Shadow activities for toddlers

Shadow activities for preschoolers, including this fun outdoor shadow activity, making shadows with your body.

Shadows are formed when light is blocked by an object. On sunny days, shadows of ourselves, trees, houses, and many more are visible. The light from the sun helps create these darker areas. Explore this fact through these ten enlightening shadow activities that are exciting and interesting for young children.

Encourage learning through play with these STEM preschool activities using a flashlight and colors! Give kids the chance to explore on their own for fun!

Making shadow puppets is a quick and easy boredom buster. Although, I have always found it a little tricky to use my hands to make shadow puppets, this is an easier way to make shadow puppets with …

Create your own animal shadow puppets to explore fun shadow science for young kids! Free printable shadow puppet templates.

How do we make shadows? Explore how shadows are created with this hands-on STEAM activity for preschoolers.

Making your own shadow names, or shadow shapes, is a super easy activity to pull together on a hot and sunny summer day, with very little preparation needed. Once the kids have the idea of

Here is a flashlight craft using black and yellow construction paper and a paper fastener.

I found this very cool art piece from Dilly-Dali Art. They sprayed their hands with white paint onto black paper and it looked awesome! So I tried that with my kids today. Although I loved the look of having a bunch of hands on one big sheet of paper, I also wanted each of them to have their own to take home. So I put white paint in a spray bottle and added a little water. Then the kids took turns spraying each other's hands on black paper. When they took their hands away, they loved what…

This fun outdoor activity explores bodies and shadows and can build gross motor skills; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.