Transportation Theme

Transportation Theme

Preschool Lesson Plans
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February Preschool Curriculum – Week 1
Color Pink – Shape Heart
Letter P – Number 8
Transportation Week

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We have a full week of preschool transportation theme activities in our February curriculum lesson plans. Super fun and affordable that you can purchase the entire month for only $15.00! Click here to view

Transportation Theme
Teddy Bear Race Game
Teaches Numbers

Teddy Bear Car Race {Free Download}

Teddy Bear Car Race
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Play Game With Teddy Bear Counters

This is a fun game to help the children to recognize numbers and to learn to count as they move their teddy bear counter along the game board.

There are two ways to play.

Directions: Download and print out the teddy bear race game above onto heavy paper. You will need to print out one game board for each chid and cut them in half and tape together to make the row of boxes one long line.

Math Game 1: Print out one page per child, cut in half and tape it together to make one long board with all the squares in one row.

You will need some teddy bear counters to use on the game board.

You will need a deck of cards such as UNO cards or you can use regular cards too or you can cut up some squares of paper and write on the numbers you want to use, such as 1 to 3 or 0 to 5, etc. If you are using the UNO cards pick out the numbers you want to use such as the numbers 1, 2 and 3.

To begin, Have the children take turns picking a card from the deck and moving their bear that many spaces on their game board. The first child to get to the finish line is the winner.

Math Game 2: For the older preschool kids you can have them play in some groups of four using one game board where each child will have a different colored bear to go across the boxes.The four children will use the same game board and each one will have a different bear to move around the game board, play the game with rules above.

This transportation game is not only fun it will also help to teach number recognition and counting!

Transportation Theme Book
What Do I Hear
Free Printable book

Danny Dog, Danny Dog, what do you hear? {Free Book}

Transportation Story
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Danny Dog, Danny Dog, what do you hear? I hear a clip clop, clip clop. What can it be? Lift the flap to see!

This cute printable story is fun for the kids to try and guess what Danny Dog is hearing. This is a cute story made to go along with our February curriculum week 1 transportation themed lesson plans. This book is suitable for toddlers, preschool & prek, and kindergarden kids!

Download and print out our free book from our February preschool curriculum which includes a whole week of transportation themed lesson plans.

Preschool Transportation Theme Song
The Mouse In the Car
Movement Song

The Mouse In The Car
Tune to: The Wheels On The bus, Traditional Song, adapted

The Mouse In The Car Song {Words}
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The mouse in the car goes up and down,
{move the mouse puppet up and down}

Up and down, up and down.
{move the mouse puppet up and down}

The mouse in the car goes up and down,
{move the mouse puppet up and down}

All around the town.
{move the mouse puppet in a circle}

This is a fun movement song. Provide each of the children with the mouse in the car puppet. {from art time today}. Have the children move their mouse puppet to the song above {see movements in brackets}.

Our lesson plans include a song or rhyme each day {5 days per week}.

Preschool Transportation Theme
Arts & Craft
Mouse In The Car Puppets

Transportation Craft Mouse In The Car Puppet

Transportation Craft
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Transportation Craft for Mouse In Car Puppet

The mouse in the car puppet will be used with the song above.

Mouse in the car puppet directions: Print out one mouse in the car puppet per child onto heavy paper such as white cardstock paper. Have the children color their puppet. After the children are done coloring their puppets, teacher will need to cut them out and attach them to jumbo craft sticks {older children} or toilet paper rolls {younger children}

Have the children use their mouse in the car puppets with song above.

Fun and simple crafts that engage the children and help them to focus on the theme that they are learning about each week.

Transportation Theme Pre–Reading
Do A Dot Letter P
With Paint Daubers

Letter P

Letter P Do A Dot Printable Page
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Dot the letter P with some Do A Dot markers or paint daubers. Next, find all the letter P’s in the circles, have the children dab all the letter p’s with either a do a dot marker or use circle stickers to cover them.

The children will have fun going dab, dab, dab, on the letter P and then dotting all the p’s in the circles, what a fun way to learn the letter P.

Provide the children with the letter P pre–reading literacy printable page and have them dab all the circles on the big letter P with their do a dot markers also called paint daubers or bingo markers and then have them find all the letter P’s in the circles.

Preschool Transportation Theme
Math Game
Watch Out For The Mud Puddle!

How Many Splats Of Mud Are On My Car?

Free Printable Preschool Transportation Theme Counting Game
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Watch Out For The Mud Game. Fun Preschool Transportation Lesson Plans!

Directions: Print out the teddy bear game board onto heavy paper such as white cardstock paper and laminate.

You will need a deck of cards such as UNO cards or you can use regular cards too. Pick out the numbers you want to use such as the numbers 1, 2 and 3.

You will need some brown play dough for the splats and a toy hammer, or you can use pieces of brown paper.

Teacher will say, uh oh, teddy bear drove through a mud puddle how many splats of mud did he get on his car?

Teacher will pick one of the children to go first and have that child pick one card from the deck, if he or she picks the number 2, teacher will give them 2 small balls of brown play dough to put onto the car picture and then pass the child a toy hammer to hit the play dough to flatten it and teacher can say 1 splat, 2 splats as they hit the play dough with the hammer.

Then have the child pretend to clean the car, they will remove the play dough and use a paper towel to wipe the game board and then it’s the next child’s turn, repeat until the children lose interest.

Our February preschool curriculum includes 4 weeks of lesson plans which includes circle time, story time, song or rhyme, pre reading, math, science, gross motor movement & a special activity each day {5 days per week}.

Transportation Theme Science
Make Pink Paint
Drive Trucks Through It!

What Color Does Red & White Make?

Making Tracks With Trucks

Ask the children if they know what color you will get if you mix red and white paint together.

Give each of the children a paper plate with a small mound of white paint and another mound of red paint, give the children a paint brush and have them mix the two paints together. Next, give each of the children a large piece of paint paper and a small toy truck, show them how they can drive their truck through the pink paint they made and then drive it across the paper to make pretty pink tracks {pink is this months color}. Have the children trade toy trucks to make different tracks on their paper, you may want to add some blue and yellow paint so they can make different colored tracks on their papers too.

What color does red and white make? I know, I know, pink! Ask the children after this activity what color does red and white make. We find fun ways to teach science to preschool kids.

Preschool Transportation Theme
Gross Motor
Fly To The Airplane!

Drive To The Car!

Preschool Transportation Theme Gross Motor Printable Pages
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Swim to the boat.

Gallop to the horse.

Fly to the airplane.

Fun inside or outside activity. Print out the four posters and put one on each wall, then ask the children to pretend to drive a car with you as you drive to the car poster, next ask them if they can swim with you to the boat {boat poster on another wall}, then have them gallop like a horse to the horse picture and the last one will be to fly to the airplane. Mix up the movements above and have fun getting the kids galloping, swimming, driving and flying all around the room. If the weather is acceptable outside, laminate the posters and take them outside, attach them to your outside play area, etc.

This is a fun gross motor movement game to play with toddlers, preschool, prek or kindergarden kids.

Preschool Transportation Theme
Sensory Play
Trucks In The Sand Table

Trucks In The Sand Table

Trucks For The Sand Table

Set up a sand table with sand or rice for indoor play and place some dump trucks, bulldozers, excavators, etc in the sand table, and then watch the fun begin! This is also a good time to teach them the different names of the work vehicles such as, Tommy what color is your dump truck, or Sally can you find the excavator for me, etc.

February Preschool Curriculum Lesson Plans – View Below.

February Preschool Curriculum