Learning Activities That Engage Preschoolers
Learning Activities That Engage Preschoolers
There are many activities in our day-to-day life that can be transformed into learning experiences. It’s not necessary to buy expensive toys to make your kids’ playtime creative and interesting; you can do so with simple household goods or the toys they already have. Young children don’t value things for their price; they just like things that fascinate them. Your child may be more interested in an empty disposable paper cup than an expensive toy.
Informal Learning
Some of the activities given below can involve your preschoolers both at home and at preschool. Games and playtime provide the informal learning opportunities that are vital to the development of a child’s motor skills. You cannot keep your children in one room or classroom and only teach them drab lessons from a book; you have to let them learn life skills by playing and experiencing.
Models out of Household Junk
This can be an interesting activity for your preschooler. You can collect empty cartons, packing boxes from different household items, the lids from milk bottles, empty Pringles jars, yoghurt cans, even the tray that holds six small yoghurt pots—anything you can find at home that serves no purpose. You can then help your child make models of different things out of these scraps.
Colourful Pencil Shavings Art
Ask your child to save pencil and coloured pencil shavings in a box. When you have collected a good amount, draw different shapes or flowers on paper, and have your child paste pencil shavings onto the shapes with the help of a glue stick. Your preschoolers will love to do this because they’ll feel proud of working on their own and making something beautiful.
Cardboard-Box Houses
Many cardboard boxes come as packaging for different items and are discarded after unpacking. You can use such boxes to give your children ideas for making a wide assortment of structures: houses, igloos, a dark room, or even a midnight scene and house inspired by times of load shedding. They will love creating their own imaginative world around that cardboard box. If you don’t have any boxes on hand, you can get some very easily from a local grocery store or bookshop free of cost.
Pillow & Cushion Games
Gather a lot of pillows and cushions together for your child. There are beautiful soft cushions in the shape of different cartoon characters and animals available in the market at a very reasonable price. Your preschooler will love playing with soft and fluffy pillows and cushions. And there is no harm if children throw them at one another!
Preschoolers can design their own games according to their imagination. Some children make two walls of three or four pillows and then drape a blanket on it to make it a kitchen, a restaurant, a grocery store, a lion’s den, a pirate’s cave, etc. This game really nurtures your child’s imagination and helps him or her dream about different aspects of adult life.
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