They also prepare meals, do washing up, embroidery, and interestingly, make shoe insoles.
One video shows children rhythmically moving to music while standing inside bamboo cross frames, jumping in and out with impressive agility.
Another scene captures a child balancing on a yoga ball while jumping over a rope with other children. They demonstrate remarkable discipline, coordination and teamwork.
In the same video, a little girl is filmed jumping over some tires as tall as she is and then performing a somersault on a mat.
Aside from physical training, the classes also emphasise the teaching of practical life skills.
One particularly popular video, which attracted 516,000 likes and 8.8 million views, features students starting a fire and cooking.
A narrator says: “While kids in other kindergartens eat, sleep, and play games, kids in this Chinese kindergarten do laundry and cook, learning self-reliance.
“They have outdoor stoves corresponding to their height and they make their own meals every day. From washing and chopping vegetables to cooking, they eat their own cooked meals with such gusto. After eating, they voluntarily clean up and even line up to wash dishes.”
A teacher explained that the 2018 ban on teaching primary school curriculum in kindergartens has resulted in a shift towards more innovative and varied activities.
A mother interviewed by mainland magazine South Reviews, said the rich diversity of activities is a strategy used by kindergartens to attract enrolment.
It aims to address the challenge of declining birth rates, which has led to the closure of many preschools.
It is an approach that has proven effective.
For instance, one kindergarten in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, southeastern China, which is popular on both TikTok and Weibo, teaches children how to raise chickens, ducks and rabbits, in addition to meal preparation.
This approach to learning has drawn interest from parents who have travelled from places as far as Harbin and Inner Mongolia in the north to enrol their children. Many places are full until 2026.
The diverse programmes have also impressed people overseas on TikTok, who draw comparisons between Chinese preschool education and that of their own countries.
“Most kids in the US do not even know how to turn on a stove,” one person said.
“If they had this in America, they would charge US$5,000 for tuition,” said another.
“I love this curriculum, but in Australia, educators will say everything is not safe,” a third person wrote.
“Do they take adults?” said nother.