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Preschool Construction Theme Activity Plans

Excavators. Bull dozers. Cranes. Dump trucks. If it moves, makes noise, and helps builders, then the toy construction vehicles are at my house. Most kids love to build using blocks, LEGOS, cereal, rocks… anything really. These fun construction theme activities for preschool are the perfect way to explore all things building with your young learners.

Explore construction theme science, math, literacy, sensory, social-emotional activities and more! Great for preschool at home or in the classroom, these versatile construction activities will fit the needs of all your preschoolers without a bunch of extra planning time.

Recommended Age

For Preschool Activity Plans:

24 Interactive Construction Theme activity plans for young children

Get ready for fun and learning with all our preschool activity plans. These preschool construction activities are packed with literature-based plans that are easy to prepare and fun to do. Your kids will love getting dirty with the construction art for preschoolers.

Just like all of our themed activity plans, the construction themed activities for preschool included in this activity plan are created around a set of high quality, classic construction themed books that your preschoolers will love. We have included the list of construction books for preschool below so that you can grab them from your public library or purchase them for your personal library so that you can use these activities year after year.  

Construction themed activity plans for preschool showing two sensory bins

What are the benefits of the construction preschool activity plans?

  • Explore a variety of themed hands-on construction learning activities!
  • Build vocabulary and early literacy skills with preschool construction songs and circle time games!
  • Get learners ready for school with preschool construction theme printable activities!
  • Develop math skills through fun construction counting activities.
  • Our science experiments and fun preschool construction crafts for kids bring out the creativity in your little builders.
  • Use construction and building objects in your math, art and sensory activities to learn more about building.

These easy-to-follow construction themed activity plans include modifications and adaptations to meet the needs of all of your preschoolers.

Every theme is comes with recommended reading lists, songs, material lists and more.

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Digital Download

Each of the Preschool Activity Plans themes is a digital download that you will receive access to immediately after purchase.

No need to wait for a book to come in the mail to implement these fun preschool activities!

Every theme contains 2 files within a .zip file. Once you open the .zip file you will see one PDF with all the printable activities and one PDF with the themed activity plans.

Take a Look at What is Included:

Fall activity plans for preschool materials list

Mini Themes included within the Construction Activity Plans :

Construction vehicles, Tools, Rocks

Recommended Reading:

• ‘Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site’ by Sherri Rinker
•’Roadwork’ by Sally Sutton
•’My Truck is Stuck’ by Kevin Lewis
•’Backhoe Joe’ by Lori Alexander
•’The Construction Alphabet Book’ by Jerry Palotta

Materials List for Construction Preschool Activity Plans:

  • Golf tee
  • Cardboard
  • Gems or other markers
  • Construction Vehicle to carry items
  • Sentence strips
  • Sentence strip chart
  • Pointer
  • Sponge or cotton pads
  • Paper plates
  • Nuts, bolts, nail, screws
  • Dirt, sand, gravel, grass, flowers
  • Toy construction trucks
  • Geoboards
  • Rubber bands
  • Examples of different road signs
  • Bean bags
  • Small plastic cones
  • Measuring stick or ruler
  • Paper clips
  • Large tray or shallow container
  • Magnets
  • Small math counters
  • Cardboard box
  • Hot glue
  • Large plastic bottle lid
  • String
  • Plastic medicine cup
  • Plastic scoop
  • Plastic jar
  • Dried black beans
  • Clipboard
  • Playdough
  • Straws

Construction Themed Activities at a glance:

What is included in the Preschool Activity Plans?

Construction Math Activities for Preschool:

  • Construction Truck Counting Game
  • Exploring Weight With Rocks
  • Road Sign Geoboards
  • Build and Measure
  • Stuck Truck Counting
  • Construction Site Graphing
  • Number Bingo

Construction Literacy Activities for Preschool:

  • Hammering Letters
  • Construction Letters
  • Left and Right
  • Independent Writing
  • Construction C

Construction Science Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Simple Machine Sensory Play

Construction Social Studies Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Construction Scavenger Hunt

Construction Sensory Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Construction Crew Counting Sensory Bin
  • Rock Sensory Play

Construction Art Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Color Mixing with Construction Vehicles
  • “Rock”in Process Art

Construction Fine Motor Activities for Preschoolers:

  • 3D Structures with Playdough & Straws
  • Construction Zone Invitation to Play

Construction Gross Motor Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Stop and Slow Construction Movement Game
  • Road Sign Bean Bag Toss

Construction Music Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Construction Freeze Dance

Construction Circle Time Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Goodnight Construction Vehicles Recognition Activities

Who Developed the Construction Activity Plans for Preschoolers?

Developed by a team of talented teachers and parents, these construction activities for preschoolers range from whole group circle time ideas to active learning games. All activity plans have been carefully crafted and kid tested!

Whether you are a new teacher developing an entire preschool curriculum, a veteran teacher searching for new inspiration, or a parent homeschooling your preschooler, you’ll find everything you need in these Construction theme Preschool Activity Plans.

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Digital Download

Each of the Preschool Activity Plans themes is a digital download that you will receive access to immediately after purchase.

No need to wait for a book to come in the mail to implement these fun preschool activities!

Every theme contains 2 files within a .zip file. Once you open the .zip file you will see one PDF with all the printable activities and one PDF with the themed activity plans.

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