Summer Learning Activities for Preschool

Kids will love melting ice with salt. When they add food coloring to highlight the pits and valleys, you’ll have their attention for a long time.

Facilitate an egg drop STEM challenge off the deck or a high stool.

Let your kids see the reaction between baking soda and vinegar with these exploding chalk paints!

Reinforce {or teach} basic preschool skills with this summer printable pack.

Don’t miss these summer printables, too!

Build a backyard bird feeder or two. Watch the birds flock to your backyard.

Help kids work on their gross motor skills with this fun outdoor gross motor ball color sort. 

These LEGO building challenges are great for a rainy summer afternoon.

Let kids turn grapes into raisins.

Watch caterpillars hatch into butterflies in a butterfly house.

Take a trip to your local zoo, and take along a zoo scavenger hunt when you do.

Here’s a fun insect-themed preschool learning pack.

Preschoolers can practice the alphabet with these summer themed alphabet puzzles.

I love this handprint octopus color matching craft.

Preschoolers will love fishing for the alphabet with this fun game!

Review sight words with this sidewalk chalk sight word activity.

Get kids talking by asking Would You Rather? questions. These are also great for road trips.

Explore bugs and insects up close with a critter case!

Create a one-of-a-kind art piece with these fingerprint flowers.

Do you have a local farmer’s market nearby? Check out these healthy eating activities (including a printable scavenger hunt) that your little ones will enjoy.

With a few household items, kids can paint fireworks to celebrate the 4th of July.

This ice cream math activity is perfect for summer!

Spice up your hopscotch board by using sight words instead of numbers.

I love this DIY outdoor board game, and I know your kids will, too!

Make s’mores in your very own solar oven! I’m trying this one with my nephew!

Little ones will love fishing like Daddy with this fishing kit.

On a rainy day, snuggle up with your little one and a book about weather.

Take your little ones on an ABC treasure hunt in your own backyard!

Try your hand at making your own paper.

Want to WOW your kids a fun science experiment? Try this leak-proof bag!

If you have a sandbox, try building a sand volcano in it.

Host an ocean-themed playdate for your preschoolers.

Rainy day got you down? Let your little ones build a bug!

Put together your own nature exploration kit for kids.

If you live near a beach or a playground with a sandbox, let your little ones explore the sand with sifters and sand molds.

Take your little ones on a scavenger hunt. Let them look for numbers, letters, and colors.

Let your little ones grab and pull a letter load.

Use magnifying glasses and a pocket microscope to inspect pond water.

Here’s a fun “wash the pet” sensory bin.

This ocean play dough table is awesome for summer sensory fun.

Explore colors with baking soda and vinegar.

Preschoolers will love planting seeds with their very own gardening tools.

I Spy is perfect for road trips and nature walks.

Check out these picnic activities for tots and preschoolers.

Cress is a quick-growing seed. Little ones will love planting these seeds in egg shells and watching them grow.