I can’t believe that I’m already writing this round up of activities for three years olds – for the last three years I’ve used my daughters birthday as a way to round up the best activities that we did together over the year and it always seems to come around so quickly. This year we’ve introduced more simple literacy and numeracy activity but there’s still lots of crafts, sensory play and most importantly fun. If you’ve got any activities your kids enjoy leave them in the comments section and let’s make sure none of us ever hear ‘I’m bored’ again!
Activities for three year olds
Of course if you have a three year old I’m guessing you also have the tiredness? I hear you – it can be tough! Make sure you keep this post to hand for those days when you need it by bookmarking this page or pinning the image below.
Make some easy apple suncatchers
Enjoy some superworm inspired sensory play
Practice fine motor skills while learning about letters
Play with kinetic sand – we love hiding toys in it
Make and eat yogurt ice lollies
Make some zesty lemon play dough
Freeze some toys in ice and then rescue them
Go hunting for blackberries and eat them straight off the bush
Paint some paper plate emojis
Make some salt dough keepsakes
Use leaves to make a nature suncatcher
Bake cakes, preferably with lots of sprinkles on them!
This number stamping activity is great for preschoolers
Make some rainbow crayons and draw a picture with them
Do some simple numeracy activities outside
Play musical statues
Make a sea collage
Plant some seeds to grow together
Practice scissor skills with these paper bag haircuts
Make some yogurt pot sheep
Make some simple bird feeders and hang them outside
Blow bubbles
Get creative using toilet rolls
Learn about the planet and make some stained glass Earth suncatchers
Get the playdough out for this fun number recognition game
Put on your wellies and go jumping in puddles
Make a paper plate polar bear
Make a DIY money box so they can save up for new toys
Do some crafting with scrunched paper
Try a simple engineering challenge using sweets
Make some DIY wands
Oh yes the toys frozen in ice is always good fun as you can chip them out or melt them. My girls realy enjoy that. Loads of ideas here, thanks. Mich x
I keep meaning to try freezing the toys in ice. I think there could be some fun to be had with food colouring in the ice too if you did it over 2 days.
Kinetic sand is a big hit in our house. Some great wet weather ideas here