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Activities for 5-year-olds

Printable worksheets and hands-on learning activities for 5-year-olds (kindergarten). Every activity explains what children learn, what you need and how to run it, with ideas to make it easier or harder.

18 activities

Activities

Astronaut Movement Course
Age 5 15 min

Astronaut Movement Course

Walk through the spaceship, jump on the Moon, practice balancing, and count down to launch!

Movement & dance

Banana Oat Pancake Recipe
Age 5 20 min

Banana Oat Pancake Recipe

Mash, mix, and follow a picture recipe for pancakes. An adult handles the stove while the child helps with the safe steps.

Cooking together

Ocean Animal Memory Game
Age 5 20 min

Ocean Animal Memory Game

Cut out 8 pairs of ocean animals and play a matching game that builds memory and encourages conversation about marine life.

Memory game

Spring Flower Crown
Age 5 25 min

Spring Flower Crown

Color, cut out, and make a spring crown decorated with flowers.

Craft template

Dinosaur Baking Soda Volcano
Age 5 20 min

Dinosaur Baking Soda Volcano

Make a foaming volcano with baking soda and vinegar in a dinosaur setting. Draw a prediction first, then draw what happened.

Science experiment

Complete the Rocket and Robot
Age 5 20 min

Complete the Rocket and Robot

Draw the missing halves of a rocket and a robot, using the grid as a guide.

Draw the other half

Letter Path Board Game
Age 5 20 min

Letter Path Board Game

Roll the die, move along the path, and name words that begin with the letters you land on.

Board game

Insect Picture Sudoku
Age 5 15 min

Insect Picture Sudoku

Complete a 4×4 sudoku with a bee, ladybug, butterfly and ant. Practice observing, comparing and solving problems.

Picture sudoku

Star, Bell and Gift Patterns
Age 5 15 min

Star, Bell and Gift Patterns

Continue five ABC and AABB patterns by drawing stars, bells and gifts. Look for what repeats and discover what comes next.

Patterns

Make 10 With Hearts
Age 5 15 min

Make 10 With Hearts

Count the hearts in six ten frames and draw the missing hearts to make 10.

Ten frames

Weekly Weather Graph
Age 5 5 min

Weekly Weather Graph

Observe and record the weather for seven days, then color a graph to find out which kind of weather appeared most often.

Count and graph

Subtract With Pictures
Age 5 15 min

Subtract With Pictures

Count pies and fruit, trace the cross-out marks, and find out how many are left on the party table.

Picture math

Count Stars and Planets
Age 5 20 min

Count Stars and Planets

Count five groups of stars and planets and write how many are in each group. Explore numbers from 11 to 20 with adult support.

Counting

Find Rhyming Words
Age 5 15 min

Find Rhyming Words

Children listen to picture names and circle the word that rhymes with the first picture in each row.

Rhyming

Match Vehicles to Initial Letters
Age 5 15 min

Match Vehicles to Initial Letters

Match six vehicles to the letters their names begin with. Practice recognizing letters and listening for beginning sounds.

Matching

Missing Vowels in Fruit Names
Age 5 15 min

Missing Vowels in Fruit Names

Name six fruits and write the missing vowel in each word.

Missing letters

Ocean Animals
Age 5 20 min

Ocean Animals

Find six ocean animals in an 8×8 word search, with pictures to help children read the words.

Word search

Sight Word See
Age 5 15 min

Sight Word See

Read, trace and find the sight word “see”. Then copy a short sentence about a cat.

Sight words