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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
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 15 min

Complete the Butterflies

Complete the missing half of each butterfly, then color the two butterflies to match.

Draw the other half

Count Space Objects
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 10 min

Halloween Witch Maze

Help a friendly little witch find her way to her pumpkin cauldron in a Halloween maze.

Maze

Square and Rectangle Shapes
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 10 min

Rhyming Animals and Objects

Match five animals to objects whose names rhyme, and play with the sounds of words.

Rhyming

Adding Fish to 5
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 15 min

Butterfly Life Cycle Sequencing

Cut and paste the pictures to discover the butterfly life cycle: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly.

Sequencing

Trace Uppercase Letters
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 15 min

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
Age 4 20 min

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
Age 4 10 min

Find the Number 7

Find and circle the eight 7s hidden among snowflakes numbered 1 to 9.

Find and circle

Foods Beginning With M
Age 4 10 min

Foods Beginning With M

Name nine foods and circle the ones that begin with the /m/ sound.

Beginning sounds

Living and Nonliving Things
Age 4 15 min

Living and Nonliving Things

Cut out and sort eight garden pictures into living and nonliving groups. Observe, talk, and classify together.

Sort and classify