Looking for easy preschool activities to do at home? This post is for you! Here are several free activities to support early childhood education.

As a certified K-5 educator who taught kindergarten and first grade, I am sharing what we did in our home to stay on top of curriculum while quarantined at home. But these excellent activities are always valuable and you can use them anytime of year in the home or classroom!

PLEASE NOTE: Life is busy as a work-at-home / stay-at-home/ homeschooling mama right now, so my directions here will be brief! Please follow me on Instagram @babblingabby where I will be sharing my daily activities and saving them in a story highlight!

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Easy Preschool Activities

There are many simple preschool activities that you can do at home to help your child learn and grow. And you probably already have all the supplies you need!

Supplies You May Need for These Activities:

• printed activity pages (linked below in each activity description)
• cardstock
• colored printer paper
• salt
• small container (for the salt writing)
• dot markers
• markers
• black (construction) paper
• scissors
• painter’s tape 
• pointer sticks
• stickers
• toilet paper!

Worm Craft

Since we’re working on Ww this week, a cute little worm craft seemed fitting. Additionally, it was a great way to fit in some scissor skills. (See our craft from last week: HOMESCHOOL ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOL!)

To complete this activity: DOWNLOAD WORM CRAFT.

Dot the Letter of the Week

Since we picked up where my kids’ preschool teachers left off, they’re currently on letter Ww. First, they practiced writing in salt trays again. Definitely a favorite activity. And, though the salt can get all over, it’s super easy to vacuum!

Afterwards, we did a simple dot-the-letter page and practiced writing the letter. You can get your free printable copy when you DOWNLOAD DOT-THE-W.

This activity is part of a set of twenty activities to use when teaching the letter W. (If you are a teacher looking for an alphabet curriculum, check this out.)

Simple Puzzle for Preschoolers

Sticking to the Letter of the Week theme, we assembled a simple puzzle. They required a little help with this, but I thought it was so good for them to work through the challenge. We will definitely be doing more!

You can get your free printable copy when you DOWNLOAD WHALE AND WATERMELON PUZZLE.

Painter’s Tape Trail

Since we’re stuck inside and it’s still cold and gloomy often, we dedicated our unfurnished formal dining room to four square and a tape trail!

This picture is awkward because I’m shooting from the landing of my stairs, but all the green tape is a trail for them to follow. They walk heel-to-heel, jump, tip-toe, jump with feet out and in, and finish with hopscotch! Super easy and inexpensive.

Alphabet Hide-n-Seek with Environmental Print

Environmental print is text that you commonly see in your environment, such as: names of restaurants, brand names on packaging, retail stores, etc. Because this type of print is easily recognized, kids can often ‘read’ it! (Think McDonalds or Chuck E Cheese.) I started cutting out labels from food packaging about a week ago as I threw things out.

I plan to use these for a number of activities, but today we used them for another ABC Hide-n-Seek activity. First, we used pointers to locate letters I called out.

Then, using the same ABC Hide-n-Seek page from yesterday, they’d find letters in the labels and dot them on their sheet.

We only worked on this for about five minutes, so they’ll be able to complete the page tomorrow.

Flick-and-Fill Ten Frame Activity

To wrap up today’s homeschool activities, we worked on more ten frames. I always make the kiddos fill their ten frames full in order to start with ten counters. (Today, our counters were Jujy Fruits…we like counting with candy because #motivating.) Then, they used a spinner to determine how many counters to fill their frame with.

As a follow up, we did the same activity, but filled up the frames with stickers instead. And, they only did two frames today because it was all I knew their attention span could handle.

To complete this activity: DOWNLOAD SPINNERS AND ACTIVITY PAGE

More Fun!

Here’s another fun activity that uses toilet paper to help teach counting, non-standard measurement, and writing numerals. Learn more.

I hope this post was helpful in sharing preschool activities that you can do at home. If you do something at home or in your classroom, please share it by tagging me @babblingabby on Instagram!