Preschool Multicultural Activities

Passports
Promote multicultural awareness and self-esteem with this
early childhood education activity by Matina.
Materials: Paper and a camera.
Description: We made passports by stapling white paper to
construction paper. Then from January until May we studied a
different country. We studied Russia, Africa, Ireland, Israel,
China, Antarctica, Australia, Mexico, Japan, France, Hawaii,
and Saudi Arabia. Then for each country the youngsters wore
a hat or a prop from that country (ex: France, beret). We
took pictures of each child wearing his or her hat or prop.
Then I glued the pictures into each child's individual passport
and gave it to them along with a world traveler certificate at
the end of the year. They had lots of fun "dressing up!"

Preschool Math Lesson Plan

Number Hunt
Ali promotes number recognition and encourages preschool
children to place numbers in order during this early math
activity.
Materials: A set of number cards relevant to your children, 010 or 1-5 depending on abilities. Try writing the number and
corresponding dots along with the number word on each card.

Description: In advance, teachers discuss the number cards

with the children. Next, children sit down and close their
eyes, then the teacher hides number cards around the room.
Children now have to find the numbers. When they find
the numbers they arrange them in to order. This activity can
be played in the garden where more exciting hiding places can
be found.
By cutting different shapes e.g. fish for the number cards the
game can be theme based. When using fish, I ask the children
to feed a shark with the fish in order. The shark is a
cardboard box with a toothy mouth cut in it. If you make a
hole in the back of the box you can put your arm inside and
grab the fish from the children like a real shark. The children
really enjoy learning number concepts this way.
Comments: Just plain numbers are fun but by changing the
shape of the numbers the children feel their playing another
game and experience a great deal of number concept
reinforcement.

Preschool Shape lesson plan

Shape Seeker
Materials: Construction paper, scissors, and tape.

Description: Cut out a number of triangles, squares, circles,

and rectangles from the construction paper. Hold up one
shape at a time for the class to see and call out the name. Let
the students repeat after you. Help your students remember
these shapes better by associating them with the every-day
things that they resemble. For example, a circle looks like a
clock; a triangle looks like a sandwich, etc. Now ask the class
to close their eyes and recite the alphabet. In the meantime,
tape shape cutouts all around the classroom. When the
students are done, call each student one at a time and send
them to seek out a particular shape.