House-Themed Activities for Preschool Age Kids
Preschoolers should already know what home is all about: it's the only place most people see every day, the one where the family rests and regroups every night. But there's more to learn about the typical house. Involve preschool-age children in house-themed activities to help them learn more about how their homes are built and what goes inside them.
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Home Puzzle
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Puzzles help children learn problem-solving skills, patience and precise motor skills. Use a picture of the child's home to create a puzzle she'll cherish. Place glue over the entire back of the picture, which should be as large as you can print. Lay the picture over a section of thick cardboard, and use a clean paint roller to remove any bubbles and to fully adhere the glue. Allow it to dry fully, cut out the picture in a gridded pattern and toss the pieces into a pile that you and your preschooler can assemble together.
Fill Them In
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Everyone's home is distinct in some way, particularly the way it's painted. You can use the Internet to find and print images of houses for children to color, since preschoolers won't usually be able to draw yet. Have them use crayons to mimic the way they see their own houses. Encourage them to add trees, flowers, people or pets in the windows or outside. Along the way, you can reinforce the vocabulary of the home.
Craft Collage
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Before children enter kindergarten, you can help them have a firm grasp of colors and shapes. One house-themed project requires you to cut out common shapes such as squares, rectangles, circles and triangles of different sizes and colors. Using a glue stick, help your preschool-age child assemble the shapes into houses. For instance, a large square or rectangle is the house, a large triangle is the roof, small squares form the windows and a small rectangle and triangle can make a tree. Read your child the book "The Shape of Things," by Dayle Ann Dodds, which follows this theme.
Bigger, Better
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You can help your preschooler take his understanding and expression of home to another level of engineering or artistry. At the Enchanted Learning website, you can find detailed plans for homemade houses, from tepees and log cabins to cardboard boxes turned into castles or cottages. Have the child collect throw-away items from around the house, and glue them to construction paper. Post the collage inside his new cardboard kingdom, as the home's first proper decoration.
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