Below you can find tons of fun and engaging All About Me Preschool Activities! Pick and choose the activities for your lesson or download a free copy of our All About Me Preschool Lesson Plan to save time!
Use this roll & play activity as a fun way to create a face collage. These materials are included our Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack .
Invite your preschooler to create a skeleton craft after reading the fun book Dem Bones by Bob Barner. Download this free printable here.
Invite your preschoolers to use cotton swabs to create art. Painting with cotton swabs is fun and also great for fine motor development.
This is a process art invitation and simple to set up. Simply provide something to paint on, cotton swabs, and paint!
Consider supplying white school glue so children can glue the cotton swabs on the paper as well!
Have the child make a self portrait. Compare from beginning to end of the year, or try a monthly self portrait.
Play various types of music, the children can dance, sing. Take a moment to ask the children to describe the type of emotions they felt after hearing the music
Create a mirror. Cut out mirror shape from cardboard. Attach Oval Foil Mirror to cardboard with glue and decorate with stickers or jewels.
This process tutorial is a simple way to explore painting with new materials and letting preschoolers explore with mirrors!
Find all the details on our Make Your Own Foil Mirror blog post.
Take a zoomed in photo of your student (if possible avoid photographing the top of their hair-bangs are ok). Cut the top of the image flat. Laminate for extra durability. Attach the image onto a plastic cup using double sided tape, add holes for drainage. Place a second cup on the outside to protect the image, and to allow room for drainage. Fill with potting soil and grass seeds. Have your student take care of their grass by watering it, clipping the "hair". Keep it in a sunny spot, and drain often.
Play Dough People from Picklebums
Body Awareness Art from Growing Play
Picasso Cubism by Wendy Janelle
Fingerprint Exploration from Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
X-Ray Art from Totally Tots
Sticky Easel Faces from No Time For Flashcards
This is a great week to transform your Dramatic Play Space into a Doctors Office. Add a variety of Doctor Forms, Lab Coats, Pretend Play Doctor toys. Create a waiting area with chairs, and magazines and a reception area. Our Doctor Dramatic Play pack includes all the props you'll need to easily transform your space.
Community Member Jamie Lynn with Play to Learn Childcare contributed this photo of her Doctor Dramatic Play invitation.
Adding baby dolls and a variety of pretend doctor toys is a great way for children to practice what they have learned about staying healthy.
Create an optometrist office by using props such as pretend glasses, clipboards for forms, printable alphabet cards in pyramid formations, a doctor kit, toy phone, magazines and books for the waiting room.
Set up a grocery store with a variety of play food for students to choose from. Students can practice making healthy choices for their body.
Our Grocery Store Dramatic Play pack has all the signs you need to easily set up this invitation to play.
Set up the dramatic play area like a home with a table, kitchen, bathroom area, livingroom area. Invite children to act out their daily routines.
Have children create paper bag puppets of themselves and then put on shows for their classmates so they can each learn more about each other.
Print pictures of the children and tape to blocks (or boxes) for block play.
Including images of family members, teachers, and familiar buildings is great for added engagement.
Add a variety of human play figures to your construction/small world play space this week.
Encourage children to build people using blocks or a wellness center for the play figurines.
Challenge children to use blocks to trace one another. One child will lay on the ground, then the others build around them to create an outline of their body.
Encourage children to build their own houses in the block area, try adding pictures of their houses to the block center for inspiration. Pair with the homemade student blocks for added engagement.
Measure each child's height and mark it on the wall in the building center with painter's tape labeled with their name. Have them find their name and use different materials to build a tower as tall as themselves!
This puzzle incorporates math, literacy, and fine motor all in one!
This is an engaging activity for young children working on problem-solving and/or learning number sight words. This activity is included in the Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack.
There are so many fascinating things to see when visiting the doctor.
Use these cards as a flip and find activity or hide the pieces around the room for even more engagement, then mark on the doctor's office mat when they are found. This activity is included in the Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack.
This theme is a fun time to celebrate every child's favorite word. their name!
Set out a variety of options for cutting out letters such as magazines, card stock, stickers, sand paper. the more the better!
Children can create their name using the materials and then hang on their bedroom door or cubby.
Find more resources and ideas for name recognition on our blog post Learning Objective: Name Recognition
Invite children to create a book all about themselves!
For each book you will need a piece of colored paper and several sheets of white paper, fold them all in half with the colored paper on the outside of the fold, then staple at the folded edge to hold them together. Alternatively you can purchase blank books.
For this book children can use a combination of drawings and photos.
Encourage children to write about their favorite toys, people in their family, favorite colors, foods, friends, and activities.
Include a space for children to write their name (even if they are in the scribbling stage) for reference at the end of the year. Children not yet writing can dictate to an adult to add descriptions to the images.
During group time invite children to share a few pages from their book.
Have the child use magnetic letters to build their name,
you can differentiate by providing a letter name strip if needed or our Free Bubble Name Practice activity.
