How to Homeschool Preschool without a Curriculum

When you decide to homeschool your preschooler, you may think that you have to purchase a preschool curriculum to do it right. However, it’s possible to teach your preschooler at home without one. In this post, I’m going to share how to homeschool preschool without a curriculum. And believe it or not, it isn’t as hard as you might think. In fact, it only requires 3 simple things!

3 Simple Ways to Homeschool Preschool without a Curriculum

1. Read lots of books.
2. Create hands-on activities.
3. Enjoy the outdoors.

When it comes to homeschooling preschool, you don’t need to buy a special preschool curriculum or spend lots of money on fancy supplies. Certainly a ready-to-go curriculum can make teaching your preschooler easy. However, purchasing curriculum is not always an option, or an option you may want to choose. The good thing is that you can still homeschool very well without one.

So how do you plan to homeschool preschool without a curriculum? First, begin by deciding which preschool skills you’d like your child to learn. Some of the main skills you’ll want to focus on include teaching the alphabet and numbers, working on fine motor skills, and learning about the outside world.

Read books everyday

You can teach so much to your child through reading. Listening to stories helps children develop attention spans, listen better, and develop memory retention. Books also teach children pre-reading skills like how to hold a book correctly.

The stories themselves teach children too. Picture books are a great way to teach your child. You can find them on a wide variety of topics, including nonfiction books to teach things like plants and animals. You can use picture books to introduce a topic for a unit study or nature study theme. After reading the books, choose fun activities that further the learning.

Create hands-on activities

Along with books and reading to your child, hands-on activities are another important part of your preschooler’s learning. Hands-on activities give your preschooler a way to use critical thinking skills and motor skills along with learning about the activity’s topic. 

For example, when preschoolers use playdough to create numbers on a playdough activity mat, they are learning how to form numbers. But this activity also develops fine motor skills as children roll and shape the playdough. Critical thinking skills are used to know how thin to roll the dough before it breaks. Even as children play, they are learning important skills in the preschool years.

Enjoy nature

A third way to homeschool preschool without a curriculum is by enjoying nature with your preschooler. Nature walks are an engaging way to teach your preschooler about the world around them. Let your child lead the way, choosing to stop at interesting points along your journey. Once back home, your child can draw pictures of what you found on your walk. You can also enjoy a book together on something you saw on your walk.

Teaching your preschooler at home doesn’t require purchasing curriculum or expensive supplies. It can be as simple as reading lots of great books together, creating fun, hands-on learning activities, and taking walks in nature. Focus on the skills you want your preschooler to learn and create activities or choose books that help you teach and develop those skills. Your preschooler will love the gentle, hands-on approach to learning in these early years of homeschooling.