Help the children make up menus of their favorite foods or snacks. We ended up with architectural structures the size of China and the little ones had to hide their marshmallows, but everyone had a blast.

If the older kids are bored, this is a great activity for them to try as well. A Marshmallow Snackįor snacks, make marshmallow stick figures with mini-marshmallows and toothpicks. Then follow the map to find a hidden treasure maybe M&M’s. For fun, have them guess how many paper clips will stick to one magnet and then try it.ĭraw a map of a familiar area, (the town, their room, your house, etc.) and help the children find where they are on the map. Then test your hypothesis by trying one object at a time to see if they attract or repel.

You can talk about attracting and repelling. Have some fun with magnets! Get a strong magnet and several other objects, and then have the children guess which of the objects will stick to a magnet and which will not. Or glue macaroni onto construction paper to make simple pictures. Make macaroni necklaces or bracelets by stringing macaroni onto a string. Preschool Letter “M” ActivitiesĪnd now, getting back on the subject, here are some letter “M” activities for “M week”: Macaroni Jewelry You can call it what you want, but for several years now children all over our country have been learning that this world is bigger than the United States and that even a child can forget himself, and make a difference. Now, I had heard that some were criticizing the President’s money-raising effort as propaganda or a gimmick, trying to promote the cause of war. They explained that they would split the money and each send a dollar to the White House for the children in Afghanistan. They had drawn a face on each dusty rock and were offering them for the low, low price of 25 cents.

You see, some of our neighborhood kids, bringing to mind a Tom Sawyer story, knocked on our door with a wagonload of rocks and a Sharpie marker. These rocks were special because they represented a nation, full of children wanting to help children who were without a nation. Not because they were spectacular rocks or even wanted, for that matter. I thought about sending them to the President. Making A Difference With Rocksįunnily enough, whenever I think about the letter M, I think about this time I bought a couple of rocks shortly after the attack on the World Trade Center towers in September 2001. Luckily, I’ve done it for you! Keep reading for some letter “M” activities to do with your preschooler at home, or anywhere else you may be. I mean, you’ve got marshmallows, monkeys, mail, moon, mud, mouse, the list goes on! But while the “M” words may come easy, coming up with letter “M” activities is not always so easy. M seems like one of the easier letters to teach preschoolers.

Letter m crafts