E is for Eyes

• Eye color sorting
• The dollar store has plastic eye balls, usually during Halloween time. Stock up! Try to get different colored eyes if possible!
• Using paper craft rolls (or TP rolls) paint or color them colors to match the eyeball colors. AKA ‘sorting tubes’.
• Tape them to a container, or wall, or other place that your preschooler can drop the eyes in and have them fall through. *we used a big plastic tub.
• Make sorting a fun moving game. 
• Put all the unsorted eyes in a bag, bowl or lay them on the floor on one side of the room and the sorting tubes on the other side. Have your preschooler/s run back and forth sorting.
• Put the different sorting tubes in different places in the room, and the eyes in the middle. Have them pick one eyeball, run to that colored sorting tub and drop the eye in. Run back and get another.
• Lay out the different colored eyeballs and tell your preschooler a color. They will find one eyeball that color and put it in the matching sorting tube. Come back and do it again.

• Play I Spy
• Using our eyes, we played a game of I spy!
• 1 round – only spy a color
• 2 round – only spy shapes
• 3 round – only spy high or low
• etc.

• Circles & Eyeball drawing
• With my Silhouette machine, I cut out TONS of different sized circles on different colored paper.
• I laid them out on the table with some markers and let the kids get creative drawing eyeballs.
• show them different kinds of eyes. Ie: cat eyes, human eyes, scary eyes, sad eyes, sleepy eyes, spider eyes, etc.
• If your “E is for Eyes” preschool is during Halloween season, tape them all over as a decoration (we put ours on the garage door!)

**For more Eye preschool activities, click HERE**

O (circle shapes)

• Painting O’s … my 3-year-old thought this was so cool!
  1. Need a blank paper and a shallow tray of paint (orange paint would work nicely for O week!)
  2. Dip the end of a toilet paper tube into the paint, then stamp O’s all over your paper.
  3. Try the end of a straw in another color of paint to make tiny circles.
  4. Try a clean, dry plastic bottle top (you know, the screw on kind from juice bottles or a gallon of milk) for medium circles.
  5. You could even use a cup turned upside-down dipped in paint.

 

• NAME-O!
  1. Write each of the kids' names on a strip of paper. To make the game a little more exciting write their full name.
  2. Give then a cup of O-shaped cereal.
  3. Place a set of letter cards in a bag.
  4. To play, remove a card and let the kids announce the letter.
  5. The kids see if they have that letter and, if so, cover it with a cheerio.
  6. When all their letters are covered, they can call out "Name-O!" Clear the cards & play again!
• Play with a Hoola Hoop or make a simple Ring Toss game.
• Circle Shape Hunt
  1. Go on a shape hunt around the house and find as many different circles shapes as you can (clock, plates, balls, doorknobs…)

Snack Idea: a bagel with your favorite spread and decorated with Cheerios