Preschoolers learn through exploring and experimenting with different textures. Create a variety of sensory stations throughout the room. Place clay on one table, fill a bucket with soapy water and fill a large container with sand. Put additional toys at each station, such as wooden blocks at the clay station and toy trucks at the sand station. Divide children into groups and assign one group to each station. Let children play freely, then have them rotate stations after 10 minutes.
Try as they might, most preschoolers don't yet have the coordination or strength to throw, catch or kick balls with precision. Doing these activities in large groups is difficult, so break children into small groups for practice. Have each group sit in a circle with each child a few feet away from his neighbor. Give one child in each group a soft ball, such as a kick ball or beach ball. Ask children to first gently roll the ball to another child in the circle. Once they've done that for a few minutes, have the children stand up. Let them practice tossing and kicking the ball across the circle.
Show children what interesting work they can create when they work together. Give each child a large piece of white paper and some crayons. Set a timer for two minutes. Ask children to start to draw a picture. When the timer sounds, have children give their papers to the child on their right. Set the timer for two minutes again. Children must add to the drawing that another child started. Continue until each child has worked on each drawing. The finished drawings will have a bit of each child's imagination in them.
Storytelling in small groups requires children to work together to build one story. Give each group a random object from the classroom, such as a box of crayons or a toy truck. Name one student in each group who will go first. That student must hold the object, then make up the first sentence of a story about it. He then passes the object to a child next to him, who adds another sentence to the story. Continue on until the children run out of ideas.