Some children will show a great need for kinesthetic learning while others like my son will just need a balance. After a full day of auditory and visual learning at school I like to provide that balance. He’s polite, mature and eager to learn at school ( or so they tell me). At home he tackles, bumps, shoves and begs to wrestle. I’m fine with this but I know that when I try to supplement his school day learning with more activities at home I need to make them dynamic. No matter how your child learns best giving them lots of different ways to learn will benefit them.
Here are some of our favorite active learning activities. These activities let kids move while they learn. Many are outdoor but most can be done indoor or out.
Basic Letter Games
Move & Groove Letter Game
Gardening For Letters – Dig and Learn!
Sidewalk Chalk Letter Game
Build With Letters
Letters On The Go
Word Games For Early Readers
Word Scavenger Hunt
Indoor Gross Motor Reading Game
Sidewalk Chalk Spelling Game
Sight Word Yard Clean Up!
Find & Rhyme gross motor rhyming game.
Moving with Math
Nerf Gun Math
Water Balloon Math
Cheese Ball Math
Counting Around The House
Find & Count Bug Hunt
Colors
Indoor bug hunt and color match.
Nature Color Match
iPhone Color Hunt
Not So Still Science
Egg Drop
Sound Safari
Squirt Gun Science
Ashley says
Lyric and Xavier are 3 and respectively and I am wrecking my brain trying to prepare them for kindergarten so this list is pretty interesting. I’m always trying to come up with new ways to keep their attention and help them at the same time. GREAT LIST from another mommy who sings the blues. :)www.mommysingstheblues.com
Ashley says
OK 3 and 4….ooops
Kristine N. says
What a great list! I love the variety of activities, and they look like so much fun. I’m going to have to try some of these with my kiddo when the weather is a little better outside!
Julia says
Awesome post! Thanks for the ideas and links. We are in school hols here at the moment and have been dying to try some fun, new activities with my kids. Cheers, Julia 🙂
Allison McDonald says
Have a nice school break!
Mary says
Thanks so much for sharing this post as a list of activities for boys and girls! I really appreciate how you see kids as individuals, and acknowledge that girls can be active learners too.