Squeak, squeak! Here you’ll find loads of ideas for a mouse preschool theme, including book ideas, art and sensory exploration, and math and science fun. These free mice preschool lesson plans are available at the end of this post in a FREE download of preschool lesson plans.
Free Mice Activities for Preschoolers Including Free Preschool Lesson Plans
People often have strong feelings about mice, right? They are either on team ew or team adorable when they spot a little mouse in real life.
The beauty of this mouse preschool theme is that there are loads of fun ways to incorporate these little creatures in lots of fictional ways with no real hands-on involvement. Many favorite children’s books have incorporated beloved mouse characters and have become preschool favorites! Plus mouse crafts for preschool are so precious and fun to make!
So no matter your thoughts on mice, it’s time to embrace a mice preschool theme! Scroll down for a list of all the activities included in these mouse preschool lesson plans!
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Important Info about these Mice Lesson Plans
These lesson plans for preschoolers are just one theme in a set of over 40 that will become a part of my free Learn At Home Preschool Lesson Plans.
The Learn at Home Preschool Activity Plans are a set of free activity plans you can use to teach your preschooler at home.
Each set of lesson plans is centered around a weekly theme and includes a minimum of 16 activities that can be done throughout the week. They are designed to be done at home with parents, but many preschool teachers are using these lesson plans, too!
Just glance over the lessons each day, gather the very few materials needed, and you’re ready to go!
All the preschool learning activities are quick and easy to set up, requiring very little (if any at all) prep and only require the most basic of household materials. This makes them especially easy for parents to implement…and this makes preschool teachers happy, too!
These activities also work wonderfully in the classroom, and if you’re a preschool teacher who is remotely teaching you can send these lesson plans to your student’s parents.
Engaging Preschool Activities for a Mice Theme
These mouse activities for preschool are full of fun, learning, and great hands-on activities!
Literacy Activities for a Mice Preschool Theme
M is for Mouse Letter Activity – This adorable letter M alphabet craft is a great way to introduce the letter sound and capital letter! Print the letter M template and add mouse ears, whiskers, googly eyes, and a pink pom-pom nose. Practice making the letter /m/ sound by pressing your lips together and saying, ”mmmmmmm”. Invite your preschooler to think up words that start with the letter M and make a list together!
Mouse and Cookie Alphabet Matching Game – This is a clever way to practice learning to distinguish the uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet in a fun and hands-on way! Print the mouse and cookie alphabet match cards and set up for your preschooler. For even more fun, place them around the room in a scavenger hunt style and pretend to pass out cookies to each letter that you find! Make up a fun chant for each letter sound too!
Don’t Forget Picture Books!
One of the best ways to teach preschoolers about any theme is by hand-selecting great picture books for early childhood. This is a book list of our most loved picture books for a mouse theme.
Math and Science Activities for a Mice Theme in Preschool
Mouse Shapes Scavenger Hunt – Grab this set of shape activities perfect for using alongside the book Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh! Go on a scavenger hunt, trace, and draw!
Cookie Counting Cards – Use alongside the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie book and invite your preschooler to count out a certain number of chocolate chips to each cookie counting mat. A fun math activity and a tasty treat!
Nocturnal and Diurnal Animal Sorting – Learn which animals sleep during the day and are awake and active at night, just like your friend, the mouse! Sort the 16 animals and discover which are nocturnal and which are diurnal.
Playful Preschool Learning Activities for a Mice Theme
Bake Cookies for Mouse – Grab your favorite cookie recipe and gather the ingredients! Invite your preschooler to help you measure, pour, and mix the ingredients. Share your tasty cookie with friends and family!
Charades for Kids – Grab this funny list of kid’s charades and invite your preschooler to act it out without speaking. See who can figure it out in this tricky challenge!
Silly Face Contest – Kids love any chance to be and act silly! Invite your preschooler to make funny faces and head to the mirror and check out those silly expressions! How can faces make you feel? Can you make a mad face?
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Social-Emotional Activities for a Mice Preschool Theme
The Lion and The Mouse Aesop’s Fable – Print this one-page coloring activity and fable of the Lion and the Mouse. Invite your preschooler to color the picture as you read aloud. After reading discuss how the lion and the mouse both helped each other and so their good deed was rewarded. Being kind is always the answer and we can learn from this story. Invite your preschooler to sequence and retell the story using these story cards.
Feeling Worried – Go to YouTube and listen to the story, Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes. Wemberly is a little mouse who has big worries. She worries about everything, including if there is enough birthday cake at the party or the big tree falling in her front yard. When it’s time for the first day of school, Wemberly is full of worries. She soon learns that a new friend can help her feel prepared and comfortable in her new classroom. With your preschooler, make a list of some of Wemberly’s worries. Do you share any of those worries? What are some things that worry you? Write them down too and talk about how to shake off those worries.
Just Plain Fun Mice Activities for Preschoolers
Mouse Paint Color Mixing – Learn about primary colors and color mixing with this fun (mess-free) activity! Read the book Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh and prep Ziploc bags with two colors inside. Invite your preschooler to mix the colors inside to find out the new color!
Strawberry Mouse Snack for Kids – Playing with food can be fun and tasty! Create a strawberry mouse snack that is fun to eat and cute to make!
Paper Mouse Finger Puppets – These paper mouse finger puppets are perfect for making up stories or for telling the classic nursery rhyme, Hickory Dickory Dock!
Get Online Activities for a Mice Theme
Online Story – Go to YouTube and listen to the story, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. Then, ask your preschooler if they can connect to any of the things Mouse does in the story, such as having a milk mustache, reading stories in bed, and drawing a picture. Ask your preschooler, ”What did the mouse want at the end of the story?”
Hickory Dickory Dock – This preschool friendly song and nursery rhyme is great for language and rhyme development!
I’m a Mouse Song and Video – This catchy and silly mouse movement song encourages gross motor movement and dramatic play!
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Make Your Mice Theme Even Better!
Sometimes (not always), what turns a great preschool theme into an exceptional one is having some extra special materials specific to that theme. These are some of the mice toys and activity kits I like to use with my preschoolers.
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I am an educator, book enthusiast, and a stay at home momma to two precious and long-awaited littles. My degree is in Early Childhood Education and Curriculum and Instruction and I have spent the last 15 years working with young children. I feel very fortunate to have this time to watch my babies grow and I can’t wait to share my passion for learning and reading with you!
