Mapping With Your Preschooler

This idea was an inspiration from my preschooler. Always go with what they bring up or are interested in!

Today, he got out his magnet drawing board and told me he was going to draw the path to the Children's Museum. So we started talking about right, left, landmarks, and things that we would have to do to get there from our house. When we got in the car, we used words like right and left to try to help him grasp those concepts, especially because his mother is directionally challenged!
When we got to an intersection, he said, "We are not going to go right, because that is Walmart. We are not going to go left, because that is church. So we are going to go straight!" He was right.

Spatial concepts can be taught at any age! This also teaches them how to think!