Learning About Day and Night with Preschoolers
What happens in the daytime? What happens at night? Our preschoolers love to talk about this. In fact, often when we read a story, they will notice if it’s day or night. Once we introduce nocturnal animals, they are amazed that some animals sleep during the day! Learning about day and night can provide a lot of hands-on activities, some of which I will be showing you in this post. We placed our favorite day and night books at our science table along with a black and white collage we made on canvas. We asked our preschoolers to bring in a small item that was either black or white and we sorted them in the black and white bowls.
Everything in our sensory bin was also black or white.
Black and White Art
Oh how we love marble painting! Have you tried it yet? It is the ultimate process art activity.
We love marble painting because a lot of concentration is needed to carefully spoon the marbles into the box lid.
It’s super easy to set up. Place paper into some sort of tray with edges. We love using box lids.
Golf balls can be used, too! We like to mix things up a bit.
It takes great concentration to spoon the marbles and golf balls into the box lid. Then, the box lid is tipped back and forth to move the marbles around. Noticing the paint’s tracks is so much fun!
Don’t you just love this bulletin board display? We love decorating our classroom with the children’s art!
More day and night activities for preschoolers:
Nighttime Preschool Activities (Educator’s Spin On It) What Makes Day and Night? (Playground Parkbench)
Preschool Dinosaur Activities Learning About Bats Learning About Bees Here is my Privacy Policy
