Toys for preschool children include LEGOs, wooden colored blocks, Wonderfoam letters and numbers sets, wooden ABC blocks, wooden geometric three-dimensional shapes, bead sequencing sets, spinning wheel sets and more. Toys for preschool should not only be large and colorful but also imaginative, to improve motor skills and hand-eye coordination and enhance creativity in kids.
Arts and craft supplies for preschool kids enable them to experiment with different shapes and colors and express themselves through drawing, painting and collage. Art and craft supplies for preschool teachers are available at most craft stores in the neighborhood, although there's always a wider selection online. These supplies include stationary easels, chubby brushes, crayons, spill-proof painting cups, watercolor paper and kids' aprons.
These supplies for preschool teachers include charts, globes, big hands-on clock faces, maps, musical instruments, stencils, costumes, flags, posters, banners and teaching software. This material is essential to any teacher's repertoire, since it revolves around the teacher's annual lesson plan.
Of all the supplies preschool kids need, books are the most important. Be it story books, workbooks, flip books or lesson books, they are integral to a child's academic development. Books bring stories to life and are the perfect way to paint pictures in a child's head and help her understand the connection between the spoken word and the written word.
Visual aids for preschool kids include alphabetic, numerical, animal, color and letter flashcards that help the kids make a connection between words and images. Jigsaw puzzles also function as visual aids that encourage concentration and use of mind power to connect two or more pieces to form an image, and thus a word to describe it. Examples are jigsaw puzzles of animals, birds and trees.