Preschool Ideas

I have preschooler. He is very busy! He is a challenge to keep up with! He figures things out too quickly! It has been a challenge coming up with things for him to do independently especially during school time. He loves to do school but like most almost 4 year olds he has a short attention span and is on to the next thing, sometimes telling me he is bored. This happens a lot when I am in the middle of something with Justin. We get interrupted, loose our momentum and everyone is unhappy.

I have been looking for some new ideas to keep him busy and having fun while he is learning something. He always wants to learn and do school. Both of my boys are this way! I thought I'd start a little series here on some ideas I have come up with and gleaned from other mom's of preschoolers.

The other day I came up with this idea. We have letter tiles and Kaden loves to play with them but gets bored after a couple of minutes. He loves letters. So I decided to make some word cards that he could match the letter tiles to. He is always asking me to spell things. This is so simple to do.

You only need two items. Letter tiles and some writing strips and a sharpie marker (ok so you need three items!) The letter tiles came from Walmart, I picked them up a while back and the writing strips came from Dollar Tree.

I cut the writing strips down to fit a three letter word. Then I printed a bunch of these, I just came up with a bunch of random words.

I also did one four letter word.

Kaden was very excited since he is always asking me how to spell his name.

There you have it a simple, inexpensive preschool activity! I may laminate them so they hold up a little better.