The website First-School.ws offers a series of free childhood development activities for teachers of preschool, kindergarten, daycare and after-school care to use while in the planning process. The activities are meant for children ages two to six and feature preschool lesson plans, early childhood activities and printable crafts and worksheets. Topics covered in the activities include crafts, animals, Spanish, the alphabet and holidays. These activities help students ease into the learning process and have fun while their brains are developing.
TheIdeaBox.com offers free crafts, activities and music for teachers looking to increase development in children, based on topics such as dealing with the five senses to coloring to the importance of healthy eating. The activities provided by the website also teach students through the use of song and music to help them remember important things such as numbers and letters, grammar, spelling and even other languages.
HighlightsTeachers.com offers a free teacher toolbox with activities that encourage young students to think. For instance, the site features a number of printable puzzles, crafts, stories and coloring pages. These activities not only encourage creativity, but also encourage students to accomplish a goal such as putting an entire puzzle together or reading through an entire poem. The site also offers guides for parents and teachers to help promote childhood development.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA.org) offers a list of activities parents and teachers should be doing on a daily basis to encourage childhood development from birth to six years old. For instance, ASHA suggests that you should read to children under two years old. For children between two and four years old, show photographs and have children tell you a story about the person in the photo. For children between four and six years old, encourage activities that give children steps to follow.