Preschool Rainbow - Activity Central
"Where Early Childhood Teachers Find Ideas"
Preschool education activities and early childhood education lesson plans that give preschool children choices. Ideas for pre-k and kindergarten teachers that enrich classroom curriculum are arranged by theme. Plus easy at home fun preschool activities and games that parents can use to reinforce early learning skills. There's a search function and an opportunity to submit your own preschool activities and early childhood learning ideas. While you're here don't forget to take a peek inside the Members Only Preschool Rainbow Resource Room
Activity Central "A rainbow of preschool education activity plans"
In
the Back to School Theme
you'll find preschool lesson plan ideas, learning activities and songs
for an exciting beginning to the preschool and kindergarten school year.
Take a look at the 2 web pages of the Fall
Activity Theme which has a harvest of preschool curriculum
activities and songs for the Autumn season.
The Outdoor Play Theme includes summer activities that promote the gross motor and observation skills of young children. There's even a few activity plans that will help youngsters create volcanoes.
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The Apple Activity Theme includes counting and graphing lesson plans along with sensory, literacy and fingerplay activities. There are 2 Black & White Printable Coloring Pages available for the Preschool Apple Activity Theme.
- Apple with a Worm
- Apple Dancing
The
Teddy Bear Activity Theme is
filled with literacy, dramatic play and sensory early childhood education
activities. You'll find songs, a puppet, a bulletin board idea and even
a dance for your Teddy Bears.
There are 2 black & White Printable Coloring
Pages available for the Preschool
Teddy Bear Activity Theme.
- Teddy Bear
- Teddy Bears, adult & child
In both the All About Me and My Family Activity Theme there are lots of preschool and kindergarten activities that promote young children's self esteem and self identity. There are Home Connection and Parent Involvement ideas too.
Inside the Preschool Rainbow Resource Room you'll find Friendship Activities with lesson plans about sharing and kindness that help preschool and kindergarten youngsters develop social skills while getting acquainted.
The
Preschool Feelings & Emotions Theme has activity
plans that encourage young children to recognize, verbalize and cope
with their emotions. Adults can help preschool and kindergarten children
understand their feelings of frustration, anger, sadness etc. with the
lesson plans in this preschool activity theme.
Don't forget to take advantage of the reversible Happy/Sad Puppet Printable Pattern Page when you visit the Preschool Feelings & Emotions Activity Theme.
There
is also the If You're Happy
and You Know It Collection of actions songs, rhymes
and activities that help young children learn about their feelings and
emotions inside the Preschool
Rainbow Resource Room.
With the preschool activities in the Blowing Beautiful Bubbles Activity Theme preschool children have fun blowing bubbles and won't know that they are learning about science. In this theme you'll find secret recipes and tips for the biggest and best bubbles along with rhymes. There is also a Black & White Printable Coloring page available for this Bubble Blowing Theme.
- Bubble Bottle
In
the Creepy Crawlers Activity
Theme there are early childhood activities, lesson plans
and ideas about insects, bugs and fuzzy wuzzy creepy crawlers. Cook
and Edible Ant
or Strawberry Ladybug Treat
and show preschool and kindergarten children how snails are able to
maneuver on plants with the Snail Circus Activity.
There are 5 Black & White printable coloring
and pattern pages associated with this Creepy
Crawlers Activity Theme.
- Creepy Crawler Basic Bug
- Ant
- Snail
- Spider
- Ladybug
In the Science Experiment Activity Theme there are science discovery experiences for preschool and kindergarten children that promote the development of bservation and prediction skills as the youngsters explore their environment and actively construct their own knowledge using fun, inexpensive science experiments.
Planting an indoor classroom garden all year-round provides preschool children with lots of science experiences. You'll find activities and ideas for spring, summer, fall and winter, in the Plant Growth Theme.Try Sprouting Seedlings in a ziploc bag or planting an Egg Shell Garden. Sing a few of the songs or create your own classroom Greenhouse Garden and develop a plant growth bulletin board while preschool youngsters become familiar with natural science. There are 4 Printable Coloring / Pattern Pages that help with this Plant Growth Activity Theme.
- Seed Growth and Flower
- Bean Plant
- Plant Growth
- Flower Cross-section
You'll find all these Preschool Activity Themes and 60 more when you join the Preschool Rainbow Resource Room.
How to Choose a Picture Book In this article written exclusively for the Preschool Rainbow, award winning author Ellen Jackson offers advice that early childhood teachers can give to parents about choosing good picture books for preschool children.
Preschool Books Listed by Themes
A pre-k curriculum resource of suggested picture books for early childhood
teachers and parents of young children. With more than 20 lists
of kindergarten and pre-k books for story time and the library areas
of early childhood classrooms.
The Preschool Rhyme Theme Collection is a curriculum resource with tons of finger plays, action poems, songs and nursery rhymes grouped according to early childhood education themes. Rhymes that enhance early learning about insects and bugs, animals, family, transportation, counting, community helpers and so much more!
Animal Activities promotes pre-k and kindergarten learning with literacy, science and dramatic play ideas. Activities for Zoo Themes are here.
Activities for Toddlers has 4 seasons of learning ideas and activity plans for very young preschoolers.
Preschool Activities for a Dinosaur Theme
Lots of early childhood classroom activities for teaching preschool
children about these fascinating reatures.
Alphabet Theme
Preschool children have fun learning the letters of the alphabet when
early childhood teachers use these activity plans and games in their
classrooms.
Counting and Number Theme
Active learning ideas that engage both small and large groups of young
children in the development of counting skills.
The Preschool Links page has informative resource sites for preschool and kindergarten teachers, plus places of interest for both parents and young children.
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