksheets and calling it good. Many students might not have the grip or control to properly form the letters, which can lead to frustration or bad habits. This is why it’s important to present students with many different fine motor activities that work a variety of muscles, building up the skills they will need in their kindergarten year.

WHAT ARE SOME FINE MOTOR SKILLS PRESCHOOLERS SHOULD LEARN?

At a young age, preschoolers need to begin building grip and control as well as hand-eye coordination. You’ll want to preset your student with a variety of different and fun activities, but don’t get too overwhelmed by the process. Setting up a learning center station doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, there are many Fine Motor Activity Packs available in our TPT store to help get you started! These packs cover tracing, pencil grip, handwriting, small motor movements, play-dough/manipulation, pincer grasp, cutting/pasting, prepositional movement, listening skills, sign language, and so much more!

Fine Motor Alphabet

Teaching the alphabet while working on fine motor skills is a great way to double the learning in preschool. These activities are designed to encourage letter recognition, letter formation, beginning letter sounds, and more.

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Fine Motor Holidays & Seasons

Provide your students with an entire year of thematic, fine motor activities! These no-prep activity packs make your monthly lesson planning a snap. Each month, you'll have over 60 hands-on, skill-building activities for your learning centers.

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Fine Motor Task Cards

Task cards and fine motor skills go hand-in-hand with this growing collection of fine motor task cards. Each activity pack includes colorful task cards, and black and white follow-up worksheets and activities to expand learning.

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Fruit & Veggie Bingo Game

Free Printable Bingo Games

Learning about healthy fruits and vegetables is something that your preschool student will have fun with. Students discover the difference between different fruits and veggies while playing this colorful matching game. The health-focused game includes, 4 separate food mats for children to sort the cards on. These games are perfect for young preschool children at home or in school. Learn about fruits and vegetables during your health unit, or even your Farm life unit.

Healthy Food Interactive Game

This free Fruits & Veggies Lotto Game includes 4 bright and colorful healthy food mats with duplicate matching cards for each one. Each mat features different fruits and vegetables for children to identify and match.

Printable Bingo Game Assembly:

Print the boards and picture tiles on cardstock. If desired, laminate for durability. Cut out each game board as ONE PIECE. Cut apart each picture tile. You should have four game boards and 24 picture tiles when you finish.

How to Play Fruits & Veggies Lotto Game:

This game can be played with 2-4 players. Each player should choose a board and find the tiles that match his or her board. Turn those tiles over and mix them up. The first player should draw a picture tile from the pile. If the picture matches the player’s board, the player keeps the tile and puts it on his board. If it does not match, the player puts it back into the pile. The next player gets a turn. The game is continued in this way until one player has found all six of his or her tiles and wins the game.

Fun Food Sorting

This set can easily be a “Busy Bag” for your preschool students. Simply store the game in a small plastic bag, and keep with your learning activities. Learning about fruits and vegetables is an important part of your child’s development. After completing this interactive lotto game see if students can sort fruits & vegetables in your own home. Then try classifying the objects in another way; by size or color for example. This is a great way to extend the learning and add in a little math!

Fruit & Vegetables Matching Game

Print this free preschool matching game! Laminate one set of boards and cut apart the playing pieces.

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Color Games for Kids to Learn: Free Bingo Game

Color Learning Games for Kids

Color matching is an important skill to learn during the preschool year. Students learn visual discrimination skills while sorting these colorful pictures. Each colors bingo mat includes 6 different cute and colorful pictures for children to sort. These games would be great for home preschool or as a learning center in your preschool classroom.

Learn Your Colors Game

This free color learning game includes 8 different color sorting mats:

  • Red Sorting Mat
  • Orange Sorting Mat
  • Yellow Sorting Mat
  • Green Sorting Mat
  • Blue Sorting Mat
  • Purple Sorting Mat
  • Pink Sorting Mat
  • Brown Sorting Mat

Printable Bingo Game Assembly:

Print the boards and picture tiles on cardstock. If desired, laminate for durability. Cut out each game board as ONE PIECE. Cut apart each picture tile. You should have eight game boards and 48 picture tiles when you finish.

How to Play Color Bingo Game:

This game can be played with 2-8 players. Each player should choose a board and find the tiles that match his or her board. Turn those tiles over and mix them up. The first player should draw a picture tile from the pile. If the picture matches the player’s board, the player keeps the tile and puts it on his board. If it does not match, the player puts it back into the pile. The next player gets a turn. The game is continued in this way until one player has found all six of his or her tiles and wins the game.

Preschool Busy Bags

Here’s a quick storage tip that will make things super simple for you: Store the entire game in a large plastic bag. Then when you are needing something to keep your preschooler busy you’ll have a quick educational game you can pull out. This color sorting busy bag can be used as a single player game by having your child spread out the boards then draw a card one at a time to match.

Color Sorting Busy Bag:

Print this free Color match sorting game! Remember to print on cardstock or laminate for durability:

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Shape-of-the-Week is a no-prep, print-&-go curriculum that covers 10 exciting shapes!  With daily hands-on activities, students learn about circles, triangles, squares and more.  Scheduled over a 4-day week, this set coordinates perfectly with our Letter of the Weekand our Learn to Read Curriculum.

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Preschool Themes for June: Father’s Day, Beach,& More

As busy moms, we’re always looking for easy ways to make our day a little less stressful and enjoy summertime! With these free and practical resources, you can encourage your super active kids the ENTIRE month with wonderful hands on learning tools. Here are the Preschool Themes for June, ready to go for my fellow teachers!

Insects, Bugs, and Creepy Crawlies

Bugs and creepy crawlies are great subjects for our small and sweet scientists in the sizzling summer! Grab these 10 Bug Color and Learn Pages that are SO easy to prepare — just print and go! Your kids will learn facts, practice their writing and coloring skills, and better yet, it’s all free!

You’ll also want to check out these insect crafts, printables and projects to enhance your bug unit studies and thematic lessons. From butterfly life cycles to Scientific Discovery Notebooking Printables, there’s something for everyone!

Father’s Day Ideas DIY

Kids love making their Dad a homemade Father’s Day gifts and we got some great ideas for them! Try these fun and free DIY Father’s Day Ideas including cards and crafts you can make with children for Father’s Day!

These priceless memories include printables for Father’s day cards, handprint crafts, fishing cut and paste activities and so much more.

In addition, you can also grab Father’s Day Gift Ideas with these Free Father’s Day Bible Crafts, Activities, Minibooks, and more! Whether you’re creating these as a family or for homeschool or Sunday School, they will provide lifetime memories and are perfect keepsakes!

At the Beach

When you think of the beach and kids together, what’s the first word that pops up in your head? For me, it’s sand — but sometimes it’s not in a good way. So, let’s think of fun ways we can incorporate sand into a pleasurable activity!

Get your kids excited for the beach trip coming up with these beach type sand crafts including this super silly Sandpaper Starfish craft and some beautiful artwork with a Sand Art craft.

The beach also reminds us the vast ocean that God miraculously has made for us! Children are fascinated to see amazing ocean creatures!  Check out our video tutorials on how your child can make these ocean themed crafts! You’ll find inspiring activities to create a spiky sea urchin, a sea creature fan book and a sparkly sea anemone.

Plus, don’t forget to grab these valuable resources for ocean themed unit studies! Take your child to our magnificent under water world with this Ocean Life Book and DVD or get sticky with this vibrant, high quality Ocean Sticker Book.

Vacation Days

Speaking of the beach, let’s talk about the many ways of transportation taking us to our relaxing vacation destination. And, kids love to play and talk about those various ways of transportation — that’s why we made these Preschool Transportation Printables!

Which also reminds me, are you taking a road trip and need to homeschool at the same time? Here are some essential tips to make your travel trip an easy and educational ride! It’s very cool and hip when you are Car schooling like a Ninja!

Fruits and Vegetables – Farmers Market

Don’t you just love to see those signs on the road that proudly display “Farmer’s Market Today”?!!! Buying fresh produce from side stands not only supports local farmers, it supports a healthy immune system!

Why not hone in on these flavorful roadside stands and make it a teachable lesson? Play this easy and engaging fruit and vegetable game to get those fruit juices flowing!

Need some more resources to teach about healthy food and what makes them so special? Try this fun and fruity collection of healthy mazes for your kids or students!  Each activity sheet teaches about the health benefits of a specific fruit.  Students read, write, maze and trace their way right to a delicious and juicy healthy fruit.

That’s a wrap, my friends! Hope you have a wonderful month of June, and don’t forget to enjoy the warm sun, contagious smiles, and a lot of laughter!

Preschool Themes for May: Mothers Day, Flowers, and More

Don’t you just love the month of May?!! The warm weather, beautiful flowers, and fresh leaves bursting from the trees bring us such joy and delight. It’s also a wonderful time to celebrate moms, budding plants, and yes, even creepy crawlies! Our May Preschool Themes are ready for you to get started on all that this season brings! These learning activities will be a great fit for your preschool classroom.

May Fine Motor Skills Activity Pack

We know how busy you are, moms and teachers! That’s why we want to deliver to you this awesome, fun-filled activity pack for May!  It’s simple to use, virtually no prep time, and a ton of engaging, hands-on learning. Theses 60+ thematic educational sheets are perfect for your classroom or homeschool!

Mother’s Day Gift Ideas DIY

Mother’s Day is a time to reflect on how special moms are to us. They are busy, loving ladies who deserve a few keepsakes to display in their kitchen! The good news is, it doesn’t have to be expensive or time consuming!

There are so many free and frugal ideas to create the perfect gift for moms including art projects for balloon bouquets, keepsake booklet,cut and paste activity and more!  

If you’d like a nice variety you can quickly print, don’t miss out on these Mother’s Day printables like keepsakes, awards, coloring pages, and more! Or, a Mother’s Day bookmarks printable is an easy coloring activity with four unique designs!

All of these Mother’s Day activities and crafts are a great way for your children to show they care and to give back. With just a little guidance and their imagination, you’ll have a forever gift to cherish in very little time!

Flowers Activities for Preschool

May is the perfect time to incorporate flowers into the classroom. As the saying goes “April showers bring May flowers”! Let’s get together some creative ideas to get our preschoolers involved in more ‘flower power’.

This wonderful variety of free shape printables will get the kids buzzing with delight! They’ll practice visual discrimination skills with these free shape worksheets. Plus, color matching is a wonderful tool to teach kids how to use keys as guides.

In addition, these free flower games give your preschooler more practice on their ABCs (upper and lower case), geometry shapes, science activities, and much more!

Learning about Gardening for Preschoolers

As you prep your lush garden, don’t miss out on the opportunity to teach gardening preschool style! Children can experience the joy of keeping care of plants from seed to bloom. You’ll love these free garden craft ideas that include plant label markers, bird feeders, and decorated pots!

Preschool Bug Crafts

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What child isn’t fascinated with bugs and creepy crawlies? These free bug activity pages contain coloring and fun facts along with some room to deliver their own thoughts! If you are looking for fantastic science units for family sharing, check out these free preschool bug worksheets!

Memorial Day Activities for Preschoolers

Any holiday that comes around each year gives teachers and homeschool moms an opportunity that they don’t want to miss. But, busy days gives us little time to prepare. That’s why we prepared these especially for you — free and simple to assemble!

Try these Memorial Day activities to help your preschool remember why we remember our fallen soldiers and living heroes. for your preschoolers that include coloring pages, Bible verse cards, crafts and resources for your homeschool, co-op or Children’s Ministry. Don’t miss these fun and memorable Memorial Day crafts preschool style!

Need more ideas? For just a few dollars, get these 60 thematic, hands-on activities to build fine motor control skills for Spring! You can use them over and over again, just slip them into a protective sheet! 

Got May learning centers? These printable worksheets and activities are wonderful for extra practice, take-home resources, or for tutoring resources! 

Spring Activities for Preschool

During the preschool year it is important to expose children to different activities to build visual discrimination skills. Visual discrimination skills include the ability to visually determine the similarities and differences between two or more objects. One way to build these skills is through various matching games and activities.

Traditional matching games include the exact same item to match to another. (Think of memory or concentration in which students must match the exact picture). If that is what you are looking for, check out our free Spring Worksheets here. However, there is much more to visual discrimination then exact matches. For example, matching different shapes or pictures by pattern! That is the idea behind today’s free preschool learning game:

Spring Pattern Matching Game

This game is super low-prep and tons of fun! Your students will enjoy the new challenge of matching by pattern and not just by picture. The game includes two game board mats which you can laminate or mount to a file folder for durability.

There is a single sheet of game cards you’ll cut out that students will use for playing pieces. For each picture, the rainbow for example, there are two matching pattern cards; a bird with a rainbow on it and an egg with a rainbow on it. It is up to the students to match the correct cards to the picture by looking closely at the patterns.

Some patterns are simlar! Notice the lady bug and the watermelon? The paint tray and the cookie? Your preschool students will have to pay close attention as they are matching! Encourage them to go slow and look carefully at each picture pattern as they play!

Spring Pattern Matching Game: Mat 1

Print this free spring matching game mat on cardstock for best results. Features a flower, rainbow, bee, cookie, watermelon, and jelly beans.

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Spring Pattern Matching Game: Mat 2

Print this free spring matching game mat on cardstock for best results. Features a pencil, lady bug, paint tray, pizza, umbrella, and rain cloud.

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Spring Pattern Matching Game Cards

Print these free Spring matching game cards on cardstock and laminate for best results. These can be used with the game mats or separately as a memory or concentration game.

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