Monday, December 3, 2018

15 Activities to Build Good Listening Skills

Helping your children develop good listening skills is an important life skill. Sometimes it can be difficult to get your children to listen, so why not have fun while doing so?

Today we are sharing 15 fun activities to you can use to teach your children to have good listening skills.

15 Activities to Build Listening Skills

15 Activities to Build Listening Skills

  1. Make a simple DIY telephone and then turn it into a listening game!
  2. Listening to directions of how to stack a tower of blocks make this activity one kids will love to do because they already know the answers!  -Hands On As We Grow.
  3. The Sound Box is a musical listening game for small children.  -Let's Play Kids Music.
  4. Narrate some basic instructions about animal characters and what they are doing.   Have your child listen and move the characters along to the story. -In The Playroom.
  5. Go on a sound hunt outside and think about all the different noises you hear along the way. -Inspiration Laboratories.
  6. Playing a simple game of Red Light, Green Light is such a fun way to work on those early listening skills. My two-year old loves this!
  7. Grab those extra Easter eggs and fill them with odds and ends, then let your kids shake them and guess what is inside.  -A Mom With A Lesson Plan
  8. Try playing the rain game with your kids. Such a classic and wonderful activity! -Moments A Day
  9. Learn about a listening app with games and exercises for kids. -The Preschool Toolbox Blog
  10. Make your own sound cylinders to help you kids understand the intensity of sound. -Living Montessori Now
  11. Play freeze dance to get your kids to hone in on their listening skills. Play some music and stop it every so often which tells them to freeze. -Sing Dance Play Learn
  12. Put a pair of bunny ears on the leader and take turns playing Bunny Says – a fun take on Simon Says.  -Pre-K Pages
  13. Play this game called "Do 3 Things" that helps with listening skills and also secretly convinces them to pick up their toys. Shh! -Inspiration Laboratories
  14. Try this fun version of hide and seek that only uses your sense of hearing. -Mosswood Connections
  15. Here is a list of 12 listening activities for your preschooler to try.

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