What Are The Various Types Of Kindergarten Activities To Teach Children?

Kindergarten is a place where kids get introduced to the outside world for the first time. It is the place where learning starts. A child can learn plenty of things in the kindergarten, such as writing, painting, cooking, etc., and get an idea about all the activities that they need to carry out in their own lives. In case you are a teacher in a kindergarten and are looking for new productive activities to teach children, you can try these out.

Kindergarten 

Eraser Activity

This activity is not a boring one but involves funny and cute shapes in the form of erasers. You may ask children in the kindergarten to decorate something. You may write a name over a sheet and children have to use it to trace the line. It is also possible to obtain erasers in various sizes and shapes, such as those shaped like alphabets. Children can find this cute and can also be able to tell from their practical experience how the shapes vary from each other.

Sentence Completion

If you wish to teach full sentences to children, you may write easy and small words of a sentence over cups made of plastic. You can ask kids to arrange the same in the proper order. Other than this, you may teach them to fill in the blanks. Write the sentences down over the board, although with words missing there. You have to make some chits of the words that are missing, with some extra ones. Ask them to choose the right words to fill up the blanks.

Drawing Shadow Art

Plenty of children find shadows extremely captivating, but they have no idea of the concept. It is possible that you have observed some children running away from their shadow, fearing that it is a bad thing. You may use the interest of children for drawing attention to their own shadow art. As part of this kindergarten activity, you can teach them some physics regarding light and how the shadow is formed, and they will be engrossed in this activity.

Festival Teaching

Once a festival approaches, you can tell stories regarding festivals and ask children to make cards for the same. And not just cards. Children can use their time to make plenty of things associated with the festival. For instance, they can draw the figure of Santa for the Christmas festival, create Christmas trees from cardboard and use colors to decorate the same. This kindergarten activity will help children know more about the festival, and they can practice craft and art.

Cooking

Where kindergarten cooking activities are concerned, you can teach many things to children that do not need the use of a gas stove, such as:

• Cotton candies
• Batter making
• Drinks

Tree Planting

When you teach children to plant trees, you can make them realize how essential plants are for our health. It can provide them with a sound life lesson. They can realize the how important greenery is and can take an interest in the roping of plants. Kids can also realize how one tree differs from another. It can be a fantastic way for them to experience the environment.

Magnet Cleanup

Teach kids to dump all types of metal items onto tables and make them use magnets for picking up various items and then sort them into various containers. Students can learn the kind of objects that magnets attract and can practice the skills of sorting and classifying.

You can find out a lot about plenty of kindergarten activities as well as pre-school curriculum that can have a big role to play in the mental, emotional and physical development of children.