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Activities for 4-year-olds
Printable worksheets and hands-on learning activities for 4-year-olds (preschool and pre-K). Every activity explains what children learn, what you need and how to run it, with ideas to make it easier or harder.
20 activities
Activities
Draw a Weekend Memory
A journal page for drawing a favorite weekend moment and sharing where it happened, who was there, and how the child felt.
Journal page
Story About Fear and Courage
A story about a little seed who feels afraid of something new. After listening, children talk about feelings and who can help them.
Story & talk
Walking Rainbow
Watch colored water travel along paper towels from one cup to another. Children predict, observe, and draw what happens.
Science experiment
Dinosaur Movement Die
Make a paper die, roll it and move like a dinosaur. A playful way to explore movement together at home or in a group.
Roll and play
Feelings Bingo
Draw face cards and find the matching feelings on your bingo card. Talk together about how people may feel.
Bingo
Complete the Butterflies
Complete the missing half of each butterfly, then color the two butterflies to match.
Draw the other half
Count Space Objects
Find rockets, planets, stars, astronauts and moons in space. Count each group and record how many you found.
I spy and count
Vehicle Picture Sudoku
Complete a 4×4 picture sudoku with a car, bus, airplane, and boat. Cut and glue the pictures so each row and column has one of each vehicle.
Picture sudoku
Count and Graph Fruit
Count apples, bananas, bunches of grapes, and strawberries. Color the graph to find out which fruit appears most.
Count and graph
Halloween Witch Maze
Help a friendly little witch find her way to her pumpkin cauldron in a Halloween maze.
Maze
Square and Rectangle Shapes
Trace a square and a rectangle, color familiar objects, and draw an example of each shape.
Shapes
Rhyming Animals and Objects
Match five animals to objects whose names rhyme, and play with the sounds of words.
Rhyming
Adding Fish to 5
Count two groups of fish, put them together, and write the total in five simple addition problems.
Picture math
Butterfly Life Cycle Sequencing
Cut and paste the pictures to discover the butterfly life cycle: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly.
Sequencing
Trace Uppercase Letters
Practice tracing the uppercase letters E, F, H, L, and T, with two rows for each letter.
Tracing worksheet
Count Apples in Ten Frames
Count the apples in six ten frames and write how many are in each one.
Ten frames
Sort Animals by Habitat
Cut out and sort nine animals into sky, water, or land. Practice observing, talking, and classifying together.
Sort and classify
Find the Number 7
Find and circle the eight 7s hidden among snowflakes numbered 1 to 9.
Find and circle
Foods Beginning With M
Name nine foods and circle the ones that begin with the /m/ sound.
Beginning sounds
Living and Nonliving Things
Cut out and sort eight garden pictures into living and nonliving groups. Observe, talk, and classify together.
Sort and classify