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These fun activities for preschoolers are expert-approved and perfect to try with kids at home, in the backyard and even on the go.

As children grow from toddlers into veteran preschoolers, their ability to engage in more advanced activities and play with others increases big time — and that makes for big fun!

While kids in this age group may not quite be ready for board games and Harry Potter, there are a number of activities for preschoolers that help with skill honing (fine, motor and social), while keeping things fun, engaging and — it needs to be said here — adorable.

Looking for fun activities for preschoolers? Here are 101 things to do with little ones, including suggestions provided by Dr. Amanda Gummer, an expert on child play and the founder of the Good Play Guide, and Dr. Scott Carroll, an academic child psychiatrist:

1. Create a bubble painting.
2. Craft a story together.
3. Dig in the dirt.
4. Bag leaves together.
5. Create a marble painting.
6. Bake together.
7. Fold towels.
8. Make an obstacle course.
9. Play a rhyming game.
10. Build a house of cups.
11. Go on a walking tour of your city.
12. Play dress-up.
13. Make a path of pillows to use as stepping stones.
14. Write a book.
15. Make a snow dollhouse.
16. Volunteer.
17. Play I Spy with colors.
18. Draw pictures in chalk on the sidewalk.
19. Make a popsicle-stick craft.
20. Play Simon Says with the whole family.
21. Turn a large box into a playhouse.
22. Play Red Light, Green Light.
23. Complete a connect-the-dots picture.
24. Go fishing using kitchen magnets.
25. Lie on your back outside and find pictures in the clouds.
26. Make a leaf collage.
27. Make a musical parade.
28. Craft with clay.
29. Make a bird feeder.
30. Build a snow city.
31. Play Finger Twister.
32. Make a cereal necklace.
33. Play Freeze Tag.
34. Do a puzzle.
35. Jump rope or hula-hoop.
36. Play Hide and Seek.
37. Play tag.
38. Build a city out of toys.
39. Make a tea party.
40. Play Go Fish.
41. Build a fort with a blanket, some pillows and durable furniture.
42. Put on a sock-puppet play.
43. Dress up your child as a superhero — you play the bad guy.
44. Explore outdoors with a magnifying glass.
45. Play catch with a balloon.
46. Kick a ball into a goal.
47. Make cute animals from clothespins.
48. Sort leaves by color and size.
49. Make an acorn collection.
50. Spread hummus on a rice cake and make a face out of vegetable pieces.
51. Practice tumbling.
52. Challenge your child to identify items by smell.
53. Pretend to go on an African safari.
54. Play hopscotch.
55. Make “stained glass” with tissue paper and clear contact paper.
56. Build a dollhouse out of shoeboxes.
57. Bowl using empty soda bottles as pins.
58. Play charades together.
59. Create a collage from old magazines.
60. Pop balloons with your body.
61. Sort coins.
62. Trace yourselves on butcher paper and decorate.
63. Go on an outdoor scavenger hunt.
64. Make a car wash for riding toys.
65. Plant a seed and watch it grow.
66. Sort things by colors.
67. Jump rope.
68. Create a spider web with glue-coated spaghetti.
69. Race pompoms by blowing them with a straw.
70. Make paper-bag masks and decorate them.
71. Play Follow the Leader.
72. Set up and play some sensory activities.
73. Pretend to be firefighters.
74. Fly a kite.
75. Make a volcano out of baking soda, vinegar and red food coloring.
76. Make sushi together.
77. Decorate umbrellas with foam shapes.
78. Build a structure from marshmallows and toothpicks.
79. Use different objects (like a wire coat hanger) to make soap bubbles.
80. Play “What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?”
81. Let your child “read” you a storybook by looking at the pictures.
82. Play doctor.
83. Make art with pinecones.
84. Polish each other’s nails.
85. Make hand shadows.
86. Exercise with a yoga video together.
87. Play a simple version of Pictionary.
88. Make a paper-bag puppet.
89. Keep a balloon in the air as long as possible.
90. Try these activities for preschoolers that prep them for school.
91. Cut snowflakes from folded paper and decorate them.
92. Play a matching game with photos of family members.
93. Have a picnic lunch.
94. Call out words and challenge your child to think of rhymes for each one.
95. Let your child scrub carrots or potatoes for dinner.
96. Use cooking tools to play with water.
97. Copy each other’s rhythms on a toy drum.
98. Tilt a cookie sheet on a stack of books to make a slide for toy cars.
99. Crawl under a sheet and pretend you’re lost in a cave.
100. Race to find the biggest rock or leaf.
101. Make fruit kebabs.

When planning fun activities for preschoolers, the biggest thing is joining in and letting them “take charge,” according to Carroll. So flop down on the carpet, and try one of these things to do with preschoolers. You’ll have a blast — and your child will too!

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Fun Activities for Preschoolers – Messy Little Monster

Preschoolers are active, curious little people who love playing and exploring the world around them. If you’re looking for some activities for preschoolers that will keep them engaged, happy, and interested in learning, you’ve come to the right place. 

We’ve put together an excellent list of preschool activities that encourage the development of fine motor skills, colour recognition, letter recognition, counting, simple addition, and so much more. But mainly, the activities for preschoolers we have included are super fun! 

With 33+ options listed below, you can fill this month’s calendar with an array of play-based learning activities. Let’s get started!

Activities for Preschoolers

We have loads of activities for preschoolers right here at Messy Little Monster for you to search through. We’ve covered indoor activities, outdoor activities, sensory activities, learning through play, and more! Check out just some of our favourites below.

Rainbow Rice Sensory Writing Tray

Our Sensory Writing Activity is a fun way to get preschoolers more comfortable with writing. Work on the formation of letters and numbers. Kids can use paintbrushes or their fingers to form their letters.

Feed the Shark Colour Game for Preschoolers

Learning through play is so important when looking for activities for preschooler, and that’s clearly the goal with our fun Feed the Shark Colour Matching Game. Use our printable to set up this cute game in no time. The kids will love feeding the sharks again and again. You can play this a couple of different ways. Kids can feed fish to the matching colour shark. Alternatively, you can call out something like, “Feed a red fish to a green shark,” once the kids are comfortable with the colour names.

Dinosaur Sensory Bin

Any dino-loving kid will have a blast with our Dinosaur Sensory Bin. It’s incredibly easy to make and the perfect preschool activity. Grab some of your child’s dinosaur toys, some small rocks or pebbles, sand, sticks, leaves, etc., and put them in a bin for your child to explore. If you don’t have sand, cornmeal would have an interesting feel and similar look to sand, and you probably have some in your kitchen right now!

You might also like to search through our collection of sensory bins, many of which make fantastic preschool activities. We have loads of themes, from construction to seasonal to animals!

Germ Science Experiment for Preshoolers

Now, more than ever, we need to teach our kids about the importance of handwashing. This Germ Science Experiment demonstrates how soap keeps germs away.

If you have preschoolers that love experiments check out our list of Science Experiments for Kids. There are LOADS of easy science activities that are perfect for preschoolers. 

Ocean Animal Movement Cards

Get the kids moving with our Ocean Animal Movement Cards. Scuttle like a crab, glide like a stingray, wiggle like an octopus, and so much more! You’ll love hearing their little giggles as they try to mimic the movements of ocean animals.

Community Helpers Preschool Craft

Crafts are always fun for preschoolers! Teach them about the world around them with our Community Helpers Preschool Craft. 

Superhero Mask Craft for Preschoolers

Another fun craft for preschoolers is making a DIY Superhero Mask. Preschoolers will love making their own masks and then taking on the role of a superhero. What will their superpowers be?!

Colours of Nature Scavenger Hunt

Using this Colours of Nature Hunt Sheet is another excellent way to practice colour identification. It’s the perfect activity for a sunny day!

Sunflower Growing Activity for Preschoolers

Another great preschool activity for the warmer months is growing sunflowers in pots! As sunflowers are fast-growing they are the perfect plant for preschoolers to grow. They will love observing how the plant changes from week to week. 

Alphabet Roads Preschool Activity

Learning through play is the best way for preschoolers to grasp foundational skills like writing. Use our Alphabet Roads printables to practice letter recognition and letter formation in a fun and engaging way.

Paint Rolling Activity for Preschoolers

Sometimes, it’s fun to get messy. Head outdoors to your slide to try this activity. Painting with Balls on a slide allows kids to play and experiment with colours to create art. When you’re done, you could even turn this into homemade wrapping paper for gifts.

Water Pistol Painting

Here’s a fun outdoor art activity that’s perfect for summer. Water Gun Painting is a blast for the kids, and it’s a win for moms, too, as you can create some amazing wall-worthy artwork using this technique.

Indoor Color Hunt Activity for Preschoolers

Here’s another Colour Hunt that includes both indoor and outdoor options. They’re both terrific for kids who are just learning their colours.

We have lots more Scavenger Hunts for Kids that preschoolers would enjoy!

Bird Counting Activity for Preschoolers

Mix up a batch of playdough and use it to make bird eggs in this Bird Counting Activity for Preschoolers. We have the nest images ready for you to print out, which makes setting up this preschool math activity super easy. 

Skeleton Playdough Activity for Preschoolers

Kids will get a kick out of this Skeleton Playdough Activity. Use cookie cutters to cut out people figures, and use q-tips as bones. Fun! Grab our skeleton printables to make it even more fun and educational!

Playdough for Preschoolers 

If your preschooler loves playdough check out our huge list of playdough recipes.  

More Fun Preschool Activities

Need even more preschool activity ideas? Here are some of our favourite preschooler activities from terrific blogs around the web.

Lego Color Sorting Activity for Preschoolers

Your preschooler will love playing this Lego Color Sorting Toss game from Bilingual Beginnings again and again. Sorting is terrific for reinforcing colour recognition.

Stem Playdough Activity for Preschoolers

This easy-to-set-up Stem Playdough Activity by Teaching 2 and 3-Year-Olds is great for both toddlers and preschoolers. Using three simple materials, kids can work on their building and balancing skills.

Heart Pump Model

Team Cartwright’s Heart Pump Model activity is a terrific way for preschoolers to learn about how the heart pumps blood. Because it is a simplified model that focuses on one aspect of the heart’s activity, it’s easy for little ones to grasp.

Apple Experiment for Preschoolers

This Apple Experiment by From Engineer to Stay at Home Mom is a classic. Cut an apple into slices, and put the slices into different jars. One jar should have nothing but air in it, as this will serve as the control slice. Put the others in whatever liquids you have on hand—juice, milk, water, vinegar, soda, etc. Observe the differences in them the next day!

Math Game for Preschoolers

Use Artsy-Fartsy Mama’s Math Game for Preschoolers to practice simple addition with your preschooler. It’s a fun (and tasty) hands-on way to learn about addition. This is fun in a classroom or at home!

Ocean Science Activity for Preschoolers

Summertime is the perfect time for ocean-themed activities like this Ocean Science Activity from Natural Beach Living that explores density while simulating the ocean environment. The jar is layered with sand, water, oil, and shaving cream to represent the sand on the beach, the water, the sky, and the clouds. How fun!

Alphabet Playdough Mats

Whether you’re just introducing letters or are working on reinforcing letters and letter sounds, these Transportation Alphabet Playdough Mats from The Chaos and the Clutter are excellent tools to use with preschoolers.

Ocean Activity for Preschoolers

When you can’t get to the ocean, this Ocean Activity by Simple Everyday Mom is the next best thing. You may want to take this sensory bin outside, though, since it can get rather messy when scooping and playing with sand, particularly wet sand.

Cutting Activity for Preschoolers

This Fine Motor Skills Man (or Woman) from Mama Teaches is terrific for practising cutting. Make funny faces and crazy hair to give each figure a unique look!

Clean Mud Activity for Preschoolers

Give your child permission to tear up toilet paper—really! You’ll be using it to make this Clean Mud by Best Toys 4 Toddlers. With a grater, some soap, toilet paper, and warm water, the kids can be squishing the clean mud through their fingers in no time.

Indoor Birdwatching Preschool Activity

Encourage your little bird enthusiast’s interest in feathered creatures by setting up an Indoor Birdwatching activity when the weather isn’t cooperating for you to head outdoors. Choose a spot in your home with a window that faces some trees, tall grasses, or even a bird feeder. Provide a cushy place to sit, some binoculars, and a bird guide, if you have one.

Ice Cream Store Pretend Play

You don’t need a fancy toy ice cream store for the kids to enjoy this pretend play activity. You already have everything you need for this No-Prep Ice Cream Store by Taming Little Monsters—cups and balls. If you don’t have any toy balls for this activity, use crumpled-up paper, old ornaments (with hooks removed), or even cotton balls or pom-poms glued together. They’ll play with this for hours!

Numbers and Counting Activity for Preschoolers

Practice Numbers and Counting with Straws and toilet roll tubes! This activity from Homeschool Preschool is a simple, hands-on activity for preschool math. It’s a terrific way to use some of those toilet rolls you’ve been saving.

Leaf Threading Fine Motor Activity for Preschoolers

Kids can engage with nature and work on fine motor skills with this fun and easy Leaf Threading activity from Kids’ Craft Room. All you need are leaves, twine, and sticks to get started.

Simon Says Ideas for Preschoolers

Kids seem to never get bored of Simon Says, but you may be running out of commands to give them! Use this printable list of 50 Simon Says Ideas from The Best Ideas for Kids so kids can have fun and get their wiggles out.

Mosaic Art Sensory Wall Preschool Activity

Use contact paper, foam blocks, and pattern blocks to set up this engaging Mosaic Art Sensory Wall by Mama Smiles. If you don’t have the blocks, however, you can set up a similar activity by cutting coloured paper into various geometric shapes to use instead.

Blowing Pom-Poms with Straws

Educate and entertain your preschooler with this activity that focuses on Blowing Pom-Poms with Straws by Mombrite. This activity strengthens oral muscles involved in eating and helps kids with colour recognition, too.

Dinosaur Graphing Activity for Preschoolers

This printable Dinosaur Graphing Activity from Artsy Momma is a play-based learning activity that focuses on simple addition and numerical order. If you don’t have colourful buttons to use as marks, don’t fret. Pennies, dried beans, candies, or anything else you have on hand works, too.

Scissor Skills with Junk Mail

Tired of getting spammy mail in your real-life mailbox? Though receiving it is inevitable, you can put it to good use by allowing your preschooler to practice cutting. Isn’t this Scissor Skills with Junk Mail activity from School Time Snippets brilliant?

Tin Can Golf Activity for Preschoolers

Play a round of Tin Can Golf when you’re stuck indoors! Make sure you use small, lightweight plastic balls for this game from The Craft Train. Make putters out of cardboard tubes! Gift wrap tubes would work great, but paper towel tubes can be used, too.

Sensory Nature Cutting Tray

Sharpen those scissor skills with this Sensory Nature Cutting Tray from Kids’ Craft Room. It’s a great activity to do after a nature walk and encourages kids to get hands-on with nature’s textures, shapes, colours, and smells.

Flower Ice Cube Sensory Play

Pick fresh flowers from the garden to use in this Flower Ice Cube Sensory Play activity from The Craft Train. This activity is perfect for the summer months when the kids need to cool down. 

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86 ideas for leisure activities that all preschoolers will love

Readers thank us for useful texts for schoolchildren, teenagers and parents in self-isolation and ask: what can we offer younger children? We answer your question in this collection, where you can find not only games and crafts, but also cartoons about bacteria, online performances and anatomy lessons for the little ones.

Play and Learn

Sleeve, box, water: the best (and free) toys for kids stuck at home

It is not necessary to buy all the games on the Internet to keep a preschooler busy who has been deprived of outdoor activities for several months. Just look carefully around. It turns out that a toilet paper tube can easily turn into a baby shark (and two into binoculars!), you can build an entire army of minions out of plastic bottles, and build a bath flotilla out of corks. We tell you what else interesting things to do with a preschooler without spending a single ruble.

Read about free toys for preschoolers

12 simple games that the whole family will definitely enjoy

If you can’t walk in the forest, feed ducks and see friends, you can at least draw this whole world! You will need whatman paper or old wallpaper: everyone starts from their own corner – but when it comes to the center, you have to negotiate! You can also play tasting with children: blindfold each other and ask them to guess what they slipped you. Our regular author Ksenia Buksha (and mother of three) shared ideas on how to have fun and useful time with children at home.

Read about games at home for the whole family

4 fun educational games for children from one year old

The activities that Sally Goldberg recommends in her book Fun Educational Games are sure to please all parents in self-isolation. It turns out that at an early preschool age, children really like to imitate what their parents do – including sweeping and vacuuming! In an excerpt from the book, we list what other simple and useful activities can be offered to a child at this age.

Read about simple activities for children aged 0 to 3

5 math problems that can be solved by putting toys away

And another portion of activities to help the parent: put toys away and study math! Ask the child to bring an object, naming its signs: for example, “big red cubes.” And when putting soft toys in a box, invite the children to count them – yes, it’s so simple, but very useful! Our blogger Zhenya Katz, the author of the well-known “Mousematics”, tells how you can clean up the house with your child while solving mathematical problems in parallel.

Read about cleaning toys using mathematics

15 very simple crafts that everyone can do

Stocked up on buckwheat? Great! It (and any other cereal) can not only be eaten for dinner, but also used for children’s creativity: with the help of glue, draw on cardboard the silhouette of a bird, hedgehog or mouse. A wooden clothespin and ice cream sticks will make a great airplane. And an old hoop can easily turn into a beautiful new dream catcher if you use threads, ribbons and various treasures that you find at home.

Read about easy crafts for the little ones

10 console games that even preschoolers can use

If you have a console at home, don’t miss the opportunity to play video games with your kids while everyone is at home. We have collected those that will be mastered by both preschoolers and even parents who are not very good with a joystick. In the game Unravel Two, for example, you need to play as people knitted from yarn and solve different puzzles (how to tie a bridge of threads to get to the other side?). In Overcooked! 2 can be fought in a cooking duel. And Splatoon 2 is very similar to paintball: you need to shoot paint, thus capturing someone else’s territory.

Read about video games for preschoolers and parents

10 apps for preschoolers to have on their phone and and recognize shapes and colors.

In the Toonia Puzzle app, you can collect animated puzzles. And with the help of The Human Body, the child will learn how the human body works. All organs in the application are interactive: the heart beats and the lungs breathe! So you run the risk of getting stuck with the child.

Read about useful apps for preschoolers

Watch and learn

10 cartoons to help preschoolers learn English

How to turn Peppa Pig cartoon into an educational video for your child? Just turn it on in English! In the cartoon series about the family of pigs, the words are repeated many times, and the simplified plot does not distract from the study of vocabulary. What other cartoons in English should be shown to a preschooler, we tell in our selection. With 50 minutes Kids cartoon Dialogues, you can learn the language in the dialogues of your favorite fairy-tale characters, and with Kids Stories, you can devote the entire lesson to one topic (for example, space).

Read about cartoons in English for the little ones

5 short cartoons about bacteria, microbes, viruses and cells

And useful cartoons for preschoolers on a very relevant topic. Why do we wash our hands? What are bacteria and what can they do? What are viruses? These and other questions are answered by the characters of “Smeshariki”, “Fixies” and documentary animated films “PostNauka”. The duration of cartoons is from 3 to 6 minutes, so that the child does not have time to get tired and bored.

Read about science cartoons for preschoolers

9 best children’s performances to watch at home

In isolation, becoming a “cultural” person is even easier than in ordinary life. All you need to do is go to the website of your favorite theater, and the heroes of the performances will come to your home! We have collected cool performances for children that you can watch on the Internet. In the play “Baby and K.”, for example, you can get acquainted with the slender Carlson and the young Freken Bock. And together with the heroes of the production of MTYuZ “Cat’s House” – dance and have fun (don’t miss the online broadcast of the performance this Saturday, April 25!).

Read about online performances for children

“What to do in the summer with preschoolers” | Related article:

WHAT TO DO IN THE SUMMER WITH A PRESCHOOL CHILD.

Summer vacation is the best time to accumulate positive emotional resources for the whole year. Just like an adult, during a vacation, a child dreams of taking a break from classes, the regimen, the requirements of educators and teachers in the summer, to relax and become more independent. Therefore, parents need to make sure that this period is filled with joyful experiences and events.

Developing classes should be carried out only in the form of a game. The child must gain strength and get stronger physically in order to cope with school workloads. Therefore, let him spend more time outdoors in outdoor games. All of them develop coordination, speed of reactions, teach to form a strategy of behavior, especially games with rules.

For the development of fine motor skills, prepare pencils, crayons, coloring books, fun copybooks. You can draw with chalk on a special board, or asphalt. It is necessary to use all types of modeling: from plasticine, dough, clay. If you are in the country, together with your child you can make large castles, fortresses, entire cities with bridges and canals from clay, or play a pottery workshop. It is good to have a sandbox in the summer cottage.

For the development of cognitive interest, arrange thematic travel games on trips or near the dacha, house. For example: we study the plant world. We examine the plants in the garden and in the garden, compare, remember the names and types of vegetables, fruits, flowers, berries, etc. Draw or photograph plants. If you are in the country, follow the process of emergence of plants and fruits from seeds with your child, establish causal relationships from watering, feeding, temperature, etc. keep a diary of observations. Give your child a small garden where he can grow vegetables and flowers himself.

The journey may be by exploration of the surrounding area, with the creation of its plan, or along a predetermined route.

Treasure hunter game: you need to find a hidden surprise on special tracks and on the map, or as a hunter-tracker to find conditional prey by signs. The boys love paramilitary games, such as lightning, with the search and capture of the enemy base and overcoming obstacles. All such games develop attention, the ability to act according to a plan, quick wits.

Provide your child with a set of board games to play in the evening or on a rainy day, alone or with friends. These games can be bought at any toy store. Ordinary checkers and dominoes develop logical thinking well.

The following exercises can be used to train memory, attention and thinking:

Games for the development of thinking

Name it in one word!

Words are read to the child and asked to name them in one word. For example, a fox, a hare, a bear, a wolf are wild animals; lemon, apple, banana, plum – fruits. For older children, you can modify the game by giving a generalizing word and asking them to name specific items related to the generalizing word. Transport – …. Birds – …

Find the extra word!

Read a series of words to your child. Suggest to determine which word is “extra”.

Examples:

Brave, wicked, bold, courageous;

Apple, plum, cucumber, pear;

Milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, bread; Hour. minute, summer, second;

Spoon, plate. pan, bag;

Dress, sweater, hat, shirt;

Soap, broom, toothpaste, shampoo;

Birch, oak. pine, strawberry;

Book, TV, radio, tape recorder.

Answer quickly!

An adult, throwing a ball to a child, names a color; a child, returning the ball, must quickly name an object of this color. You can name not only color, but also any quality (taste, shape) of an object.

Ask the child to name as many words as possible for a concept.

– name the words denoting trees; shrubs; flowers; vegetables; fruits.

– name the words related to sports.

– name the words for animals; pets; ground transport; air Transport.

Say the opposite!

Offer the child the game “I will say the word. and you also say, just the opposite, for example, big – small. You can use the following pairs of words: cheerful – sad, fast – slow, empty – full, smart – stupid. industrious – lazy, strong – weak, heavy – light, cowardly – brave, white – black, hard – soft, rough – smooth, etc.

It happens – it doesn’t happen!

Name a situation and throw a ball to the child. The child must catch the ball in the event that the named situation happens, and if not, then the ball must be hit. You can offer different situations: dad went to work; the train flies through the sky; the cat wants to eat; the postman brought a letter; salted apple; the house went for a walk; glass shoes, etc.

The speed of thinking!

Invite the child to play the following game: you will start the word, and he will finish it. “Guess what I want to say!” A total of 10 syllables are proposed: PO. ON, FOR. MI. MU, DO. CH, PRY, KU. ZO.”

If the child completes the task quickly and easily, ask him to come up with not just one word, but as many as he can. Fix not only the correctness of the answers, but also the time, which is an indicator of the speed of thought processes, ingenuity, and speech activity.

Item comparison!

The child must imagine what he will compare. Ask him questions: “Have you seen a fly? But a butterfly?” After such questions about each word, offer to compare them. Again ask questions: “Are a fly and a butterfly similar or not? How are they similar? And how are they different from each other?”

Children especially find it difficult to find similarities. A child of 6-7 years old should correctly make a comparison: highlight similarities and differences, moreover, according to essential features.

Word pairs for comparison: fly and butterfly; house and hut: table and chair; a book and a notebook; water and milk; ax and hammer; piano and violin; prank and fight; city ​​and village.

Guess from the description!

An adult offers to guess what (what vegetable, animal, toy) he is talking about and gives a description of this object.

Example: This is a vegetable. It is red, round, juicy (Answer: tomato).

If the child finds it difficult to answer, pictures with various vegetables are laid out in front of him, and he finds the right one.

Who will be who?

The facilitator shows or names objects and phenomena, and the child must answer the question of how they will change, who they will be. Who (what) will be: an egg, a chicken, an acorn, a seed, a caterpillar, an egg, flour, a wooden board, iron, bricks, fabric, leather, day, student, sick, weak, summer, etc.

There may be more than one answer to the same question. It is necessary to encourage the child for several answers to the question.