🎓 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.
- 📜 Rule-Following — Learning and following game rules builds the ability to hold instructions in working memory and apply them consistently — a direct parallel to the classroom rule-following that teachers identify as the top kindergarten readiness skill.
- 🧠 Strategic Thinking — Games that reward thinking ahead — considering options and choosing the best move — develop the planning and decision-making skills that are part of executive function and transfer directly to academic problem solving.
- 💬 Communication Skills — Negotiating rules, explaining moves, and discussing the game develops vocabulary, sentence construction, and the conversational back-and-forth that underlies all effective social communication.
Winter, spring, summer, fall…all seasons are ripe with preschool games. Seasonal Preschool Games feature fun and easy games that explore the various seasons and holidays. So whether you and your preschooler are sniffing springtime flowers or catching snowflakes on your tongue, there is a Seasonal Preschool Game for you. How do you have fun with your preschooler? Share your seasonal preschool games with us!
Featured Seasonal Preschool Games
Musical Hearts Preschool Game
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with your preschoolers by playing this Seasonal Preschool Game! Have fun making preschool Valentine’s Day crafts, and then use them in the game!
Build a Snow Angel Preschool Game
Preschoolers can stay cozy and warm while making snow angels in this Seasonal Preschool game! A little glitter, glue and construction paper will have you well on your way to crafting beautiful snow angel parts that you can use to build your indoor snow angel. Special Snow Angel Cards tell you how to build your snow angel – who will be the first preschooler to make a complete snow angel?
Little Drummer Boy Preschool Game
Pretend you’re the Little Drummer Boy and tap your way through the holidays. Your preschooler will have fun trying to match your rhythm. Take this seasonal preschool game on the run and make it more active!
More Seasonal Preschool Games
Where Did Those Bows Go?
A Christmas Story Preschool Treasure Quest
Thanksgiving Snack Hunt
Snowflake Matching Game
Featured Seasonal Preschool Products
Valentine Bean Bag Toss
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this seasonal bean bag toss!
It measures 17" long, 5 3/4" wide, and 6 3/4" tall and is made of solid wood. This preschool game contains four targets and four 2" heart-shaped bean bags. Preschoolers throw the bean bags at the Valentine characters and try to spin the targets so that the point value displays. The preschooler who spins the most points wins the game!
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Valentine's Day Photo Card
Preschoolers can make and give this Valentine’s Day Photo Card to a special loved one. Using a sister’s, brother’s, parent’s, or grandparent’s photograph, your preschooler can personalize this simple and fun Preschool Valentine’s Day craft card.
Craft Stick Snowflake Winter Preschool Craft
Snowflakes are a symbol of winter and the holiday season. Here is an easy preschool craft that will bring the sparkle of a snowflake indoors. Help your preschooler make several and use them to decorate your windows or hang on your Christmas tree as ornaments. And remember, no two snowflakes are alike so get out plenty of sparkly craft supplies and let your preschooler create some beautiful, unique crafts.
Sparkly Feather Snowflake Craft
Decorate your home or preschool classroom with this quick and easy preschool snowflake craft. The Sparkly Feather Snowflake Craft uses glittery white craft feathers and paper doilies to create beautifully unique snowflakes!
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends limiting all screens (including video games) to 1 hour per day for children ages 2–5. Simple, educational touchscreen games have minimal harm when time-limited; fast-paced, commercial, or violent video games are not appropriate for preschoolers at any screen time level. The best educational value comes from games that are interactive and challenge thinking — simple puzzles, matching, and story-based apps. Video games should not replace physical games or creative play for any preschooler.
Simple competitive games (who gets to the finish line first, who matches the most cards) are appropriate from age 4–5, when children can begin to understand rules and outcomes. Before age 4, fully cooperative games are more developmentally matched. Even at age 4–5, keep competitive game sessions brief and emotionally low-stakes, and always follow with a positive shared activity. The goal is building competitive tolerance gradually through repeated low-stakes positive experience.
