Fun, FREE Hands-on Preschool Lessons

Have you been looking for fun, FREE hands-on Preschool lessons that are filled with active projects that are both educational and fun? Learn by doing! Included are lessons full of dramatizations, edible projects, art projects, singing, crafts, games, and more! Also included are our favorite "living books"/picture books that compliment each lesson.

Lesson options include:

• Horses
• Japan
• Five Senses
• Building & Home Construction
• Attributes of God
• Manners
• Sheep, Wool, & Weaving
• Butterflies
• Bees & Honey
• Ladybugs
• Plants
• Military
• Laws & Obedience
• Sculpting
• Pottery,
• Lighthouses
• Illusions & Deception
• Gingerbread Man
• Science of Bread

• Horse Lesson Plan for Younger Children - Do you have a young child who loves horses? Use this fun, hands-on lesson or play date activity to explore horse breeds, gaits, diet, and more!

• Japan Lesson for Children - Make an origami paper crane, a carp fish kite, a Japanese meal, a Japanese doll, and more during this fun lesson on Japan!

Build a crawl-through ear as you study hearing, play scales on water glasses as you study music and sound, dissect a cow eyeball as you study sight, try to identify mystery objects simply by their smell, present on various aspects of the five senses, and more during this 4 lesson hands-on unit study of the five senses!

• Hearing and Sound Waves Lesson - This is part 1 of a 4 part hands-on thematic unit on the five senses. Build and crawl through a model of an ear, watch sound waves at work, make paper cup phones, use a stethoscope and otoscope, and more!
• Music and Instruments Lesson - This is part 2 of a 4 part hands-on unit study on the five senses. See the inside of a piano and how it works, study pitch while playing water glasses, test out different instruments, and more!
• Eyes and Seeing Lesson - This is part 3 of a 4 part hands-on unit on the five senses. Make an edible model of an eye, dissect a cow eyeball, visit an eye doctor, and more!
• Touch, Smell, & Taste Lesson in Five Senses Unit - This is part 4 of a 4 part hands-on unit on the five senses. Feel, smell, and taste mystery items, make a touch and feel book, and more!
• Five Senses Culminating Project and Field Trip Ideas - This is the culminating project for the 4 part hands-on unit on the five senses. The students created presentations on people and ideas related to the 5 senses and shared 5 Senses-themed snacks and desserts. (Recipes are included.) Also included is where we went for field trips during this unit.

• Building & Home Construction for Young Children - Do you have a young child who loves tools and building things? Build and paint a bird house, construct a house out of pretzels, and more in this fun, hands-on lesson exploring the world of home construction! these delightful ladybug books, watch the short ladybug video clips, and assemble ladybug lapbooks and worksheets during this fun hands-on lesson on ladybugs.

• Attributes of God Lesson for Young Children - Are you wondering how to teach your preschooler or young child about God and His character? Use this fun, hands-on lesson, family activity, or play group time to explore who God is and what He is like!

• Manners Lesson - Are you looking for a fun and interactive way to teach your children manners and etiquette? Use this fun role-playing lesson to practice manners at meals, on the phone, as a host or hostess, and more!

• Sheep, Wool, & Weaving Lesson - Looking for fun preschool and kindergarten ideas on sheep and wool? Make and eat edible sheep, card and dye wool, paint sheep paintings, and more in this fun activity on sheep and wool!

• Butterfly Lesson for Children - Do you have a young child who loves butterflies? Create butterfly crafts and snacks, play butterfly games, and more in this fun, hands-on lesson exploring the amazing world of butterflies!

• Bees and Honey Lesson for Young Children - Dance like a bee, make edible bees using honey balls, use cheese puff balls and and juice boxes to dramatize pollination, create pipe cleaner bees and have them fly to the tune of Flight of the Bumblebee, and more in this fun, hands-on preschool lesson on bees and honey!

• Ladybug Crafts for Kids - Do you have a young child like mine who loves ladybugs? Create easy and adorable ladybug crafts and edible ladybugs, read these delightful ladybug books, watch the short ladybug video clips, and assemble ladybug lapbooks and worksheets during this fun hands-on lesson on ladybugs.

• Plant Parts & Seeds Lesson for Preschool - Go on a seed hunt, act out germination, create seed mosaics, make and eat a plant parts salad, and more in this fun lesson on plants!

• Flowers Lesson for Preschool - Go on a flower hunt, dissect a flower, create edible flowers, paint flowers, and more in this fun lesson on flowers!

• Military Party for Children - Act like privates while training at boot camp, paint camo-style hats, set up a tent, battle using army men, and more in this fun 2 hour lesson, party, or family activity on the military.

• Laws and Obedience Lesson - Looking for a fun way to help preschoolers learn about obedience and laws? Create and eat edible 10 Commandments, play Cops and Robbers after reading about police officers, act of the fall of Adam and Eve, and more!

• Sculpting for Young Children - Examine works by Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, and others and the recreate their works through soap carvings, pizza dough sculpting, mobile making, and more!

• Pottery for Young Children - Create pinch pots, form animals out of Rice Krispie Treat "Clay," examine various types of pottery and more in this fun, hands-on lesson or "play date" activity to explore the world of pottery!

• Lighthouse Lesson - Create a model lighthouse, play a lighthouse game, read books about lighthouses, tour lighthouses using YouTube, and even eat a lighthouse in this fun, hands-on lesson or family activity on lighthouses.

• Illusion & Deception Lesson - Use this fun, hands-on lesson or family activity to explore deception and illusions in art, magic tricks, literature, and more!

• Gingerbread Man Lesson for Kindergarten - Ready for a fun kindergarten literature lesson on The Gingerbread Man? Compare and contrast two versions of the story, decorate gingerbread cookies, create character finger puppets to re-tell the story, and more in this fun literature lesson on The Gingerbread Man!

• The Science of Bread - What makes bread rise? Does the water temperature really matter? What about sugar? What's the difference between whole wheat and white flour? What does wheat look like? Find out all this and more in this fun, hands-on lesson or play date activity on the science of bread!

Each of the below unit studies is filled with active projects that are both educational and fun as you learn through Experiments, Cooking, Dramatizations, Costumes, Edible Crafts, Games, Crafts, Songs, Lapbooks, and lots of living books!

• Science Lessons and Unit Studies (17 unit studies & 90 lessons) : Astronomy, Geology, Biology, Plants, Genetics, CSI, Human Anatomy, Simple Machines, Electricity, Earth Science, Fossils, Weather, Five Senses, & Ecology
• American History Lessons and Unit Studies (8 unit studies & 81 lessons) : Explorers, Native Americans, American Colonies, Independence, Westward Expansion, Presidents, and more through World War II
• World History Lessons and Unit Studies (8 unit studies & 39 lessons): Tabernacle, Medieval Period, Leonardo da Vinci, Protestant Reformation, Explorers, China, Russia, & Africa
• Geography Lessons and Unit Studies (8 unit studies & 112 lessons) : 50 States, China, Japan, Russia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, & Countries A - Z
• Art Lessons for Early Elementary (34 lessons) : Artists and Elements of Art, Leonardo da Vinci, Medieval Art, Sculpting, & Pottery
• Preschool Lessons (23 lessons) : Horses, Manners, Five Senses, Attributes of God, Butterflies, Plants, Bees, Military, Construction, Sculpting, Science of Bread, Ladybugs, Sheep & Wool, Japan, Lighthouses, Laws & Obedience, Illusions & Deception, & the Gingerbread Man
• Holiday Lessons (13 lessons) : Thanksgiving, Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, Summer Fun, & Reformation Day

• Homeschool Schedules & Tips : Our Homeschool Schedules at various stages, what I do with my Toddlers and Babies, how to Start a Co-op, our Favorites, and our lessons for Classical Conversations, KONOS, and Abeka.