Preschool All About Me Theme

On this page you'll find tons of fun All About Me activities for preschoolers! Help children learn more about themselves as they explore their names, bodies, five senses, feelings, favorite things,
unique characteristics, and healthy habits.

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Theme Overview

An All About Me theme gives preschoolers meaningful opportunities to learn about who they are and how their bodies work.

Children can explore their names, physical characteristics, body parts, five senses, feelings, interests, and abilities while building early literacy, math, science, fine motor, social-emotional, and communication skills.
This theme also supports the idea of being healthy inside and out. Preschoolers can learn how their senses help them understand the world, practice simple ways to care for their bodies, recognize and express feelings, and develop a positive sense of self.

It’s an especially engaging theme for the beginning of the school year as children learn more about themselves, discover similarities and differences, and celebrate what makes each person unique.

Sample Activity Plan

Not sure how to organize your week? Below is a free sample activity plan showing one example of how you might build an engaging week around this theme.

Featured Activities

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Featured Activities in this Plan:
Art & Creativity
Creating Face Collages
Dramatic Play
Doctor Dramatic Play
Building & Small World Play
Doctor or Dentist Block People
Language and Literacy
Ordering Number Words Puzzle
Where Is Thumbkin?
Mathematics
X-Ray Counting Cards
Practice
Counting Fingers & Toes
Science & Discovery
Sorting Healthy Food
X-Ray Matching Activity
Physical Fine Motor
Finger Count & Clip Cards
Physical Gross Motor
The Tissue Dance
Other
Emotions Conversation Cards

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Discover featured activities, classroom ideas, printable resources, and creative ways to bring this theme to life.

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*Creating Face Collages

Use this roll & play activity as a fun way to create a face collage. These materials are included our Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack.

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Skeleton Craft

Invite your preschooler to create a skeleton craft after reading the fun book Dem Bones by Bob Barner. Download this free printable here.

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Cotton Swab Painting

Invite your preschoolers to use cotton swabs to create art. Painting with cotton swabs is fun and also great for fine motor development.
This is a process art invitation and simple to set up. Simply provide something to paint on, cotton swabs, and paint!

Consider supplying white school glue so children can glue the cotton swabs on the paper as well!

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Self Portrait

Have the child make a self portrait. Compare from beginning to end of the year, or try a monthly self portrait. View Member Instructions

Musical Emotions

Play various types of music, the children can dance, sing. Take a moment to ask the children to describe the type of emotions they felt after hearing the music.
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Foil Mirrors

Create a mirror. Cut out mirror shape from cardboard. Attach Oval Foil Mirror to cardboard with glue and decorate with stickers or jewels.

This process tutorial is a simple way to explore painting with new materials and letting preschoolers explore with mirrors!
Find all the details on our Make Your Own Foil Mirror blog post.

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Hand print and Fingerprint Process Art

Students create their own personalized process art piece by stamping their hands and fingers. View Member Instructions

Personalized Grass Head

Take a zoomed in photo of your student (if possible avoid photographing the top of their hair-bangs are ok). Cut the top of the image flat. Laminate for extra durability. Attach the image onto a plastic cup using double sided tape, add holes for drainage. Place a second cup on the outside to protect the image, and to allow room for drainage. Fill with potting soil and grass seeds. Have your student take care of their grass by watering it, clipping the "hair". Keep it in a sunny spot, and drain often. View Member Instructions

More Art & Creativity Ideas

Play Dough People from Picklebums
Body Awareness Art from Growing Play
Picasso Cubism by Wendy Janelle
Fingerprint Exploration from Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
X-Ray Art from Totally Tots
Sticky Easel Faces from No Time For Flashcards

*Doctor Dramatic Play

This is a great week to transform your Dramatic Play Space into a Doctors Office. Add a variety of Doctor Forms, Lab Coats, Pretend Play Doctor toys. Create a waiting area with chairs, and magazines and a reception area. Our Doctor Dramatic Play pack includes all the props you'll need to easily transform your space.

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Community Member Jamie Lynn with Play to Learn Childcare contributed this photo of her Doctor Dramatic Play invitation.

Community Member Christine Grygar created this dramatic play invitation for her group.

Adding baby dolls and a variety of pretend doctor toys is a great way for children to practice what they have learned about staying healthy.

Optometrist Office

Create an optometrist office by using props such as pretend glasses, clipboards for forms, printable alphabet cards in pyramid formations, a doctor kit, toy phone, magazines and books for the waiting room.
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Grocery Store

Set up a grocery store with a variety of play food for students to choose from. Students can practice making healthy choices for their body.
Our Grocery Store Dramatic Play pack has all the signs you need to easily set up this invitation to play.

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Play House

Set up the dramatic play area like a home with a table, kitchen, bathroom area, livingroom area. Invite children to act out their daily routines.
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All About Me Show

Have children create DIY puppets of themselves and then put on shows for their classmates so they can each learn more about each other. Take photos of your students and attach them to popsicle sticks.
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Personalize Block Play

Print pictures of the children and tape to blocks (or boxes) for block play.
Including images of family members, teachers, and familiar buildings is great for added engagement. View Member Instructions

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*Healthy Bodies in the block Center

Add a variety of human play figures to your construction/small world play space this week.
Encourage children to build people using blocks or a wellness center for the play figurines.

Body Tracing with Blocks

Challenge children to use blocks to trace one another. One child will lay on the ground, then the others build around them to create an outline of their body. View Member Instructions

Build Your House

Encourage children to build their own houses in the block area, try adding pictures of their houses to the block center for inspiration. Pair with the homemade student blocks for added engagement.

Tower of Me

Measure each child's height and mark it on the wall in the building center with painter's tape labeled with their name. Have them find their name and use different materials to build a tower as tall as themselves!
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*Ordering Number Words

This puzzle incorporates math, literacy, and fine motor all in one!
This is an engaging activity for young children working on problem-solving and/or learning number sight words. This activity is included in the Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack.

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At the Doctor Seek & Find

There are so many fascinating things to see when visiting the doctor.
Use these cards as a flip and find activity or hide the pieces around the room for even more engagement, then mark on the doctor's office mat when they are found. This activity is included in the
Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack.

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My Name Collage

This theme is a fun time to celebrate every child's favorite word...their name!
Set out a variety of options for cutting out letters such as magazines, card stock, stickers, sand paper...the more the better!
Children can create their name using the materials and then hang on their bedroom door or cubby.
Find more resources and ideas for name recognition on our blog post Learning Objective: Name Recognition

All About Me Book

Invite children to create a book all about themselves!
For each book you will need a piece of colored paper and several sheets of white paper, fold them all in half with the colored paper on the outside of the fold, then staple at the folded edge to hold them together. Alternatively you can purchase blank books.
For this book children can use a combination of drawings and photos.
Encourage children to write about their favorite toys, people in their family, favorite colors, foods, friends, and activities.
Include a space for children to write their name (even if they are in the scribbling stage) for reference at the end of the year. Children not yet writing can dictate to an adult to add descriptions to the images.
During group time invite children to share a few pages from their book.

Build Your Name with Magnet Letters

Have the child use magnetic letters to build their name,
you can differentiate by providing a letter name strip if needed or our Free Bubble Name Practice activity.

Bone Alphabet Matching

Invite your preschoolers to practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters with bones. This activity is included in our Healthy Me Inside & Out Activity Pack

My 5 Senses Book Activities

Pair this My Five Senses pre-k book companion activity pack with the book My Five Senses by Aliki. This book and activity are a great addition to an All About Me Theme.

Some of our favorite books for this theme:

Eyes, Nose, Fingers, and Toes: A First Book All About You

Marvelous Me: Inside and Out (All about Me)

What I Like About Me!

*My Five Senses

Feelings

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*X-Ray Counting Cards

These counting cards are so much fun for this theme!
Pair these counting mats with your favorite math manipulatives for added engagement. You can find these mats included in the Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack.

*Counting Fingers Count & Clip Cards

Counting fingers is nothing new for preschoolers, they are sure to love counting up the fingers on these cards. Count up all the fingers to find the total, then identify the correct number on the bottom and clip with a clothespin.
This activity is included in our Healthy Me Inside & Out activity Pack

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Characteristic Graphing

Do a graphing activity based on characteristics like hair color, eye color, color shirt you are wearing that day. This can be done at home with friends and family members too.

Measuring with My Hands

Create a measuring tool with each child using their very own hands.
Trace their hands on a piece of paper and then cut out the tracing, repeat about 5 times. Place the hands in a row on contact paper, cover with another piece of contact paper. Invite children to use their new tool to measure things around the room. View Member Instructions

Math About Me

Invite preschoolers to share about themselves using math. This product can be found inside the Healthy Me Inside & Out Activity Pack.

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All About Me Patterns

Print off pictures of each child as well as pictures of family members, pets, or favorite items. Have students create patterns using pictures of themselves and what is most important to them!
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Me Growing Up

Print pictures of your preschooler from different ages, challenge them to put the photos in timeline order. View Member Instructions

*X-Ray Matching Activity

This activity included in the Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack is a fun way for preschoolers to learn about the bones in their bodies.

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Black Light Germ Experiment

Try this black light germ experiment to support preschoolers in learning more about how germs are spread.

*Healthy Food Sorting

Young children are learning to make healthy food choices, support their development with this food sorting activity included in the Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack.

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5 Senses Sensory Bin

Fill your sensory bin with a variety of items that children can explore with their senses. Provide 5 baskets for sorting items by how they explored each object. Here are some ideas for each:

Mystery Smell Jars

Explore the sense of smell through the engaging Mystery Smell Jars activity. Children make predictions, describe scents using descriptive language, and enhance sensory inquiry skills. This activity fosters curiosity, observation, and language development in preschoolers aged 3–5.

Taste

Disposable portion cups with lids (at least three and more if desired per student).
Samples of items to taste that are sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. (Consider any food allergies when filling these tubs) Examples include candy, snacks, fruits, veggies and liquids from condiments (pickles and etc).

Touch
Filling for balloons that are distinctive in touch (marbles, dried beans or pasta, sand, cornstarch, etc) that will easily fit inside a balloon.
Use a funnel to fill each balloon.

Sight
Transparent color blocks or paddles or plastic sheets in primary colors.
Toy kaleidoscope or another toy used to see with or through
Shiny paper and photographs, provide magnifying glasses for closely examining objects

Sound
Three or four plastic containers with lid (or as many as desired)
Samples of items that provide different sounds for the sound containers (beans, bells, pasta, sand, etc.)

Healthcare Instruments

Provide a variety of real instruments that health professionals may use in their practice for children to explore.
Some ideas: stethoscope, tongue depressor, thermometers, gauze/bandages, and an eye chart. Some off the materials may be suited for free exploration, others will require supervised exploration for safety depending on age & development. View Member Instructions

Birthday Sensory Bin

Build a sensory bin using bright colored rice, add in birthday candles including number candles. You can add in cupcake liners and fun utensils. Invite the children to find the numbers for their age and birthdays.

Build Your Name Sensory Bin

Fill your sensory bin with rice, sand or beans include letters and encourage the child to find the letters to build their name.
Find all the details on our Build Your Name Sensory Bin blog post.

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Weights Shape Clip Cards

Lifting weights is great for building big muscles and these clip cards are great for developing smaller muscles and finger dexterity!
Work on these skills while also practicing shape recognition and matching included in our Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack.

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Letter Sound Yoga

Try this letter sound yoga activity this week to work on literacy and physical development.

Use this yoga idea as a weekly or daily part of your routine adding in all the letters over time.

Roll & Create Emotions

Add this Roll & Create Emotions set to your play dough center this week to encourage children to explore emotions while working on fine motor development.

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The Tissue Dance - Gross Motor

Invite your preschoolers to balance a tissue on their head then play some fun music and challenge them to dance around without dropping their tissue! View Member Instructions

Mr. Potato Head

Constructing Potato Heads is fun for fine motor and a fun way to explore body parts.
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Food Collage

In this preschool activity, children engage in a hands-on learning experience by creating a Food Collage. They categorize foods into "Energizing Foods" and "Treat Foods" to understand the roles of various foods in a balanced diet. This activity promotes fine motor skills, critical thinking, and nutrition awareness.

Body Matching Game

Play this game as a group where you alternate having a child call out a body part and everyone else needs to match it by pointing to that part.

Lace Me Up

Take pictures of each child. Print them on cardstock and laminate. Punch holes around the outside of the photo. Have students pick their favorite color string and attach it to the lacing card. Have them practice lacing with pictures of themselves and their classmates! View Member Instructions

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Get children acquainted with their body parts by listening to and acting out Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. View Member Instructions

That's Me Game

Lay down different shapes or draw them with chalk outside. Call out a movement, shape, and attribute. For example, "Hop to a square if you have brown hair."

Children will need to identify if they fit the criteria and then use the movement to get to the correct shape.

Give Yourself a Haircut

Support preschoolers in creating a cardboard version of themselves, add plenty of hair using paper, yarn, or other material of choice. Then let your preschoolers get creative while building muscles to design their perfect haircut. A good opportunity to talk about proper scissor use.
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Simon Says

Play a fun game of Simon Says! This is a fun workout for little bodies and invites them to challenge their bodies. This is also an excellent activity for receptive language development. View Member Instructions

Adaptive Equipment

Take some time to learn about adaptive equipment this week. The activities and conversation cards included in our Adaptive Equipment set gives young children a chance to talk about and learn more about why people use adaptive equipment.

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I can Help Fight Germs

Help children learn to be a good citizen by learning to fight germs!
Children easily spread germs constantly. Help children begin to understand how they can help keep themselves and others healthy using the printables in our I Can Help Fight Germs activity pack.

Meet a Community Health Nurse

Invite a Community Health Nurse to visit your Program or Take a field trip. Learn about hand washing and what it means to Community Health Nurse. Discover the importance of saying thank you to those who care for us. Fun and educational preschool activity promoting health and community awareness. View Member Instructions

Sheena of Building Blocks Family Childcare invited the Community Health Nurse to her program to talk about the importance of hand washing. She read the children a book, did an activity, and assisted with teaching proper handwashing.

Invite your children to engage in a virtual field trip like this one from KidVision to a Doctor's Office.

Taking Care of My Body Match-Up

People use many products to keep them healthy. Invite your preschooler to match-up the materials needed for each of the self-care scenarios in this matching game from our Healthy Me Inside & Out activity pack.

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*Explore Feelings & Emotions

Learning to identify and handle feelings & emotions is essential to having a healthy body!
Explore feelings and emotions with this set of Feelings & Emotions Conversation Cards & Posters

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Healthcare Displays

Hang a variety of posters and photographs in your learning space that highlight healthcare professionals. Include a variety of professionals such as doctors, nurses, therapists, ophthalmologists, dentists, paramedics, and school nurses.
Include books in the classroom that highlight these important community workers.
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Resources for Mental Health

Learning and engaging with peers that are also learning how to play and engage with one another can bring up big feelings for preschoolers. Take some time this week to talk about self-care and the resources available in your learning environment for calming down. Quiet activities such as drawing materials, sensory bottles, sand timers (also a great visual aid for preschoolers to focus on as they take needed time out of group play), sensory cards and activities like those featured in our Calm Down Binder are all great options!

Family Book

Invite children to bring in family pictures to create a family book for each student to keep in the classroom library. This can even be done at home with pictures of different family members.
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Healthy Food Choices

Talk with your students about food choices. Invite your students to cook snack or lunch with you this week!
Offer a few options children can make for snack on their own or with little support.
Mini pizza faces are a fun way for children to get creative while trying some new toppings and get the health discussion going!
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More Social Studies Ideas

My Five Senses-Playful Learning
Face Magnets-The Iowa Farmer's Wife
Boy or Girl Sorting-Sorting Sprinkles
Feeling Board-Megan Crary

Self-Care

Learning self-care is important for both educators and the children they teach. Download a free copy of our Self-Care Journal Forms designed for all ages from Pre-K Printable Fun. Share this link with your families as well to encourage self-care at home.
For Educators we have our Health Binder available to our club members to promote self care.

Avoid Burnout

Teaching and taking care of others can quickly lead to burnout. Read the Avoiding Burnout post to hear advice from seasoned childcare providers and educators about this issue. Taking care of others first means taking care of yourself!

My Body Outline

Split children into pairs or small groups. Each group will need a piece of chalk and space on a sidewalk or large piece of paper and markers. Groups will work to draw an outline around the body of each child in the group. After the outline is done invite each child to fill in their outline. They might like to draw in body parts like this child from Building Blocks Family Childcare that drew a heart on their chest. They could also add in facial features, hair, or clothing.
While children are engaging in this activity and conversation be sure to visit each group and talk about what they are doing.
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Fun Songs & Finger plays

Teacher Tip: Keep a class book of songs and fingerplays in your space so children can help choose songs each day and help remind you of the words. Here are some recommendations for your all about me theme.

If You're Happy & You Know It
Family Finger
Hokey Pokey
Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes
My Hands
Open Shut Them
Shake My Sillies Out

Take a hike outside

Hiking is great exercise and so much fun! Including a variety of fun ways for children to take care of their physical body and connect with nature are both excellent additions to an All About Me Theme
Take a hike around the backyard, or around your neighborhood. Sing this song to the tune of
"The Farmer in the Dell"
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Circle Time Props: Feelings

Create, or invite your children to help create, feelings puppets for circle time activities or your calm down space.
One simple idea is to use paper plates attached to craft sticks or use paper bags.
You can create simple faces that portray emotions or make them fancy with added hair and features.
Another method is to print out stock photos or the emotion cards included in the All About Me Inside & Out activity pack. and attach to craft sticks.
use these puppets during circle time activities or in your calm down center for children to explore emotions.

*All About Me Poster-Family Engagement Idea

Ask families to work with their children to create and All About Me poster.
This can be a large poster or something small. Encourage families to make the poster however they like! They can include family photos, each family can contribute an illustration about the child and/or a favorite memory. Display the posters around the classroom all month, give each child an opportunity to share about their poster. When sharing encourage children to talk about the experience of creating of the poster.

Share a Favorite Book-Family Engagement Idea

Consider inviting parents and family members to be guest readers in the classroom!
This can be done all throughout the year to encourage as many guest readers as possible.
Children can ask their parents, grandparents, or older siblings to come in and read their favorite book with the class.

Bike Safety Rodeo

Host a Bike Safety Rodeo! This is a time for children to be able to practice their riding skills with their parents and learn about safety. If your program does not have space for this consider hosting on a community lot such as a school or church (be sure to ask ahead of time). Ask parents to supply bikes and safety equipment, but be prepared with extras if possible. Set up cones for riding paths. Ask a local police or safety officer to attend the event to help teach about safety. Local bike shops may also be willing to help out. View Member Instructions

Family Memory Book-Family Engagement Idea

Creating resiliency in children is important for their mental health.
One way to help children develop resiliency is by showing them how loved they are by family and sharing special memories with them.
Reach out to family members that have known your children at different stages in their lives from birth to present day. Ask for them to share photographs and special memories that can be added to a book for each child. Encourage family members to write out these memories and communicate them with your children either by phone, in-person, or a video call.

Practice Personal Information

Work with preschoolers to practice personal information like:
-Name
-Age
-Address
-Phone Number
- Birthday
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