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Games to Play With PreK

Since most pre-kindergarten children enjoy playing games, you can organize a variety of games for them to play to keep them occupied throughout the day. From online to educational to entertaining, games allow the young children to have fun while learning at the same time. Encourage the children to try their best and play along by awarding small prizes, such as stickers and erasers, for a job well done.

Indoor Games
- Create an indoor obstacle course for your preschoolers to have some fun. Not only will the children have fun, but it will teach them direction and concept of sequences. The children can crawl through cardboard boxes, jump foam blocks, crab walk to a cone and crawl underneath a table. Have the children complete the course by themselves or in teams and the player or team with the fastest time wins the game. Other indoor games include I spy, limbo and a game of freeze dance. For freeze dance, play music and have the children dance. When the music stops, they must freeze and any player caught moving is out of the game.
Educational Games
- Make a memory game by printing pictures of letters or numbers on index cards. Tape 10 letters or colors on the wall and tell the children to take a good look at them. Ask them to place their head down on their desks and remove a letter or color. When you say ̶0;Look,̶1; the first children to look at the wall and tell your which color or letter is missing wins a prize. Alternatively, make two of each card and have the preschoolers play a game of memory. The child who finds the most pairs wins the game.
Outdoor Games
- Organize an outdoor scavenger hunt for your pre-kindergartners. Make a list of 10 items like a feather, a brown leaf, a black rock and an acorn. Divide the children into teams and give each team a list. The first team to find five of the 10 items wins the game. Create a beanbag relay race by dividing the children into two teams and having them stand in single file lines. Give the first player in each team line a beanbag. When you say ̶0;Go,̶1; each player must pass the beanbag over his head or under his legs to the next player in line. The first team to finish wins the game.
Online Games
- Websites like PBS and Scholastic offer a variety of online games for pre-kindergarten students. On PBS, children can play a pattern matcher game to try to find matching patterns and a building sandcastle game that allows the children to find matching shapes to build a sandcastle. Scholastic offers games and activities for subjects, such as math, science, social studies and language arts. Children can do things like build a dinosaur in science and learn about community helpers in social studies.

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