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.

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.  

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.

Take a Look at What is Included:

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:

Summer Themed Activities at a glance:

What is included in the Summer Preschool Activity Plans?

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.