Free All About Me Preschool Lesson Plans - Stay At Home Educator (2024)

How do you introduce all about me to preschoolers?

A great way to begin is with each child’s name. A name is uniquely special to each child and honors their sense of worth. Invite children to talk about their likes and dislikes and encourage them to share about their families. Children will soon learn that they have a lot in common or will learn how very different their families might be!

What are some all about me activities?

Invite children to create their own faces using yarn, markers, and skin-colored faces or draw their own self-portraits. Use play dough to create different emotions and discuss how to deal with those feelings. Proudly display the children’s artwork of themselves for all to see. Encourage children to learn other children’s names through role-play and posting pictures of each other. Discuss feelings and emotions and how to navigate conflicts.

What are some all about me concepts for preschoolers?

It’s important for preschoolers to recognize important parts about themselves and others including that each child is unique, we all grow and change differently, we are all a part of a family, and we have different feelings and emotions each day. Additionally, discussing how we deal with those big emotions and make friendships is part of an all-about-me theme as well.

Name Practice – Print out the editable name practice sheet. Using alphabet beads, magnet letters, or even cut-up letters on a piece of paper, invite your preschooler to build their name. Then read their name and attempt to identify the letters. If you can spell their name in a sing-song way, it often helps it stick! Then invite your preschooler to trace their name. For more fun, hide the letters of their name around the room and come back to put their name in order.

Fingerprint Counting – Using paint or a stamp pad, invite your preschooler to press each finger in the paint and stamp it on a piece of paper. Ask them, how many fingers do you have? What do you notice about each fingerprint? Do you see the lines on each finger? Use a magnifying glass to examine closer. Explain that each person has fingerprints that are unique to themselves.

All About My Family with Numbers – Help your preschooler see how numbers are used in daily life. Ask, how old are you? How many letters are in your name? How many pets live in your house? How many family members do you have? How many boys and how many girls? What other ways can we use numbers or counting each day?

All About Body Parts – Using kraft paper, draw an outline of your preschooler. Then print the body parts labels and invite the child to label the parts of the body. Allow your preschooler to cut out the parts and use tape to label the body. Encourage your preschooler to say the first letter of each body part and show them the first letter matches that first sound in the word.

Make Handprint Leaves – Using brown, red, or yellow paint and make a fall handprint leaf. Using a permanent marker, draw the veins on the “leaf”. Ask your preschooler, “Why do you think the leaves have veins? Do you know we have veins?” Explain the purpose of veins in both humans and leaves to your preschooler.

Do Kid Yoga –Stretch and move with a little relaxing yoga designed for kids. Yoga is perfect for calming down excited bodies, as well as, learning how to follow directions and participate. Check out this kid yoga video and head out on a bear hunt!

Make a Sensory Path – Using chalk outside, draw a sensory path. Include the alphabet, numbers, hop, jump, tip-toe, and walk in a swirly line. The options are endless. Check out this link for more information on sensory paths.

Friendship Playdough – Download and print the friendship playdough characters. These friendship characters allow children to role-play how to make a friend and ways to talk to others, which is especially important in preschool and kindergarten. They can help us model discussion starters and introduce ourselves, along with taking turns and building language skills. You can use these friendship characters or you can use any dolls, figures, Lego characters, or stuffed animals to model how to be a friend with your preschoolers.

All About Me Art – Grab some paper and fun materials like yarn, googly eyes, buttons, and glue. Invite your preschooler to make art that looks like themselves! Plus you are building those fine motor skills too!

Playdough Faces – Let’s get some play dough and make some faces! Use googly eyes, pipe cleaners, and even add some body parts from a Mr. Potato Head set.

Mirror Self-Reflection – Take a look in a mirror. What do you see? What color are your eyes? Your hair? How many ears do you have? Talk about our body parts and how we use them every day as part of our 5 senses. Make a pretend play mirror with aluminum foil and construction paper and have fun!

Online Story – Go to YouTube and listen to the story, I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont. After listening, discuss with your preschooler: What things do you like about yourself? What are some silly things that could grow on your body that you would still love about yourself? (Perhaps an elephant trunk or shark teeth!)

What’s Your Name Video – Help your preschooler master the art of introducing yourself!

What I Am Sesame Street – What are some words to describe what you are? This video is motivating and reminds us how important and special we are!