All About Me Preschool

Activities Theme

The goal behind an All About Me Preschool Activities

Theme is to help children learn about each other and each
others' families!

So, this is really an All About Me and My Family Theme Page!

The theme helps children to realize that every person is

unique and special.

They also learn that every child's thoughts and ideas are
important and no one person is more or less important than
another!

You'll find more themes to help you with your planning on my
preschool themes page.
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This All About Me Preschool Activities Theme page is filled
with some preschool activities and ideas for your classroom.

These activities will help them get to know the special and
unique things about themselves and each other.

Let the Theme planning begin!

You can scroll down through this page to see all of the
preschool activities for your All About Me Preschool
Activities Theme.

You can also click the link below to go to specific preschool

activity types you are looking for.

Art for All About Me Preschool Activities

Theme
My Portrait

Materials Needed: Pre-

cut people shapes (like
paper dolls) on heavy
tag board or cardboard;
hand mirrors; markers;
crayons, variety of yarn
(for hair); scissors; glue
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mirrors to draw themselves onto the cut-out. This is best
done is small groups (4 or under) so that you have time to
talk with the small group about their eye color, hair color, etc.

VARIATION: One year, a co-teacher had each of the children

lay down on large butcher paper and traced each one of
them! They decorated "themselves" over several days!

This was a great All About Me Preschool Activities Theme

project that was saved for the annual art show! You can hang
them throughout your room and have parents try to find their
child!

I Like...

Materials Needed: A small picture of each child, magazines,

scissors, glue, crayons, construction paper

The children glue their picture on the construction paper.

They cut out items from magazines of things that they like
such as: dogs, cats, flowers, family pictures, etc.

Me and My Family

Materials Needed: shaving cream and a table!

Encourage the children to smooth the shaving cream onto

the table. They can draw a circle and add eyes, nose, mouth
hair, etc. They can add their family members, pets, etc.

My Family

An all about me preschool activities potential bulletin board

project!

Materials Needed: Sponges in the shapes of people or

people shaped cookie cutters, shallow trays of paint and
paper.

Encourage the children to sponge or print on the number of

people in their family and then print below each one the
name of the family member.

Block Center Ideas for All About Me

Preschool Activities Theme
House Building

Encourage the children to build their house out of the blocks

you have available during this theme. The colored foam
blocks work great for this!

Because and All About Me preschool activities theme is

typically done in the beginning of the school year, don't feel
the block building needs to have a focus. The children are
learning about the items in their preschool environment and
about their own abilities as well.
Circle Time All About Me Preschool
Activities Theme Ideas
Circle Time is such a great time for children to learn the
social skills of being together as a large group AND to learn
more about your theme!

Our Families

Tell the children to listen to what you are saying and stand up
if what you say is true about them!

Stand up if you have a brother.

Stand up if you have a pet.

Have the children standing name them (brother, pet, etc.)

Be sure to help children who aren't sure of the answers

(Dee-Dee, you have a baby sister! Stand up! What is your
baby sister's name?)

Show and Tell Day

Have a Show and Tell Day where children bring an item from
home to help everyone get to know them better.

It might be a family picture, favorite toy, etc.

 EXTENSION: After show and tell, most kids want to play with
the items they brought in. You could set up a "display table"
on show and tell day where the children place their items.
The only rule is that it is a looking and talking table--they do
not take the items off the table to play with yet. Then
designate a time for Show and Tell Play....perhaps the last
10-15 minutes of the morning.

I Love My Family

Some families are big (spread arms wide)

Some families are small (bring arms closer together)

But I love my family (cross arms over chest)

Best of all!

Talk with the children about who is in their family? Who lives
in their house? Remind the children that family is not ONLY
who lives with them. It includes grandparents, a Mom or Dad
who may live in a different house, etc.

EXTENSION: Make a family chart. List each child's name in a

column to the left. Have precut small people available. Talk
to the children about who is in their family and tape a cut out
to represent each one next to their name.
Feelings Chart

Bring a large piece of chart paper and a marker to circle

time. This activity will get children thinking about different
feelings.

Talk about what feeling mad, good, sad, scared, angry, silly,
etc. means.

Then have the children call out endings to these sentences

that you will put on the chart paper:

I feel angry when ___________

I feel sad when _____________

continue with others.

Snack Recipe Ideas to Cook Up for Your

All About Me Preschool Activities
Theme!

Cooking with children helps develop their math skills and

helps them to learn how to follow directions. It also allows for
some great conversation! Ask many questions while cooking
with your children to encourage conversation! Be sure to ask
specific themed questions while making these fun snacks!
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Cracker Faces

Ingredients needed: Round crackers, shredded cheese,

raisins, cheese spread (cream cheese type)

The children place some spread on a cracker. Use the raisins

and shredded cheese to make a face on their cracker!

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All About Me Preschool Activity Theme

Ideas
to Transform Your Dramatic Play Area!
This theme is perfect for your basic housekeeping center. It
allows the children to be the grown-ups and to share and
learn more about each other!

All About Me Preschool Activities

Theme Ideas for Your Easel--
More Than Just Painting (Although that
is always THE favorite in our classroom!)
Oval Me!

On the easel paper, pre-draw oval shapes. Encourage the

children to paint details of their face of friends' faces and
hair on the ovals!

All About Me Preschool Activities

Theme Large Group Games
 to help build their muscles while they have fun together

Body Match Game

Play music and have the children work in pairs. Call out a
body part that they need to match. If you say "Knees" the
children need to make one or both of their knees touch the
knees of their partner!

Who is Missing?
Introduce this game by starting in a group sitting down.
Provide little plastic people. Let the children give the family
role name to each one: "This is the Mom. This is the
Grandma. etc."

Tell the children to close and cover their eyes. Take one away
and have them open and uncover their eyes and ask "Who is
missing?" Once you have played this with them a few times,
tell them you are now going to play "Who is missing"
together!

Have an area near you where one child can stand and not be
seen by the other children (behind a table, etc.).

Have all the children stand up, turn around (with their backs
to you) and close and cover their eyes.

Choose one child to hide behind the spot you have chosen
and have the others guess who is missing!

This is a favorite activity of mine!

Tracing Pairs

Thank you Sherica from Kingston, Jamaica for this activity!

Children can be in pairs. One child will lay on a large brown

paper and have his partner trace around body. They take
turns tracing each other one their own paper.

After body is traced then children can color, paint or collage

body shape traced.

All About Me Preschool Activities

Theme Ideas for Your Library Area
Book Suggestions for the Library

Below is a list of books about children and about families!

 You may find them at your local library or you can click the
title links to check out what is available at Amazon.

(I LOVE Amazon, and if you choose to get yours there, they

do send me a few cents--which supports my coffee habit!)

All About Me Books

All by Myself (Little Critter) (Look-Look)by Mercer Mayer

Frederick by Leo Lionni

Happy Birthday, Sam by Pat Hutchins

Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

I Like Me! (Picture Puffins) by Nancy Carlson

Just Because I Am: A Child's Book of Affirmation by Lauren
Murphy

Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Krauss

Now I Am Threeby Jane Belk Moncure--these are older

books, most libraries have the collections. This particular
series by Moncure has one for each age Now I'm One! Now
I'm Two! etc.

My Book About Me by Dr. Seuss

The Foot Book (The Bright and Early Books for Beginning
Beginners)by Dr. Seuss

Herman the Helper by Robert Kraus

The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

Now I'm Big by Margaret Miller

Books about Families

Are You My Mother? (Bright & Early Board Books(TM))by P.

D. Eastman
The Berenstain Bears' New Baby by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Clifford's Family (Clifford 8x8) by Norman Bridwell

Guess How Much I Love You: Pop-Upby Sam McBratney

Just Me and My Mom (A Little Critter Book) by Mercer Mayer

My Mom and Dad Make Me Laughby Nick Sharratt

RELATIVES CAME by Cynthia Rylant

Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs (Picture Puffins) by

Tomie De Paula

All About Me Preschool Activities

Theme Math & Manipulatives Ideas
to help your Preschoolers develop their math skills and
those small muscles in their hands!

In My House

Materials: Pre-cut small people shapes (make many!) and

several larger houses. This can be used in many ways:

The children count out and name the number of people that
live in their house and place them on a pre-cut house.
You can program each house with numbers and the children
then place that number of people on the house.

If you pre-cut them in different colors, the children can sort

all the people by sizes, colors or match them to the matching
colored house.

Big and Little

The beginning of the year is a good time to introduce these

concepts.

Provide an item in small and large sizes (balls, stuffed

animals, cut out people shapes) and then provide 2 boxes
one that says Big and one that says LITTLE or SMALL. The
children learn to sort by size.

Puzzles-Big and Small

Make puzzles available that have families in them: both table

puzzles and floor puzzles. If you don't have any, make one!
Find pictures or print pictures from your computer of
families. Make a collage of it and then laminate and cut it out
into large puzzle shapes!

All About Me Preschool Activities

Theme Music and Movement
Activities and Ideas to get your Preschoolers Movin' and
Groovin'!

How Do You Feel?

Have different tempos of music available. Play one song and

ask the children what type of mood the music is in-happy,
sad, excited, scared, etc. The children then act out that
mood through movement. Change the songs often and
repeat!

Healthy Me

Although health and nutrition can be a theme on its own, it is

great to remind the children about staying healthy during
your All About Me Preschool Activities theme as well!

Play music and encourage the children to join you in some

healthy exercise! "Let's jog five times. Let's jump four times."
Etc.

Here is one of my favorite exercise CD's (The song "Fun To

Get Fit" is fantastic!) that you can purchase at a good price
at Amazon by clicking the picture below.

All About Me Preschool Activities

Theme Ideas for your Sensory Table!
Clean Up, Clean Up!

Add soapy water to your table along with your dramatic play
dishes, pots and pans, etc.

Include sponges and towels!

All About Me Preschool Activities

Theme Science Ideas--
for your Preschool Scientists in Training!

Another reminder! An All About Me preschool activities

theme goal is to learn about the children and their families
AND for the children to learn about their own abilities.
Science gives them the opportunity to ask questions about
their environment and about themselves.

All About Me Preschool Activities Height and Weight!

Materials Needed: a tape measure, a scale (for the children

to stand on), paper and a pen

Weigh each child and measure their height. Record the

results and use with the Me Book activity in the Writing
Activities section below.

EXTENSION: Tape a large paper to a wall and record on the

paper each child's name, height and weight. Leave it there all
year. Re-measure near the end of the year! Our kids LOVE
this!

Another Variation!

Thank you Maribel from Fort Meyers, FL for this idea!

Materials needed: yarn, scissors, tape and marker or pen

Cut out a piece of yarn to measure each child's height.

Attach a piece of tape with their name on it and the

measurment. Hang these on the wall.

Have the children compare their height and discuss short

and tall.

Do this again at the end of the year and compare how much
they have grown. I work with 3 year olds and they love it!

I'm a Color Scientist

Provide small plastic cups (clear) with water in them. Provide

eye droppers and small cups of paint for the children to
experiment with color identification and color mixing!

Writing Activity Ideas for Your All About

Me Preschool Activities Theme!
 Me Book

Fold a piece of
construction paper in
half. Have the child
trace his/her hand and
then help them cut out
their hand (do not cut
the folded side). When
done, the hand print
should open like a
book.
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Let the children write
their own name on the front and decorate the front.

On the inside, write the date, the child's name, their height
and weight (obtained from the science activity in the
Science Activity Section above) as well as their birth date!

My Name

In advance, pre-print each child's name on a piece of paper.

Provide sorters (shapes, macaroni, etc.) for them to cover

the letters of their name with.

Miscellaneous Ideas for Your All About

Me Preschool Activities Theme!
Family Collage

At the beginning of the year, send a Family Collage request

home. Let each family know that you are working on an All
About Me preschool activities theme and that this is the
family portion of that theme!

Ask each family to work with the child to make a Family

Collage. The Collage can have photo's on it with family
members' names written on it. It can be drawn by the child
and family! This is a family event and the purpose is to help
the children learn more about each other and each other's
families!

Give the families a deadline for when they are due!

As each child brings their collage or poster in, invite that

child to point out each picture and name the family members
to their friends at circle time!

Family Project Send home a piece of paper that says:

"(childs name) is special to Mommy and Daddy because..."

Have the parents fill it out and return to school to go in the
All About Me book.

Thank you Jodif St.Thomas from Frontier, Saskatchewan,

Canada for submitting this idea!
All About Me Book  (Thank you Pat N. for this idea!)

One of the ways my students and I get to know each other is

by making an "All About Me" book.  The children and their
parents pick the packet up on 
"meet the teacher" night, a week before school starts. 
There are 11 pages such as This is me, This is my family, I like
the color..., An animal I like is...,
In school I want to learn about...,  I want to be a ______ when
I grow up, I like to eat..., I am ____ years old, I am special
because...
The family and kids decorate these pages any way they want
and then send them back to school 2 weeks later. 
Meanwhile, the kids and I use watercolor
paints and bling to decorate their covers.  I also paint one of
their hands and make a handprint on the back cover.  Our
school name and year are written on 
the inside cover.  The covers are done on cardboard so they
hold up and are laminated as well.  The front cover has a first
day picture of the child and the title

All About ___.  I punch holes in the binding side and use zip
ties to hold them together.   These books are kept in the
classroom all year and then go home 
for the summer.  These books are looked at more than the
other books in our classroom.  Just thought I'd share that
idea.
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