What are fun and / or pre-school aged games? I work in a daycare that does not have many toys or supplies for projects. I know that some finger plays and rhymes, but I would like some help to keep the fun atmosphere and capable of learning. Ideas? Thank you!
My colleague has a game that works well with children of preschool age, is cheap and uses recycled materials.
Collect caps from all sorts of containers, such as water bottles, gallons of milk, etc. intended to collect a bucket full of ice cream between them. Get colors and sizes. This will be the only activity. You can keep track of how many you have and what colors they are. Make a chart, or simply count them every day. It will be good practice in learning numbers and counting.
To play a game with the caps, bucket caps put in the middle of a circle of children. Each child takes a turn rolling a die. When the number is in place, it must, on many caps of the bucket and puts them in front of him. Then it's time for the next person. Go around the circle as many times as you want.
As the children take turns, talk about what is happening.
"Lauren rolled a number five. Aidons his account."
"Look, Ben has a brown cap. There is not a very large number of them. We all have red caps. There are many red caps. "
When the game is finished, ask each child have their caps. Who has more? or to say, "Who has 20 selections? Who has 19 caps? etc. If you do not want a "winner", then forget to mention the amount of caps and counting them by color. "How many blue caps do each of you have? Count your blue caps."
You can put the caps on the scope of each child placed a number of hats in the bucket, or put some color in the bucket.
The good part about this game is that you have no winner or loser, and there is no ending to this specific topic so you can have the game to take as much time as you need it. The game reinforces basic math skills of counting, sorting, more or less. It also reinforces color recognition.
I was a teacher for seven years of preschool. Sometimes I want to take the children on a Nature Walk. I take the children outside and walk around the building and a playground. Each child receives a bag of some sort. We collect different things, rocks, leaves, grass, whatever they can get. We go back and talk about what we met and what makes them different. Talk if it is hard or soft, smooth or rough, etc. It's great for teaching science classes.
You can do arts and crafts. You do not need supplies for this property. There are many project ideas and impressions here: http://www.toddler-net.com/Games_art_cra ...
Make and fly paper airplanes (or paper boats, if you have a swimming pool - small plastic work)
Get 10 plastic bottles and a ball - and you can have a game of bowling.
Posted on May 4, 2010.
