Back to School Preschool and Kindergarten Activities, Games, and Crafts. Enjoy our collection and always growing activities and lesson plan ideas to help young children become familiar with their classmates, classroom environment, and school. Find a variety of songs, classroom management and teacher tips, and activities for the beginning of a new school year. Our lessons and activities are centered around learning the classroomrules and procedures of the classroom, and how to use classroom materials.During the first weeks of school your children will have fun exploring the classroom and all the materials with the help of Pete the Cat, the Roudy-osaur the Dinosaur that learns school manners, and of course with the help of a little mouse.
Samples of our more than 95 back to school crafts, activities, crafts, games, songs, rhymes, coloring pages, and printables.
Start the school year off right with our fun and exciting back-to-school activities and themes:
If You Take a Mouse to School Coloring Page | If You Take a Mouse to School Can you find the mouse? | If You Take a Mouse to School Maze | My first day of school coloring page |
If You Take a Mouse to School
If you take a Mouse to school, first he'll ask you for your lunchbox -- and then he'll want to get his paws on everything, from spelling and math to a messy science experiment.
Here is a great language activity to do with the If You Take a Mouse to School book that also teaches children each other's names.
What you do:
Cut several small index cards in half and write each child's name on a card. Place the cards in a lunchbox. Re-read the book to the class. Stop to draw a card and replace the "Mouse" with the child's name. Have children take turns drawing a name out of the lunchbox and reading it with your help and then continuing the story.
If You Take a Mouse to School Harper Collins Book Activities
Lucky Charms Welcome to School Bags
Write out the poem, print it and attach to a snack bag of Lucky Charms cereal.
This special treat is to remind you that I'm glad you are in my class! Search the bag, and inside you should find:
A yellow star to remind you to always shine.
A pot of gold to remind you that you are worth a million.
A colorful rainbow to remind you to always do your best.
A blue moon to remind you that sometimes we will all make mistakes.
A green clover to give you luck as you start ____ grade.
A purple horseshoe to remind you that U matter!
A red balloon to remind you to soar above the clouds and try new things.
And most importantly, a pink heart to remind you that as your teacher, I care about you!
Original Author Unknown
Welcome Back-to-School Bags
Put together one bag for each child of items that symbolize that the classroom is a safe, welcoming place where everyone works together and takes care of each other. Place the following items in each bag: one cotton ball, one individually wrapped chocolate kiss, one tissue, one sticker, one gold thread, one penny, one bandage, one eraser, and one individually wrapped lifesaver candy. Then, tell children what each item means:
Magic Play dough The Magic Play dough helps children to release any nervous energy they may have. For each child, roll a piece of white play dough into a ball. Poke a small hole in each with your finger and add a few drops of food color. Cover the hole carefully. Place each ball into a ziploc bag and place a bag at each child's seat. Let childen take out their "Magic Play dough" and say the following rhyme together:
I squeeze my play dough, it's shiny white.
I squeeze it, I squeeze it with all my might.
Slowly I see a color appear,
Yes, it will be a great school year!
Let children play with their play dough or instruct them to make certain things and share these with the class:
Back-to-School Friendship Walk
Have children stand in a circle and choose a fun back-to-school music CD to play during the game. Choose a child to walk around the circle as the music plays. When the music stops, the child moving around the circle stops and joins hands with the child closest to him/her. As the music begins again, the two children now walk together around the circle. Each time the music stops, the children walking around the circle join hands with the next child standing closest them. The friendship walk continues until everyone is walking in a circle together with joined hands.
Hi There!
Original Author Unknown
(Tune: Shoo Fly)
Hi there, so glad you came,
Hi there, so glad you came,
Hi there, so glad you came,
1-2-3, Let's shout "Hurray! Hurray!"
Hi there, so glad you're here,
Hi there, so glad you're here,
Hi there, so glad you're here
1-2-3, Let's give a cheer! Yay!
This is the Way
Original Author Unknown
(Tune: All Around the Mulberry Bush)
This is the way we sit in a circle, (start off song sitting in a circle)
Sit in a circle, sit in a circle.
This is the way we sit in a circle,
Here at our school.
This is the way we raise our hands, (raise hands up and down)
Raise our hands, raise our hands.
This is the way we raise our hands,
Here at our school.
This is the way we read our books, (pretend to turn pages from left to right)
Read our books, read our books.
This is the way we read our books,
Here at our school.
This is the way we write our names, (write names in the air)
Write our names, write our names.
This is the way we write our names,
Here at our school.
This is the way we eat our lunch, (pretend to each lunch)
Eat our lunch, eat our lunch.
This is the way we eat our lunch,
Here at our school.
This is the way we get in a line, (move into lining up to leave classroom)
Get in a line, get in a line.
This is the way we get in a line,
Here at our school.
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