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August Preschool Themes

Our August Themes for Preschoolers always include Printables, Worksheets, Activities, and much more to keep your kids busy and learning all day. If you are thinking about Summer Preschool Lessons, check out all of our free summer ideas below.

The month of August reminds us of hot and sweaty days for active kids. It’s also a time to find exciting activities as we wind down the summer season. You’ll find a ton of free August Preschool Themes that include engaging and winding down activities.

  • Camping
  • Transportation
  • Dinosaurs
  • Community Helpers

Camping Preschool Printables

Camping is a great way to get out in nature and spend time with loved ones. The fresh air and activity are great for all in the family. Whether you are visiting a park, the zoo, or a local trail you can always consider setting up a campsite.

Transportation Preschool Printables

As busy moms, we’re always looking for easy ways to make our day a little less stressful and enjoy summertime! With these free and practical resources, you can encourage your super active kids with our Transportation Preschool Resources.

Dinosaurs Preschool Printables

All children are fascinated with dinosaurs! If you are looking for preschool resources such as writing, counting, patterns, colors, and sorting and classifying, you’ve come to the right place! These printable resources are perfect for your learning centers in the classroom. 

Community Helpers Preschool Printables

Our community worker printables are designed to help children learn social skills and different jobs in their community. These resources include Loving Your Neighbor and Being a Good Citizen lesson using emotions like compassion, kindness, and love.

August Preschool Themes

Here are some more exciting August Preschool Theme ideas you can implement in your homeschool or classroom. Kids love all of these summer themes and will have a ton of fun creating their own little artwork masterpieces and keepsakes.

Preschool Themes for June: Father’s Day, Beach,& More

As busy moms, we’re always looking for easy ways to make our day a little less stressful and enjoy summertime! With these free and practical resources, you can encourage your super active kids the ENTIRE month with wonderful hands on learning tools. Here are the Preschool Themes for June, ready to go for my fellow teachers!

Insects, Bugs, and Creepy Crawlies

Bugs and creepy crawlies are great subjects for our small and sweet scientists in the sizzling summer! Grab these 10 Bug Color and Learn Pages that are SO easy to prepare — just print and go! Your kids will learn facts, practice their writing and coloring skills, and better yet, it’s all free!

You’ll also want to check out these insect crafts, printables and projects to enhance your bug unit studies and thematic lessons. From butterfly life cycles to Scientific Discovery Notebooking Printables, there’s something for everyone!

Father’s Day Ideas DIY

Kids love making their Dad a homemade Father’s Day gifts and we got some great ideas for them! Try these fun and free DIY Father’s Day Ideas including cards and crafts you can make with children for Father’s Day!

These priceless memories include printables for Father’s day cards, handprint crafts, fishing cut and paste activities and so much more.

In addition, you can also grab Father’s Day Gift Ideas with these Free Father’s Day Bible Crafts, Activities, Minibooks, and more! Whether you’re creating these as a family or for homeschool or Sunday School, they will provide lifetime memories and are perfect keepsakes!

At the Beach

When you think of the beach and kids together, what’s the first word that pops up in your head? For me, it’s sand — but sometimes it’s not in a good way. So, let’s think of fun ways we can incorporate sand into a pleasurable activity!

Get your kids excited for the beach trip coming up with these beach type sand crafts including this super silly Sandpaper Starfish craft and some beautiful artwork with a Sand Art craft.

The beach also reminds us the vast ocean that God miraculously has made for us! Children are fascinated to see amazing ocean creatures!  Check out our video tutorials on how your child can make these ocean themed crafts! You’ll find inspiring activities to create a spiky sea urchin, a sea creature fan book and a sparkly sea anemone.

Plus, don’t forget to grab these valuable resources for ocean themed unit studies! Take your child to our magnificent under water world with this Ocean Life Book and DVD or get sticky with this vibrant, high quality Ocean Sticker Book.

Vacation Days

Speaking of the beach, let’s talk about the many ways of transportation taking us to our relaxing vacation destination. And, kids love to play and talk about those various ways of transportation — that’s why we made these Preschool Transportation Printables!

Which also reminds me, are you taking a road trip and need to homeschool at the same time? Here are some essential tips to make your travel trip an easy and educational ride! It’s very cool and hip when you are Car schooling like a Ninja!

Fruits and Vegetables – Farmers Market

Don’t you just love to see those signs on the road that proudly display “Farmer’s Market Today”?!!! Buying fresh produce from side stands not only supports local farmers, it supports a healthy immune system!

Why not hone in on these flavorful roadside stands and make it a teachable lesson? Play this easy and engaging fruit and vegetable game to get those fruit juices flowing!

Need some more resources to teach about healthy food and what makes them so special? Try this fun and fruity collection of healthy mazes for your kids or students!  Each activity sheet teaches about the health benefits of a specific fruit.  Students read, write, maze and trace their way right to a delicious and juicy healthy fruit.

That’s a wrap, my friends! Hope you have a wonderful month of June, and don’t forget to enjoy the warm sun, contagious smiles, and a lot of laughter!

Fine Motor Alphabet Activities

Whether you are homeschooling your own preschool child or teaching a room full of preschoolers, you’ll want to be sure to include lots of hands-on fine motor activities. Not only will students have more fun, but they will retain more of the lesson because they are so engaged. That is the idea behind our new Fine Motor Alphabet Transportation Pack; finding fun ways to work on fine motor control.

What are Fine Motor Skills?

Fine Motor activities are intentional in the building of small motor control muscles found inside our hands. Think of things like pencil control, grip strength…etc. These key muscles need development for future tasks such as writing, typing, tying shoes and other small motor movements that require fine precision. The skills required to perform these small muscle tasks are called fine motor skills.

Fine Motor Skills for Preschoolers

Developing fine motor skills seems simple enough however, setting up a fine motor learning center in your classroom is more than just printing out a few handwriting worksheets and calling it good. Many students might not have the grip or control to properly form the letters, which can lead to frustration or bad habits. This is why it’s important to present students with many different fine motor activities that work a variety of muscles, building up the skills they will need in their kindergarten year.

What are some fine motor skills preschoolers should learn?

At a young age, preschoolers need to begin building grip and control as well as hand-eye coordination. You’ll want to preset your student with a variety of different and fun activities, but don’t get too overwhelmed by the process. Setting up a learning center station doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, there are many Fine Motor Activity Packs available in our TPT store to help get you started! These packs cover tracing, pencil grip, handwriting, small motor movements, play-dough/manipulation, pincer grasp, cutting/pasting, prepositional movement, listening skills, sign language, and so much more!

Our fine motor transportation pack not only includes uppercase letters, but it includes lowercase letters as well. And we’ve done our best to choose new vehicles of transportation for each letter so that students are building key vocabulary skills along the way.

Fine Motor Drive and Trace Mats

  • Uppercase Mats:
  • A is for Airplane
  • B is for Bus
  • C is for Cruise Liner
  • D is for Dump Truck
  • E is for Excavator
  • F is for Fire Truck
  • G is for Garbage Truck
  • H is for Helicopter
  • I is for Ice Cream Truck
  • J is for Jeep
  • K is for Kayak
  • L is for Limousine
  • M is for Motor home
  • N is Navy Cruiser
  • O is for Ocean Liner
  • P is for Police Car
  • Q is for Quad
  • R is Rocket
  • S is for Space Shuttle
  • T is for Trolley
  • U is for U.F.O.
  • V is for Vespa
  • W is for Wagon
  • X is for Taxi
  • Y is for Yacht
  • Z is for Zeppelin
  • Lowercase Mats:
  • a is for airplane
  • b is for bicycle
  • c is for car
  • d is for dirt bike
  • e is for express train
  • f is for ferry
  • g is for glider
  • h is for hot air balloon
  • i is for inner tube
  • j is for jet
  • k is for kayak
  • l is for locomotive
  • m is for motorcycle
  • n is for narrow boat
  • o is for osprey
  • p is for pickup truck
  • q is for quad
  • r is for rowboat
  • s is for submarine
  • t is for tractor
  • u is for unicycle
  • v is for van
  • w is for warship
  • x is for taxi
  • y is for yacht
  • z is for zeppelin

You can purchase our ABC Transportation Pack on our TPT store, or ff you are looking to create a variety of Fine Motor Centers for your classroom, you’ll want to check out our Fine Motor Alphabet Bundle:

This set is a brand new collection of Alphabet Fine Motor Printables covering many key small motor skills. These activity pages are fantastic for preschool and kindergarten learning centers as they are low-prep and highly engaging for young preschool students. Fine motor skills development is a key aspect you’ll want to include in your classroom, and these packs make it super simple to implement for even the busiest of teachers.

Looking for more Fine Motor Fun?

Try our Monthly Fine Motor Packs:

These monthly packs cover a variety of key skills while bringing in popular holidays and seasonal themes. The packs are print and go, no-prep activities that will enhance your classroom and use manipulatives you likely already have stocked in your supply closet. Click Here

If you’d like to try a free set of transportation worksheets, check out our Print & Drive Number Mats!

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Print & Drive Number Rhyme Mats

Alphabet Road Mats

Print and Drive Number Rhymes are perfect for your little tot or preschooler.  This set includes numbers 1-10 with a fun transportation theme on each page.  For every number, there is a small rhyme for children to learn the proper number formation as they drive their vehicle around the number.   Find a complete set of Print & Drive Alphabet Mats Here.

Number Formation Rhymes:

Here is a quick overview of each of the different number formation rhymes you can learn with your students. These are meant to be read as your student completes the action to “Drive” the number in the correct stroke order.

“One is like a submarine. It starts at the top, but then it sinks.”

“Two blows up around the bend, then floats down and over again.”

“Three is bumpy like a chopper, fly around the helicopters!”

“Four is like a 4-way-stop. One driver goes firt. Then, the other can drop.”

“Five is like an emergency route. Over, down, and around. Then, the hose can shoot!”

“Seven is like a bus carpool. Over to the kids, then slide down to school.”

“Eight is like a race car track. Go down and around, then come right back!”

“Nine is like air traffic control. Sened the red plane around, while the purple flies low.”

“Ten is like a new train track. Go down, pick up. Then around and back.”

Number Formation Printables

These free Number road mats will get tons of use in a classroom setting, so be sure to laminate them or store in pocket protectors.

Transportation Number Mat 1

One is like a submarine. It starts at the top but then it sinks!

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Transportation Number Mat 2

Two blows up around the bend, then floats down and over again.

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Transportation Number Mat 3

Three is bumpy like a chopper, fly around the helicopters.

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Transportation Number Mat 4

Four is like a 4-way stop. One driver goes first. Then the other can drop.

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Transportation Number Mat 5

Five is like an emergency route. Over, Down and Around then the hose can shoot!

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Transportation Number Mat 6

Six is like a rocket blooper, it starts going up but then dives for a looper.

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Transportation Number Mat 7

Seven is like a bus carpool. Over to the kids and slide down to school.

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Transportation Number Mat 8

Eight is like a race car track. Go down and around then come right back.

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Transportation Number Mat 9

Nine is like air traffic control. Send the red plane around while the purple flies low.

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Transportation Number Mat 10

Ten is like a new train track. God down pick up then around and back.

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Drive & Trace Shapes Worksheets for Preschool

Free Drive and Trace Shape activity mats. These mats are just perfect for students learning about the different shapes, while also building small motor muscles with the various cars. This set is perfect for your Preschool Math Program.  Children use a variety of different toy vehicles to drive around each of the shapes, then use their finger to trace the shapes below.

Transportation Preschool Printables

This page is filled with printable resources with a transportation theme.  We’ve got some great coloring pages, wordwall cards, cut and paste activities, bingo games, and more.  One of my children’s favorite books is called “I Stink” and it takes them through the daily routine of a garbage truck!  It’s filled with tons of silliness and I would highly recommend this book during your Transportation unit.

Transportation Wordwall Cards

A set of photograph word wall cards featuring different forms of transportation. These cards are great for matching games, building vocabulary and more.

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Transportation Coloring Page Quilt

Featuring 12 different coloring pages, each with handwriting practice options. All of our coloring pages have easy cut squares so you can arrange them into the shape of a quilt on your bulletin board.

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Print & Drive Number Formation Mats

This is a fantastic free set of Number Rhyme charts with a transportation theme. Children can drive their toy cars, trucks, and planes along each number while following the fun rhyming number formation.

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Transportation Bingo Game

Children learn so much quicker when they are having fun! Play our transportation bingo game to aid with visual recognition of some popular forms of transportation.

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Colorful Boat Matching Game

This is a simple matching game featuring different colors and patterns. Print up two sets of each page, laminate for durability.

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Transportation Memory Match

A set of printables children can use to play a matching game. Features a submarine, boat, hot air balloon, airplane, car and truck.

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Silly Transportation Drawing

What is the Hot Air Balloon carrying? Children complete the picture with their own drawing. Help them brainstorm some silly things that you would never see up in a hot air balloon.

Transportation Cut & Paste Activity

This is a simple cut and paste activity. Children cut out the different forms of transportation and glue them into the correct position on the board.

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Silly Airplane Coloring Page

Finish the picture by decorating the airplane and adding your own silly pilot. These would also make cute bulletin board displays with silly pictures of your students.

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Classroom Train Craft

These printables are great for a Classroom Train Bulletin Board! Each child fills their boxcar with something silly for the train to carry. Includes a locomotive and a caboose. This is a great way to learn the parts of a train while creating something creative for your classroom.

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Ten Commandment Train Craft

We've got a great craft on our sister site that you could tie in with your transportation theme. This ten commandment train craft takes children through each of the commandments written on boxcars.

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Transportation Theme Bible Lesson

We've also got some great Bible Preschool lessons with a transportation theme on our sister site PreschoolPost.

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