Let your students become construction workers for a day with construction worker-themed dress-up clothes in the dramatic play area. Provide work boots (rain boots will work), orange vests and construction hats. In addition, give students tool belts with toy hammers, saws, drills and nails. Stop signs and caution cones are also good additions.
Turn your classroom into a construction zone. Collect boxes in different shapes and sizes, from small cereal boxes to large boxes for appliances. Encourage students to stack the boxes to create buildings. Fill the sensory table or an empty plastic tub with sand and provide toy dump trucks, bulldozers, nails, shovels, hammers and blocks for students to use to build a structure.
Help students build a masterpiece while teaching them shape recognition. Cut out shapes in a variety of sizes and colors from construction paper. Include circles, squares, rectangles, triangles and any other shapes your preschool students recognize. Place shapes together in a box or basket, and ask students to choose 10 shapes. Give each student a piece of white card stock and a glue stick. Ask students to glue the shapes onto the paper to construct buildings, roads or bridges using the shapes they picked. Once they have finished gluing the shapes to the paper, provide crayons for students to decorate their creations.
Help students become construction workers with activities that build their fine motor skills and enhance creativity. Give students play dough and tongue depressors, and show them how to use these items to create different structures such as houses, schools or roads, suggests the website Prekinders. Show students how to use the tongue depressors to hold up pieces of play dough to build high walls. Add small toy people, animals or cars and encourage your students to work together to create a town. Take pictures of the students' creations and post them in the classroom.