Effective Preschool Theme Activities
Dogs, Cats And Pets

Preschool activities dogs and cats will provide the children with opportunities to develop their perceptual skills, and stimulate their creativity.

Activity 1: Making a Dog Card! (or Cat Card)

The children will enjoy the card making activity on a topic they love: "Dogs!" The children will stimulate their fine motor skills as well as their eye-hand-co-ordination skills.

Materials needed for the Activity:

1. pets and accessories set
2. caring-for-your-pets
3. Colored Construction Paper.(Colors suitable for a Dog.)
4. Triangular Shaped Profile Pencils for Drawing. (correct and improve the preschooler's grip.)
5. Scissors.
6. Black Marker Pen.

Procedure:

• The children will start the activity by folding the colored construction paper in half.
• Next, they should first draw the left half of their cat in pencil over the length of the construction paper.
• The children should cut the left side of the cat out, but make very sure that they do not cut the middle, folded part of the dog card open.
• The right half will show once they have cut out the left half of their dog, and fold it open.
• They should use a black marker pen to decorate their cats further. They could draw the eyes, whiskers, and triangular shaped noses.

They will stimulate all their senses during the lesson. The preschool children will observe, touch, smell and enjoy!

Materials needed for the Activity:

1. Cat or Kitten, for demonstration purposes.
2. A Cat Brush.
3. Pet Shampoo.
4. Bucket or Baby Bath.
5. Jug.
6. Towel
7. Flee Powder.
8. Cat Basket.
9. Milk in a bowl.

• The children should gather round the bath. They should not frighten the cat or kitten being over enthusiastic!
• The teacher should pour luke warm water in the bath.
• The teacher should demonstrate next, how to give the cat a brush on a table prepared for the demonstration, before it takes it's bath.
• The teacher should give the preschoolers ample time to touch the cat or kitten and to participate in the activity.
• The teacher will place the cat carefully in to the bath. A child should pass some of the shampoo on to the teachers' hand. The teacher will the work up a lather rubbing the cat gently.



• Next, the preschool children will take turns, using the jug to rinse the cat, making sure they do not pour water into the animal's eyes, while the teacher holds the cat.
• The children should assist the teacher to gently rub the cat dry.
• The teacher should then rub flee powder on the cat, and then the children should help brushing the cat, and put on a collar for the final touch.
• Before putting the cat in its basket to sleep the children should give the cat some milk to drink.

Poem: Rat-a-Tat-Tat:

Rat-a-tat-tat

Who is that?

Only grandma's pussycat.

What do you want?

A pint of milk.

Where is your money?

In my pocket.

Where is your pocket?

I forgot it.

Oh you silly pussycat.

Traditional.

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