[header] How to build confidence in preschoolers and toddlers with public speaking [title] Teach the children poems suitable for little kids. [step] Read the poems to them and help them to learn the poems through repetition and even enactment where possible. Then, have the children recite the poems while you're giving them your total attention. 
[title] Encourage the children to not be afraid and prove it to them by speaking publicly yourself. [step] Even if you are uncomfortable with public speaking, which most people are, your little one needs to know from you that they are not the only one who is nervous when speaking.