Top 5 Ways to Help Preschoolers Be CURIOUS

If you’d like to build your preschooler’s life skills, make sure that you don’t forget to encourage them to be curious.

WHY PRESCHOOLERS SHOULD BE CURIOUS

Children are born with an innate motivation to learn. They do not need to be pushed to become curious, only to be provided opportunities to use their natural curiosity to explore and create. Fostering their curiosity will propel them through their early learning experiences and create a love of learning.

Preschoolers’ natural curiosity to figure out how things work makes them more observant while also building important developmental skills. When children are free to explore their curiosity they develop their language skills as they describe what they see and hear, as well as what they are thinking. Curiosity also encourages life long learning and is associated with open-mindedness and positive relationships.

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5 ACTIVITIES TO HELP PRESCHOOLERS BE CURIOUS

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“Homemade Water Xylophone” by Little Bins for Little Hands

“Nature Scavenger Hunt” by So Easy Being Green

“Process Art With Recycled Cardboard” by Where Imagination Grows

“Woodland Small World Play” by Little Worlds Big Adventures

“Invitation to Create Leaf Creatures” by Powerful Mothering