Earth Day Activities for Preschoolers - Collecting Paper

Children need to exercise and strengthen their fine motor skills and you can help them by letting them do fun Earth Day activities for preschoolers. Check out the step-by-step instructions to our simple but fun Earth Day collecting paper kids home activity.

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Collecting Paper Earth Day Activities for Preschoolers Fine Motor Skills Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

In most cases, parents are concerned about developing cognitive skills in their children. They want children to learn to read, write, add, and subtract quickly. That is not bad; quite the opposite, a good stimulus will allow children to appropriately develop each of their abilities.

However, for comprehensive development, emotional skills are of great importance in this process. It is usually the thing that parents think least about.

In children’s emotional development, friendship plays a vital role in children’s lives. When children have a friend, they have managed to establish an effective relationship with a person other than their family bond.

This relationship is one of the most common in human beings. Everyone needs a friend since, when establishing a friendship, people seek trust, love, and respect, among many other things.

Friendship must last for a long time. That’s why from home and school, it is essential to promote activities to strengthen this bond.

Dialogue with the family is very important, firstly so that the children understand friendship value. Secondly, they can talk about their friends and that parents can get to know a little more about them as about those needs of their children related to friendship.

Promote activities with children in a park where relatives also participate; thus, families can get to know each other.

When children can socialize from an early age with other people, they get the foundations to establish future relationships healthily, stimulate self-esteem and self-confidence, and help them be confident when facing different situations such as a new school.

Parents should promote these spaces for their children to interact with other children and teach through example, leading a healthy coexistence with their peers, so children will repeat the good actions they see at home.

children will repeat the good actions they see at home.

THEME: EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOLERS

HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?

Topic: Friendship

Age: 4-6-year-old children

Goal: Through this Earth Day activity for preschoolers, children will strengthen their language and fine motor skills through a game.

Activity level: Intermediate. This Earth Day activity for preschoolers is designed to be carried out by a minimum of two children. It is essential that throughout the game, children are under adult surveillance.

Skills:

Eye-hand coordination
Precision in hand and finger movements
Affectivity
Emotional intelligence
Focus
Attention
Following instructions
Language (strengthening the muscles of the mouth)

MATERIALS

Recycled colored paper
Scissors
Two straws (preferably paper, remember the importance of recycling)
Two containers

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

Step 1:

The adult can help with this step. Cut out the colored paper into medium squares and put them on the table.

(The papers must be bigger than the hole of the straw to avoid that the child suck it up and choke)

Step 2:

Take the straws and put them in the mouth.

Step 3:

Sucking (sending/pulling the air into the mouth) through the straw, they must take the papers placed on the table and put them inside the container.

ACTIVITY RESULT

An Earth Day activity for preschoolers, a game of transfer papers using a straw

FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS FOR KIDS

After doing Earth day activities for preschoolers, give kids fun new worksheets too. Click to download our Earth Day worksheets.

Download the Free Printable Earth Day Worksheets

HOW TO DEVELOP THIS EARTH DAY ACTIVITY FOR PRESCHOOLERS WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD

You can do this Earth Day activity game with younger children. To reduce the difficulty level, children can collect the papers using tweezers and then put them inside the container.

If they want, they can use a clock/timer so that the activity is more exciting. This way, children will play a game appropriate to their development and abilities.

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OVER 6 YEARS OLD

You can do this Earth Day activity for preschoolers with older children. To increase the level of difficulty, children will take the papers with the straw.

Still, they should arrange them into different containers according to the color of each piece of paper.

This means that to carry out the motor skill activity, children must recognize colors and follow patterns. In this way, children will carry out an exercise appropriate to their development and abilities.

VIDEO DESCRIPTION – COLLECTING PAPER EARTH DAY ACTIVITY FOR PRESCHOOLERS

In this Earth Day activity for preschoolers video, you will find detailed information about the “COLLECTING PAPER” activity, designed for children 4-6 years old.

They play a game of collecting papers placed on a table using a straw, then they had to put them in a container(The papers must be bigger than the hole of the straw to avoid that the child sucks it up and choke).

This Earth Day activity for preschoolers will allow children to develop eye-hand coordination, precision in the movements of the hands, fingers, affectivity, emotional intelligence, concentration, attention, and following instructions, and strengthening the muscles of their mouths.

The materials needed to carry out the preschooler activity are colored paper (recycled paper), scissors, two straws (preferably paper, remember the importance of recycling), and two containers. (ADULT HELP AND SUPERVISION)

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