Most preschoolers will enjoy finger painting.
Crafts help preschoolers build fine motor skills and learn hand-to-eye coordination. Teach your preschoolers express their creativity and imagination through crafts. The children can work on their own crafts while watching others do crafts to get new ideas. Preschoolers can also create small crafts individually that they can put together to make one large craft for the classroom.
Scissor Crafts
Your preschoolers can experiment with child-safe scissors while making crafts. Give the children several pieces of construction paper and have them cut different shapes out of the paper. After they have several shapes, have them glue the pieces onto another sheet of construction paper to make a collage. Young children can also use scissors to make a straw necklace. Have the children cut a drinking straw into 1-inch pieces and string the pieces of straw onto a piece of yarn to make a necklace. They can color the straw pieces with markers or add stickers to the pieces for decoration.
Alphabet Crafts
Print large letter coloring pages and let the children color each letter. Help preschoolers use alphabet cereal to spell out their names and glue the letters on sheets of paper. Let them use stamps, stickers, colors and markers to decorate the paper. To work as a group, lay a large piece of butcher paper on the ground. Write the name of each preschooler on the butcher paper so the children work together to place the cereal letters on top of the letter of each child's name. Alphabet noodles are a sturdy alternative to cereal.
Play-Doh Crafts
Have the preschoolers sit around a table and give each child a small tub of Play-doh. Tell the preschoolers to make their own snake by rolling the Play-doh into a long rope. After the children have their individual snakes, have the children combine their snakes together to make one large snake. Experiment with another shape. Tell the children roll the Play-doh into balls and see how many Play-doh balls they can stack on top of one another. Encourage children to use their imagination and creativity to mold an animal or object.
Group Painting
Ask preschoolers create a self-portrait with finger paints. After the children finish their own pictures, have them stand around a large sheet of white butcher paper to create a group picture. Each child can choose an element to add such as a house, chimney, flower or sun.
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