Preschool Lesson Plan: Clowns

"C" is for Clown by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Reading Center for Preschool Lesson Plan: Clowns

Fill your preschool reading center not only with books about clowns, but also with books about the circus and parades.

Snacks for Preschool Lesson Plan: Clowns

Maraschino cherries and cherry tomatoes are reminiscent of clown noses. You can serve your preschoolers maraschino cherries alone or on top of an ice cream sundae as a snack. Likewise, cherry tomatoes can be served alone. Cherry tomatoes can also be included in small salads served to your preschoolers at snack time or as part of lunch.

Concepts for Preschool Lesson Plan: Clowns

Letter: Cc for clown
Number: 10
Shape: circle, like a clown's big red nose
Color: red, like a clown's big nose

Fine Motor Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Clowns

Snack time: At snack time or during lunch, let your preschool students use small tongs or their fingers to serve themselves clown noses, I mean maraschino cherries and cherry tomatoes!

Art: A simple and well-loved art activity for preschool children is coloring. This is also a good exercise to aid in the proper development of preschoolers' fine motor skills. The internet is awash with free coloring pages. Google free clown coloring pages. Choose a few of the free clown coloring pages and print off several of each choice, letting your preschool students choose which ones they want to color in.

Gross Motor Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Clowns

Everyone loves a parade: Let your preschool students come to school dressed like clowns one day. Parade in front of the other preschool classrooms with each of your preschoolers "juggling" one ball!

Art Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Clowns

Self art: Let your preschool students decorate themselves! Let them paint their noses with red face paint, put on a silly over-sized shirt and flowered hat and anything else that you can think of for them to use to dress up like clowns. When they have all completed their "art projects", take a class picture!

Songs/Fingerplays for Preschool Lesson Plan: Clowns

The song Did You Ever See a Clown (sung to the tune of Did You Ever See a Lassie) can be found here.

Pre-math Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Clowns

Cut out red circles from felt to be used on your preschool classroom's felt board. Let each of your preschool students have a turn rolling two dice and then counting out that number of clown noses (the red circles) on the flannel board.

Pre-writing Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Clowns

For younger students, provide sheets of paper with the letters C and c lightly printed on them. Have the children trace the letters. do the same with the number 10.

For older students, provide an example of the letters C and c and the number 10. Have the students practice writing the letters and number freehand.

Also, write the word clown on your preschool classroom's white board. Let your preschool students copy the word clown onto the white board, using red dry erase markers.