Preschool Learning Activities-Emotional Development & Fine Motor Skills Activities

Preschool learning activities are varied and just involve a little creativity. Emotional Development activities for kids as well as Fine Motor Skills Development are very important areas to develop in your child or preschooler.

Having your preschool child cut out various shapes and objects is a great way to help develop fine motor skills. Of course if you are going to allow your children or preschoolers to do this activity you need to ensure they are using the proper "Child safe 'scissors when any cut in any material.

Here is a fun learning activities for preschool children that is used to help with your child develop in specific areas of growth. Maintain a collection of old magazines, newspapers or flyers, etc., which are full of pictures of people with different expressions

You have to take the kids to look at a magazine or newspaper, etc. and you'll find pictures of the faces of people with differentexpressions.  They may find pictures of happy faces, sad faces, surprised faces, angry faces, scared faces and many more.    

Your preschool child can then 'cut out' all the faces they find using 'child safe' scissors of course, and they can discuss each different image with the parent or teacher and discuss what they see in the person's expression.  You could even just have children find and cut out a certain expression, or what 'they' To see how a particular expression. For example, you could tell them to find all the pictures of "happy faces" and see what you are using, you may be surprised to find that what they are!

And 'well these photos and paste them on a sheet of paper or Bristol board, and then keep laminate. You can then cut them all out and save it in a box or envelope! So that pictures of the last few years so that they can always be used in many different ways to teach children. You could even use these different faces and expressions and have children 'GROUP' all similar expressions together in a pile.  

Another Great learning activity for children becoming familiar with spelling and simple reading or word recognition would be to have a few different images (4-6) out. You could then have the names of the expressions written on a piece of paper or a label (example) Happy, Sad, Angry etc. You could have the child(ren) match the image to the word. This is excellent for simple reading and recognition of every day words that express emotion.