We continue with our proposals to create a booklet of holiday activities for four-year-olds, having seen examples of fun tokens for the little ones.
Now, with four years, the kids continue to show their interest in drawing, coloring, cutting, although they have learned more letters, the strokes are more complicated, curves predominate, they already associate numbers and quantity up to five, understand more concepts complex ...
In addition, we encourage you to complete the booklet with blank cards so that children can paste photos of the summer, or magazine clippings, draw what they have done during the day ... to give it a more personal touch.
Here you have a selection of printable activity sheets, suitable for the child's four years, some very simple for them to do alone and others that can be completed with our help:
In Chips for children we find a selection of grafomotricity cards, joining with lines, finding differences, geometric shapes, coloring to work concepts such as front-back, small-large ...
In this Picasaweb site (20 photos) (accessed with Google account) there are multiple tokens for four years, as well as in this one (48 photos), with activities of logic and concepts or the selection of 102 photos of chips.
Vedoque offers tokens for children from the age of three, with a review of numbers and letters, joining with arrows ...
In Scribd we find an interesting selection of cards for numbers from one to four, complete series, vowels and geometric shapes.
These are the four-year grafomotricity tokens that we find in Play and color. And as a complement that they can do with your help, I recommend these animal cutouts to create and assemble.
In Yodibujo we find in the "Summer" section many interesting resources, puzzles, crafts, coloring pictures, photo frames ...
Very fun are the Mundomumu grafomotricity cards, which help to develop the stroke and at the same time form drawings that you can color.
In PT classroom resources these tabs appear to learn how to trim, an activity that they love. After three years the use of scissors (for children, of course) entertains them will help them develop fine motor skills. The resulting figures can be colored and customized, hung in the fridge ...
Let's review everything that stimulates them and the skills they have acquired at this age, to focus on this type of activities, and pointing out that we must seek variety and especially fun, which is also easily found in tasks not related to paper and pencil.
At four years they already know all the parts of the body, they make more complex series (alternating color, shape or size), they dominate the basic concepts: large-small-medium, high-low, long-short, near-far, thick- thin, on one side, on the other side, full-empty, hard-soft, front-back ...
With respect to geometric shapes, square, circle, triangle, oval, rectangle dominate and the strokes have become more complex than at three years. The realization of puzzles and memory activities, attention are also very appropriate at this age.
There is recognition and literacy of the vowels, and they have expanded their vocabulary considerably, so we can create our word and picture cards (for example: family, school, animals, plants, clothing, summer ...) .
We encourage you to create a activity booklet for four year olds with these and other materials that you can think of, seeking variety and leaving space for your most personal creations, such as free drawing, finger painting, trimming and pasting ...
