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Preschool Summer Theme Activity Plans

Summer is here! What better way to celebrate than to explore summer theme preschool concepts through books, crafts, games, and more. These fun summer activities for preschool are the perfect way to explore summer with your young learners. Learn with summer arts and crafts for preschool, science, math, literacy, sensory, social-emotional activities and more! Great for preschool at home or in the classroom, these versatile summer activities will fit the needs of all your preschoolers without a bunch of extra planning time.

Recommended Age

For Preschool Activity Plans:

24 Interactive Summer Theme activity plans for young children

Get ready for fun and learning with all our preschool activity plans. These preschool summer activities are packed with literature-based plans that are easy to prepare and fun to do.

Just like all of our themed activity plans, the summer themed activities for preschool included in this activity plan are created around a set of high quality, preschool books about summer that your children will love. We have included the list of books 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.  

Summer theme preschool activity plans.

What are the benefits of the summer preschool activity plans?

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

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

Every theme comes with recommended book lists, songs, craft projects, 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:

Layout of summer preschool lesson plans.

Mini Summer Themes included within the Summer Activity Plans :

Summer, Sun, Watermelon, Lemonade, Picnic

Recommended Reading:

  • “Mouse’s First Summer,” by Laura Thompson
  • “Summer Days and Nights,” by Wong Herbert Yee
  • “Fireflies in the Night,” by Judy Hawes
  • “The Relatives Came,” by Cynthia Rylant
  • “Summertime in the Big Woods,” by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Materials List for Summer Preschool Activity Plans:

  • Paint Palette
  • Black Do-a-Dot Marker
  • Food Stickers/Cutouts from Magazines
  • Picture/diagram of Real Ant
  • White Paint
  • Small lid/container for paint
  • Cotton Swabs
  • Tissue Paper (pink/green/yellow)
  • Paintbrush
  • Contact Paper
  • Lemons (6)
  • Sugar (1 cup)
  • Cutting Board
  • Citrus Juicer
  • Ice Tongs
  • Vegetable Oil
  • Yellow Food Coloring
  • Lemon Zest
  • Shimmery Gems
  • Small Containers
  • Balls (varied colors)

Summer Themed Activities at a glance:

What is included in the Summer Preschool Activity Plans?

Summer Math Activities for Preschool:

  • Counting with Watermelon Seeds
  • Watermelon Shape Spin & Cover
  • Firefly Counting Clip Cards
  • Beach Color Sorting

Summer Literacy Activities for Preschool:

  • Summer Words
  • Favorite Summer Activity Journal Prompt
  • Summertime Then and Now Chart
  • Ant Name Recognition

Summer Science Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Make Your Own Firefly
  • Floating Grape Experiment
  • Honey Transfer Activity

Summer Circle Time Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Can You Build a Hexagon? Building Challenge

Summer Sensory Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Lemonade Playdough
  • Shimmery Summer Sensory Bin

Summer Art Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Ant Craft
  • Firefly Patterns
  • W is for Watermelon Craft
  • Firefly Sun Catchers

Summer Fine Motor Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Making Lemonade
  • Grape Sorting
  • Torn Paper Watermelon

Summer Gross Motor Activities for Preschoolers:

  • Beach Towel Hop
  • Slide Games
  • Ice Chest Races

Who Developed the Summer Activity Plans for Preschoolers?

Developed by a team of talented teachers and parents, these summer 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 summer preschool theme curriculum, a veteran teacher searching for new inspiration, or a parent homeschooling your preschooler, you’ll find everything you need in these Preschool Summer 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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