🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 🤸 Physical Coordination — Active games that combine movement with rules develop both gross motor skills and the cognitive capacity to think while moving — a form of dual-task processing that prepares children for sports and coordinated physical activities.
• ⚡ Quick Thinking & Processing — Fast-paced games that require quick visual scanning or rapid decision-making develop processing speed and visual discrimination — skills that support reading fluency and mathematical fact retrieval.
• 🔄 Turn-Taking & Patience — Games with clear turn-taking rules give children repeated practice waiting — one of the most challenging but important impulse-control skills preschoolers are developing — in a low-stakes, engaging context.
• 🏆 Sportsmanship — Experiencing winning and losing in a supportive environment — and practicing how to handle both graciously — builds the emotional resilience and social grace that competitive situations throughout life require.

Preschoolers are little bundles of energy. Active Preschool Games provide a creative outlet for that energy. These active games are loads of fun for preschoolers – and the more preschoolers playing, the better! Plan an afternoon of preschool games and invite the neighborhood preschoolers over! Or, if you’d prefer more spontaneous fun, active Preschool Games are just as much fun with one preschooler. Play whenever the mood strikes! Contact me if you’d like to share one of your active preschool games.

Featured Active Preschool Game

Animal Keeper Preschool Game
This Active Preschool Game will have preschoolers racing toward the Animal Keeper while barking like a dog! But be careful - preschoolers who forget to wag their puppy tails will be sent to the beginning! Animal Keepers won’t stop at dogs, either. They’ll be looking for monkeys, tigers, and frogs, too!

Hop, Skip, and Crawl Preschool Relay Race
Why run in a preschool relay race when you can hop, skip, and crawl? This Active Preschool Game isn’t just fun for preschoolers, it’s educational, too! Teach preschoolers to read on the run!

Balloon Tag Preschool Game
Why play Tag when you can play Balloon Tag? Adding balloons to this classic game makes it much more fun for preschoolers. Make this preschool game more challenging by adding extra balloons! Preschoolers can even bat the balloons to the ground to make things tough for the tagger. This active preschool game can be played alone or with friends!

More Active Preschool Games

Balloon Soccer Preschool Game
Preschool Line Race

Featured Active Preschool Product

3 in 1 Sports Arcade
This fun preschool game will keep your preschooler moving. Preschoolers can shoot hoops, practice their pitching, and play skeeball-style games in this all-in-one play structure! The Sports Arcade includes magic balls, a detachable hoop, and a carrying case for easy travel. The best part is the ball return, so your preschoolers can play without interruption. The 3-In-1 Sports Arcade features Playhut's patented twist-n-fold technology for instant set-up and easy storage, and is ideal for children ages 3 and up.

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Food Group Games
Play these two food group games at preschool, in the kitchen, or waiting in line. By basing simple games on foods and food groupings, your preschooler will learn about how foods go together, food traits, and how fun it is to play games with the family!

Bicycle and Wagon Party Parade
Honor the birthday boy or girl with a bicycle and wagon party parade. Preschoolers will delight in decorating bikes, wagons or other ride-on toys with balloons and streamers, followed by an exciting celebratory ride through the neighborhood.

Preschool Circle Time Activity - Shape Marching
Preschoolers will love this active play activity and they will learn to recognize their shapes at the same time. This makes a wonderful circle time activity and can be used to emphasize any shape that preschoolers are learning.