Does your preschooler love animals? Then check out this amazing animal preschool theme!
Animal Preschool Theme
Use one of these two options for using books in your animal theme:
- Read a different book each day of the week, Monday through Friday.
- Or read your favorite book each of the week. Don’t worry about boring your kids as they love repetition so don’t worry about boring them!
Pick one or all of these 5 excellent books to read with your preschoolers:
Preschool Animal Theme
Animal Crafts
- Make a tropical blue Morpho Butterfly
- Create easy paper plate animal masks
- Try your hand at a paper plate lion
- Check out this paper plate ladybug (or ladybird)
- Make a paper plate giraffe
- And your kids will love this paper plate cat
- Don’t skip this paper plate hippopotamus
- Try your hand at a rocking paper plate bee
- Or make a paper plate frog with a moving tongue
- Turn pistachio shells into turtles
- Make chicks out of rocks
- And snowy owls from pine cones
- Save your children’s handprints by making a handprint bunny
- Or a handprint fish
- Quill a seahorse
- Make a monkey out of a mushroom
- Try a galloping zebra finger puppet
- Make a paper roll fish
Animal Math
- Your kids will love these free bird pattern block designs
- Practice color matching and counting with a handprint fish
- Count to 10 with farm friends counting cards
- Learn skip counting with forest animals slip counting puzzles
- Print these bee math worksheets
- Play a ladybug addition math game for even more math fun
- Count to 20 with dot-to-dot printables
Literacy Activities
- Love duplos, then check out the Lego Duplo Animal Alphabet
- Read an Ocean Animal Interactive Reader together
- Study antonyms with these fun animal puzzles
- Learn new words with baby farm animal puzzles
- Play an arctic animal sight-words game
Animals Activity
- Learn how big a whale is with a fun science activity
- Create cardboard animals for small world play
- Enjoy butterfly art together
- Draw the missing half of insects
- Host an Animal Fashion Show
- Explore various animal habitats
- Compare forest and arctic animals’ habitats
- Learn how animals eat their food
- Make a zoo themed rice sensory bin
- Toss a dice and walk like an animal
- Try a DIY Zoo Playdough Kit
- Explore bugs and critters with your kids
Animal Printables
- Jungle animal coloring sheets
- Zoo scavenger hunt
- Animals and their homes clip it cards
- Montessori science animal sorting activity with printable
- Arctic animal worksheets
- Habitat sorting game for kids
- Forest animals worksheets
- Nocturnal animals printable pack
- Carnival of the Animals in English and Spanish free pdf
- I Spy Animals worksheets
Preschool Theme Ideas
Looking for more preschool themes? You will love our ever growing themes complete with themed crafts, activities, math, literacy, and more ideas!
- Dr Seuss Preschool Theme
- New Years Preschool Theme
- Gingerbread Preschool Theme
- Robot Preschool Theme
- Animal Preschool Theme
- Watermelon Preschool Theme
- Rainbow Preschool Theme
- Frog Preschool Theme
- Flower Preschool Theme
