While all of us are either on a school break, or spending extra time at home because of the coronavirus outbreak, it’s time to pull out all the stops for our preschoolers at home. We need to keep them learning and moving! Since we can’t go out in to the regular places we enjoy with large groups, it’s time to make learning at home more fun. Here are some easy preschool activities to do while quarantined.
Bubble Bath
This might sound simple, but a bubble bath in the middle of the day can brighten an entire afternoon! After lunch, when your preschooler is starting to get a little wild and won’t take a nap, fill up a warm bath full of lots of bubbles. Let them play mermaid, or pirates, or let them wear goggles and become scuba divers.
Spray the Letter
Use a dry erase marker and write on a glass door or window in your home. Write letters, numbers or draw shapes all over the window. Hand a water gun or a spray gun to your child. Call out the name of the shape, letter, number, etc and let them spray it away with their spray gun.
Hidden Alphabet Puzzle
Most of us have some kind of alphabet puzzle lying around. Take off the pieces and hide them in a sensory bin, or around your home. Let your child pull out one at a time. Practice saying the letter name and sound, and then put the piece on the puzzle.
Road Trip Survival Kit (At Home Version)
This FREE Road Trip Survival Kit includes a lot of activities that can be done at home. The I Spy Game is mostly focused on when you are in the car. Instead, play an imaginary game of going on vacation and talk about seeing each of the items when you are on vacation. The rest can be done at home! Find it below:
Sorting Toys By Color
Pull out your bin of toys, or go in your toy room. Call out a color and let your child find as many toys of that color as you can find. Then, count each toy found, and find out which color has the most toys.
Art Museum
Pull out all art supplies you have in your house. You’ll be surprised when you start digging through your things how much you have. Scraps of wrapping paper, ribbon, glue, glitter, markers, paint, pictures from magazines, etc. Let your child create several large art projects with the supplies you have. Set them around your kitchen table and call it the “art museum.” Then, face time Grandma, Aunt and Uncle, cousins, etc. and walk them through their little museum.
Book Party
I’m hoping that we can spend a lot of time reading together over the next few weeks at home. But, an occasional book party makes things a little extra fun! Let your child collect blankets and pillows from all over the house, and a pile of books. Lay the pillows and blankets down, snuggle in together, and read! There’s something about calling it a “book party” that makes it just that much more exciting.
Fill A Notebook
Pull out or buy a small notebook for your child. Write their name on the front so they feel as if it is their special book. I found this one for $1.50 at my local grocery store (even with all of the shoppers!). Give your child a challenge to fill up every page with letter writing practice, number practice, or fun pictures. Tell them it is their special book and it needs to be their best work. Look through their book together when it is finished.
Obstacle Course
Create an obstacle course in your house out of things you can find around you. A row of pillows to hop from one to the other, painters tape laid down in zig zagged lines to walk on, a rope to try and balance on and not touch the floor, boxes to jump over, etc. Create the course and see how many times you can go from one end to the other.
Printable Resources
If you are looking for easy print and use activities to do at home, you can find my Emergency preschool activities and printables at the button below. This contains 26 ready to go activities. If you need to send work home with your students before leaving for break, or if you are a parent at home needing more ideas to help your preschooler or kindergarten learning while quarantined, this is the perfect thing for you.