Easy Preschool Lesson Themes

There are an unlimited number of potential preschool lesson themes, ranging from animals and insects to people and everyday items. Even colors, shapes and letters can become lesson themes when used properly. For instance, heart shapes and the colors red or pink are common themes for Valentines Day, or linking the color blue to nursery rhymes like Little Boy Blue can be expanded into an entire weekly lesson plan focusing on both the color blue and the letterB. For an extra easy preschool theme, find a nursery rhyme or finger play and work around the characters/activities in it.If you are looking for easy preschool themes a great place to start is with animals. Most children adore animals,  and ideas for animal themes are easy to find, making this one of the most common categories used in teaching preschool lessons. Animals appear in numerous preschool crafts, nursery rhymes, and preschool games; they come in a wide assortment of colors, sizes, and personalities; and they offer the added advantage of providing a comfortable  platform from which to teach everything from academics to proper behavior. Plus, with such a wide range of options available, you can pick and choose what types of lessons to teach using the animal you prefer. Teach letters from the sounds animals  such as pigs, cats, dogs, and cows make;  or encourage movement by having children act like birds, frogs, horses, and elephants.Insects are another popular category for preschool lesson themes.  These tiny creatures have a way of capturing the imaginations of children of all ages, but are particularly appealing to very small children. Insect based lesson themes, like The Ants Go Marching, are many times used to teach counting and math skills, and their numerous legs, along with their bright colors, make insects fun to put together as crafts. Bees provide both rhymes and craft ideas and the letter B is an easy emphasis. Spiders, worms, caterpillars, and bugs of all sorts abound in crafts, hand plays, and songs.Preschoolers love to hear about the people around them, especially those that have interesting jobs, like firemen, or that are doing fun things, like jumping or eating. Nursery Rhymes are full of exciting people doing different things. Use nursery rhymes on their own to develop a lesson theme, or pick an object from the rhyme and focus on that. Preschoolers relate well to characters like Jack and Jill, or Little Bo Peep. Lesson themes can evolve around the characters themselves, as children act out the rhymes, or an object in the rhyme can be chosen and made into a fun preschool craft.Visit the Weekly Preschool Lessons home page for more information on crafts, preschool lessons, and teaching tips to help you choose great preschool lesson plan themes.