Rainy Day Activities for Preschoolers, Photo by Qole Prejoran
When rainy days are on the horizon, be prepared with fun indoor activities that will not only keep children in your daycare business busy but will encourage their development. Dramatic play, cooking with children, group activities, and library activities will provide hours of enjoyment.
Dramatic Play
Dramatic play is an excellent rainy day activity. Create a prop box and set up a scene. A prop box contains all of the creative elements to act out a particular scene. Children can pick and choose the props they want to explore and set up imaginary scenarios. For example, a fishing prop box may contain a tackle box with tackle, plastic worms, fishing rods with string, plastic fish with magnets, binoculars, fishing vests and hats, a thermos, fishing literature, thermoses, lunch boxes, and binoculars. Create a boat out a large box. Ask children to teach show you how they catch a fish or children may imagine they are on a fishing trip with friends.
Cooking with Children
Keep little minds and hands busy with simple non-bake cooking activities. For example, make peanut butter balls. Let the children mix together 1/2 cup peanut butter, 2.5 tbsp powdered milk, 2 Tbsp raisins, 2 tbsp honey. Let children form the mixture into little balls, and then roll them in coconut and sesame seeds to coat.
Add More Group Activities
Double-up on your usual fun group activities. For example, you may choose to play an extra indoor game, read an extra story, or put on a puppet show or finger play. One such group activity is a scavenger hunt. Try this “blue scavenger hunt”: Cut out pictures of items that are blue and attach them to card stock, such as blueberries, blue jay, the sky, the ocean, blue jeans, blue paint, blue crayons, a sapphire, whale, dolphins, blue eyes, etc. . Hide the pictures around the class. The child who finds the most blue items may win a classroom privilege.
Bookmobile or Library Field Trip
A bookmobile is a mobile library. Contact the local library and speak to the director of children or youth services to find out if they have a bookmobile. The library may send a bookmobile along with a children’s librarian to the daycare center. The librarian will usually provide story time and introduce the children to all types of literature.
If the local library is very close by and rain is not too much of an issue, call your local library and arrange to bring the children in for an age appropriate story time and activity. The librarian may implement activities such as songs, flannel board stories finger plays, and games related to a particular theme.
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