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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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Candy Cane Slime

Candy Cane Christmas Slime Recipe

A candy cane slime recipe your kids will love to make and play with at Christmas time. Make red and white scented slime for a candy cane holiday theme exploration. Your preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kids will have a blast with this slime recipe!

Salt Dough Ornaments

Salt Dough Ornaments Kids Can Make

Easy salt dough ornaments your kids can make. Make keepsake Christmas ornaments using this simple salt dough recipe. Super fun for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kids! Parents will cherish these ornaments forever!

Easy Candy Cane Ornament for Preschool

Candy Cane Pipe Cleaner Ornaments

Make easy pipe cleaner candy cane ornaments with your preschoolers. The perfect activity for for building fine motor skills for the holidays.

Candy Cane Play Dough

Candy Cane Playdough Activity

A fun play dough exploration with a candy cane theme for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten is a great Christmas or holiday activity.

Candy Cane Letter Game

Letter Recognition Candy Cane Game

Letter recognition games to play with a candy cane alphabet printable; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classrooms.

Peppermint Science

Peppermint Candy Cane Science Experiment

A fun holiday science experiment exploring temperature’s effects on peppermint candies; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Christmas Crafts

Preschool Christmas Crafts and Activities

A collection of Christmas activities for faith-based and Christian preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten classrooms or home to celebrate Jesus’ birth.

Jingle Bell Activities

Preschool Activities with Jingle Bells

Fun jingle bell activities for preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. 25 holiday activities for kids using jingle bells.

Holiday Patterns

Holiday Pattern Activities For Kids

Use ornaments or other holiday items that you have on hand to create fun patterns with preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten children.

Kid Made Christmas Gifts

25 Christmas Gifts Kids Can Make

Christmas gift ideas that kids (preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten) can make for parents, grandparents, or other special friends.

Polar Express Activities

Polar Express Activities for Preschoolers

Polar Express theme activities to explore and extend the book The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten

doorbell rang math exploration

Preschool Math Exploration with The Doorbell Rang

A fun math activity inspired by the book The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins. Your kids will love learning math concepts and acting out this classic story.

Best Rhyming Books for Preschool

Best Rhyming Books for Preschoolers

20 of the best children’s books that rhyme for Preschool, Pre-K, or kindergarten kids. Rhyming picture books to help your kids learn how to rhyme.

Farm Sensory Bin

Farm Sensory Bin for Preschool

Explore farm and harvest themes and play an I Spy game with this fun sensory bin; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

a childs hand holding a toy tractor on top of white paper covered in mud

Tractor Mud Painting Process Art Project

This fun tractor process art project uses mud to paint tracks for a harvest or farm theme in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom.

Thanksgiving Play Ideas for preschoolers

20+ Thanksgiving Ideas for Preschoolers

Over 20 ideas for activities to engage kids in learning about Thanksgiving traditions for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten

Free Printables for Pre-K and Kindergarten Kids

125 Free Pre-K and Kindergarten Printable Worksheets

More than 125 free printables for Pre-K and Kindergarten. Use these free printables in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom.

paper plates painted as pumpkin pies

Pumpkin Paper Plate Craft

Make a paper plate pumpkin pie craft as an extension for the book I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson.

straw syllable counting

Syllable Counting with Straws

Build phonological awareness skills as you play this syllable counting game with familiar objects; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten

12 Veterans Day Preschool Crafts And Activities

Veterans Day ideas to help you guide preschoolers to think about the men and women who have served and are serving our country.