Make sure your environment is warm, accepting, and inviting. Create a place where children feel comfortable experimenting with and expressing humor. Help children use humor in positive ways. Discuss how humor isn't something used to tease or hurt people. Talk about feelings and what children can do if and when laughter or joking becomes hurtful.
Preschoolers love to try their hand at making up their own jokes and riddles.
Preschoolers love it when you think they're funny. They can see the subtle humor in stories and songs that often escapes younger children. They can understand and even tell jokes. By this age humor is more of a shared experience. The creative mind of a kindergartner is fertile ground for jocularity.