Bookmark this awesome list of free Pre-K worksheets, puzzles, and games to engage the 6-and-under crowd at home or in the classroom!

The activities in this post are great to use while in your homeschool, classroom, or digital learning program. 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. Of course, you can use them anytime of year in the home or classroom, too!

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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Chalk Art Project: Letter W

We are working on the letter Ww this week, so we decided to do a fun (and a tad messy) chalk art project. The good news is, it takes only seconds to wipe up a chalk mess off of a smooth surface! Promise!

Materials You’ll Need For This Activity: 

• black (construction) paper
• painter’s tape 
• chalk

Directions:

Step One:  Tape off the letter you wish to make.

Step Two: Color in all the black areas with chalk. 

Students can use one color or different colors for each black area. They can even layer and swirl them. Ombré, anyone?

Make sure you don’t leave any spot uncovered!

Step Three: Very slowly, peel off the tape. Voilá! What’s left is the letter you taped off!

Color Work

We started working on color work yesterday with a simple matching activity where we matched colored raindrops to a colored cloud.

Materials You’ll Need For These Activities: 

• Pre-K worksheets: DOWNLOAD RAINDROP ACTIVITY (free)
• Pre-K worksheets: DOWNLOAD COLOR RED WORKSHEET (free)
• cardstock
• scissors
• crayons, colored pencils, or markers
• laminator (optional)

Directions: 

Today, we followed up that activity by matching color words and colors. This was a bit more challenging since they don’t know how to read yet, so I put the color names above the rainbow arc.

I decided we’d focus on RED for the remainder of the week, so we did a little activity sheet, too.

DOWNLOAD RAINDROP ACTIVITY (free)

DOWNLOAD COLOR RED WORKSHEET (free)

Both of these activities are part of a bigger color-themed resource that includes multiple activities (including the rainbow arcs) and all colors. Purchase Color Me Kindergarten.

ABC Hide-n-Seek with Food Labels

Next, we finished up the ABC Hide-n-Seek activity we started yesterday. When they sat down to work, they knew just what to do. #proudmom I explained how this activity works in this post, which is also where you’ll find the printable.

Simple Puzzles

After working on simple puzzles yesterday, I knew that they needed some more practice with this skill. I don’t think puzzles get enough credit, but they’re so great for teaching problem-solving skills, logic, and visual acuity,

Materials You’ll Need For These Activities: 

• Pre-K worksheets: DOWNLOAD CAKE AND AIRPLANE PUZZLES (FREE)
• cardstock
• scissors
• crayons, colored pencils, or markers

Directions:

Instead of just giving them the puzzle strips alone to piece together, I pasted a grayscale template to a piece of construction paper. This served as a guide to help them match the pieces in the correct sequence. However, they still had to manipulate them so that they matched, so it still wasn’t super easy.

I also let them choose their own pictures today, and taking ownership of an activity is always motivating!

STEM Activities with Food Containers

This was by far their favorite activity today, so take note: I bet your kids would love it, too! But first, you need to accumulate several (8-10) plastic containers that can easily be stacked (i.e. formula containers, plastic protein jars, coffee cans, etc. ).

Materials You’ll Need For These Activities: 

• empty containers of different sizes

Directions:

FIRST, take the lids off and have them match the lids. We had a variety of snap and twist lids, which require different fine motor skills to put back on their containers.

SECOND, they arranged the containers from small to large. This took a little help from me since some of the container size differences were subtle.

But, we worked through it and I showed them how to tell which one was bigger/smaller. Faith was feeling very accomplished.

THIRD, I asked them to make a stack of ALL of the containers. I loved seeing them fail and quickly realize the original plan was not going to work.

In the end, they had a tower of container that stood on its own!

LASTLY, and probably why they enjoyed this so much, was because I told them to take turns rebuilding and knocking it down. THEY LOVED THIS. And, of course, it was hysterical to observe the different “styles” of knocking down they’d try each time. (Tip: take a video in slow motion. SO FUNNY!)

Sight Word Sentence Builder

After so much fun, it took some intense motivation to finish out the day. Insert: Cheez-Its.

Materials You’ll Need For These Activities: 

• Pre-K worksheets: DOWNLOAD ‘THE’ SENTENCE BUILDER (FREE)
• cardstock
• scissors or paper cutter
• desktop pocket chart (optional)
• pointer sticks

We’ve been working on the word THE, so their job was to repeat and read the sentence. Tomorrow, I will cut the sentence apart and we will rebuild it and read them together. Such a simple way to make good use of one activity! DOWNLOAD ‘THE’ SENTENCE BUILDER

Need more?

If you’re a parent or teacher looking to do more at home or your classroom, you might enjoy this set of activities! I hope you’ll use these free pre-k worksheets, puzzles, games and activities in your home or classroom.

If you do something at home or in your classroom, please share it by tagging me @babblingabby on Instagram!