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Venture into the great outdoors with these exciting outdoor preschool activities! Twenty-four hour cartoon networks and portable video game players oftentimes keep preschoolers indoors and sedentary. Outdoor games and adventures will peak your preschooler’s interest in exploring Mother Nature and outdoor preschool activities that get their heart rate pumping. Fresh air and preschool activities are just what the doctor ordered! Promote a healthy, active lifestyle in your preschooler that will keep them thriving into adulthood.
Nature Scavenger Hunt Preschool Activity
Spend some quality time outdoors with your preschooler doing a nature scavenger hunt. This outdoor preschool activity is an exciting way to explore nature and learn basic preschool concepts like color, size and weight at the same time. A nature scavenger hunt can be done alone or in a group setting.
This is My Town Preschool Activity
Preschoolers can really learn more about the town or neighborhood they live in by doing this fun activity. It is a very visual project that requires adult supervision.
Little Tikes Tot-Sport T-Ball Set
The Little Tikes Tot-Sport T-Ball Set is a fun way to get your preschooler outdoors for some fresh air and exercise. Most preschoolers are excited by the idea of swinging a bat and hitting a baseball, but lack the coordination skills to connect early on. The Little Tikes Tot-Sport T-Ball Set allows preschooler's to hit the ball every time with an adjustable height "T" that adapts to a child's developing skills, and oversize bat and balls for beginners.
Preschool Plant Activity-Pressed Flowers and Leaves Nature Book
Help your preschooler start a nature book by pressing flowers and leaves. Create a wonderful educational opportunity for them as they learn all about the names of plants and the parts of flowers and leaves by building their own nature book.
Preschool First Aid
From skinned knees to stomach aches, you never know when you will have to provide safe treatment and patient care. Here are some great suggestions and first aid musts for your medicine cabinet.
Grow your own carrot plant just like the boy in the book The Carrot Seed.This is a beloved story of a boy who plants a seed, but no one believes it will ever come up. But, just like the boy knew it would, something special happens! You and your preschooler can have something special happen too.
Short attention span for activities is developmentally normal in preschoolers and shortens further when activities are too easy or too difficult. The sweet spot is a challenge that requires real effort but is achievable. Also consider time of day β activities attempted during tired or hungry periods have dramatically shorter engagement windows. After-nap or mid-morning are typically the richest activity windows.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends limiting screen-based media to 1 hour per day of high-quality, co-viewed content for children aged 2β5, and avoiding screens except video-calling for children under 2. The quality of content and whether a parent is watching and discussing together matters enormously β passive, commercial, or violent screen content has negative effects; educational co-viewed content has minimal harm. Screens are not a substitute for the physical, social, and creative activities that develop preschool brains.
Related reading: See also our science experiments and our obstacle course ideas for more ideas on this topic.