Category: Ages 2-6
Preschool Activities — Water colors, felt board, color sorting
have a water color set and doilies (or paper)ready to go in the preschool box. It’s relativelymess free so I don’t mind setting it up most anytime. I made a felt bear board for the preschool box. Muffin cups and clothes pins, matching by color
Toddler Activities
Someone on one of the homeschool groups I participate in needed ideas for keeping their toddler busy. I wrote this up and thought I’d put it on the website too. I hope you find these ideas useful. Here’s what I wrote: I have a 17 month old daughter and am wondering just how we’ll get much done when we start back with school in another week. She likes (insists!) on...
Unhinged Clothes Pin — toddler activity
This activity still keeps ED entertained. She’s been playingwith these since about 12-13 months. Recently she has startedusing them to make pictures on the floor as well.
Preschool Activities — Matching letters
There are ALL kinds of letter matching activities out on theweb. Sorry, I forget where I got the spider/web one butthis is an activity I keep in the preschool box and/or throwinto the workboxes every now and then. (If I have a chance I’ll try to remember to put a few linksto file folder letter matching games here later.)
Preschool Activities
I have a file box with stickers and a blank notebook thatI keep on hand (and often throw into workboxes). I rotatethe stickers to keep it interesting.
Preschool Activity — Living Non living cards
I’m sure I will talk about this elsewhere, but my three year old loves these cards! These cards also sort into the 5 Living Kingdoms (animal, plant, fungus, etc.) We have Living Non-Living Cards here: Montessori Living NonLiving Cards We also have Vertebrate-Invertebrate Cards here And don’t miss our animal classification worksheets and other animal materials: You might be interested in this related post: 20 Activities for Early Elementary That’s...
Preschool Activity — pipe cleaner tree
Twist pipe cleaners together, spreadout the branches, put on bits of constructionpaper. (Depending on the age of your child,you might need to use a hole punch to thecenter of the construction paper if you wantthis to be an independent activity for yourpreschooler).
Preschool Activities
Hole punching — I used a wooden skewer with a few rubberbands wrapped around them. You can also off them a pushpin (this how some Montessori schools do it). For a while my 5 year old LOVED doing these. I had to makeall kinds of Star Wars star fighter, jet and other “dot pictures”(while my 3 year old wanted butterflies, balloons, fairies andso forth). This activity has expanded from these...
