Lesson Plan Ideas
Are you looking for preschool lesson plan ideas and learning activities for your classroom? Your little learners will love these fun, hands-on activities for literacy, math, science, dramatic play and more!
Some of our favorite lesson plans to explore with pre-K students are using sensory bins, incorporating fun preschool songs, and practicing fine motor play.
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DIY Make Your Own Hatching Dinosaur Eggs
Dinosaur hatching egg tutorial with recipe, pictures, and step-by-step directions that explain exactly how to make your own hatching dinosaur eggs for preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten.
How to Make DIY Kinetic Sand for Sensory Bins
Dinosaur sensory bin activity for your little paleontologists in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Perfect for a dramatic play dinosaur dig theme!
How to Make Dinosaur Fossils with Salt Dough
Dinosaur fossils made with salt dough. Learn how to make dinosaur fossils with this easy DIY recipe that includes pictures and step-by-step directions. Perfect for preschool!
5 Little Pumpkins Counting Printable
Fun printable counting activity to go along with the popular Halloween rhyme, 5 little pumpkins. Help your kids develop number sense and one-to-one skills.
Halloween Fine Motor Activities for Preschool
Halloween fine motor activities for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten kids. Fun and easy fine motor activities your kids will love!
Leaf Man Beginning Sounds Activity
A fall literacy activity using the book Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert that explores beginning sounds, for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten
3 Clapping and Stomping Alphabet Activities
3 activities that incorporate movement to learn or review alphabet letters, for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten teachers or parents
Drawing Self-Portraits on Mirrors
A simple drawing activity for preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten; use dry erase markers and mirrors to draw self-portraits or write names.
Measure Your Body with Blocks
Use blocks to build math and measurement skills with this fun all about me activity; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classes.
Activities for Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
When you think of classic preschool picture books, several come to mind. But Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. must be one of the top books on every list. The simple repetitive text and the great illustrations by Eric Carle make this book a […]
Wheels on the Bus Activity
Make a school bus with textures to extend song The Wheels on the Bus; great beginning of the year activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
Books with Repetitive, Predictable Text
A book list with repetitive words and phrases and predictable text to help build literacy skills for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten
Class Book: Here Are Our Hands
A great begining-of-school class book made with children’s hands and easy repetitive text for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten
Sensory Writing Tray for the Writing Center
Add a sensory writing tray for your writing center to encourage writing or develop fine motor skills for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
Transition Song for the Preschool Classroom
An attention song to help smooth transition times in the preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classroom…plus other song ideas
3 Fun Colors Games for Preschoolers
Games to explore learning colors and color words using a free printable; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classrooms or at home
Color Sorting on the Light Table
A light table and transparent counters make a fun sorting activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Your kids will love sorting colors on the light table with this fun, hands-on learning activity!
Mouse Mask: If You Take a Mouse to School
Reading books is a great way to build literacy skills. But expanding those books with other activities makes stories come alive and allows preschoolers develop storytelling and comprehension skills. This activity builds on the book If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff. (This book is a good […]
Pigeon Activities for Preschoolers
The series of Pigeon books by Mo Willems star a pigeon who really wants things his way. Beginning with the best-seller Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, these humorous books have become favorites in the preschool classroom. Reading these books is just the beginning. These activities will extend learning […]
Retelling Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
Retell and act out the book Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by painting with feet; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
