101 Preschool Activities & Worksheets For Kids
It’s fun time for your little ones! If you have a preschool or kindergarten-aged kid at home, you’re going to love it. If you are wondering how to spend time with your niece or nephew without being the boring old aunt, you will want to check this out. Or if you are a kindergarten teacher or a babysitter, then this is for you! Here we list out 101 preschool activities and worksheets for your bambinos that are super easy. What’s more? They are affordable and fun. So, without further ado, let’s jump right into it.
101. Greeting Cards
Take a blank paper, fold it in half, and let the kids go all out. You can do colorful pictures, personalized, messages, and more.
100. Q-Tip Dabbing
For this, you are going to need a few Q-tips, watercolor, and a paper to draw. Ask them to create colorful paintings by dabbing the Q-tip with watercolors.
99. Connect The Dots
Hone your kid’s learning and motor abilities through this activity. Outline a drawing by marking the dots in alphabets or numbers, and ask them to connect it dot to dot.
98. Finger Painting
This is similar to Q-tip dabbing, except instead of Q-tips, it’s your child’s tiny fingers that do the work.
97. Hand Painting
Ask your child to dip their hand in paint and then place it on their drawing paper. Create colorful palm prints!
96. Sand Treasure Hunt
Ask your kid to immerse their hand in a bucket full of sand to find little treasures. The kid who finds the highest number of treasures in limited time wins.
95. Cotton Roll Painting
For this, gather some cotton roll, glue, and watercolors. Make a beautiful painting by dabbing the cotton roll in watercolor and gluing it to the drawing sheet.
94. Paper Plate Clocks
What a fun way to learn time doing arts and crafts! Hand over a paper plate, and two popsicle sticks to your child. Don’t forget to mark the numbers on the plate with a marker.
93. Sponge Dabbing
Grab a sponge, some paint, and a drawing sheet. Let your kid’s imagination run wild.
92. Counting Beans
Give them different bowls and place a number sticker on the outside of each bowl. Place some beans in every bowl, and teach them about numbers while also having fun.
91. Paper Cutout Rangoli
Draw a rangoli outline mentioning the different colors it has to be filled in with using paper cut-outs.
90. Paper Cutout Kites
Similar to rangoli, let them decorate the kite with paper cut-outs and some sticky gum.
89. Alphabet Stamps
Teach them the ABCs by handing out alphabet stamps.
88. Garden Treasure Hunt
Teach them about flowers and plants with this treasure hunt game.
87. DIY Sunglasses
Hone their motor skills by creating handheld sunglasses with a straw.
86. Flag Coloring
Teach them about countries by doing some fun flag coloring activity.
85. Hula Hoop
Whoever can get it spinning around their waist the longest wins!
84. Fun Kitchen Time
Teach them about kitchen safety using kitchen set.
83. Alphabet Post-It Wall
Create a post-it wall with upper case alphabets. Let your kid stick the lower case letter to the respective alphabet slot.
82. Soft Play Dough
Mix some corn starch and a cheap hair conditioner to form this silky dough for a laid back fun time.
81. Rainbow Paints
Teach them about the light spectrum by coloring rainbows on sheets.
80. Ink Blot Sheets
Drop a blot of ink or paint on a paper and fold it. Now open it to reveal the pattern.
79. Puffy Paint
Mix glue with shaving cream and pour some food coloring to form pretty candy-colors of puffy paint.
78. Cookie Cutter Paint
Get some paint and cookie cutters. Let your kid draw fun patterns with it.
77. Flax Seed Fun
Teach them about letters by sticking the flax seeds on the outline of each letter.
76. Floating Letters
Dump the letters in a tub full of water. Ask them to pick the maximum number of letters with a spatula.
75. Feed The Shark
Make a cardboard cutout of a big shark and tiny fishes with alphabets marked on them. Call out different alphabets each time to insert into the shark’s mouth.
74. Letter Hunt
Hide different letters in a container with sand and let your kids find them.
73. Clay Balls
Make tiny colorful clay balls and randomly place it in 5 bins with 5 different colors. Ask the kids to place each ball in the respective colored bins.
72. Monster Charts
Teach your kid numbers by counting the monster’s eyes or teeth in this monster chart.
71. Count The Buttons
Place different buttoned shirts in front, and teach them numbers by counting buttons on each.
70. Coloring Egg Cartons
Cut out each egg carton piece, paint them, and stick it to the paper to make colorful drawings.
69. Easter Eggs
Poke a hole on top of the egg to pour it out on a bowl. Now take the eggshell and paint them as you like.
68. Shaving Cream Writing
Spray a good amount of shaving cream over a wax paper and have them practice their writing skills.
67. Sensory Bags
Fill a sandwich bag with hair gel and food coloring. Bow zip it and tape it to your glass door. And let your kids touch and play with it.
66. Bubble Foam
Mix tear-free bubble bath and food coloring in a tub of water. And whip it with a hand mixer. Bring on the toys and let them play.
65. Spoon It Out
In a big bowl filled with water, throw in as many container lids as you can. Now let your kid spoon out the maximum lids they can.
64. Alphabet Knock Down
Stick letters on a popsicle stick and place it on a pool noodle. Give your kid a ball to knock down the letter you call out.
63. Sponge Ball Letter Game
Stick a bunch of letters on a wall and ask your kid to hit the target when you call out the letter.
62. Rock painting
Ask the kids to collect rocks with smooth surfaces from the playground. Now paint alphabets and numbers on them to hone their learning skills.
61. Treasure Map
Draw a treasure map and let your child pave the way by connecting the dots to reach the final treasure.
60. Make A Tower
Create a tower by using a bunch of paper cups and straws to hone your child’s motor skills.
59. Straw Bridges
Learn to build bridges using some straws and tape.
58. Robot Hand
Make a hand cutout. Now give some straws, thread, and glue to create an articulated hand like a robot.
57. Dancing Corn
In a mason jar filled with water, put some vinegar and baking soda. Pop in some corn to see them dance due to the chemical reaction between vinegar and baking soda.
56. Pumpkin Volcano
Carve out the inside of a pumpkin, and cut out the top portion. Add some baking powder and orange food coloring in it. Now pour the vinegar in it and watch the volcano erupt.
55. Self Portraits
Let the kids draw themselves looking at the mirror. Ask them to focus on facial features like eyebrows and eyelashes.
54. Shapes
Let your child learn about different shapes by tracing objects from your home.
53. Melted Crayons
Take old, broken crayons and arrange them in a muffin tin. Pop them in your oven for 10 minutes and wait to let it cool. Now let your kid discover new colors with them.
52. Weather Wheel
Cut out a round sheet of paper and divide it into different sections – rain, cloudy, sunny, storm, thunderstorm, and rainbow. Cut out an arrow and pin it toward the center of the wheel. Have your child rotate it each day by looking out the window.
51. Days Of The Week
Just like the weather wheel, teach your kid about days by marking 7 days of the week on a wheel.
50. Human Body Worksheet
Teach them biology by making an outline of the human body. Make cut-outs of different organs like the stomach and brain and ask them to pin it to the right location.
49. Hopscotch
Improve your kid’s motor skills by creating a hopscotch grid on your terrace or yard using chalk or crayons.
48. Cupcake Liner Fish
Place the cupcake liner flat on a paper to make the head of the fish and make triangular cutouts for fishtails and stick it together. Draw eyes and mouth on them to create quirky fish drawings.
47. Easter Egg Crafts
Blow a balloon, now stick glued threads all around it overlapping each other. Now pop the balloon using a pin.
46. Bookmarks Fun
Create fun bookmarks with color paper and crayons.
45. Post-It Number Match
Roll out a sheet depicting different quantities using dots. Now ask your kid to stick the post-it note which has the correct number written over it.
44. Match The Color
Lay out different vegetables on the table. Now ask your kid to match each to the right color.
43. Faces And Feelings
Draw emotions like happy, sad, angry on circular cutout to teach them about feelings.
42. Transportation Shape Collage
Make trucks and cars using differently shaped cutouts.
41. World Map Worksheet
Print out a colorful world map worksheet and set up different flag cut-outs to teach them about places.
40. Fruits And Veggies Fun
Take two bins marked fruit and vegetable on each. Lay out different fruits and veggie toys to place in the respective bins.
39. Color The Veggies
In a worksheet, draw the outline of different veggies and ask them to identify and color them.
38. Find My Name
In a sheet, write down the names of as many kids as you can and ask them to find theirs.
37. How Do You Feel Chart
Create a ‘How Do You Feel Today?’ chart where your kid can mark their feelings every day.
36. Color Sorting Bags
Strip a piece of colored paper and stick it on each bag. Ask the kid to sort out their toys based on color.
35. Food Groups Worksheet
Teach your kid about different food groups by creating a printable coloring worksheet.
34. Join The-Dots – Letters And Numbers
Teach them about letters and numbers by connecting the dots.
33. DIY Yoga Mat Hopstoch Game
Play hopscotch at home in a yoga mat using strips of duct tape for the hopscotch grid.
32. Play Dough Maths
Teach your kid numbers and quantities using play dough.
31. Watercolor Pets
Ask your kid to paint a picture of their pet or make up a pet in their mind.
30. Feather Painting
Ask your kid to paint using feathers.
29. Frooty Fun
Teach them about identify fruits from a jumble with this worksheet.
28. Matching Games
Match the word to the pictorial representation of it. You could also use real objects for this one.
27. Alphabet Stamps
Make the upper case and lower case alphabet stamps using 1-inch grid paper.
26. Story Cards
Create a number of cards with pieces of stories written in each. Ask the kids to arrange it in the right sequence to recite the entire story.
25. Outdoor Drawing Activity
Make the kids sit in a circle on the outdoors and ask them to draw what they see right in front of them.
24. Outdoor Group Poem
Ask them to focus for 30 minutes and write a poem about any random stuff they can come up with.
23. Nature Walk
Make the kids write or draw about the various things they collected after taking a short walk.
22. Alphabet Walk
Take a stroll outdoors to find as many things as they can that start with a particular letter.
21. Color Walk
Take a stroll outdoors to find as many things as they can with a given color.
20. Healthy Vs Junk
Divide the sheet into two- healthy and junk. Now ask your kid to pin the right food printout in each column.
19. Palm Print Greetings
Make greeting cards with patterns created out of your kid’s palm prints.
18. Alphabet Finger Painting
Finger paint each letter using pebbles, sand or garden soil.
17. Opposites
Write a list of words on a card and ask the kids to guess the opposite of that. Hot and cold, in and out, big and small, yes and no, and so on.
16. Take A Counting Walk
Decide on something to count, such as birds or car and ask kids to keep count of how many they see.
15. Leap Frog
Hop and see who can go the farthest.
14. Shapes Worksheet
Create a fun worksheet for kids to teach them about shapes.
13. Playdough Cutting
Hand them a pair of kid-approved scissors or knife to cut the play dough. This will improve their fine motor and hand skills.
12. Find The Buttons
Hide tiny buttons in play dough for them to find. Time the activity.
11. Sensory Bin
In a tin, mix dried beans, kinetic sand, pom poms, cornmeal among others for them to sort out.
10. Balance Beam
Place a small narrow wooden beam on the floor and make kids walk on it to hone their balance skills.
9. Cutting Salon
Hand out color papers, hay, and other materials with different textures for them to cut away!
8. Play Dough Family
Create family members using play dough.
7. Family Tree
Draw a family tree starting from their grandparents and ask them to name each family member.
6. Butterfly Art
Draw butterfly with hot glue and fill in with watercolors.
5. Ocean Sensory Bin
Create an ocean sensory bin using pebbles, sand, leaves, underwater toys, and a variety of other items.
4. Count The Drops
Hand out a number of coins and a jar with water. Using a pipette, ask them to count the number of water drops they can fit into each coin without spilling out.
3. Painting Pots
Bring out the artist in your kid by doing some pot painting.
2. Endless Stem Challenge
Hand out pictures of Eiffel Towel, Empire State Building and many more to recreate them using building blocks.
1. Art On Foil
Ask them to draw different patterns on silver foil using a toothpick. Turn around the foil to see the artwork.
Not only will our list hone your kid’s sensory, motor, and learning skills, we guarantee that they will never have a dull moment with these fun activities and worksheets.
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