Simple Star-themed Activities for Preschoolers

Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
To have the wish I wish tonight.

The twins and I were reading and singing nursery rhymes when the “star light star bright” song caught their interest. We sang the song repeatedly throughout the morning, and I decided to carry out some star-themed activities for them.

Sharing our star-themed activities for our 3½-year-old twins in this post.

Counting Stars

I like easy-to-prepare activities that involve a number of skills to learn or refine.

This first one is super easy.

I drew a couple of stars on some yellow construction papers* and got the girls to cut along the outline. That is already practising some cutting skills to strengthen their finger muscles and hand-eye coordination.

Next, they pasted their stars on a black piece of paper, counted the stars and decipher who has more or less star. They are still working on mastering their “more” and “less” concept.

Last I outlined the word “STAR” on their artwork for them to paint on. That’s for alphabet recognition, as well as hand control for pre-writing skills.

Making Stars with Popsicle Sticks

In this activity, we used popsicle sticks to create stars.

First, we painted the sticks yellow.

Next, we made them into two triangles to form a 6-pointed star, which is much easier for the girls to handle since they already know how to make triangles.

We replaced the hot-glue gun with blu-tac for safety reason. It was however frustrating for the little ones because blu-tac just ain’t strong like the hot glue. So the hot-gun is still the best choice, with an adult’s supervision.

Last, we dripped some white glue on the ice-cream stick and pasted some tiny spangles on them.

All items used in this activity were sourced from Daiso (except for blu-tac).

Making Stars with Dough

Another awesome activity to build finger muscles and flexibility.

Using our favourite dough from Crayola, we rolled our dough into long rolls. Cut the sticks into shorter pieces. We similarly make triangles to form 6-pointed stars.

Crayola Model Magic* works well for making alphabets and numbers when they are a little dry and firm. Dough from a freshly opened pack is very soft, and the little ones find it a little more challenging to make them into alphabets and numbers.

If the little ones have problems creating the shape of a star, draw one on a piece of paper. Line the dough stick along the outline of the star.