Make a Splash With These Summer Lesson Plans for Preschoolers
Sun’s out, fun’s out! Get ready to keep your little learners happy this summer! Our summer lesson plans for preschoolers are packed with fun activities that will keep your preschoolers busy, growing, and learning…all summer long!
From summer preschool themes, book recommendations, free lesson plans and printables, we’ve got you covered! We have everything you need to make it a fun summer, packed with learning.
Preschool lesson planning can be potentially daunting, but don’t let it overwhelm you. With proper resources, lesson planning can be effective, exciting and fun!
Preschoolers are full of energy, curiosity, and excitement to learn. Summer preschool lesson plans should incorporate engaging themes, activities, crafts, books, and printables. The goal is to prevent summer learning loss while keeping children active and interested.
Summer lesson plans allow preschool teachers, parents, and caregivers to provide structure and learning opportunities during summertime.
Lesson plans may be centered around summer themes like camping, ice cream and ocean animals or related to developing key skills like early math, science, literacy, or fine motor skills.
Planning helps make the most of summer days with preschoolers.
To make the most of ALL of the days spent with your preschoolers, I have created a comprehensive and complete preschool curriculum. It takes all the guesswork out of planning. It includes everything you need to keep your preschoolers learning in hands-on and engaging ways, all year long!
-
Product on sale* Daily Lessons in Preschool Literacy & Math CurriculumOriginal price was: $270.00.$169.00Current price is: $169.00.
Summer Preschool Theme Ideas
Summer offers many fun preschool lesson plans to excite your preschoolers. It’s great to have a variety of fun activities to keep your little ones busy.
Check out some of our favorite summer themes and lesson plans to make summer learning a breeze!
Books About Summertime
Sunshine, adventures, and endless possibilities – summer is a magical time for preschoolers and their families! The right preschool books about summer can whisk your preschooler away to sunny beaches, buzzing insect-filled meadows, or firefly-filled evenings.
- Hardcover Book
- Murray, Diana (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Brenner, Tom (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 32 Pages – 04/20/2021 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)
- Ghigna, Charles (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 24 Pages – 07/31/2011 (Publication Date) – Picture Window Books (Publisher)
- Hardcover Book
- Thompson, Lauren (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Hardcover Book
- Sterer, Gideon (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Steinberg, D.J. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 32 Pages – 04/25/2023 (Publication Date) – Grosset & Dunlap (Publisher)
Free Summer Lesson Plans
The summer provides a great opportunity to keep your preschoolers learning with fun, engaging activities. Luckily, many free summer lesson plans are available to make learning fun, both indoors and out in the sun!
Summer Theme Preschool Lesson Plans
Summer Lesson Plans will help give you a variety of awesome learning activities to keep your kiddos busy and learning all summer long. Ice cream, lemonade, watermelon…oh my…you will find these themes and many more in these fun, hands-on FREE lesson plans for summertime!
Watermelon Theme Lesson Plans
Nothing says summer quite as much as some juicy watermelon on a hot day. A watermelon theme is such a fun part of summer learning for preschoolers. Wow your kiddos with an erupting watermelon volcano, practice counting with watermelon seeds, do some watermelon math playdough…and so much more!
Water Table Activities and Lesson Plans
Who doesn’t love the water in summer? This water theme lesson plan includes ocean, beach, and sea life themes, and more. Full of exciting water adventures, this lesson plan provides engaging and hands-on activities your preschoolers will love all summer long. Splash on in for some fun that will never stop!
Camping Theme Lesson Plans
These exciting camping theme lesson plans will ignite curiosity about nature, teach the importance of rest, and even spark some campfire sing-alongs (with pretend s’mores, of course!). The best part? You and your preschoolers can “go camping” without even leaving home!
Desert Preschool Lesson Plans
This summer, let’s take a desert adventure without leaving the classroom! With our free desert preschool lesson plans, your preschoolers can learn all about the unique desert habitat and the plants and creatures that inhabit it. They will delight at making a “smores solar oven” to learn about the power of the fun! This desert-themed summer lesson plan is packed with engaging activities like this to keep your preschoolers cool, curious, and having a blast all summer!
Insect Preschool Lesson Plans
Most preschoolers love learning about “creepy crawlies” (way more than us adults do!). This exciting bug-themed lesson plan is packed with free ideas you can use at home or in the classroom. It includes book suggestions, art projects, sensory activities, and even some math and science fun – all bug-themed!
-
Product on sale* Daily Lessons in Preschool Literacy & Math CurriculumOriginal price was: $270.00.$169.00Current price is: $169.00.
Summer Theme Lesson Plans for Toddlers
Keep your toddler engaged with learning through play this summer! Not just for preschoolers, summertime also offers many fun learning opportunities for toddlers. It’s important to provide engaging, age-appropriate activities to keep your little one’s mind and body active.
Here are some ideas for summer learning and play:
Dyed Beans Summer Sensory Bin
This vibrant and colorful sensory bin is perfect for summertime fun for both toddlers and preschoolers (and I bet your big kids will join in, too!). This is a wonderful sensory activity that will be a hit all summer long. Your young kiddos won’t even know they are learning essential fine motor skills like scooping and pouring…they will be too busy having FUN!
Please ALWAYS supervise children around this activity, as the beans can present a choking hazard!
Fun Water Table Activities for Summer
Is there anything that represents summer more than WATER? Ice cream and watermelon….maybe. But, water would take a close second! Water and water play are synonymous with summertime fun. To keep learning (and play) fresh and exciting, we have lots of ideas to make your water tables COOL and engaging, all summer long. There is an entire section dedicated to toddlers, and also a lot of fun ideas for preschoolers.
As always, be sure to supervise your toddlers (and preschoolers) during all water play!
Ocean Theme Circle Time Props
Perfect for toddlers and preschoolers, this activity helps them learn colors, numbers, and simple counting. It also includes a free printable you can download to make your ocean-themed props for a splash-tastic learning experience!
Summer Coloring Pages
Welcome the summer heat with your toddler through these free printable summer coloring pages, packed with lots of summer-themed animals and objects to color. These are great to incorporate into summer travel and summertime activities. You can also use them as a way to introduce new words and to extend learning.
Summer Learning Printables
Keep kids learning and having fun with summer math printables. It is important to practice and reinforce math skills like number recognition, number order, counting, addition, and more!
Check out these math activity packs that are FILLED with awesome, hands-on lessons with a fun summer twist.
Summer Number Sequencing Activity Pack
Number order is as important for preschoolers to practice, as it is fun! This summer number sequence activity pack is filled to the brim with hands-on summer-themed learning. With an emphasis on numbers 0-10, your preschoolers just might be number order experts by the time summer turns to fall!
Summer More & Less Concepts Activity Pack
Did you know that understanding the concepts of “more or less” is pivotal in future understanding of addition and subtraction? It is the foundation, and thus a very important skill for preschoolers to master before they become kindergarteners. This engaging summer-themed more & less activities pack is just what you need to help build these skills, along with some great practice with number identification and counting!
Summer Number Identification Printables
Get your preschoolers kindergarten-ready this summer with our brand-new summer-themed number identification pack! These activities are designed for ages 3-5. Each activity (covering 0-20) offers a fun, hands-on way to learn number names and hone counting skills. Ditch the flashcards and embrace active learning this summer!
Preschoolers thrive on hands-on learning during the summer months. There are abundant themes, books, activities, printables, and more to engage young minds all summer long. With fun summer themes like watermelon, ice cream, ocean creatures, and waterplay, your kids will never want to stop learning!
There are endless ways to encourage learning through play during the summer months with creative preschool summer lesson plans. Don’t let the dog days of summer get you down…keep summer exciting and full of learning fun!
-
Product on sale* Daily Lessons in Preschool Literacy & Math CurriculumOriginal price was: $270.00.$169.00Current price is: $169.00.
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.
