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Police Officer Themed Classroom Activities and Games for Pre-Kinders

Are you working on teaching your preschool and kindergarten age children about police officers as part of a community helpers lesson plan? Has it left you stumped on which activities and games to use? Well, as a former preschool employee, I may be able to help. I know of a handful of ideas that you may want to try. Here they are:

Language Arts

For starters, you may want to teach the children to write the letter “P” and the word “police officer.” If you do decide to go that route, there are “P is for Police Officer” writing and coloring sheets available for free posted on the First School website. You can choose from standard text or D’Nealian text handouts. There are additional police related handouts posted on the Coloring Pages 101 website that you could opt to utilize too. They feature police badges, hats, officers and radios.

Role Playing

Another option would be to set up a role playing area. Homemade police badges are just one item that you may want to consider placing in that area. You can make those using cardstock, a roll of aluminum foil, double stick tape and a police badge template. You can find the template posted on the Kiboomu Kids Crafts website. Just use the template to create cardboard badges. Then wrap the badges with aluminum foil and add a piece of double stick tape to the back of each one. That’s all that there is to it. Other items to consider placing in the role playing area are police hats, walkie-talkie sets, spiral note pads, pencils and toy handcuffs.

Arts and Crafts

There are several law enforcement arts and crafts that you could engage the kids in as well. For instance, you could have them create pictures using their fingerprints. There is also a cute toilet paper roll police officer craft that you could try. Instructions for making it are posted on the DLTK website.

Officer May I?

If you want to get the kids up and moving, I’d suggest playing a game of “officer may I?” It is played just like the game “mother may I?” For variety, you could also have the kids play the game “red light, green light” as well. Based on my experience, the kids will undoubtedly get a kick out of playing either one.

Numbers and Counting

Lastly, you may want to have the children make fingerprints onto a piece of cardstock and count them as part of a math activity. You could also create homemade memory cards and have the kids count or arrange them into number based groupings. Pictures to consider utilizing on the cards are police badges, police cars, cartoon criminals and handcuffs.

Source: Personal Experience