Activities for 3- and 4-year-olds

Educational games
If you are thinking of activities for 3- and 4-year-olds, think of games that involve movement. Boys and girls at these ages are characterized by the enormous energy they give off, I am very active. They like to run, jump, chase, and jump and refuse to stand still.

Although they are also enthusiastic about painting, modeling clay, listening to music, dressing up and playing to be, it is the moment when the symbolic game stage begins. We give you some ideas to do at home and on the go.

What do 3- and 4-year-olds like to do?

Fun ideas with game balls

As we have already pointed out, boys and girls ages 3 and 4 like to do everything that involves movement. They need to burn off all that energy and sitting still is not the option. Let them go up and down for whatever they find. One of the activities that will help them develop their coordination and psychomotor skills is throwing a ball and catching it.

Doing music or making noise is another of his favorite activities. They also like to listen to the same song over and over again and dance imitating the movements of others or following choreography. This also helps your coordination. At the same time, many and many of them love to sing and make up songs.

The stories and stories that they like are the ones that are repeated or rhymed, because your attention and concentration does not go beyond 3-5 minutes. If you want to keep them entertained, at these ages, you will have to put different voices depending on the character or gesture a lot to get their attention.

Activities at home

Homemade modeling clay

From 3 years of age, the child's play is more independent. Each time, children have more imagination and develop more symbolic games. The activities for children that are proposed do not need so much the support of adults, in fact, it is convenient that they are the ones who choose what they want to play. But in this task we can help you.

They play a lot with plasticine, they are already capable of making balls and churros, They put them together and simulate people or dolls. They like to draw, and paint with all kinds of materials, including hand paints. They themselves begin to realize that their drawings derive from the tadpole to the puppet.

To most children at these ages they like to be someone else and dress up frequently. They begin to recreate familiar or everyday roles, with their toys they represent the role of dad, mom, or the lady. The building blocks are one of the activities with which they are most distracted, they make long lines, or columns, and also enjoy tearing down what they have built.

Outdoor activities for 3- and 4-year-old boys and girls

boy playing circuit

Boys and girls they need to play outside. The nature is full of stimuli and novelties for them, that allow them to continue learning and developing. It encourages their imagination, creativity, physical abilities and independence, in addition, it helps them to socialize with other children outside of their relatives.


A classic activity for all ages is play ball, from catching it, throwing it at another to shooting penalties. At these ages, 3 and 4 years, children can already play bowling, with plastic bottles that we have decorated at home, or whatever we have. They also have a lot of fun doing a circuit with different activities, going over a log, going around a chalk circle, moving a stone from one place to another ...

El English chick is one of the first games that can be taught to children. You know, it's that game in which a person turns on his back, while saying: one, two, three, English chick. While saying this, the others can move, but when the person turns, you have to stand still like statues. If you get caught moving, you have to go back to the exit. The winner is whoever arrives first where the person with their back is.