Simple Activities for Preschoolers - Week 4

Sharing five more easy-to-set-up activities which will help to keep your preschooler playing and learning creatively.

Easter Play Dough Kits for Preschoolers

These jumbo plastic eggs are full of Easter-themed loose parts and play dough, ready for little hands to explore!

Fingerprint Spring Cards

Hand-made cards are always cute, but even more so when there are chicks and bunnies involved!

Bleeding Tissue Paper Speckled Egg

Bleeding tissue paper and a water squirt bottle make for the best process art combination!

L-EGG-O Zip-line

Can you safely get an egg down a zip-line without it smashing by designing a protective carrier out of LEGO?

L-EGG-O Zip-line in action.

Rolling Pin Painted Eggs

Create Easter eggs bursting with colour, with this fun process art and tape resist painting activity.

Rolling Pin Painted Eggs.

Plastic Egg Process Painting

A fun way to make use of all the extra plastic eggs hanging around at Easter time!

Plastic egg process painting.

Carrot Cupcakes

Reusing our carrot garden to make some 'scrummy' carrot cupcakes.

Serving up a carrot cupcake.

Carrot Garden

Soil, plastic carrots and tools made for a great gardening role play activity with my son. I lost count of the number of carrot smoothies I was served up!

Carrot gardening small world.

DIY Egg Puzzles

A very simple Easter-themed cutting and puzzle activity that hardly requires any prep time at all.

Easter egg DIY puzzles.

Hoppy-scotch

Giving the traditional playground game of hopscotch an Easter twist. A good activity for burning off energy and practising numbers.

Hoppy-scotch.

Daffodil Cutlery Painting

Still life flower painting with a twist...... no paintbrushes just cutlery.  

Lovely Spring daffodils painted using cutlery.

The Easter Bunny's Magical Paintbrush

An Easter-themed twist on painting that made practising numbers much more exciting.

Using the Easter Bunny's magical paintbrush.

Giant Egg

Going extra large with this one and painting a giant wooden egg as part of our Easter celebrations.

Giant egg painting.