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Indoor Activities for the preschool years
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items I know we have all been there.... stuck in the house ALL day with a preschooler. Weather its from bad weather, needing to teach multiple children, or because you are traveling and have limited access to outdoor spaces we have all been stuck with the ...
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Fine motor skill activities
Creative activities
social activities
pretend play
sensory play
educational activities
Fine motor skill activities
You might be surprised to learn that there are many benefits to indoor play for your Preschooler. It can give you an opportunity to develop fine motor skills!
Sorting toys make counting and color sorting practice a real pleasure! Kids simply hold the tweezers like a pencil, then grab the balls and place them in the tube by color. Kids can master early math, color recognition, matching, counting, and sortin...
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Broytain Counting & Color Sorting Toys
wooden stacking burger toys contain 15 activity cards, a wooden base and 8 wooden ingredient pieces: lettuce, beef, onion, cheese, tomatoes, bread and egg. Lots of cards and treats, enough for kids to make burgers of all flavors, and the bright color...
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Jumlys Wooden Burger Stacking Toys for Kids
Develop the kid's hand fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, and cultivate their logical ability and hands-on ability. Keys of different shapes can well exercise toddlers' thinking ability. Finding the correct key to open the treasure will mak...
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KAIDIFI 30 Pcs Farm Animals Motor Skill Toys
The activity board is a sensory activities toy to help kids learn basic fine manual skills, It will keep your kids busy and let them focus on the natural learning activities. Our montessori screw driver board will improve the kid's fine motor skills,...
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Inslat Montessori Screwdriver Board Set
This wooden montessori toy is cute and easy to attract children's attention. Good to develop their fine motor skill and hand-eye coordination. The beads size is perfect for toddler hands. Kids can make lovely wooden necklaces, bracelets, they will fe...
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Montessori Wooden Lacing Beads Toys for Toddlers
24 pc jumbo nuts and bolts set; fun activity to build fine motor skills for kids, promotes hand eye coordination, develop and strengthen visual perception skills, visual motor coordination, increases attention and focus; occupational therapy toys, se...
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LotFancy 24pcs Nuts and Bolts Montessori Toys
Creative activities
You might be surprised to learn that there are many benefits to indoor play for your Preschooler. It can give you an opportunity to show her creativity!
This mess-free craft activity encourages creativity! Kids can create beautiful DIY princesses using fabric squares that are poked into foam to decorate their gowns. Then, they can craft their very own DIY wand and cast spells for all types of magical...
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Skillmatics Poke-in Art Magical Princesses
Scratch art set easy to carry and use, great travel toy for kids. And it's a fun item for kids' indoor activities on rainy days and a must-have outdoor toy for family picnics outside.Keep your child busy and immersed in the world of art.
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ZMLM 60PCS Rainbow Scratch Paper Art Kit
It helps to promote children's brain development and creativity; Enhance imagination, concentration and strengthen the hands-on ability and interactively ability of building friendship!
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WATINC 6Pcs Hand Puppet Making Kit - Animals
This paint set is not just a toy, but a valuable learning tool for preschool classrooms. It encourages creativity, fine motor skills, and color recognition in young learners.
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Crayola Color Wonder Magic Light Brush
Paper cups craft kit- Craft and design 8 animal characters from paper cups and a variety of different accessories. Fun gift arts & craft for kids 3-5 includes everything to create a horse, rabbit, penguin, chicken, snowman, butterfly, cow, and a ...
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Kids Arts and Crafts Kit - 8 Animal Projects
Kids can use these cute stampers to decorate greeting cards, DIY scrapbooks, pictures and more. Unlock your children's creativity to create colorful crafts with these stampers. This is a great interactive toy for toddlers to learn and play in a fun a...
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Coogam 20pcs Wooden Animal Stamps Set
social activities
You might be surprised to learn that there are many benefits to indoor play for your Preschooler. I liked to use indoor play time as a chance to teach early social skills!
Social Skills Boxed Game Set features engaging games to help young children and children with special needs learn essential social skills, such as how to have conversations, manage emotions, play with others, and more.
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Social Skills Boxed Game Set for Kids
How do you feel today? Sometimes preschoolers can’t answer it. This social emotional games will help them recognize their emotions & describe feelings by revealing the emotions on the flannel Face board; Speech therapy toys can help children lear...
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Craftstory 116 Pcs Social-Emotional Learning
Develop children’ s independence and self-reliance with our unique designed Montessori busy-board for toddlers! Basic life skills set contains Shoe Tying practice , BUTTON toys, SNAP, LACE, ZIP string toy, BUCKLE, and HOOP & LOOP life skills prac...
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Creatoy Montessori Fine Motor Toys for Toddlers
Get kids talking about their school day and beyond with this social-emotional learning toy’s 30 double-sided conversation cards!
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Learning Resources Unpack Your Day Kit
Conversation Flash Cards help us to understand the friendly illustrations by making inferences using logic, observation, and social experience. What's Going On Here? conversation cards cultivate valuable communication skills and help build an essenti...
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eeBoo What's Going on Here? Flashcards
Engage children with familiar songs featuring new, colorful lyrics that teach valuable social-emotional skills.
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Gentle Hands: Sing-Along for Social-Emotional
pretend play
There are a lot of way to turn these pretend play activities into an educational opportunity such as taking turns, solving problems, communication, and fine motor control. My favorite part of pretend play with my preschooler was seeing the elaborate ...
This bright and colourful Wooden Kitchen Set and inspire early imaginative play by helping children to understand the concept of "making" food to eat.
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ROBUD Wooden Play Kitchen Set for Kids
Realistic and colorful wooden play food set for kids includes watermelon, fish, cheese, milk, bread, eggs, steak, and 4 wooden storage box, providing your toddler with a perfect kitchen pretend play kitchen experience for healthy imaginary play.
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Food Groups - Wooden Play Food Set for Toddlers
Your little one no longer need to hesitate about their dream career, now they can realize all their dreams with this set.14pcs dress up costume set for toddler boys and girls allows kids to role play immersively into 4 different professions
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DISHIO Kids Dress Up Costumes Trunk Age 3-6
hese package comes with a kids mailman hat,a mail carrier bag,a post man vest,10 pieces of envelopes,complete costume for dressing up as a postal carrier.
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Keymall Kids Mailman Costume Set
Full of 33 Pieces pretend play medical equipment, contains a doctor coat, cap, stethoscope that can make real heartbeats, stainless steel tray, iodine cup, medical illumination lamp, wooden syringe, tweezer, capsules, cotton, glasses, thermometer, wa...
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34 Pcs Toddler Doctor Kit with Costume & Toys
Let your child have a real & fun gardening experience with this gardening tools for kids while playing outside. This functional toddler gardening set includes a washable & adjustable garden apron w/ pockets, kids sun hat, water spray bottle, ...
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Born Toys Kids Pretend Play Costume Set
sensory play
I know a lot of parents have seen the trend to make creative themed boxes for their toddlers/preschoolers. These themed boxes are a great way to utilize pretend play spaces like kitchen sets, costumes, and sensory play
4 pack container for setting up and containing your sensory play items
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IRIS USA 6 Qt. Plastic Storage Bins, 4 Pack
The brightly colored sand is easy to shape into any shape and kids can use their imagination and creativity to create all kinds of toy scenes. When kids play with the sand, they can grab, pinch, knead and shape it, which creates a calming effect that...
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11lbs Moldable Self-Sticking Sand - 5 Colors
smooth, squishy water beads create a soothing tactile experience.
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Jacisk 50000pcs Water Beads & 200pcs Giant Balls
Let Kids give full play to their imagination and design various modelling without restriction
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MIKNEKE 81 Wooden Sensory Bin Filler Toys
Great set to have on hand for sensroy bins. The set encourages imaginative play, sorting skills, and hand-eye coordination as children sort, mix, and play with the various animal figures. It's a great educational toy for toddlers and young kids.
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JOYIN 69 Pcs Mini Animal Figures Playset
Fun activities for every stage used for transferring, pouring but also stacking, nesting, and kitchen Learning. It’s designed with carries fun and learning activities that range in complexity to meet every stage of your child’s growth
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MONT PLEASANT Sensory Bin Toys for Toddlers
educational activities
Preschoolers learn a lot - and the best through play. Using indoor play time as an educational opportunity can be as simple as having some puzzles available, STEM kits, or letter and number games. However my favorite form of educational activities is...
The base of the puzzle board has corresponding patterns that help children match pieces up. The pieces are raised from the puzzle board to ensure easy lifting
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Wooden Dress-up Peg Puzzle for Toddlers
Alphabet number shape puzzles can be used to learn preschool common sense, and animal dinosaur vehicle puzzles combine children's interests and common sense of life. This set of jigsaw puzzles can improve children's learning ability, hand-eye coordin...
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GRINNNIE Wooden Peg Puzzle Set for Toddlers
Preschoolers through first graders learn about diverse topics such as plants, animals, weather, transportation, insects, and much more!
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Carson Dellosa STEM Challenge Jr. Card Kit
Enhance your child’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math skills with the STEM building block toys. At the same time, it can develop children's fine motor development, artistic cognitive, practical ability, imagination and creativity.
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TOMYOU 200 Pcs Building Blocks STEM Toys
This fun and educational set combines color recognition, spelling practice, and hand-eye coordination. With this amazing letter magnet set, kids can practice spelling words, develop their word skills, and learn to identify different colors. The hands...
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JoyCat 156-Piece Lowercase Alphabet Magnets
Number Puzzle Counting Toys has 26 self-correcting match and learn puzzles for toddlers with unique interlocking joints that fit only if they match. Watch little ones pair toddler puzzles pictures with the correct numbers & words by themselves!
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Momo & Nashi Number Puzzle Math Games
Story Time
Preschoolers learn a lot - and the best through play. Using indoor play time as an educational opportunity can be as simple as having some puzzles available, STEM kits, or letter and number games. However my favorite form of educational activities is...
Nee naw, nee naw! The fire truck is here to save the day. Peek into the cab, roll out the hoses and slide out the ladder to find out how it works. Truck-obsessed toddlers will love all the details to spot, flaps to lift and holes to peek through. An ...
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Peek Inside how a Fire Truck works
Discover what a symphony is. Who Beethoven was. What happens when a conductor takes the podium and faces of the orchestra. And when you should and shouldn’t clap. Here is a unique, interactive introduction to the world of classical music, presenting ...
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Welcome to the Symphony: Beethoven's 5th
Celebrate the beauty of butterflies as they flit and flutter off the pages of this book. Incredible pop-ups show butterflies actually moving their wings, emerging from a chrysalis and migrating in clouds right off the page. Learn how butterflies' win...
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Pop-Up Butterflies (Pop-Ups)
From hovering hummingbirds and dancing pink flamingos, to diving penguins and owls spreading their wings before your very eyes, birds fly off the page in this gorgeous pop-up book. Lyrically written and informative, this book is a delight to read alo...
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Pop-Up Birds (Pop-Ups)
Snuggle up to your favorite nursery rhymes and drift into the magical worlds of all your most beloved fairytale characters with this unique collection of enchanting stories carefully selected to enthrall 3-year-olds. Enjoy the classic tales of Chicke...
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A Collection of Stories for 3 Year Olds
Snuggle up to your favorite nursery rhymes and drift into the magical worlds of all your most beloved fairytale characters with this unique collection of enchanting stories carefully selected to enthrall 4-year-olds. Enjoy the classic tales of The Ug...
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A Collection of Stories for 4 Year Olds
Snuggle up to your favorite nursery rhymes and drift into the magical worlds of all your most beloved fairytale characters with this unique collection of enchanting stories carefully selected to enthrall 5-year-olds. Enjoy the classic tales of Rumpel...
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A Collection of Stories for 5 Year Olds
Indoor Energy Burning activities
The real struggle of keeping a preschooler happy and engaged inside is the amount of energy they have. I mean at this age they want to move all the time and we should definitely be encouraging our children to learn how to move their bodies safely, ta...
Indoor trampoline for kids is built to last, with a thickened steel frame, 3 U-shaped legs with non-slip suction pads, and a 360° wrap-around safety pad. Plus, with dense safety netting and upgraded foam, it's a robust and secure space for your littl...
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ZCMHAXJ 55" Kids Trampoline with Enclosure
Get creative and active with a modular set of balancing beams that connect any which way!
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B. toys Balance Beam Set for Kids
Promote Balance and Coordination – This 10-piece stepping stones set promotes physical activity and active play, inspiring your child to jump, stretch, climb, and balance for full-body exercise.
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10 Stepping Stones for Kids - Balance Blocks
This foam climbing block for toddlers 3 years old is made of high quality soft foam and soft PU leather, durable and very easy to clean and maintain. Your child can safely toddle and roll on the toddler climbing toy that is both soft and supportive. ...
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TODIBY 6-Piece Soft PU Leather Climbing Toys
A rocking toy with a bowl shaped seat and molded-in grip handles to help toddlers and young children develop coordination and balance
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Simplay3 Wobble Disk & Climbing Dome - Green
This colorful bouncing ball features a sturdy handle and invites children to ride and bounce as high as they can go.
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Toysmith Hoppy Ball 18" Bounce Ball, Blue