Learning cooperatively, enhancing self-control, and lengthening attention spans are all possible during circle time. Offering circle time at least twice a day, in the morning and just before it’s time to head home, is a great idea. 15 circle time activities will be covered in this article. Please keep reading.

Dance Freeze

When the music for circle time stops, kids are challenged to stop dancing as part of the dynamic movement activity known as “dance freeze.” It’s a great way to get kids moving and develop their motor skills at the same time.

Bug In A Rug Circle Time Game

Bug In A Rug is a great circle time idea for building memory skills. The guesser then makes one of the kids hide under a blanket, and the remaining children must be surveyed to determine who is missing.

Pass The Movement Circle Time Game

Pass the Movement is similar to Children who must pass the same set of movements to the next person in the circle in a game similar to Broken Telephone, but without the verbal message.

Shake The Sillies Out With A Song

Shake Your Sillies Out is a popular children’s brain break song. After this one, kids will undoubtedly be more settled for learning and will enjoy wiggling around.

Collaborative Art Project For Preschool

It only takes a large sheet of paper and a ton of painting supplies for this exercise in progressive painting. A great way to improve social skills and lengthen attention spans is through collaborative art.

Alphabet Soup

Stir in some fun into circle time with the alphabet soup game from notimeforflashcards. To create a pot of alphabet soup using magnetic alphabets, invite your group to participate in some pretend play.

Bring in a pot, and a ladle, and throw the alphabet into it. Requesting that everyone don their pretend chef hats. Ask each child to come over to the pot, stir it well, and then take an alphabet out. Ask a child who finds an alphabet to show it to the group so that they can all recognize it. It’s best to limit yourself to just one game round before your focus starts to wander.

Persona Puppets

There is no better prop than a friendly-looking puppet to get the kids to explore their feelings and talk about them if there is a conflict that needs to be resolved in class. According to Julia Luckenbill, using puppets to speak to children during circle time is a fantastic way to improve social skills.

For instance, if you notice kids stealing toys from their classmates in class, you could make up a tale about your puppet Dexter stealing toys from your puppet Zoe. You could ask Zoe to express her feelings to you, the teacher, and then ask the class for a solution—or you could come up with one on your own.

The next step is to gently persuade the class as a whole to accept a solution. To emphasize the point, you could even create a rule and post it on the wall.

Fingerplay

One of those fun circle time activities that never fails to capture the attention of restless preschoolers is fingerplay. Additionally, it is a fantastic activity to foster children’s creativity and support the growth of their fine motor skills, listening abilities, and body awareness.

Guess The Rule

Persuade one student to leave the classroom. The group brainstorms a rule while the child is gone, such as only answering questions with a certain number of nods or holding one hand behind one’s back. When the rule is decided, the child is called back. By posing inquiries and assessing the group’s reactions, he must infer the new rule.

This is a task that can improve communication, problem-solving, and self-assurance.

The Handwriting Game

This game always causes a lot of chuckles because it is a variation of the well-known Telephone and Chinese Whisper games. A student in the class is given a whispered alphabet by the teacher.

While everyone keeps their eyes closed, one child uses his finger to draw the alphabet on the hand of the next child. Every child will continue handing the shape to their neighbor as they watch to see who comes the closest to correctly identifying the alphabet.

Birthday Bag Of The Month

Construct brown paper bags for every month of the year. Label names on cut-out shapes adhered to craft sticks or fill it with the names of kids whose birthdays fall within that month. At the beginning of the month, bring out the bags and engage the kids in calendar-marking activities.

Remote Control

Encourage your group to brainstorm actions for each button on a makeshift remote control. Get them to use the fast-forward, rewind, and pause buttons while you sit back and do the same.

Snap

Find the child in the group who has the matching card by giving each member of your circle time a pack of cards. This circle time idea is fantastic because it can actually support the kids in developing their self-assurance in cooperating and communicating as a group.

Through The Hoop

Group your circle time students into groups of ten (if your group is less, no problem, keep it as it is). The kids will need to step through the hoop while holding hands with the people on either side of them in order to pass it down the line.

It’s best to play a non-competitive version of this game with young children; however, kids aged 7 and up can play a competitive version.

Pass The Tambourine

You have the option of playing the game silently or with some fun music for this circle time activity for young children. Make a simple musical phrase for the kids to copy, like “one shake and one tap,” for the entertaining musical version. Give the kid on your left the tambourine and ask them to try to imitate it.

Come up with a new musical phrase for them to copy after the tambourine has been passed all the way around the circle. When the tambourine is passed silently around the circle, the game is known as the silent tambourine version.