Children can capture the animals with butterfly nets. If you have multiple animals of the same types, children can hunt in teams to find one of each kind of animal. This is one for autumn. Suggest to your preschooler and his friends that they gather the fallen, leftover crunchy leaves from your yard or park. If there are enough, encourage the kids to make piles varying distances apart.
Children can then play leafhopper as they jump from pile to pile.
A variation is to step only on leaves or objects, but not the grass or the ground. Fives and sixes Later on, as children enter kindergarten, they begin to play so that their actions respond directly to the actions of other children. During this stage, pretend or dramatic play begins to look more like a unified story acted out as children adjust their roles to the thematic direction of the play. Not only does this make pretend play more elaborate, but it also begins to lay the foundation for more organized play. Children will develop interesting strategies for keeping the balloons up.