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Music & Songs
- Music and movement activities
- Classic children’s songs
- Good morning songs
- Counting songs
- Finger plays
- Music games
- Clean-up songs
- Body percussion songs
- Bedtime rhymes
- Hand-washing songs
- Action songs
Early Literacy Activities
- Pre-reading skills
- Listening skills activities
- Rhyming activities
- Letter recognition activities
- Multi-step directions
- Listen-and-draw
- Open-ended questions
- Vocabulary games
- Positional language
- Auditory perception
- Visual perception
- Thinking skills for story time
- Name-writing practice
- Pre-writing activities
- Would you rather questions
Early Numeracy Activities
Educational Games
- Classic games
- Circle-time games
- Word games (car games)
- Clapping games
- Group games
- Quiet games
- Memory games
- Hula hoop games
- Transition games
- Social skills games
- Cognitive games
- Category games
- Jump rope games
- Chasing games
- Hide and seek games
Themes
- 100 preschool themes
- The body; body songs
- Sense of sight
- Sense of hearing
- Sense of taste
- Sense of touch
- Sense of smell
- Feelings
- Kindness
- Safety
- Food songs; cooking activities
- Learning about colours
- Colour mixing activities
- Tolerance and diversity; diversity songs
- Weather songs; rainbow songs
- Rain activities
- Gardening
- The ocean; ocean songs
- Floating and sinking
- Water experiments
- Farm animals; farm songs
- Animal songs; animal games
- Birds
- Transportation
Useful Info
Gross Motor Development
- Gross motor activities
- Gross motor milestones
- Hand-eye coordination
- Crossing the midline
- Bean bag activities
- Body awareness activities
- Obstacle course ideas
- Balancing activities
- Proprioceptive input
- Vestibular activities
- Posture, core & stability activities
- Ball activities
- Position in space
Fine Motor Development
- Fine motor activities
- Fine motor milestones
- Painting activities
- Tearing activities
- Art activities
- Finger painting ideas
- Playdough recipes
- Playdough activities
- Puppets
- Chalk ideas
- Threading beads
- Cutting activities
- Collage ideas
- Pasting activities
- Popsicle stick crafts
- Fine motor games
More Activities
- Short stories
- Fairy tale poems
- Water play ideas
- Sand play ideas
- Sensory station ideas
- Teaching matching
- Teaching sorting/grouping
- Teaching seriation
- Teaching sequencing
- Playing shop
- Loose parts play
- Role play ideas
- Brain breaks
- Calming activities
- Bathtub ideas
- Attention span activities
- Problem-solving skills
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Hi and Welcome!
I’m Tanja McIlroy, the creator of Empowered Parents.
As a former teacher, my passion is sharing information with parents and educators on child development and the importance of learning through play in the early years.
My website is filled with simple ideas and play-based activities for 3-6-year-olds.