Preschool Themes

Find ideas and activities for your next theme here. From exploring the senses to discovering the wonders of the ocean, each theme is packed with creative ideas, songs, and hands-on projects that make learning an adventure.

Choose from this list of 150+ themes for preschool and kindergarten, or explore these popular themes:

All About Me Themes:

• • Body Parts Activities: 22 Ideas for teaching kids about the human body.

• • Body Parts Songs: These songs about the body include lyrics and videos.

• • 16 Sense of Hearing Activities: Dance to the beat, guess the sound and play Noise Detectives!

• • 15 Sense of Taste Activities: Have a tasting party, make edible finger paint and read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

• • Sense of Smell Activities: Make smelly arts and crafts, and build some new vocabulary to describe smells.

• • Sense of Touch Activities: Make a touch-and-feel box and a texture collage, and go on a scavenger hunt.

• • Sense of Sight Activities: Make glasses and play some games blindfolded.

• • 8 Fun Feelings Activities: Teach kids about emotions with art, songs, discussion and stories.

My Relationships & Community Theme:

• • Preschool Kindness Activities: 12 Ideas for learning to show kindness and consideration towards others.

• • The Best Diversity Activities: Teach kids to appreciate and accept differences in religion, age, gender, identity, sexual orientation, ability, education, ethnicity and origin.

• • Songs about Diversity and Inclusion: 9 Catchy songs with lyrics, including People are Rainbows Too and We’re All Amazing!

• • Books About Diversity for Preschoolers: These books are a great way to introduce children to topics such as gender roles, religion, sexual orientation, special needs and lots more.

Health, Hygiene and Safety Themes:

• • Hand-washing songs: Teach children the importance of looking after themselves through simple routines like washing their hands.

• • Safety Activities: 18 Ideas that teach road, home, fire, water, body and personal safety.

• • The 10 Best Songs About Food: These catchy songs include Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar? and Do You Like Broccoli Ice Cream?

• • Easy Food Activities: The 14 easiest things to make in the kitchen with kids.

Weather and Seasons:

• • 18 Great Songs About Weather: Includes songs about the seasons, as well as snow, rain, sun and more.

• • Rain Activities for Preschoolers: Ideas for art, music and movement, language and dramatic play, sensory play, science and more.

• • 8 Fun Rainbow Songs for Kids: Teach kids the colours of the rainbow with these popular classics and fun new songs.

• • Gardening Activities and Ideas: 36 ways to learn about gardening and plants with games, stories, discussions, creative art and gardening!

• • Pumpkin-themed activities: 21 ideas for celebrating pumpkin season and more Halloween ideas.

• • Autum/Fall Leaves: Celebrate this beautiful season with a week of play-based, hands-on leaf activities.

Nature, Science and Animals:

• • Teaching science to preschoolers: Let children experience and experiment, as they learn science through play.

• • 12 Simple Water Experiments: Teach your preschoolers and kindergarteners about the properties of water, how it changes, and its effects on other substances.

• • Floating and Sinking Activities: 12 ideas for discovering which materials and objects float on water and which sink to the bottom.

• • Ocean Activities for Preschoolers: Teach kids about this fascinating topic with these 26 simple ideas.

• • The 8 Best Ocean Songs: These fun songs with actions include a finger play about a whale, and the song The Animals in the Ocean sung to the tune of The Wheels of the Bus.

• • Farm Animals Activities: 16 hands-on ideas for a fun theme about the farm.

• • Fun Farm Songs: 15 songs with lyrics including classics like Old MacDonald Had a Farm and Dingle, Dangle Scarecrow.

• • Animal Songs for Preschoolers: 17 of the best, including Teddy Bears’ Picnic and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.

• • Animal Games for Preschool Kids: Add some fun to your animal theme with these 20 awesome animal games.

• • 22 Fun Birds Activities for Preschoolers: Paint with feathers, sing classic songs and move like different kinds of birds.

Transportation:

• • Simple Transportation Activities for Preschoolers: Includes ideas for art, music and movement, stories, discussions and more.

Basic Concepts and Skills:

• • Colour-mixing activities: Explore colours through painting, sorting and mixing.

• • Shape crafts: Help children recognise and name shapes through building, drawing and sorting activities.

• • Counting games: Fun maths games to teach number concepts.

• • Letter-recognition activities: These play-based activities will teach kids to recognise the letters.

• • Measurement activities: Teach kids to measure using non-standard units of measurement.

• • Symmetry activities: Let children explore symmetry, balance and design through art and play.

Fantasy, Imagination and Play:

• • Books, Authors and Libraries: Read children these poems about the magic of books and reading.

• • Fairy tales: Children will love these delightfully funny fairy tale poems.

• • Role Play / Dramatic Play: Check out this list of role-play ideas.

• • Puppets: Kids can make their own simple puppets.

• • Nursery Rhymes: Start with this list of classic songs for kids.