Are you starting to make a list of your favorite community helpers activities? Are you looking to fill your community helpers preschool unit? Or are you looking for some ideas for community helper dramatic play centers? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you've come to the right place!
From awesome read-aloud community books to lots of community helpers crafts, we've got it all! Throughout this article, you'll find all the necessities needed to build a successful community helpers unit study. Students, other teachers, and parents alike will all be excited about the sense of community found in your classroom. Enjoy these 20 clever community helpers preschool activities.
1. Shape Firetrucks
Have students show off a variety of skills by making these Firetrucks out of shapes! They will love to use their creative sides to design the firetrucks exactly as they would like. Simply use a picture for a model and let their creativity do the rest.
Learn more: Little Learners in Harmony
2. Dr. Bags
Whatever your community helper theme maybe, this doctor activity should 100% be intertwined into a day in the classroom. Your students will love making these Dr. Bags and playing with them after! Other clever ideas like printing out doctor tools will be a great addition to their bags.
Learn more: Alphabet Garden Preschool
3. Community Signs
Making sure that students know and understand the different places in their community is essential for PreK and Preschoolers. Simply work as a whole class and create a map on some card stock sheets. Parents will love to see the community's involvement. Add some common community signs too.
Learn more: Early Childhood Research Center
4. Post Office Dramatic Play
Honestly, my Preschoolers absolutely love dramatic play. It's such a fun and entertaining lesson. Wrap your community helper lessons up with dramatic play as a Postal Carrier! Start with a book and talk about your community Postal workers.
Learn more: Preschool Clubhouse
5. Community Helper Transportation
Wrap a variety of community helpers all up into one, with this community helper road map. Provide students with different community helpers props and buildings. Use the community maps you created together! There honestly is an endless amount of fun to be had with this road map.
Learn more: It's a Speech Thing Inc.
6. Keeping the Community Safe
There's nothing better than a visit from, not only, the community heroes but also their furry friends! Spice up your community helpers unit by getting the local police to bring in their community vehicles and furry friends to give your kiddos a little one-on-one time.
Learn more: Carroll County Sheriff's Office
7. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
It's never too early to teach your kiddos about recycling. Your community garbage collectors will be happy to see even the youngest community members separating their trash, making garbage truck driving a much more enjoyable job.
Learn more: It's a Speech Thing Inc.
8. Finger Printing
Add fingerprinting to your community helpers lesson plan! Use this as a way to spread safety community helpers to even the youngest learners. Not only will students love to learn about fingerprinting, but they'll also enjoy taking their own!
Learn more: Kid Vision Pre-K
9. Construction Belt
If you have construction workers coming to visit the school or are just looking for an activity to accompany your circle time lesson, this could be the one. It's super simple, and your students will love carrying around their new tool belts.
Learn more: Alphabet Garden Preschool
10. Dial 911
Learning the different tactics of safety community helpers bring to your students is essential for your unit. Using community helper printables like this simple 911 laminated phone will allow your kiddos to practice dialing 911!
Learn more: Planning Playtime
11. Fire Math Skills
Essential workers like Firemen are excellent people to add to your community helpers preschool unit. Try this fire activity to build your student's math skills. They'll have lots of fun putting out the fires and, of course, rolling the dice.
Learn more: Planning Playtime
12. Places Song
Find some community helpers activities for circle time! This place song is an excellent introduction to your community helper unit study. Whether you watch the video as a class or just play the audio, students will love making connections to places in their own communities!
Learn more: English Tree TV
13. Circle Time Quiz
Engage your children at circle time with this circle time quiz! It's totally up to you to use the video or create your own community helpers printable quiz cards. Either way, this will be challenging and engaging for your students.
Learn more: English Tree TV
14. Community Helpers Preschool Theme Poem
This is a poem that could go great with your community helpers theme! This is one that can be used to create a classroom map or even to use with community helper dramatic play centers! Create a puppet show using the different themes throughout the poem.
Learn more: The Kid Next Door
15. Community Helpers Exercise
Use this video in your classroom to show positive community building with your students! Go through all of the community workers while getting a nice little brain break. There are plenty of community helpers mentioned throughout this video and some great body movements!
Learn more: Miss Linky - Educational Videos for Kids
16. Community Helper Cash Register
Create this super simple DIY cash register for your students to use at their community helper dramatic play centers. You'll love how much they use their imaginations while playing Grocery store during center times.
Learn more: Pinterest
17. Simple Coloring Pages
These free coloring pages are available to teachers everywhere! They are perfect for use to keep your kiddos engaged during center, circle time, or just regular old coloring time. The adorable coloring pages fit a community helpers theme perfectly.
Learn more: 123 Homeschool 4 Me
18. Community Helpers Bulletin Board
There's nothing more important than having a bulletin board on display to engrain new knowledge into your preschoolers. Making a simple community helpers bulletin board like this will ensure that visual learners get all the scaffolding and extra integration they need.
Learn more: Guylaine's Playhouse Day Care and Preschool
19. Community Helpers Guessing Book
My students absolutely love this book! It's perfect to use at the beginning and the end of your community helpers' preschool unit. Students will love to guess, and you'll love this easy assessment tool. Either play the Youtube read-aloud or purchase the book here.
Learn more: Kristal Acuna
20. Beautiful Neighborhood Community Helpers Read Aloud
This absolutely beautifully illustrated story will take your students on a journey. With this community helpers book, students will quickly learn and build a sense of community as this book is read. See all kinds of community workers and let students relate and draw their own personal connections to each!
Learn more: Learn and Listen with Mr. Z
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