Preschool Nocturnal Animals and Day & Night Themed Activities
On this page you'll find preschool Arctic Animals, and Ice themed activities for your preschool lesson plans.
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A Forest at Night Collage
Invite the children to make a forest at night using black construction paper, brown paper for the tree trunks, you can use pom poms dipped in paint for the tops of the trees and invite them to glue googly eyes down! This will look like a forest at night.
Coffee Filter Bats
The child will color their coffee filter, spray them with water and let them dry. When dry, use a black painted clothes pin to hang your bats up.
More ideas
Polar Bear Winter Craft from Crafty Morning
Arctic Small World Snow Dough from Best Toys 4 Toddlers
Cupcake Liner Igloo by I heart Crafty Things
Crystal Suncatcher by Babble Dabble Doo
Paint with Ice Chalk and Oil by Learn Play Imagine
Ice Painting by Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
Arctic Small World Snow Dough from Best Toys 4 Toddlers
Cupcake Liner Igloo by I heart Crafty Things
Crystal Suncatcher by Babble Dabble Doo
Paint with Ice Chalk and Oil by Learn Play Imagine
Ice Painting by Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
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Suggested Items to add to your Dramatic Play Learning space. For example
Turn your Dramatic Play space into the Arctic this week. Add White Felt, Winter Clothes, and Create an Igloo (or buy this pre-made one) for your space. Other fun ideas include Ice Fishing. and Creating an Indoor Skating Area. |
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Bat Cave
Turn your dramatic play area into a batcave by building a fort or you can bring in a small tent to cover with a black sheet. Incorporate flashlights as well, the kids will love this one.
More ideas from around the web:
Pretend Ice Fishing from My Catch a Star Classroom
Dramatic Play Winter Wonderland from Creative Tots
Ice Skating Rink by L.C SLP
Dramatic Play Winter Wonderland from Creative Tots
Ice Skating Rink by L.C SLP
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Suggested Items to add to building space or small world play area. This week you can add White Felt (to represent snow), Pretend Arctic Animals, Foam Cubes, and small clear plastic containers (to represent Icebergs). You can spray paint small cube blocks for the children to create Igloos with, cover them with white paper or purchase Rainbow Mags.
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This set of arctic animal blocks was created reader Erica P. of Erica's Educare Learning Center.
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Include pictures of dens, caves, spider webs and hollow nests. You can bring in loose parts like leaves, sticks, and bark pieces with nocturnal animals to enhance their block building.
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Nocturnal Animal Writing Tray
Using colored sand and a nocturnal animal list have the child practice writing in the tray
Little Owl's Night Book Activity
Read Little Owl’s Night and create a snack to go with: Use a waffle for the body, have them twist open an oreo for the eyes, grab some candy eyeballs to place on top and a candy corn for the nose. Such a fun activity to go with a book.
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Freebie:
Pair a favorite Arctic book with these FREE Arctic Number Puzzles from PKPF.
Into the Arctic by Roger Priddy is a wonderful book to share with preschoolers during this theme.
The unique see-through pages capture children's interest as they follow along discovering new arctic animals and finding old favorites through the book.
Into the Arctic by Roger Priddy is a wonderful book to share with preschoolers during this theme.
The unique see-through pages capture children's interest as they follow along discovering new arctic animals and finding old favorites through the book.
How Many Bats in the Cave?
Place different amounts of black pompoms inside brown paper bags. Have the child remove the pompoms and count how many are in each bag.
More ideas from around the web:
Polar Bear Paw Walk-Alphabet Game by Growing Book by Book
Make Ice Grow by Teach Preschool
Fishing for Ice by Science Kiddo
Fizzy Ice by Toddler Approved
Arctic Animal Rescue by Dirt and Boogers
Build Ice Castles by Fun-a-Day
Make Ice Grow by Teach Preschool
Fishing for Ice by Science Kiddo
Fizzy Ice by Toddler Approved
Arctic Animal Rescue by Dirt and Boogers
Build Ice Castles by Fun-a-Day
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Suggested Science, STEM, Sensory and Discovery Ideas for this Theme
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Night Playdough
Create an invitation to build playdough tray with black playdough, googly eyes, bat or spider cookie cutters. Invite the child to create their own nocturnal animal.
Black Bat Sensory Bin
Create a sensory bin using a filler of your choice such as colored rice, you will dye bow tie noodles black to represent your bats.
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Suggested Fine Motor, Gross Motor, Active Play, and Health Ideas for this Theme
*Practice sliding like a seal! Challenge your preschoolers to move like a seal; Children lie on their stomach then push up on hands until their arms are straight. Then they move across the room dragging their legs behind them. Extend this activity with more animal movements, find more examples here: 13 animal moves to help with your child's gross motor development from Pathways.org
*Practice sliding like a seal! Challenge your preschoolers to move like a seal; Children lie on their stomach then push up on hands until their arms are straight. Then they move across the room dragging their legs behind them. Extend this activity with more animal movements, find more examples here: 13 animal moves to help with your child's gross motor development from Pathways.org
Porcupine Playdough
Invite the children to create their own porcupine using playdough, googly eyes and toothpicks. Watch those fine motor skills at work when they are carefully placing their toothpicks.
Owl and Opossum Game
Have a conversation about how opossum’s are great at tricking their predators because they play dead. In a large space you can play a game where some students are the owls and others are opossums, have them play dead when their predator comes.
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Suggested activities to build skills related to Social-Emotional Development, Positive Character Traits, Culture & Community, History/Government, and Geography.
Nocturnal Animal Sort
Gather pictures of various animals and have the child sort the nocturnal animals into one category.
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Here are some fun Finger plays, Songs, and Rhymes to use during your circle time and group activities this week.
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Suggested activities for parents to do around their homes to extend the learning and make connections to the topic
