Preschool and Kindergarten: Crafts, Activities, and Lessons

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Preschool and Daycare Crafts, Activities, Lessons, Games, and Printables

Save time and money! Our ready-to-use preschool curriculum resources cover essential preschool learning objectives and make your daily planning fast, easy, and affordable. The cost is the same regardless of how many children you have in your care. Simply choose the activities based on the ability of your children and print as many pages as you need. Our KidsSoup Resource Library currently contains 52 themes and more than 4,200 printables. Our preschool activities and lessons are created by curriculum specialists. Each theme offers exciting lessons and activities, learning worksheets, rhymes and songs, emergent reader booklets, learning aids, and arts and crafts projects. New theme and resources are added monthly.

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ABC and Letter Activities and Crafts

The goal of these resources is to aquaint preschool children with the letters of the alphabet through various fun, learning activities involving all of their senses.

Name of the Letter - Letter puppets and crafts
Shape of the Letter - Letter shape activities and writing worksheets
Sound of the Letter - Emergent reader booklets and beginning sound games
Printing the Letter - Letter writing worksheets
Words Associated with the Letter - Emergent reader booklets and beginning sound games
ABC Activities and Games - ABC order, recognizing letters worksheets and activities, lowercase and uppercase matching games.

Language and Literacy Activities

Reading skills are critical for preschool learning and childhood development. By developing an interest in reading, you'll instill the desire to learn to read. Our resources contain fun and age-appropriate preschool literacy activities and emergent reader booklets for children to color and share. Finger plays, rhymes, songs, and felt stories are another fun way to help your children to develop the vocabulary they will need as they enter school and begin to read.

Our literacy resources enable young children to develop language arts skills through the context of shared reading with the use of quality children's literature, shared writing, language experience, and reading and writing centers.

Math Activities, Games, and Worksheets

Preschool Math. Learning and using early math skills help children to make sense of the world around them and to develop their ability to reason and problem solve.

Using math concepts is a natural part of young children's play and daily activities. Through play, children explore mathematical concepts such as counting, sorting, measuring, classifying, comparing quantities, and recognizing shapes and patterns. Our preschool math curriculum includes learning more about geometrical shapes and objects, measurement of length, weight, capacity, time, and temperature, use of money, graphs and charts used for data analysis and prediction, and patterns.

Our resources contain fun activities, folder games, and lessons for teaching math with manipulatives. Our fun printable worksheets provide children with the opportunity to practice their learned skills: Numbers, Shapes, Measurement, Patterns, Counting, and Simple Additions and Substractions.

Arts and Crafts Projects

Arts and crafts activities stimulate children's imagination and creativity. Arts and crafts projects contribute to the development of fine and gross motor skills in young children. Our resources contain printable step-by-step craft instructions, patterns, and pictures of each art or craft project. All our projects use craft materials that can be easily found around the house or bought in any craft store such as construction paper, pompoms, craft sticks, wiggly eyes, pipe cleaners, and recycled materials like old cereal boxes and paper rolls.

 

Pre-writing Skills, Fine Motor Skills, and Gross Motor Skills Activities

Before learning to write, it is important that children practice tracing and drawing with a pencil or crayon to gain basic pencil-control skills. These pre-writing skill activities lead to the ability to form letters and numbers.

Our printable coloring pages, tracing worksheets, and writing worksheets support children's fine motor development and help build the strength and dexterity (quick and precise movements and coordination of the hands and fingers) necessary to hold a pencil appropriately. Develop your preschool children's ability and gross motor skills through various fun indoor and outdoor games and songs.

KidsSoup preschool curriculum and resources

A quality early childhood program should be appropriate for the age, developmental level, and special needs of each child. Our preschool curriculum and activities enable you to build upon what your children already know and are able to do and encourage them to learn new concepts and skills. Our KidsSoup Resource Library provides resources to various preschool themes and integrate and teach across all areas of the core curriculum. There are currently 52 fun themes in the KidsSoup Resource Library: Holidays, Groundhog Day, Chinese New Years, Cinco de Mayo, Seasons, Letter of the Week, ABC, Bats, Chickens/Turkeys, Dinosaurs, Penguins, Polar Bears, Spiders, Farm, Garden, Zoo, Ocean, Earth Day, Space, Weather, Flowers/Pants, Dental Health, Health and Nutrition, Pre-writing Skills, Shapes, Colors, The Gingerbread Man, The Little Red Hen, Little Miss Muffet, The Mitten, The Old Woman, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Apples, Fruits and Vegetables, Cars/Buses/Trucks, Olympic Games, and more. Our flexible, yet organized, resources make it easy to find a resource that engages your young learners and lays a solid foundation for lifelong learning.

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