Activities for Preschoolers

Here are some preschool games to help your child with early skills in writing.

Tracing: allow your child to trace around simple, squares, rectangle, circles, placed on large pieces of paper.

Follow the path: draw a wavy line across a page and have your child follow the path with a toy car. Get your child to go from left to right just as they would in writing.

Color ins: coloring pictures, simple ones you have drawn or copied or pictures in coloring books you have bought.

Drawing: lots paper, pencils, crayons, paints. Let your child tell you about their drawings.

Dot-to-Dot: Have your child follow the dots with a pencil. Early dot-to-dots shouldn't include numbers, just dots to follow.

Jigsaw puzzles: Helps you child manipulate the pieces and helps hand eye coordination. You can made your own from pictures from magazine or all birthday cards. Make the number of pieces appropriate for the age of our child.

Here are a few ideas for the areas in which you should be encouraging your preschooler.

Speaking and Listening
Encourage your child:
by showing them how to greet people,
to use a telephone,
to sing rhymes, songs and chants,
to practice following instructions,
by modeling how to be an active listener through nodding and making eye contact,
to play dress ups and role play characters from favorite stories,
by encouraging talk and description when using a range of toys and materials for play and craft.

Reading
Make a regular time for reading together.
Talk about books.
Use the pictures to predict what is going on. Ask your child to make suggestions.
Provide a range of reading material that interest your child.
Join the local library.
Read old favorites again and again and soon your child will be reading them to you.

Writing
Provide a range of materials to encourage writing and drawing. All the materials don't have to be new, for example, used envelopes from your mail, store catalogs for cutting and pasting pictures.
Write together. When you make a shopping list encourage your child to make one too. When you write cards, letters, encourage your child to add to yours or write their own.
Write signs and labels for things around the house with your child. A sign for their door is a good place to start.

Math
Math is so much more than just counting. Here are a few preschool ideas for math.
Search for number in your house, on a trip in the car, at the store.
Count objects whenever you can, socks in the washing basket, toy cars, dolls, biscuits.
Finding shapes.
Simple jigsaws.
Learning the time: morning afternoon, night, days, months, seasons.
Learning the language of position: up, down, in front, behind, next to, through.

Hope you found these activities for preschoolers helpful.

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