5.04.2020

{Summer Fun} Preschool Unit...

Can you believe that summer is almost here?!  We are going to do some fun activities to get us ready for summer!   I'd love to hear what you love to do in the summer.  I love to travel and spend lots of time with family!

Bible Story – This week we are talking about Joshua and the wall of Jericho.  In the Google doc you will find a coloring page, bible story, discussion questions, building activity and a game!  Here is a video of the bible story you can watch with your kiddos.  Also, there is a Veggie Tale episode of Joshua that is longer if you are interested!


Picnic plate – Give your child a white paper plate or cut a large circle out of white paper if you don’t have any paper plates.  Then guide them to draw a picnic lunch on the plate.  Draw an apple (red circle, with a line stem), sandwich (brown square) and baby carrots (orange ovals or triangles). 

Block letter initial – Draw or print a large block letter of your child’s first name.  Then have your child fill it in.  They can color it in with markers, crayons, dot markers, watercolor OR use stickers, rip and glue paper, etc.

Color sort – If you have play food, let your child sort it by color.  If you don’t have play food, you can use blocks, cars, buttons, lids, etc.  Draw 6 circles on the rainbow colors of paper (or however many different colored items you have for sorting) and have your child cut them out.  Then have them sort the colorful items you gathered onto the matching color circle.
 
Have a picnic – Make a special lunch or dinner and have a picnic with your family.  Take a blanket outside if it’s nice or have it inside!  My daughter always thought it was fun when I made a food board and had a picnic in the house!

Donut – Let’s make a donut!  Print this donut template.  Then fold in half, directly in the middle of the donut.  This will make it easy for your child to cut it, inside and out.  Then open the donut and have your child color it.  You can also have them paint on some icing, even glue on sprinkles (real or paper).  You can adapt it to the supplies you have and what you want your child to use.   

image from Pinterest

Which Has More? – Print this activity and cut apart.  Then have your child count the sprinkles on each set of 2 donuts.  Have them tell you which one has more sprinkles.  They can even clip a clothespin on the one that has more or just point to it. 

Donut matching – This is a game on abcya.com where the child is asked to pick which donuts are the same or which ones are different. 

Fine motor – Thread fruit loops or other holed cereal onto spaghetti stuck into play dough.

Shape search – Print the worksheet and have your kids find all the triangles in the beach picture, coloring each one.

What to wear? – Print the worksheet and have your child circle the items they would wear on a trip to the beach.  (If you slide the paper in a gallon Ziploc bag or page protector they can use a dry erase marker.  Then they can do this activity multiple times, even changing to what you would pack for a winter trip.)


Coloring pages – Chose as many of these coloring pages as you’d like.  You can use different mediums if you choose to do them all.  Use crayons on one, watercolor one, use markers on one, etc.  Page 1…Swimming fun, page 2…BBQ grilling, page 3…Dog in the pool, page 4…beach volleyball

Sidewalk chalkThis website has so many fun ideas from chalk ice cubes to foam paint to spray paint!

Ice cube transfer – You just need two containers, ice, water and a large spoon!  Kids have so much fun, scooping the ice cubes and transferring them to the water and back. 

Fizzy Rainbow Science – If you have baking soda and vinegar you can do this activity.    Give your kids a tray of baking soda and let them explore it first, smell it, touch it, draw shapes in it.  Then let them drop the vinegar/color mixture in and see what happens!  Using a medicine dropper is great fine motor activity.


Flip flop balloon pop - We have done something similar before where you blow up a balloon and have your child try to keep it in the air.  This time I want them to hold a flip flop and keep the balloon bouncing up in the air.  

Books
If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Numeroff
Please Mr. Panda by Steve Antony
And Then Comes Summer by Tom Brenner

Songs

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