Summer Mini Bundle For Preschoolers -

Summer Mini Bundle For Preschoolers

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With Summer in full swing and children getting bored or losing their learning, you might want to use this FREE Summer Mini Bundle to keep them busy, to you plan summer lessons activities, and maybe even introduce your preschoolers to new activities.

This Summer Mini Bundle includes 12 pages with seven different activities that cover literacy, math, and fine motor skills. You can grab it at the end of this post.

Summer Mini Bundle

The best way to teach anything to your preschoolers is by using fun hands-on activities that keep children engaged and interested. The activities included in this mini bundle will help your preschoolers develop multiple skills, such as:

Concentration and Memory – because they need to focus to get it right.

One-to-One Correspondence and Creating Sets – when they have to match pictures with similar ones on their page to be able to glue them together.

Sensory Development and Visual Discrimination – because they are using their vision to do the activities, and touch, when they feel and manipulate objects.

Eye-hand Coordination – when they see and do the activity.

Social Skills – when they take turns and communicate with other children.

Fine Motor and Pre-Writing – when they use the small muscles in their hands and fingers to do the activities.

Vocabulary and Letter Knowledge – when they remember or learn the names of the pictures and the beginning sounds.

Counting – when they have to count the fairies and the appropriate number of squares to color.

These activities can be used in many ways, such as:

Small group activity.
Literacy center option.
Writing center activity.
Take-home activity.
Quiet area option.

Materials Needed:

These easy-to-prepare activities require only a handful of materials. These are:

Summer Mini Bundle (FREE at the end of this post).
Printer.
White cardstock.
White paper.
Laminator.
Laminator pouches.
Scissors.
Glue.
Clothespins.
Dot-to-Dot, dry-erase, and regular markers.
Pencils and crayons.

Summer Beginning Sounds

These types of activities are crucial to help children develop phonemic awareness, essential for learning to read and write, as they help children:

Understand the relationship between letters and sounds.
Decode and recognize words as they learn to read.
Connect new words to familiar sounds, expanding their vocabulary.
Enhance pronunciation and listening skills.
Learn to spell and form words.
Improve their communication skills.

Print the wheel and graph on white cardstock, and laminate them for multiple uses. Provide some clothespins, and invite your preschoolers to select a picture on the wheel, mark it with a clothespin, observe the letters next to each image on the graph, and mark the one that represents the beginning sound using a dot-to-dot marker.

Summer Tic-Tac-Toc

This simple game is a valuable tool that helps preschoolers improve developmental skills, such as:

Problem-solving, Strategic Planning, and Spatial Awareness.
Social-Emotional and Communication skills development.
Cognitive Development.
Fine Motor and Hand-eye Coordination.
Math skills involve understanding and recognizing patterns.
Creativity.

Print the board and chips on white cardstock. Cut out the chips and laminate everything for durability. Invite a couple of preschoolers to play the game.

Summer Cut & Glue to Match

These hands-on activities promote in preschoolers the development of cognitive and physical skills such as:

Fine Motor Development, strengthening hand muscles, and improving hand-eye coordination.
Focus, Concentration, and Problem-solving abilities.
Spatial Reasoning, by learning to categorize and recognize shapes, colors, and patterns.
Problem-solving skills.
Sensory Development.
Creativity and Expression.

Print multiple pages on white paper. Give one page to each child. If the child is ready, he or she can cut out the dotted line squares with the pictures. If the child is not prepared, then cut them out for them.

Invite the children to find the matching picture on the rectangles, and glue the matching one next to it. The child must do the same with every rectangle until they finish all of them.

Summer Tracing

Tracing activities are also crucial to prepare preschoolers for more complex tasks like reading and writing by improving their:

Fine Motor Development, strengthening fingers and hand small muscles.
Hand-eye Coordination to control a pencil or crayon and follow the lines.
Cognitive Development processes like concentration, focus, and problem-solving.
Spatial Awareness, to understand connections between objects and the space around them.
Pre-writing Skills Development.
Confidence and Self-awareness.

Have your preschoolers trace the lines with their fingers. That will give them a sense of how the lines go. Don’t forget to tell them to go from left to right, since that is the correct direction to write.

Print one copy for each child on regular white paper. If you want to use them multiple times, print some copies on white cardstock and laminate them.

Preschoolers can use a dry-erase marker to trace the lines if the page is laminated, or a regular marker, crayon, or pencil if it’s not.

Count the Objects and Color the Graph

Tracing activities are also crucial to prepare preschoolers for more complex tasks like reading and writing by improving their:

Fine Motor Development, strengthening fingers and hand small muscles.
Hand-eye Coordination is required to control a pencil or crayon and follow the lines.
Cognitive Development processes like concentration, focus, and problem-solving.
Spatial Awareness, to understand connections between objects and the space around them.
Pre-writing Skills Development.
Confidence and Self-awareness.

Print one copy for each child on regular white paper. Invite them to observe one fairy at a time and count how many they find on the rectangle above. Once they have counted each fairy, they must fill in the correct number of squares using a regular marker or crayon to complete the chart.

Summer Trace and Fill

Tracing activities provide preschoolers with the opportunity to improve their physical and cognitive abilities, to set the foundation for early literacy and mathematical development. Some of these skills are:

Fine Motor, developing muscle control.
Hand–eye Coordination, familiarizing oneself with the strokes of shapes and forms.
Spatial Awareness, by understanding the relationships between objects and space.
Cognitive Development, by encouraging concentration and focus.

Children will practice their alphabet knowledge and pre-writing skills by tracing the letters, with a marker, crayon, or pencil, starting with the letter A, and writing the letter on the next bubble, following the correct order of the alphabet. Ask them to name each of the letters as they go.

Order by Size

This type of activities provide multiple benefits to preschoolers, because it helps them develop important cognitive and mathematical skills, such as:

Spatial Awareness, beginning to understand dimensions, pattern recognition, and spatial relations.
Visual Discrimination and Math Concepts, distinguishing, comparing, classifying, and ordering objects by size.
Problem-Solving, by critically and strategically sorting and arranging objects based on size.
Fine Motor and Hand-eye Coordination, by sorting and manipulating objects.
Early Literacy involves beginning to understand how to categorize and organize information.

Print the page on white cardstock. Cut out the shamrocks and laminate them for durability. Invite the preschoolers to organize them from bigger to smaller and vice versa. Don’t forget to consider the developmental level of each child when deciding how many shamrocks to give them.

Summer Storybooks

If you have been on my site before, you may know how important I consider books. Reading is one of my favorite things, not just for myself, but also for my kiddos.

Gather fiction and non-fiction books about Summer to support the theme. There are numerous beautiful ones that you can use, which can be found at your local library, in a used bookstore, or on Amazon. Below are some of my favorites. Clicking on the titles will take you directly to Amazon, through my affiliate links.

A Summery Saturday Morning by Margaret Mahy is a story about a group of children, dogs, a cat, and a gaggle of geese enjoying their summery Saturday morning, even though things do not go quite as planned.

The Seashore Book by Charlotte Zolotow features beautiful illustrations that bring to life a day at the beach imagined by a boy and his mother. They are hunting for seashells and building sandcastles in their imagination during a perfect summer.

Water by Frank Asch encourages young readers to appreciate water in its many forms.

Mouse’s First Summer by Lauren Thompson is a story about two mice that invite the reader to celebrate summer with a picnic in the park and have fun rolling down the hill on tickly green grass, flying kites, and enjoying some juicy watermelon.

Summer (Four Seasons) by Nuria Roca, featuring large and beautiful color illustrations, will delight in having the simply written descriptive text read to them as they gaze at the charming pictures, which evoke the moods and activities of summer.

The Summer Visitors by Karel traces the interactions between a family of bears and a human family during their summer stay at a lake cottage, primarily told through illustrations, with only a few dozen words.

Carl’s Summer Vacation by Alexandra Day is a sweet story about a dog and a girl who take advantage of their parents’ distraction to do some canoeing, pick blackberries, and enjoy a picnic.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague is the story about a boy who was carried off by cowboys and taught the ways of the West–from riding buckin’ broncos to roping cattle. Perfect for back-to-school read-aloud, here’s a Western fantasy with sparkling illustrations and enough action to knock kids’ boots off!

“The Night Before Summer Camp” by Natasha Wing tells the story of a little girl and her family as they prepare for vacation, offering a humorous ending that everyone will enjoy.

Ready for Summer by Marthe Jocelyn is the story of the question, ‘What am I going to wear?’ which is first presented in the toddler years, when mastering the art of getting dressed is a triumph and opinions about clothing are emphatic.

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I hope you enjoy this mini bundle and help your preschoolers have fun during the Summer months while learning.

Don’t forget to grab your FREE Summer Mini Bundle by clicking on the link below!

Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.

Love,