Preschool Popsicle Stick Puppets

We have made popsicle stick puppets a couple times now.

Bugs:
I cut out the circles before hand so the kids glued them together and drew bee stripes and lady bug dots.
Here's my example next to the four year old's and the two year old's bugs.

Halloween:
Again I cut them out before hand so that the kids could draw faces and glue them on the sticks.
The example followed by the four year old's puppets. This time the two year old wasn't interested in coloring.

Preschool cookies

My son loves cooking and has a variety of toy kitchen food, dishes, and appliances either store bought or homemade. Store bought might last longer, but cardboard will do when he wants it now.

toaster and knife block:

microwave:

I thought making cookies would be something the kids could do and then play with later.

Be careful if your young ones still like to tear.

What you need:
cardboard circles for the cookies
paper circles of various colors smaller than the cardboard circles for frosting
paper scraps of various colors

What the kids do:
Cut paper scraps into chocolate chips or sprinkles.
Glue frosting and sprinkles or chocolate chips onto the cookie.

Preschool activities and crafts

We do a little preschool here with some friends and family. The kids' ages rang from barely 2 to 5 so I have to find activities that the littles can do while the older ones still benefit from. We work on pen control with dry erase markers and pages in page protectors at the table first while everyone is arriving. They can trace shapes or their names or do mazes or matching activities. Once they're all done, we go sit on the floor to sing some songs and read a couple of picture books. Some weeks we do shapes or letters on the felt board.

After that we usually do our craft activity, have a snack, and then just play with toys. Now it's finally not too hot to go play outside.