Amazing learning style activities with free preschool worksheets

Perfect for preK teachers and parents who want to discover and develop the way kids learn. The learning style activities are explained step-by-step, including illustrated examples helping you use them easily. It’s all about making learning easy and fun.

Like everyone else, you have probably heard about learning styles and learning style activities.

But you might be wondering, Is this something I need to explore and use, to help my kids learn?

And the definite answer is, Yes! You definitely need to understand and explore learning styles when you want to improve your child’s overall learning capacity, skills, and memory.

Related

• Top Learning Styles for Kids. Discover the steps to successfully educate your child every day
• Learning Toys for Kids at Different Developmental Stages Reviewed

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Understanding Learning Styles

Learning styles do not only reflect the way kids learn but us as adults too.

Learning styles definition

Learning styles are defined as models explaining different learning methods. These modalities all describe the way someone prefers to learn.

Your learning style or method of learning will predict the way, and the words you choose, to remember and describe events.

And, you can read everything you need to know about this topic in the first post of the Learning Styles series called Top Learning Styles.

In order to make sense of it all, I highly recommend you do so before continuing with this learning style activities post.

You will then understand the

• definition
• characteristics
• brain involvement
• the optimal learning environment and
• recommended activities and toys

involved in learning styles.

Thereafter you will find this post on learning style activities super useful. And it will help you discover and improve your kid’s learning styles with great examples of activities and worksheets.

A brilliant homework help strategy!

You can also find some amazing information on discovering your child’s learning styles here.

Learning Styles Guide

If you haven’t grabbed the free Learning style activities guide yet just enter the email address where you want to receive it:

The guide includes

• 5 Essential steps to successfully  educate your child with learning styles
•  Learning style activities instructions
•  The letter, number and shape Activity
•  The Fun Fact Sheets Activity
• The Fun Fact Sheets

Time to move on and discover my favorite learning style activities. Including real-life examples to show you how to use the tasks to discover and develop your own child’s learning skills.

Learning Style Activity Number 1
Letter, Number and Shape Activity

This activity will:

• teach kids the letters of the alphabet, numbers and shapes
• whilst exposing and shaping their learning styles
• this is an activity that can be used for all ages

By giving your children the freedom to choose the way they want to manipulate the activity, without instruction, will be a good indicator of his or her preferred learning style.

Activity instructions

• Write or print out big font letters on cardboard and then follow the instruction below for each of the different learning styles
• Visual learning style activities
  • give your child the numbers, letters or shapes to look at and let them trace the outline with their fingers
• Tactile learning style activities
  • have them cut the letters out with scissors
  • provide
    • stickers
    • flat glass beads
    • shells or
    • pasta to stick onto the letters to decorate it
• Auditory learning style activities
  • talk about the name of the letter and words that start with or contain the letter
  • always focus first on the letters in their names
• Auditory and verbal learning style activities
  • sing a song pertaining to the relevant word
• Verbal reading and writing learning style activities
  • ask kids to repeat the names of each letter after you and
  • try to replicate the letter on paper
  • when older than 6 years, let them practice writing the words
• Visual learning style activities
  • print or draw pictures of objects starting with the relevant letter and
  • have your child group them with the corresponding letter
• Interpersonal learning style activities
  • do some of the activity with them
• Intrapersonal learning style activities
  • leave them to do some parts on their own

Top Learning Styles Activities Tip

It is very important to allow kids to do part of the activity alone

Why?

The answer here is very important and two-fold

1. You will easily discover

• whether they prefer working on their own or in a group
• continue working with them if that is their preference
• also get them to do some parts alone

2. Introduce and develop an essential learning skill

• the ability to entertain themselves without having someone around!
• giving you some much-needed time to get things done in and around the house. A true lifesaving skill!

Remember to grab your free guide to help you do the activities and discover your child’s learning styles.

Let me give you a real-life example of this activity and learning style discovery in action

Activity Example

The image below shows what my 5-year-old son created when I gave him

• a page with his name written and
• a selection of
  • interesting beads and ornaments
  • pretty shells
  • good quality colored pencils and
  • colored stickers

After giving him free rein and observing his actions for a while, it was actually very easy to discover both his

1. Preferred learning styles

• visual, logical, verbal and intrapersonal and

2. Lesser used learning styles

• auditory, physical and interpersonal

Now you might be wondering

What did I base these observations on? Easy.

I simply considered the following criteria while observing him complete the activity

1. Preferred learning style indicators

• creative initiative displayed?
• activity enjoyed?
• the way he used the provided materials

2. Lesser used learning style indicators

• needed a lot of guidance?
• limited interaction or interest was shown in the activity?

And, there you have it

A simple yet powerful strategy to discover your child’s learning styles

Your next step

Follow the 5 essential steps to successfully educate a child guided by learning styles as

• outlined in the Top Learning Styles Post
• discussed in further detail in the free Learning Styles Guide

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Learning Style Activities Number 2
The Fun Fact Sheet Activity

The activity will

• in an easy and fun way, help kids learn facts about their bodies

The sheets are designed to

• educate kids with various learning styles
• help you discover your child’s preferred method of learning and
• assist you in teaching them different ways or styles of learning
• help you improve their overall learning capacity, skills, and memory

This is an activity that can be used for all ages

• for kids younger than 4 years of age
  • use shapes rather than numbers and letters

Initial learning style discovery tip

Prior to instructing the kids, give them one page and

• ask for suggestions of what they would like to do with it
• give the freedom to choose the way they want to manipulate the activity without instruction
• this will give you a great first impression of their learning style of choice

After your initial assessment of their preferred style, continue to lead the activity by following the instructions below.

Learning style activity instructions

• Download the fun fact sheets and print two copies of each one, preferably in color
• Visual learning style activities
  • if you printed the sheets in black and white, start with having the kids color the sheets
• Tactile learning style activities
  • give them one of the sheets to cut the facts out with child-safe scissors
  • ask them to arrange the cut pieces on top of the uncut page, trying to find its position based on color and size
• Auditory learning style activities
  • read the facts with the kids or let them read it out loud
  • have them repeat the facts, and try and see how many they can remember
• Verbal reading and writing learning styles activities
  • have kids older than 6 years of age, re-write the facts
• Interpersonal learning
  • do some of the activity with them
• Intrapersonal learning
  • leave them to do some on their own
• Remember to note their engagement for each activity
  • in order to discover the preferred and lesser-used learning styles

Discover your child’s learning style with learning style activities

Use the criteria and instruction as explained for the first activity to

• monitor your child during the activity
• discover the preferred and lesser-used learning styles
• follow the 5 essential steps to successfully educate a child guided by learning styles as
  • outlined in the Top Learning Styles Post
  • discussed in further detail in the free Learning Styles Guide

Grab your free copy of the Learning Styles Guide now

Learning Style Activities Summary

So what is the bottom line

A child’s overall learning capacity, skills and memory can easily be improved by:

• understanding learning styles
• discovering and developing the preferred learning style
• introducing and improving the lesser-used styles
• with learning style activities and
• learning style scoring

And what is the best part

YOU can do it!

As a parent, it is in your power to guide your child towards learning excellence.

You do not need any special skills

All you need to do is

• take the time to make a difference
• be motivated
• educate yourself on how to help your kids learn
• use effective strategies and tools to be successful

Please leave a comment

And let me know

• how easy it was, using the outlined activities to discover your child’s learning styles
• whether you are motivated to take the time and give the activities a try
• when you have seen the benefit of learning style activities in action before

More about the Fun fact Sheets

The fun fact sheets are great to use for

• parents at home and
• teachers in a class
• when homeschooling

The sheets are colorful and fun and filled with true facts about the body. Kids love them and the titles that are currently available for free download are

• fun facts about my brain
• fun facts about my skin

as included in the Learning Styles Guide

Additional information

Where to find even more motivation to get started on helping your child learn

• the origin of learning styles
• more learning style activities
• discover your child’s learning styles
• differentiation through learning styles and memory – I love this one!

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