Activities for Preschoolers

Here we’ve collected our best posts about activities for preschoolers.
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Color Recognition Activity for Toddlers
Color recognition is one of the earliest skills you can teach your curious toddler. Here’s how you can make your own DIY color recognition activity for toddlers.Now that Leo has entered the 18-24 month stage …
Shhh... God Is in the Silence: a story for all ages by Fiona Basile
Prayer is an action that, outside of church, is intensely personal. As parents, it can be hard to teach children about prayer. Yes, we can teach them verbal prayers such as the Our Father and the Rosary. However, a solid relationship with God goes beyond verbal, memorized prayers to a mental conversation with God the Father. This is what’s hard to express to children, but is beautifully captured by author Fiona Basile in Shhh… God Is in the Silence.
5 Reasons to Use Online Learning in Your Homeschool
Over the past year, we’ve started adding more online learning to our homeschool. I’ve always been a book and paper kind of teacher (and student), but I’m slowly being converted to the advantages of online programs for the girls. One of the great websites we’ve rediscovered this summer is Reading Eggs. Here are five reasons why I think you should consider adding online learning programs such as Reading Eggs to your homeschool.
The Family that Skis Together: Teaching Kids to Downhill Ski
When my husband suggested getting an annual family pass at a local ski hill, he thought we’d be snowshoeing and sledding—activities that are doable with small kids. I thought about my downhill skis, sitting dusty and lonely in the back corner of our storage room for the past ten years. We have gone sledding (a few times) and snowshoeing (once), but we’ve spent most of our time up at the hill skiing. Here’s how I’ve been teaching kids to downhill ski.
The Examiner Play Kit teaches kids critical thinking skills
The plan ahead week board helps kids visualize their daily and weekly activities, with magnets to place on the calendar for what they do each day.
Buggy Fun for Summer Learning
Much to the dismay of their mothers, toddlers hold a relentless fascination for bugs. They follow, squish, catch and even eat them! Perhaps the novelty lies in the never-ending variety of creepy crawlers or that bugs are smaller than these little ones. Here are some simple buggy fun activities that will enchant your children this summer.
Fun stick activities and twig crafts
Find 30 cool things to do with sticks. There are creative nature crafts with sticks and twigs perfect for nature play. These twig activities are great kids nature activities to do at home or they are perfect forest school activities too. Includes fun twig crafts and stick activities.
Make Summer with Kids Easy – Top Summer Hacks From Parents!
Top Summer Parenting Hacks - KidFriendlyThingsToDo.com
How to Party Like a Snail {book review}
We often hear the terms “extrovert” and “introvert” tossed around. We may have some idea about what these words mean, and which category we fall into. I think it’s important we help our children understand this part of their personality and how it affects their interactions with those around them. How to Party Like a Snail is a beautiful kids book that can help parents have this discussion with their children. This book shows some people like silence and some people like noise and that’s okay.
Creative Ways to Improve Kids' Logical Thinking Skills
As parents, helping our kids improve logical thinking skills is one of the most important steps in preparing them for life’s challenges. But how do we go about it? You may have engaged your kids in math or science activities and encouraged them to read books, but there are other creative ways you can nurture their logical thinking skills—ways that engage their imaginations and motivate them to apply logic and reasoning skills.
Easy Peasy No Fail Play Dough Recipe
One of my kids’ absolute favourite activities is playing with play dough. Over the years, from the time my oldest was a toddler to now, this has been hands-down the best indoor activity. I’ve experimented with various homemade play dough recipes over the years and now have my own favourite. It's easy to make, lasts a long time, and is also edible (just in case!).
Pairs of People: A Book on Multiplying Goodness {review}
Community and helping others are very important values in our family. There are so many areas in our communities where helping hands are needed, but too often we think that someone else will do the work or that we are too busy to give back. Children have a natural generosity and often see needs where we adults don’t. One way we can encourage this generosity and spirit of giving back is through books such as Pairs of People by Jeanne and Mark K. Shriver.