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Activities for Pre-K There are 54 items.
Need simple activities for Pre-K patrons? This collection has a variety of activities to choose from that help support the learning of your younger patrons.
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Walk the Talk
Act silly and walk across a room like a specific animal! This collaborative group activity allows children to see the world from a new perspective, which can spark creativity. 0
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What If? Animals!
Imagine a new creature, and use natural outdoor materials and clay to bring it to life! In this group activity, children flex their creative thinking and storytelling skills to create an animal and share it with others. Creating imaginary worlds can be predictive of creative potential. 0
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Locomotion Commotion
Create a work of art using unconventional painting tools such as toy cars and wheels. Children dip toy cars and wheels into various colors of paint and roll them over a large sheet of white paper to create the base for the artwork. This activity helps children practice flexible thinking skills. 0
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Roll on Through
Design, build, and test a ramp using cardboard and other household materials. Create a pathway for round objects to roll down the cardboard ramp. Incorporate the floor, stairs, countertops, or furniture into the ramp design. This activity helps children develop flexible thinking skills. 0
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Popsicle Stick Puzzle
Make a handmade puzzle using popsicle sticks, masking tape, paint, and markers. This activity helps children develop creative thinking skills through pattern recognition. 0
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How Slow Can You Go?
Compete in a slow race! Investigate how a toy car moves over different surfaces. Find the texture that creates the most friction and causes the toy car to travel the slowest down a ramp. This activity helps children learn flexibility and creative thinking skills. 0
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Nature Wristbands
Go on a nature walk and collect materials to create a wristband! On an outdoor walk, look for items that have fallen to the ground like leaves, flower petals, and sand to design and decorate the wristband. This activity helps children practice the act of discovery, an outlet that leads to creativity. 0
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Youth Gardens
Work as a team to design and plant a community garden! Research which types of plants grow best in your area and climate, then find a location to start a community garden. As a group, design and plant the garden and make a plan to keep it growing. This activity helps children work collaboratively and think creatively over the long term. 0
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Little Coders: Plugged In
This suite of activities uses Cubettos (https://www.primotoys.com/) to teach basic coding and computational thinking skills to preschoolers and their families 0
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Quiet Block Building Challenge
Patrons build computational thinking skills through play by recognizing patterns and building a tower out of shapes 0
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STEM Four Step Sequencing
This coloring worksheet allows young patrons to develop a computational thinking skill, "sequencing," by drawing the different steps of a process; Passive Programming 0
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Tangram Rocket
Participants play a game together to create a large rocket made from geometric shapes, or tangrams 0
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