Free Beach Lesson Plans for Preschool
Get ready for some sand and sun! If you are looking for a way to creatively engage and teach your preschoolers about the beach and ocean life, then you have come to the right place! We are offering free beach lesson plans for preschool that celebrate the beauty of nature and the joys of ocean life.
Whether you live local to the beach or not, preschoolers love engaging with sand and water and learning about sea life of all shapes and sizes.
Free Preschool Lesson Plans for a Beach Theme
We have put together these beach preschool lesson plans for your preschoolers because learning about different parts of our natural world are so important and essential for our youngest learners.
Preschoolers and young children often love the experience of the beach. The sun, the waves, the sensory experiences of the sand and the cool water, the beach toys, etc. It is so much fun and such a special memory! We can bring those same experiences into the classroom or at home with some fun hands-on beach activities.
We have gathered our favorite beach activities that focus on play, sensory, and academic skills. We hope you’ll download the whole list at the end of this post!
Important Info About These Beach Lesson Plans
The Learn at Home Preschool Lesson Plans are free lesson plans you can use to teach your preschooler at home.
All the preschool learning activities are quick and easy to set up, designed to save time, requiring hardly any (if any at all) prep and only requires the most basic of household materials. This makes them especially easy for parents to implement…and this makes preschool teachers especially happy, too!
Just glance over the lessons each day, gather the very few materials needed, and you’re ready to go!
But don’t be fooled by the name “at home” preschool lesson plans! These activities work wonderfully in the classroom as well, and if you’re a preschool teacher who is remotely teaching you can send these lesson plans to your student’s parents.
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Hands-On Activities for a Beach Preschool Theme
These beach themed lesson plans are great for preschoolers but also for young kids in general. They might be designed for preschoolers, but so many of the included beach activities work wonderfully with toddlers, too. That’s right…you can modify these lesson plans for toddlers, too!
Beach Literacy Activities for Preschoolers
Beach Letter Matching Puzzles – This activity is perfect for helping your preschooler recognize uppercase and lowercase letters! Use these beach themed letter cards as puzzles, hide and seek, in a sensory bin, or even with play dough! Cut and laminate for extra use value because the learning options are endless!
Beach Sight Word Activity with Sand – Can’t head to the beach? No problem! This beach sensory bin activity is perfect for playing in the sand and mastering simple sight words, name writing, or letter recognition. Simply grab a bin and add some sand and then incorporate writing tools like a pencil or a craft stick to form the letters. You can even use playdough stampers in the sand to stamp the words!
Beach Themed Picture Books for Preschoolers
These picture books are a great way to introduce beach fun to preschoolers! These beach stories are full of sand and sun and are sure to be a summer favorite!
- Dean, James (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Evans, Shira (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Capucilli, Alyssa Satin (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Andrews, Alexa (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Rey, H. A. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Costanzo, Beth (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Booth, Tom (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Maynor, Megan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
Beach Math & Science Activities for Preschoolers
Beach Size Order Cut & Paste – This ordering and comparing sizes printable is a fun way to learn measurement skills in a ”crabby” way!
Ocean Roll & Cover Counting Game – This fast-paced learning game is a great way to practice one to one correspondence, color matching, and reading numbers on a die. Plus kids love filling up their animal card with counters!
Ocean Discovery Bottle – This sensory bottle is not only fun to make, it also teaches preschoolers about ocean waves. With an empty clear jar, some sand, and blue food dye, your preschooler can enjoy an ocean bottle for years to come!
Playful Learning Activities for Preschool Beach Theme
Musical Towels – Enjoy a game of musical chairs using towels instead! Lay out some towels, play some music and walk around until the music stops. Then sit quickly on the closest towel. The person on the last towel wins!
Dig a hole – Whether at the beach or at the park, digging is so much fun. Invite your preschooler to come up with a story about their digging fun. Maybe they are digging for treasure or making a deep well for a river!
Play Limbo – You know the classic game of limbo? You can use a broom or a pool noodle or even a piece of string. Challenge your preschooler to get low, low, low!
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Product on sale* Learn At Home Preschool Lesson Plans BundleOriginal price was: $60.00.$22.00Current price is: $22.00.
Social Emotional Gratitude Activities for Preschoolers
Ocean Yoga Poses – These ocean yoga poses are great for helping young children learn to manage big feelings and find ways to calm and regulate. With these five poses, children can transform themselves into different sea animals and practice stretching and moving their bodies to calm and re-energize. Plus, the movements are really fun and definitely require some focus and attention!
Crab Emotions Board Game – Feeling crabby? This emotions board game is guaranteed to help your preschoolers recognize emotions and be better able to describe them based on facial expressions. The more opportunities children have to share their emotions and talk about how they are feeling, the better prepared they will be to handle their emotions in real world life. This game helps children recognize how other people are feeling based on their facial expressions too.
Just Plain Fun Beach Activities for Preschoolers
Beach Ball Paper Plate Art – With some red, yellow, and blue paint plus a paper plate, you can create a fun and realistic beach ball art project!
Beach Dramatic Play – With a little creativity, create a beach indoors! Whether you practice applying sunscreen, go fishing, or pretend surf, this activity is full of great ways to build language and have loads of beach themed play!
Beach Playdough Mats – These easy to prep playdough mats are a great way to practice numbers and play with beach-themed items like shells, infusing sand, and even small ocean themed animals.
Get Online Preschool Activities About Beach
Online Story – Go to YouTube and listen to the story, Day at the Beach by Tom Booth. After listening, ask your preschooler, “At the end of the story, why do you think Gideon wanted to build with his sister and parents?” Do you think Gideon realized the value of being together? What are some things that are more fun together?
Let’s Go to the Beach Song – Take a trip to the beach with this fun and sunny beach song!
The Going to the Beach Song – There’s lots of things you need at the beach! Sing along to this fun song to help you remember!
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Product on sale* Learn At Home Preschool Lesson Plans BundleOriginal price was: $60.00.$22.00Current price is: $22.00.
GET YOUR FREE BEACH LESSON PLANS FOR PRESCHOOL HERE
These preschool beach lesson plans are full of sand and sun with no beachy mess! Download them free here!
I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.
Interested in the beach lesson theme but theres nowhere to enter email to receive download
Hi Kayla,
the form to receive the free lesson plans is at the bottom of the post after the YouTube videos. It’s the form with my house logo on it. I just tested it myself and it delivered. 🙂