Use a teddy bear cookie cutter or stencil to trace bear shapes onto brown construction paper. Allow your preschool kids to use scissors and cut the bear shape from the brown paper. Use markers, crayons, paper scraps and other craft materials to decorate the bears. Have the children put a dot of glue on the end of a craft stick and attach the bears to the end of a stick. As an extension activity, put on a Goldilocks and the Three Bears puppet play using the bear puppets.
Gather brown pompoms in a variety of sizes. Show the preschoolers how to use two large pompoms for the head and body of the bear and six smaller pompoms for the feet, hands and ears. Preschool kids can decorate the fuzzy bears with felt scraps, creating ears, a mouth or accessories for the bears. Have the children glue on googly eyes, and the miniature bears resemble the kids' teddy bears.
Using blue construction paper, draw the outline of a polar bear in black marker. Give the preschoolers cotton balls and allow them to fill in the polar bear shape using the cotton balls and glue. Discuss polar bear habitats and the climate in which they live. Have children complete the scene on the blue paper to show the environment where a polar bear lives.
Use this activity for preschool children who are learning shapes and need scissors' practice. You can create these bears using any color, depending on the type of bears you are studying. Draw three different-size circles on brown, white and black construction paper and a number of small circles on red paper. Help children use scissors to cut out all of the circles. Help the children arrange the circles so that they resemble a bear face. For example, use a large circle for the head, two small circles for eyes, a medium circle for the snout and a small red circle for the nose. Children can cut one medium-sized circle in half to create two bear ears. Glue all the pieces together to create a bear face.