Simple Activities for Preschoolers - Week 9

Keeping the activities hands on and play-based is crucial for successful learning at home with preschoolers. Here are five more fun set-ups for the week ahead.

6 Simple Busy Bags for Siblings

Six simple and easy-to-prep busy bags that will keep kids of all ages playing and learning together whilst on-the-go.

Alphabet Construction

Encourage hands-on letter formation with this fun loose part and letter book set up!

Wooden Pumpkin Painting

A cute little pumpkin craft using our favorite mess free paint sticks, Kwik Stix.

Tape Resist Room Signs

Tape resist canvases are the perfect way to get creative and add a splash of color to your kids' room with a fun letter sign!

CVC Connect Three

This fun take on the classic game of Connect 4 is sure to get your kids engaged in their letter recognition and CVC words!

CVC Connect Three

DIY Cardboard Laptop

Make your own cute little laptops for your kids to enjoy some office role play with! Plenty of letter learning too!

DIY Cardboard Laptop

Alpha-spoon Spinner

A fun way to introduce the idea of uppercase and lowercase letters using plastic spoons and a super exciting spinner (i.e. a lazy susan).

Alpha-spoon Spinner.

Name Bingo

My son has been working so hard to learn how to write his name accurately so I thought we would have some fun with name recognition by playing a family game of name bingo.

Name Bingo is a great family game.

Valentine's Day Writing Tray

Another inviting way to practise name writing which ties in nicely with celebrating Valentine's Day.

Valentine's Day writing tray.

Name Train

Combining a nice train craft with developing name writing skills.

The train set up.

Starting Sound Stations

Making use of our laundry basket web again (see Letter Rescue post) but this time working on starting sounds and combining it with my son's greatest passion- trains!

The set up.

Letter Rescue

At the moment we are working hard to try and help my son write his own name. Part of this process is doing lots of simple and fun letter recognition activities.

The set up.

Work Pass

My son is obsessed with my husband's retractable work pass and thinks it is a real treat getting to play with it. I therefore thought it would be good fun to make our own work passes, making links to letters, numbers and the world of work.

The set up.

Hidden Words

Using a few resources to work on letter recognition and sounding out three letter words when my son was a little over 2 years old.

The set up.

Word Pegs

A simple fine motor activity to promote letter recognition and word formation. To engage my son I chose an 'on the go' theme. We did this when my son was aged just over 2 years old.

The set up.

Alphabet Roads

I used this simple activity to help my son become more interested in letter recognition when he was about 2 years old.

The set up.