Play doh and finger paints--basically anything with fine motor skills are the best thing you can do for your child, since fine motor skill development is associated with learning to read and overall reading outcomes. Also, word games and vocab games/songs are excellent, since a broad vocabulary makes learning to read easier. Any sort of rolling and crawling type games--like an indoor obstacle course--is excellent along with blocks. Old fashioned wooden blocks are the best! Sorry, you said preschool activities, which are all geared towards fine and gross motor skills and socializes them into classrooms.

Anonymous wrote:Hide and seek

My daughter would play this ALL DAY LONG if I'd let her.

Anonymous wrote:Hide and seek

My daughter would play this ALL DAY LONG if I'd let her.

Fort building is huge in our house. '
Jumping on couch/cushions/beds.
Dance parties - loud music and we run around like maniacs
Watercolor painting in the bathtub, followed by a shower.
Colored baths and bubbles.
Ghost hunts - one of us puts a sheet over our heads and hides or chases.
Hop scotch using the tiles in our kitchen.
I take apart one of those big floor puzzles and hide pieces all over the house (this is a thinly veiled effort to run them up and down the flights of stairs repeatedly to exhaust them) so it's a treasure hunt for the pieces. We're working on incorporating a race element to finding and completing them.
Obstacle courses. (See forts and couch cushions and old play tunnels...)

Why not play dough?

Teacher and toddler mom here---

Games:
Hiss
Apples to apples jr
Quirkle
Blockus
Traffic jam
Pickles & penguins

Sensory bins- fill with rice and little treasures (pennies, pretend gems, tiny shells, pebbles, mini bouncy balls.) Have fun digging for treasures!

Wikki sticks (order from Amazon.) great for sculpting and mess free.

Coding sticker dots for collages

pony beads and gimp for making necklaces

Water colors/paint dot pens/toy cars for making car track prints with paint

psintbrushes and a cup of water for "painting" a sidewalk/sidewalk chalk

Feed the Woozle. Damn autocorrect.

Board games lime Candy Land, Feed the Woozkw, and Sneaky Snacks Squirrel.

My preschooler loves to play water table in the kitchen sink - I put in a little water, a splash of dish soap and a few small toys and he is happy. His favorite activity that requires no stuff is playing outside - he is happy in the yard or on a playground for ages. Magnatiles are great if you want a no mess toy.

Hide and seek

Kinetic sand

Go to pinterest.com and type preschool activities into the search field.

My son loves watercolors, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, etc.

We also work on Snap Circuits and K'nex together, and he's just gotten interested in puzzles.

Does anyone have some fun activities that do with their kids at home that don't require a bunch of stuff? No playdoh please. Lol