30 Easy Activities For Preschoolers

• Set up a pretend classroom. Take turns teaching numbers or ABC’s
• Make paper dolls
• Create an indoor scavenger hunt
• Sew buttons on scrap fabric
• Listen to audiobooks 
• Pour water from one container to another
• Put rice in cookie sheets and let them drive small cars or trucks through it
• Tie a clothesline (string) between two chairs. Hang doll clothes up, take down, fold…repeat
• Make a fort under the kitchen table
• Let them use kitchen utensils to play with play doh 
• Cut pictures out of old magazines
• Let them play “restaurant” with pots, lids, and kitchen utensils 
• Make paper chains to hang in the house 
• Turn a cardboard box upside down and let them pound nails into it
• Make a dollhouse and accessories from a cardboard box 
• Charades-style game where one hold pretends to be an animal and the others have to guess what kind
• Put wooden toothpicks or q-tips in a spice container
• Put corn, rice, or beans in an old kiddie pool and provide measuring cups to scoop with
• Make paper snowflakes
• Knock over empty bottles or toy animals with a ball or stuffed toy. Kinda like bowling
• String beads into necklaces 
• Paint rocks or leaves
• Make bridges or roads out of masking tape on the floor to drive small cars on
• Punch holes in the lid of a gallon ice cream bucket, and use string to “sew”
• Tie a string to a stick and let them play “fishing” using the bathtub as their boat
• Make paper airplanes and have races to see who’s can go farthest and fastest
• Let them play with the laundry baskets and use them for boats or houses
• Get out a bunch of cans from the pantry and let them play store
• Make a treasure hunt
• Fix a bucket of sudsy water and let them wash the windows or the floor

I hope these ideas make the colder weather more fun! Happy fall!