Doctor Preschool Activities, Lessons, and Games

Free Doctor and Hospital Activities, Rhymes, Printables, and Doctor Books

Doctor and Hospital Learning Areas Ideas:

Dramatic Play Area: Hospital or Doctor's Office

Set up an area of the room as a doctor's office. Include a scale, measuring tape, eye chart, stethoscope, reflex hammer, cotton balls, gauze, elastic bandages, tiny flashlights, doctor's coats (white shirts), kid's magazines, chairs, etc. Include some stuffed animals or dolls as patients, and let children pretend to be the doctors and nurses taking care of them. 

Art Easel

Let children paint or color a teddy bear outline. Provide band-aids and let children place the band-aids on their drawing. Ask children to tell you how the teddy bear got hurt.

Block Center

Let children build a hospital. Add emergency vehicles to the play area.

Doctor and Hospital Activities and Games for Preschool and Kindergarten

At the Doctor

What Does the Doctor Check? 
Adaptation by KidsSoup, Inc 
(Tune: Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes)

Use a call and response format along with the "Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes" melody and movements

Call (teacher): What does the doctor check?

Response (children): The doctor checks my

Head and shoulders, 
knees and toes, 
knees and toes, 
My head and shoulders, 
knees and toes, knees and toes, 
That's how the doctor's visit goes, how it goes.

Repeat with:

Call (teacher): What does the doctor check?

Response (children): The doctor checks my

Eyes and ears and mouth and nose,  

My eyes and ears and mouth and nose, mouth and nose,

That's how the doctor's visit goes, how it goes.

Call (teacher): What does the doctor check?

Response (children): The doctor checks my

Heart and back and how my body grows 

Eye Chart
If possible obtain an eye chart. Let children read the chart from a distance. 

Measurments
Measure and record each child's height and weight. Graph the results.

Our Hearts
Let children listen to their heartbeat with a stethoscope.

Exercise
Explain to children that exercise keeps our heart healthy and strong. Choose one child to be the doctor. The doctor prescribes physical activities to the group: "Doctor (Name of child) says, "jump up and down", "touch the floor", etc.

X-Ray Art
Use some Q-tips to create a skeleton x-ray art.

Doctor's Bag (Craft description inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

Make a doctor's bag out of a manilla folder. Print the doctor's tools. Cut them out and glue them inside the doctor's bag. Staple a plastic bag to the inside (make sure you only staple one side of the bag to the folder) and fill with Band-Aids.

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

Compare and Contrast Story Character Doctor and Hospital Experiences

Read several of the recommended children's books about well-known characters that experience doctor's visits and hospital stays. Choose two of the characters, for example Curious George Goes to the Hospital and Franklin Goes to the Hospital, and ask children to compare and contrast their medical experiences. They should note the things that are the same about the characters' experiences and the things that are different. Write children's responses on chart paper and post it for visitors to read.

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

Miss Twiggle had a Baby
Adapted by Jolanda Garcia, Kidssoup

Miss Twiggle had a baby.

She named him Tiny Tim.

She put him in the bathtub,

To see if he could swim.

He drank up all the water.

He ate up all the soap.

He tried to eat the bathtub,

But it wouldn't go down his throat.

Miss Twiggle called the doctor.
The doctor called the nurse.
The nurse called the lady with the alligator purse.

In walked the doctor.
In walked the nurse.
In walked the lady with the alligator purse.

"Measles!" said the doctor.
"Mumps!" said the nurse.
"Nothing!" said the lady with the alligator purse.

Out went the doctor.
Out went the nurse.
Out went the lady with the alligator purse.

Nurse Craft and Rhyme  (Craft description inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)

Make a nurse hat for children to wear.

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

I'm a Nurse Dressed in White
(Tune: Little White Duck)

I'm a nurse dressed in white,
And I feel just swell.
When you are sick,
I help to make you well.
I give you shots,
And if you're afraid,
I fix you up with a big Band-Aid.
I'm a nurse dressed in white,
And I feel just swell.
Now you're well!

Doctor Coloring Pages and Worksheets

Miss Twiggle with Baby Coloring	Doctor's Office Coloring Page	Doctor's Tools Label

I'm a Helpful Doctor 
(Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)

I'm a helpful doctor,

Dressed in white,
I help people feel better,

Day and night.
When you get hurt or sick,
Come see me.
I'll get you all fixed up,

Just as quick as can be.

Doctor and Hospital Books

ABC Doctor	The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor	I Want To Be A Doctor	Curious George Goes to the Hospital
Franklin Goes To The Hospital	Corduroy Goes to the Doctor (lg format)	Harry Goes to the Hospital	Little Critter: My Trip to the Hospital
My Friend the Doctor	Doctor Maisy	A Day in the Life of a Doctor (Community Helpers at Work)	Daniel Visits the Doctor (Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood)