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200+ Free Kindergarten Activities and Printables

These kindergarten activities and printable activities for kindergarten will make learning fun and effective. Plus, they are easy to prep and will save you so much time!

Kindergarten Activities for Hands-On Learning

I know what's like to be a busy teacher who is short on time. Planning differentiated learning activities for your kindergarten students can be a daunting task.

I want to help. That's why I create engaging and effective printable activities for kindergarten that are differentiated, but also easy to prep.

If you are looking for kindergarten activities that are going to cover the skills you need to teach while also engaging your students with hands-on practice, then this list is for you!

Printable Activities for Kindergarten

This page contains hundreds of free kindergarten printables and activities for you to use right now! Isn't that awesome?

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Kindergarten Activities for Literacy and Math Instruction

Everything from alphabet activities to sight word activities to number sense activities, addition activities , CVC word work , phonics instruction , and more!

I have put them all here for you so that you can quickly find what you need and then go have some time to yourself!

I even have lots of free digital resources for kindergarten that your students can use on both Google Slides and Seesaw.

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Differentiated Kindergarten Printables and Activities

Check out this huge list of fun, differentiated and effective activities for kindergarteners!

I am constantly adding new resources to the page, so bookmark it and come back as needed to find new and engaging printables to utilize in your classroom.

Many of them are editable and most are super easy to prep, so not only will you save time finding activities, you will also be able to differentiate them with great ease.

Check them all out below!

Pumpkin Missing Sound Cards for Fall

Pumpkin Find and Cover Beginning Sounds Alphabet Mats

Pumpkin Find and Color the Letter Sheets Alphabet Activity

Feed the Pumpkin Letters Beginning Sound Cards

Fall Letter Tracing Task Cards for Kids

Free Letter Tracing Printables for Alphabet Letter Formation

Apple Tree Decomposing Numbers Mat

Apple Find the Letter Worksheets

Fall Apple Tree Find and Color the Letter Sheets

Alphabet Letter Sorting Worksheets

Alphabet Formation Letter Tracing Strips

Back to School Find and Color the Letter Sheets

Find and Color the Beginning Letter Sound Alphabet Worksheets

Tracing the Letters in My Name Worksheets

Alphabet Letter Sounds Roll and Cover Game

Super Fun Alphabet Roll & Cover the Letter Games

100+ Phonics Activities for Kids Learning to Read

Letter Formation Task Cards Alphabet Activity

Simple Prep Letter Formation Strips for Centers

Phonemic Awareness Activities

Summer Letter Tracing Task Cards

Exciting Number Formation & Counting Task Cards

Letter Formation and Beginning Sounds Task Cards

Palm Tree Find and Color the Letters Sheets

Fish Decomposing Numbers Mats

Beginning and Ending Consonant Blend Missing Sounds Mats

Sun Find & Cover the Letter Mats

Digraph Missing Sound Mats

Fish Find and Color the Letters Sheets

Blend Words Missing Sound Worksheets for Phonics Practice

Digraph Missing Sound Worksheets for Phonics Practice

Number Sense Worksheets – Number Activity Worksheets

Fish CVC Missing Sounds Task Cards

Summer Phoneme Segmentation Mats for Phonemic Awareness

Caterpillar Roll and Cover the Number Mats

Spring Butterfly & Bee Find and Color Sheets

Digraph Sounds Sort Cut & Paste

Ending Blend Missing Sounds Cards

Earth Day Find and Cover the Letter Mats

Beginning Blends Missing Sounds Cards

Ladybug CVC Clip Cards for Spring

Insect Decomposing Numbers Mat

Spring Caterpillar Find and Color the Letter Sheets

Spring Letter Tracing Task Cards

Simple Spring Science and STEAM Activities

Missing Final Sound CVC Word Mats Free Printable

Spring Flower Phonics Board Games

Easter Addition and Subtraction Mats

CVC Missing Letter Worksheets for Phonics Practice

Spring Flower Phoneme Segmentation Mats

Flower Missing Sounds Task Cards

Four Leaf Clover Find & Cover the Letter for St. Patrick’s Day

Digraph Clip Cards for Kindergarten and First Grade

Rainbow CVC Board Game Task Cards

St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Find and Color the Letter Sheets

Missing Middle Sound CVC Word Mats Free Printable

Number Sense Search and Find Worksheets

Free Printable Heart CVC Clip Cards

CVC Word Sorting Worksheets

Heart Alphabet Game Task Cards

CVC Short Vowel Sounds Clip Cards

Letter Tracing Alphabet Task Cards

Number Find and Cover Worksheets

Alphabet Find and Cover the Letter Worksheets

Exciting Snowman Find and Color the Letter Mats Freebie

Snowball Rhyming Clip Strips

New Year’s Eve Color By Number Coloring Sheets

Snowman Adding Beginning Sounds Task Cards for Phonemic Awareness

Snow Globe Addition and Subtraction Mats

Winter Snow Globe Phoneme Segmentation Cards

Snow Globe CVC Words Clip Cards Free Printable

Christmas Color by Number Printable Worksheets

Snowman Alphabet Letter Tracing Task Cards

Gingerbread Making Ten Math Activity

Gingerbread CVC Word Building Cards

Gingerbread Alphabet Letter Recognition Task Cards

Gingerbread Alphabet Beginning Sounds Task Cards

Phonological Awareness Activities and Printables

Alphabet Letter Worksheets – Alphabet Activity Pages

Gingerbread Phoneme Segmentation Mats for Phonemic Awareness

Numbers Four in a Row Board Game

Alphabet Worksheets

Alphabet Four in a Row Board Game – Beginning Sounds Game

Fall Leaf Rhyming Task Cards

Alphabet Beginning Sounds Sorting Worksheets

Fall Leaf Missing Numbers Clip Cards Math Activity

Fall Leaf Beginning Sounds Task Cards

Colorful Crayon Rhyming Puzzles

Super Fun Alphabet Beginning Sounds Clip Strips for Kids

Pumpkin Alphabet Board Game Task Cards

Beginning Sounds Clip Cards with a Fall Candy Corn Theme!

Editable Pumpkin Theme BINGO Game

Candy Corn Find and Cover the Letter Mats for Kids

Pumpkin Counting Task Cards – Show the Number Math Activity

Alphabet Find and Trace the Letter Worksheets

Pumpkin Phoneme Segmentation Mats for Phonemic Awareness

Pumpkin Beginning Sounds Alphabet Task Cards

Fall Alphabet Activities

30 Fun Shape Activities For Kids to Learn Shapes

Fun Fall Pumpkin Rhyming Clip Strips

Number Play Dough Task Cards for Numbers 0-20

Alphabet Letter Tracing Task Cards

Search and Trace Number Worksheets 0-20 Free Printable

Apple Theme Beginning Sounds Task Cards Alphabet Find and Cover

Apple Theme Letter Recognition Task Cards – Alphabet Find and Cover

Salt Painting Activity for Kids

School Theme Tracing Strips for Pre-Writing Practice

Editable Apple Theme Bingo Game

Alphabet Letter Tracing Worksheets to Learn Letter Formation

Alphabet Letter Recognition Clip Strips

Alphabet Stew Letter Recognition Mats

All About Me Name Worksheets – Letters in My Name

Dot the Number Worksheets

Syllable Counting Clip Cards Free Printable

Alphabet Play Dough Cards Activity

Compound Word Clip Cards Free Printable

Number Activity Strips Free Printable

Missing Beginning Sound CVC Word Mats Free Printable

Printable Middle Sounds Phoneme Substitution Cards

Sun CVC Word Building Strips Free Printable

Ice Cream Beginning Sounds Clip Cards Free Printable

160+ Kindergarten Centers for the Whole Year

Beach Letter Sound Isolation Mats Free Printable

Fish CVC Word Building Cards Free Printable

Ocean Fish Rhyming Clip Strips Free Printable

Ocean CVC Word Mats – Roll, Build, & Write Printable

Editable Caterpillar Word Work Mats Free Printable

Dot Number Activity Mats Free Printable

Dot Letter Alphabet Mats Free Printable

Caterpillar Comparing Sets Clip Cards Free Printable

Spring Bee Roll and Cover Number Mats Free Printable

Butterfly Beginning Sounds Alphabet Clip Cards Free Printable

Frog CVC Word Building Strips Free Printable

Flower Comparing Sets Math Activity

Flower CVC Word Building Cards Free Printable

Fizzy Rainbow Science Experiment

Flower Alphabet Mats – Roll, Build and Write

Easter Egg Roll and Cover the Number Free Printable

Spring Theme Activities for Kids

Editable Easter Bunny Word Work Mats

Make Ten Math Activity Free Printable

Rainbow CVC Activity Roll, Build, Write Mats Free Printable

Free Editable Name Tracing Printable Worksheets

Rainbow Rhyming Clip Strips Free Printable

Free Alphabet Printables

Teen Number Matching Clip Cards Free Printable

2D Shapes Clip Cards Free Printable

Word Search CVC Worksheets Free Printable

Valentine’s Day Roll and Cover the Number Free Printable

Valentine’s Day Beginning Sounds Alphabet Clip Cards Free Printable

Number Tower Mats Free Printable

CVC Words Clip Cards Free Printable

Free Printable Number Matching Clip Cards

Penguin Comparing Sets Clip Cards Free Printable

Snowflake CVC Word Building Strips for Kindergarten

Snowman Number Spin & Build Mats Free Printable

Free Printable Snowman Beginning Sounds Mats

Gingerbread 100 and 120 Chart Find and Cover the Number Game

Christmas Cookie Beginning Sounds Clip Cards Free Printable

Christmas Tree Roll and Cover Number Printable Mats

Gingerbread Roll and Cover the Number Mats Free Printable

Fall Leaves CVC Clip Cards Free Printable

Fall Leaf Comparing Sets Clip Cards Free Printable

Printable Ending Sounds Phoneme Substitution Cards

Beginning Sounds Matching Clip Cards Free Printable

Free Printable Number Cover Up Mats

Free Printable Spider Word Work Mats

Pumpkin Numbers Spin & Build Mats Free Printable

Pumpkin CVC Words Spin & Build Mats Free Printable

Apple 100 and 120 Chart Find and Cover the Number Game

Pumpkin Roll and Cover Number Mats Free Printable

Editable Apple Spin & Build Mats

Free Printable Apple Roll and Cover Number Mats

Number Formation Cards Free Printable

Free Printable Apple Fine Motor Tracing Strips for Pre-Writing Practice

Free Printable Back to School Spin and Build Word Work Mats

Editable Back to School Four in a Row Printable Game

Free Printable Back to School Alphabet Activity Mats

Free Printable Back to School Number Tower Mats

Free Printable Back to School Letter Sound Mats

Printable Beginning Sounds Phoneme Substitution Cards

Printable Uppercase Snap Cube Alphabet Mats

Printable Lowercase Snap Cube Alphabet Mats

Printable Alphabet Letter Formation Cards for Kids

Printable Ocean Animal Spin and Cover Pattern Block Mats

Sun CVC Word Clip Cards Free Printable

Sun Number Towers Printable Math Activity

Editable Feed the Fish Spin and Build Mats Printable

Fish CVC Word Clip Cards Free Printable

Fish Find and Cover Free Printable Beginning Sounds Letter Mats

Fish Roll and Cover Number Mats Free Printable

Insect Letter Sounds Mats for Preschool and Kindergarten

Free Printable Butterfly Find and Cover Beginning Sounds Mats

Editable Flower Bump Game Printable for Word Work

Flower Number Towers Free Printable Math Activity

Flower CVC Word Building Strips for Kindergarten

Free Printable Easter Egg Number Towers Math Activity

Editable Frog Spin and Build Mats Word Work Printable

Digital Frog Feed Me Word Work Mats for Kindergarten

Frog Find and Cover Beginning Sounds Letter Mat Printable

Digital St. Patrick’s Day Feed Me Words Activity for Kindergarten

Editable Shamrock Spin and Build Mats Free Printable

Rainbow Number Towers Free Printable Math Activity

Free Printable Rainbow Beginning Sounds Mats

Editable Mailbox Spin and Build Mats Word Work Printable

Construction Number Towers Free Printable Math Activity

Community Helpers Printable CVC Word Building Strips

Community Helpers Free Printable Beginning Sounds Mats

Editable Valentine’s Day Spin and Build Word Work Mats

Digital Feed the Heart Words Activity for Kindergarten

Valentine’s Day Beginning Sound Find and Cover Letter Mats

Editable Valentine’s Day Four in a Row Printable Literacy Game

Groundhog Day Free Printable Editable Board Game

Free Digital Feed the Groundhog Words Activity

Editable Groundhog Spin and Build Word Work Mats

Editable Winter Bump Game Printable for Word Work

Snowman Count the Room Free Printable Math Activity

Editable Snowman Write the Room Printable Activity

Snowman Beginning Sounds Write the Room Alphabet Printable

Snowball Number Towers Free Printable Math Activity

Free Printable Winter Theme Letter Sounds Mats

Snowman 100 and 120 Chart Find and Cover Printable Number Mats

Editable Snowman Spin and Build Word Work Mats

Digital Feed the Snowman Words Activity for Kindergarten

Free Printable Snowman Comparing Sets Clip Cards

Gingerbread Number Towers Free Printable Math Activity

Editable Gingerbread Bump Game for Word Work Printable

Editable Gingerbread Spin and Build Word Work Mats Printable

Editable Christmas Tree Four in a Row Literacy Printable

Free Printable Christmas Editable Board Game

Gingerbread CVC Word Building Strips Free Printable

Gingerbread Free Printable Beginning Sound Mats

Turkey Find and Cover the Word Free Printable Mats

Editable Turkey Spin and Build Word Work Printable Mats

Fall Leaf Number Towers Free Printable Math Activity

Editable Scarecrow Spin and Build Word Work Printable Mats

Free Printable Fall Alphabet Activity Mats

Silly Monster CVC Clip Cards Free Printable

Silly Monster Number Towers Free Printable Math Activity

Spider Count the Room Free Printable Math Activity

Spider Find and Cover the Letter Free Printable Mats

Pumpkin Number Towers Free Printable Math Activity

Pumpkin Teen Numbers Bump Game Free Printable

Free Printable Pumpkin CVC Words Clip Cards

Pumpkin 100 & 120 Chart Printable Find and Cover Number Mats

Digital Pumpkin Feed Me Words Activity for Kindergarten

Pumpkin Find and Cover the Letter Mats Free Printable

Pumpkin Comparing Sets Clip Cards for Preschool and Kindergarten

Editable Pumpkin Bump Game for Word Work in Kindergarten

Apple Tree Find and Cover the Blends Free Printable Mats

Digital Apple Tree Making 10 Activity for Kindergarten

Apple CVC Matching Clip Cards Printable for Kindergarten

Apple Teen Numbers Bump Game Free Printable

Apple Number Towers Free Printable Math Activity

Apple Tree Find and Cover the Letter Printable Mats

Apple Tree Sight Word Find and Cover Printable for Kindergarten

Editable Apple Bump Game for Word Work in Kindergarten

Digital Apple Feed Me Word Work Activity

Blend Words Free Printable Board Game for Kindergarten

Digital Back to School Making 10 Math Activity

Back to School Count the Room Free Printable Math Activity

Editable Back to School Write the Room Free Printable

Digital Back to School Letter Sounds Matching Activity

Digital Back to School Teen Numbers Math Activity

Editable Pencil Bump Game for Word Work Printable

Digital Back to School Feed Me Words Activity

CVC Middle Vowel Sounds Board Game Printable

Free Printable Digraph Words Matching Mats for Kindergarten

Digital Digraph Words Matching Mats Literacy Activity

Blend Words Matching Mats Free Printable

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Kindergarten Activities are one of my favorite activities to bring forth. 

Activities for kindergarten have a special place in my heart because when my oldest was about to be in kindergarten, i decided to homeschool her for that year. , i loved teaching her and learning through play with books and different methods of teaching in a fun way. , kindergarten is such a wonderful and playful year of learning in a very fun way , we didn’t really use worksheets very much and instead focused on reading a lot of books and practicing cvc words a lot , related: to l earn the steps i took to teach my kindergartener how to read, go here  , differentiated instruction lesson plans for kindergarten were so much fun because we used a lot of wholesome curriculum and resources. , you can read more about our kindergarten experience here. , alongside resources, play to learn and hands on activities are also very important. , i really enjoyed introducing my kindergartener at the time activities that she can learn while playing such as:, diy fish pipe cleaner counting activity , 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40 Digital, Fun, and Interactive Lesson Activities for Kindergarten

Are you on the lookout for engaging and interactive lesson activities for kindergarten students and younger learners? Then, you’re at the right spot. In this comprehensive guide, I’ve curated 40 digital and interactive lesson plans tailored specifically for kindergarteners. With the digital landscape rapidly evolving, it’s essential to integrate technology into educational practices, ensuring a dynamic learning experience. These activities are designed to captivate young minds while fostering crucial developmental skills. Join us on this educational journey as we explore the limitless possibilities of technology-enhanced kindergarten lesson plans. Let’s empower our young learners to thrive in an increasingly digital world!

In this blog post, I will share digital learning activities for young children, like engaging games, worksheets, and crafts for various kindergarten classroom categories:

Digital counting and math activities for kindergarten

Digital language activities for kindergarten, digital discovery activities for kindergarten, digital crafting activities for kindergarten, digital energizer activities for kindergarten, digital theme activities for kindergarten, digital rules and organization activities for kindergarten.

💡 Before we begin: All the activities are made with BookWidgets. You can use them for free or design new, fun kindergarten lesson ideas yourself. Click this group link , log into your BookWidgetsaccount (or create one), and you’ll find all the activities listed in the group. After duplicating, you can make changes to the activity, customizing it for your students. If you are new to BookWidgets, BookWidgets is a content creation and evaluation tool for all teachers (kindergarten, elementary, high school, adult education,…). You can use it to create your own digital content or activities for young learners. We provide the tools to support your students’ learning process from beginning to end with customizable templates (aka widgets) for creating activities and a reporting dashboard to track your students’ progress. When you share these preschool activities from your BookWidgets account, you can share through a link, QR codes, or shortcodes.

In preschool, young learners already get in touch with the basics of mathematics and counting. I’m sharing fun 4 activities for early childhood education students to complete. This can be in a 1-to-1 classroom setup, as well as in a 1-to-many setup. In both cases, the teacher has an important role in explaining the activities.

1. Counting until 10 with our hands

The first stage of counting to ten always happens with our fingers! This pair-matching activity is just that. Let your students pick a hand card and let them discover the number by counting it on their own hands. Now, they need to connect the hand card with the right number card.

💡 Pro tip : Add text-to-speech so the numbers can be read out loud. This way, your students can recognize the numbers and also know how they sound. When you’re doing this classically, the teacher can just read them out loud and ask the students to name a number they see or repeat the number.

2. Count the animals

“How many animals do you see?” This is probably the question every teacher asks their early childhood students. I created a fun, auto-graded activity in which your preschoolers need to count the animals and write down the number.

💡 Pro tip : Use a worksheet widget and choose the “ Annotate Picture ” question to create fun counting worksheets that are automatically graded! You can find many fun visuals like the one I used on Canva .

3. Counting to 10

This activity has the same principle but is a bit easier. Your kindergarten students don’t need to write down the number as it’s already given. They need to drag and drop the number in the right box.

💡 Pro tip : Choose a worksheet widget and pick the “Picture Drag and Drop” question. This is an advanced use of this question type. Here’s a video tutorial on how to get this BookWidgets question type as you see it.

4. What makes 10?

This is one of the first arithmetic activities for preschoolers. They can use their hands to count and find the matching pairs. Which two numbers make 10?

💡 Pro tip : Add audio instructions when you’re not around so your students still know what to do, or you can organize some corner work with different counting activities. With these math and counting activities, you can already create multiple areas for cornerwork!

5. Paint by numbers

6. Addition and subtraction arithmetic

The Arithmetic widget for preschool students makes it easy for young learners to practice mathematical skills like addition and subtraction. Students solve the problems to reveal a reward word. If this is still a bit too hard for your young learners, you can share this activity on the big screen. For each arithmetic, ask your students to use their hands to count and find the solution.

Letter recognition, learning to write their name, and first sight words are all engaging language activities for kindergarten students. These activities are a good addition to your other kindergarten curriculum resources, but you might need to make some changes depending on where you’re from, as the kindergarten curriculum will have some changes from country to country.

7. Recognize new words

This activity focuses on recognizing words from sounds. This is a great activity for teaching new words and sounds to your younger learners, even before they learn the alphabet.

💡 Pro tip : Use audio (by using the voice recorder in BookWidgets) and images (by uploading them from the built-in Pixabay library). Students can zoom in on the images if needed by clicking on them.

8. Learning the alphabet

Learning the alphabet and recognizing the letters is a big goal when your students move on to the first grade. This Video Quiz activity is perfect for learning the alphabet and knowing how the letters sound and look like.

💡 Pro tip : A Video Quiz is perfect for visual learning. Include audio so students can practice this activity individually as often as they like or need to. The activity is auto-graded, so the teacher doesn’t need to check every student. It’s also fun to do this activity in a group and let your students repeat the letters out loud!

9. Letter recognition - Letters in my name

This is probably the first “name” activity for early childhood education. Once your students recognize the letters of the alphabet, they learn to recognize the letters in their names. The next step, obviously, is to teach them to write the letters in their name.

💡 Pro tip : Add a background image to a whiteboard widget so your students can draw on it. You can do any letter recognition activity if the image shows the alphabet. Ask them to circle the letters that appear in different words. Start with sight words like sun, dog, cat, etc. Just change the title, and you will have a new activity!

11. Emoji sight words flashcards

This sight words activity is fun and useful as emojis are easy to include in activities and represent easy words most of the time. Students see the emoji and say what they see. They flip the card and listen to the pronunciation of the word.

💡 Pro tip : BookWidgets flashcards have a text-to-speech optionality. Enable it for the words so students can recognize the letters and listen to them.

12. Sight words crossword

After practicing the words with the flashcards, your students can try to write the words down in the crossword. They learn to spell the short and easy words. This activity might be a bit too hard for younger learners. So, take the lead and share the crossword on the big screen. When they name an emoji, ask them which letter is in the words and where they should put the letters.

💡 Pro tip : Adding emoji’s to your activities is 10x faster then looking for images to upload. Right-click your mouse and choose “Emoji & symbols”. That’s it!

13. New words pair matching

A pair-matching game is perfect for teaching new words and vocabulary to kindergarten students. In this activity, your learners need to match an image with the sound of the words. This one is about the face, but the same goes for words in different themes: the body, the weather, the garden, the forest, the house, the room, animals, and much more. I’ll share some more activities below in the section about teaching with “ themes ” in kindergarten. For subjects and words your learners can see, ask them to point them out. In this example, ask them to point out their nose, eyes, cheeks, etc.

💡 Pro tip : All BookWidgets activities that come in pairs are really easy to transform into a new activity. Think about quizzes with pair-matching question types, flashcards, memory games, crossword puzzles, and word search puzzles… Check out this article to find out how to use the same content in different activities with just a few clicks.

14. Dress like an animal!

Teach new words with a fun twist. This activity is all about that! First, ask your students to come to school dressed like animals. It’s fun as they will learn all about animals. Every animal has its own characteristics your students will recognize. They only have to shout out the animals the kids in the pictures are dressed in. This is a group activity. When flipping the cards, ask your students to listen to the word, repeat it, and… make the animal sound! This activity is designed by Bart Natens.

15. Get funky with sounds!

💡 Pro tip : A BookWidgets hotspot image activity is perfect for creating digital discovery posters on which students have to click, read, and listen.

16. Drawing dictation - The house

This is one of my favorite kindergarten classroom activities created by a Dutch Kindergarten teacher, Virginie Lauwers. This is a listening activity but also shows the words your students learned so they can recognize them.

💡 Pro tip : Use a Split Whiteboard activity and add audio, text, and images so students can already learn to recognize words. Students can easily pause and resume the audio.

Embarking on the journey of digital discovery activities with young learners can be both exciting and daunting. In this part, I will show you some engaging kindergarten resources designed to foster exploration, fine motor skills, learning, and creativity in the digital realm.

17. Senses in the garden

This activity teaches kindergarten students to be aware of their surroundings and about the senses. Let them walk on the playground and visit the forest, park, or garden so they can draw things they can see, hear, smell, and touch.

💡 Pro tip : In this BookWidgets whiteboard activity, you can also enable your learners to upload an image/ take a picture instead of only drawing on the whiteboard.

18. Recognize shapes worksheet

This is probably the first geometry activity early childhood students will get. Let your students drag and drop familiar icons or images with the right shape to the right box.

💡 Pro tip : Choose a worksheet widget and pick the “Picture drag and drop” question type. If you can’t find the right images using the Pixabay integration, use “ The noun project ” for all the icons you need. It’s my favorite icon go-to website.

19. Recognize shapes in objects - Photo Search

This activity follows the previous one. Here, your students need to walk around in their classroom, school, and playground and recognize the different shapes in the objects in their daily lives. They need to take a picture and add it as an answer to their question. This activity is very engaging for young learners and perfect for small student groups using tablets.

💡 Pro tip : The photo question in a BookWidgets quiz or worksheet is perfect for discovery activities like this one. Duplicate the widget and change the question to a new discovery activity for kindergarten.

20. Building with color blocks

This activity teaches your young learners lots of different things: they build their motor skills, learn to recognize colors and get a sense of spatial awareness.

💡 Pro tip : If you also want to incorporate the skill “learning to play with others”, add another wheel to this BookWidgets randomness activity with the same images. Let one student build the first block tower and the other the second. When done, your students can switch positions and check each other’s work.

21. Old MacDonald had a farm…

As this is the only music activity I’m sharing, it needed to go under this blog post’s “discovery” section. But, when you’re teaching with themes, and “farm or animals” is probably a theme, make sure to include this one too. This piano activity works best when you have tablets available. Your students can listen to the song and try to replicate it using the piano keyboard below. I know they will make countless mistakes, but it can be the first introduction to musical instruments in a playful, fun way.

💡 Pro tip : You can teach the song with its lyrics so students can sing along!

22. The weather memory game

Of course, we’re teaching our kindergarten kids new vocabulary, and it can be part of a “weather-themed lesson series”, but I’m showing this activity here because students learn to look outside and discover the weather. This is a fun memory game for a 1-to-many classroom setup. I made sure students could shout the number of the cards so the teacher could flip the two cards they indicated. Can your students remember where the matching cards are?

💡 Pro tip : The Memory Game widget can be used to practice newly learned concepts and words. When finished, ask your students a follow-up question so they think about what they’ve learned and trigger their knowledge immediately after. In this example, I ask them to look outside and tell me the weather for that day. You can do this using text and audio. This digital preschool resource is designed by Bart Natens.

23. Bingo playground

Create a bingo sheet that’s different for every young learner and add familiar images. Now, your students can scan the bingo QR code you provide using their tablet and walk around the playground, the park, the forest, you name it. Whenever they encounter something that represents one of the images on their bingo sheet, they can tap it. The students that find all the activities first win!

💡 Pro tip : Duplicate this bingo card and add more images that represent your school’s playground. If you add an “alt text” to the images, you can even read out loud what’s on the images by enabling the text-to-speech option.

Enter the world of imagination and creativity with this part on digital crafting activities for kindergarteners. In this digital age, fostering artistic expression goes beyond traditional mediums, offering a vibrant canvas for young minds to explore. Join us as we explore a variety of innovative lesson plans and techniques tailored to inspire your little artists in the kindergarten classroom.

24. Heartfelt creations

Crafting and creativity are important activities in kindergarten as they will improve your students’ motor skills. They learn fine motor skills by drawing and using glue and scissors. This activity is just about that! You can do the activity around Valentine’s Day or when you focus on the theme “ Friendship and Kindness ”. It’s always a good idea to add the different steps of the creation process in a BookWidgets quiz. Make sure to share it on the big screen as your students follow along with all the steps. You also have to show the steps by crafting yourself.

💡 Pro tip : By adding a photo question to your craft quiz, you can assign some homework during the holidays, a school break, or remote teaching. This way, the parents have a ready-to-use activity, and your students can upload their crafts to you. Now, you can print them out and decorate your classroom, and your learners will find their artwork when they come back to school.

25. Emoji artwork

This activity is all about bringing your toddlers’ fantasies and creating thinking alive. This is a creative assignment best given when you have tablets available. Your students need to spin the wheels, and 3 emojis will pop up. Now, they have to draw an artwork using the whiteboard on the other side with those 3 emojis. They can use the digital whiteboard tools or draw on paper. When they are done, they can upload a picture of their paper artwork and add it to the whiteboard. Not everything needs to be digital all the way. Practicing drawing on paper will refine your preschoolers’ motor skills.

💡 Pro tip : Use a “ Split Whiteboard ” widget to combine widgets and create fun activities. I first created a “ Randomness ” widget in the example above and shared that link in a Split Whiteboard widget.

26. Cotton ball launcher

This creative Video Quiz STEM activity is so much fun. It can be a classroom project or, again, homework to do with the child’s parents. In both cases, the adult plays an important role when it comes to providing instructions. We already give them in the Video Quiz activity, step by step, but you’ll have to read them out loud and make sure your younger learners understand.

💡 Pro tip : Adding multiple photo questions to your Video Quiz lets you follow up on your student’s learning process and see where things went wrong.

Keeping kindergarten students engaged and energized is key to a successful learning experience. In this part, I will unveil 2 dynamic digital energizer activities designed to inject excitement and vitality into the classroom. From interactive learning games to lively movement breaks, discover how technology can be used to spark joy in your kindergartners’ educational journey. If you like these early childhood energizers, make sure to check out this blog post with many more energizers for students of all ages .

27. Get on that chair!

This activity is so much fun and teaches your preschoolers all about the chronological order of the alphabet and numbers. Make a line with chairs, and a student stands up straight on each chair. Spin the wheel and ask your students to collaborate and switch positions (without touching the ground) based on the assignment on the wheel. This assignment is text-based, so you’ll have to explain. They will probably also need your help and instructions. Guide them by asking the right questions.

💡 Pro tip : Duplicate this activity into your BookWidgets account and add other assignment instructions. You can adapt the activities to your student’s age and skills. You can also add icons and images instead of text.

28. Movement energizers

I also used the fun “Randomness” widget for this activity, but I added 4 wheels with images instead of 1 with text. As you can see in both examples, the possibilities of this spinner activity are endless! Share this activity with your students on the big screen 2 to 3 times a day, and ask a student to come forward and spin the wheel. That student shows the activity the others must do. They explain and show it to the others. It teaches your learners to give clear instructions to other students using their voice and body language. And…it’s a fun kindergarten energizer!

Step into the captivating realm of digital-themed activities tailored specifically for kindergarten classrooms. In this blog post section, I unveil a treasure trove of innovative kindergarten lesson ideas designed to ignite curiosity and foster learning through technology. These themed classroom activities will enrich the educational experience for young learners. Of course, you can tailor all these free resources to your classroom themes or build new digital kindergarten activities from scratch .

29. Animals

I’m sharing 3 activities about animals you can use right away. Remember these three other fun activities I already shared above? 👉 flashcards activity “Dress like an animal” , “ Count the animals ”, and “ Paint by numbers ”. They fit right in here, too.

Spring animals memory game

In this animal-themed kindergarten lesson idea, children are presented with a grid of cards featuring various springtime animals, such as bunnies, chicks, and butterflies, each paired with an identical match. The objective is for students to flip over the cards, one at a time, to find matching pairs by remembering the placement of each animal. This activity not only enhances memory and concentration skills but also introduces young learners to the vibrant world of springtime fauna in an interactive and entertaining manner. This kindergarten widget is designed by Bart Natens.

💡 Pro tip : Enable the “ add numbers ” option so your students can pick cards to turn over by saying the numbers.

Farm animals spot the difference game

This farm-themed digital activity is designed for kindergarten students to sharpen their observation skills. In this game, children are presented with two images of farm scenes featuring various animals. Their task is to identify and click on the differences between the two pictures. This engaging activity enhances visual discrimination abilities and introduces young learners to the diversity of farm animals in a fun and interactive way.

💡 Pro tip : Instead of just highlighting the differences, you can mention what’s different too by adding a short explanation in the configuration. You can also ask students a specific question for each difference. It will engage them more with the learning subject.

Forest animals discovery poster

This innovative Valentine’s Day teaching strategy showcases various animals in their natural habitats, each decorated with a Valentine’s theme. You can see this activity fits in perfectly with both themes: animals and Valentine’s Day. This Hotspot Image activity reveals a fun fact about each animal, such as their habitats, diet, or unique characteristics. This interactive poster image is designed to engage and benefit learners of all ages. With a particular emphasis on its effectiveness for young learners, it supports the students’ learning and provides valuable additional support for emerging readers.

💡 Pro tip : Edit your background image in a way students know where to click. You can also make the hotspots visible. Combine audio, text, and an image to create a fun and rich learning experience for your students.

30. Transportation and vehicles

I created 3 digital learning games for preschoolers you can use to practice vocabulary and understand the different ways of transportation or vehicles. You can add more fun activities on this theme that are not digital. A fun color plate is always good to refine your student’s motor skills.

Spot the difference - Train activity

This activity focuses on spotting the differences between two train images. The differences are colors, so it teaches your students the differences in color.

Jigsaw puzzle

A digital jigsaw puzzle is the perfect introduction activity for any theme. When your students complete the jigsaw puzzle, you can ask them a follow-up question related to the lesson subject.

💡 Pro tip : Young learners can click the “?” icon to get a hint of the completed jigsaw puzzle. You can disable showing this hint for older students. You can also play with the amount of puzzle pieces to make this activity harder or easier.

Transportation BINGO!

Let your students open this bingo sheet by sharing a link/QR code or shortcode. This activity works best on tablets. If you don’t have tablets for all your students, don’t worry. You can create smaller groups for 1 tablet. For this activity, the teacher explains the means of transportation without mentioning the name. For example, “ I reach my destination by traveling on hot air. I let the wind guide me, and I float high above the ground ”. Your students shout out what it is, “ A hot air balloon! ” and click the image. The bingo sheets are all arranged differently. This ensures some groups will have 3 in a row quicker than others as they won’t have the same images on their sheet. The ultimate goal is for a group to have BINGO! when they tapped all the images.

31. Friendship & Love

These digital kindergarten lessons are all about love, friendship, kindness, appreciation, and acceptance. You can address this subject around Valentine’s Day, as the themes fit right in. Remember, the craft activity, “Heartfelt creations” and the “ Wildlife wonders ” discovery poster all fit in this theme.

Be a good friend BINGO!

During the week, your students must complete 1 classroom bingo by checking every card on the sheet. They can do most of them in school, but being a good friend doesn’t stop there. Some of the things they can do at home.

💡 Pro tip : If you don’t have many tablets or devices available, you can use the bingo game in a one-to-many classroom setup and make it a group effort to check all the cards on the Bingo sheet.

Random acts of kindness

Share this random spinner every morning of the week to choose a random act of kindness your young learners need to complete

Heart pairs

Practice colors with this love pair matching game. Your preschoolers listen to the color and need to match it with the right colored heart.

💡 Pro tip : Include audio in your pairs for younger learners and use text instead of audio for older learners.

Letter recognition

This is a letter recognition activity I already shared above but with a Valentine’s Day twist. Let your students circle the letters that appear in the word “Valentine’s Day”. Duplicate the activity and make several versions, or delete the title. This way, you can reuse this activity. Write down your “love” words on the blackboard so they know which letters to circle. Think of “love, friendship, kindness, appreciation, and acceptation”. When they complete the activity, ask them to explain what the words mean to them and click the dustbin icon to start over and move on to the next word.

Easter is always fun as the Easter Bunny comes around, and your students can go on an egg hunt! Here are some fun Easter themed activities for your preschoolers and kindergarten students.

Easter puzzle series

This fun planner activity has 4 fun Easter themed jigsaw puzzles with different difficulty lessons. Perfect for differentiating your kindergarten lessons. Your students start with 2 easy jigsaw puzzles. When done, they check off the activities and add 2 more activities using the “+” icon. This awesome kindergarten planner activity is created by Virginie Lauwers.

💡 Pro tip : Play with the puzzle pieces quantity to make harder and easier jigsaw puzzles.

Easter bunny candidates

Egg hunt spot-the-difference game

This spot-the-difference game for kindergarten fits right into the Easter theme. Can your students find all the differences?

33. Pirates

This fun kindergarten classroom activity triggers your students’ imagination. Let them invent fun pirate, adventure, and treasure hunt stories based on the images that come up in the randomness widget. This fun preschool activity is created by Bart Natens.

In this part of the blog post, I want to share some activities that can help you with the all-day classroom management of a kindergarten classroom. And besides sharing activities, I’m also highlighting 2 amazing virtual learning tools for kindergarten. These educational apps for kindergarten classrooms will help you manage, organize, and set goals.

34. Classroom rules discovery poster

This interactive poster explains your kindergarten classroom rules. Create a visual using tools like Canva or Adobe Express and make it interactive with the BookWidgets hotspot image widget. Add audio so students can listen to the classroom rules.

35. Classroom rules pair matching game

Discuss your kindergarten classroom rules with your students at the beginning of the school year by giving them this interactive pair-matching game. This makes rules fun and engages your students with them as well.

36. Pee break!

It’s not always easy managing a classroom full of kindergarten students during a bathroom break. This fun pair-matching activity can be used to teach your young learners what to do when they go to the bathroom. Let them find the matching pairs and tell what the images represent. You will see… your students will bring in some funny bathroom stories you didn’t ask for… 😅 Make sure they use this information when they actually go to the bathroom. This creative bathroom etiquette pair matching game is created by Bart Natens.

37. Random student picker

Add the names or, even better, headshot pictures of your students to create a random name picker like the one below. Duplicate the activity and replace the given names with your students’ names. Use your random student picker when you need a volunteer or hand out chores or tasks. Let a student spin the wheel when handing out the tasks.

38. Random group generator

As for the student picker, the same goes for generating random student groups. Use a randomness widget with multiple wheels to create random groups.

39. Digital dice

Dices are small, go missing all the time, and can be dangerous for young learners. Introducing… the digital dice. Use the activity below for any activity that requires a dice.

💡 Pro tip : Create a randomness widget with two wheels. This gives you a double dice. You can use it for counting activities.

40. Smart Symbols

Smart Symbols is supportive software for early childhood education. They provide actionable insights into the daily activities of toddlers in crowded classrooms by collecting data from both teachers and children. Smart Symbols translates theory (teacher schedule) into practice by providing digital activity boards for toddlers. Letting toddlers interact with their tools by choosing activities, giving feedback, and sharing their emotions enables teachers to obtain deeper insights about emotions, interest, social interaction, and much more.

41. i3LEARNHUB

With all the inspirational examples given, I’d like to mention the BookWidgets integration with the i3LEARNHUB. The i3LEARNHUB is online, device indepent softwaretool to create interactive lesson plans. Teachers can create and choose BookWidgets activities directly from the I3LEARNHUB and share them with students in both a single device (I3 touchscreen) or a 1-on-1 device classroom. If you want to know more about this integration, make sure to watch the webinar recording and find out how you can effortlessly create, share, and integrate BookWidgets’ interactive content.

That’s it! I hope this collection of 40 online lesson activities for young learners inspired you to digitize parts of your lessons and engage your younger learners. From interactive learning games for young learners and immersive storytelling to hands-on exercises, these activities are designed to spark curiosity and foster a love for learning. With this comprehensive kindergarten resource, you’ll be well-equipped to create dynamic and memorable educational experiences for your young students. Here’s to a classroom filled with joy, creativity, and endless discovery!

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15 of the Best Free Learning Games for Kindergarteners

Finding free learning games for kindergartners that are age-appropriate and that meet essential objectives can be tough. While there are thousands of websites that claim to offer quality educational games for free, this is not always the case. 

It can be very frustrating as a parent (and homeschooling mom) to try to find additional resources for your child that check all of the boxes. So that’s why I created this list of free learning games for kindergarteners. 

No more scouring through endless Google searches again because these are both teacher and mom-approved! 

Free Learning Games for Kindergarteners

Education.com.

This website offers tons of resources (aligned with current Common Core Standards) for students of all ages that include games, worksheets, and lesson plans for most subjects.

Simply choose your child’s grade level and create an account to get started! 

Education.com allows 3 monthly downloads for free, but if you want unlimited access to all of their resources they offer an affordable monthly membership .

If you are a homeschooling parent , they offer additional discounts to make the monthly fee even more affordable.

Cool Kindergarten

Cool Kindergarten is designed specifically for 5 and 6-year-olds to practice math and reading skills. This resource is always free and a great alternative to other paid memberships, such as ABC Mouse. 

They also offer online audiobook videos and games that would be lots of fun if your child had some free time to play age-appropriate games.

The website is perfect for young learners because they can navigate independently without you having to worry about them landing on other websites by accident.

If your child enjoys watching their favorite shows on PBS, they will love these free learning games!

Your preschoolers and kindergarteners will recognize familiar faces, which will increase their engagement and make learning even more fun!

PBS Kids offers learning games for reading , math, science , engineering, as well as other interesting topics. 

Turtle Diary 

This website offers tons of free learning games for kindergarteners up to fifth grade. Above each game, you will find a small intro and learning objective.

They even offer games to teach typing and geography along with the other core subjects.

Unfortunately, the major downside to this resource is the ads.

I am NOT a fan of websites for children that have pop up ads because they can be misleading to your child and cause them to be redirected from the platform. 

If you do decide to use Turtle Diary, I would suggest either being seated with your child while he/she is playing (so you can make sure they are staying on the actual website) or purchasing the premium option, which removes the ads and has the added bonus of allowing you to track your student’s progress. 

Fun Brain Jr. 

Fun Brain Jr. is a fantastic place for children, ages 2 to 6, to play games and learn. You will find printable downloads and stickers that kids earn as they progress thru the games.

While you won’t find as many games on Fun Brain Jr. as other websites, the fact that everything is free makes it well worth your time to check out!

And if you’re specifically looking for math and reading learning games , this is the place to be.

Splash Learn 

With over 61 free math games, your kindergartener will never be bored. All of the resources that Splash Learn offers align with Common Core Standards.

Their website contains math materials only and there is no subscription required!

You don’t have to worry about ads either, which will keep your student on track without being distracted. 

Nick Jr. 

Another learning library similar to PBS Kids, your students will go bananas when they get to play along with their favorite characters.

While this website’s games don’t align with Common Core State Standards specifically, your child will still be learning and practicing important skills along with their favorite characters from Nick Jr.

And remember, the key to keeping kids engaged during learning is excitement! 

Cool Math 4 Kids

Here’s another free learning resource catered towards all things math!

This website actually offers games for ages 5-12, which is perfect if you have multiple kids on tech time at once.

Your kids will be able to access games covering a variety of essential math concepts.

As an added bonus, Cool Math 4 Kids also has a sister site, CoolMath.com , which is rated for kids 13 and up. 

Time for Kids 

Coming straight from Time Magazine, Time for Kids is packed with articles and photos covering the environment, current events, health, sports, and more!

Although this website is not as interactive or colorful as compared to the other resources listed, it’s a fantastic way to let kids see the news from an age-appropriate perspective. 

Fun Brain 

Once your kids visit this site, you will definitely want to bookmark it!

Fun Brain offers games, reading resources, videos, and a math zone for kids from preschool to 8th grade!

The site is straightforward when it comes to navigation, and you can filter the learning games so that only those for kindergarten populate to make it easier for your child. 

Highlights Kids 

Highlights magazine always makes me nostalgic because it was the first “real” magazine subscription designed specifically for kids.

I remember finding them in every waiting room I visited and seeing them in the library at school. 

They’ve definitely come a long way since then with four different versions from babies to school-aged children as well as bilingual options!

They even have an online space where your child can find tons of activities and free learning games for kindergarteners that would be great to incorporate into family time. You will also find ideas for crafts and kid-friendly recipes! 

Khan Academy 

Looking for high-quality content?

Khan Academy offers amazing content for learners up to the college level! While you have to make an account to access everything, the account is completely free…so no worries.

You will find content for just about any topic imaginable and a wealth of resources for all of the core subjects. It’s also super-simple to track your child’s progress with their reports! 

From personal experience, I can tell you that Khan Academy is our go-to resource whenever they need a little more help on a particular concept from Algebra and Geometry to History!

It’s truly a fantastic resource, and that is why I had to include it on this list of free learning games for kindergarteners.

National Geographic Kids 

The videos and images that National Geographic Kids have in their magazines and on their websites are out of this world!

Their content is very reliable and engaging no matter what your student likes learning.

They have every topic imaginable ranging from animals to space…and just so you know, the quiz games are so much fun! 

Cookie 

Cookie.com offers hundreds of free learning activities including games created around language, math, and science!

And be sure to check out their printable worksheet section if you are a classroom teacher, homeschooling family, or you just want your child to have some extra activities at home! 

HOMER  

The Homer app offers a free 30 day trial for students between the ages of 2 and 8. This app was developed by experts and has been shown to increase reading scores by as much as 74%.

Kids love the fact that the app is specialized to their interests while parents appreciate the fact that their kids are reading, exploring math concepts, and improving their thinking skills in unique and creative ways.

Remember, learning doesn’t have to be boring! Because kids of all ages love interactive websites and apps, I can guarantee that these are going to be a hit.

Whether you are thinking about incorporating them into your daily classroom routine, your homeschool schedule , or your summer rhythms, I know your kids are going to love these free learning games for kindergartners.

More Helpful Kindergarten Resources: 

• The Ultimate Guide to Kindergarten Homeschool
• The Best Kindergarten Letter Activities
• Your Complete Guide to Kindergarten Sight Words
• How to Learn Counting the Fun Way
• 10 Ordinal Number Activities
• The Best STEM Activities for Kindergarten
• How To Make a Kindergarten Homeschool Schedule

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Kindergarten Learning Games

Explore our interactive games for kindergarteners where little ones thrive on playful learning! In math, kids can learn number tracing, counting, addition, subtraction, and shapes. ELA games make learning letters, tracing, the alphabet, and sounds exciting. We also have fun games on birds, animals, and food t ... Read more o spark kids' curiosity and general awareness. There's more! Find creative games on coloring, stories, and music, fun puzzles, and motor skill activities like balloon pops! Get started now!

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Number Sense Skills

Count back and Complete the Sequence

Practice the superpower of number sense by learning how to count back and complete the sequence.

Dive deep into the world of counting with our fun 'Count to 5' game.

Trace the Number One

Sharpen your number skills by tracing the number one.

Counting Sequence from 1 to 5

Help your little one practice the counting sequence from 1 to 5.

Addition Skills

Match the Correct Sum

Apply your knowledge of addition to match the correct sum.

Compose Numbers to make 10

Begin the exciting journey of becoming a math wizard by learning how to compose numbers to make 10.

Model to Add Numbers

Dive deep into the world of math by modeling to add numbers.

Build the Model to Add Numbers

Enjoy the marvel of mathematics by exploring how to build the model to add numbers.

Subtraction Skills

Find Missing Numbers in Subtraction Sentences

Find out the missing numbers in the given subtraction sentences.

Complete the Related Subtraction Facts

Unearth the wisdom of mathematics by learning how to complete related subtraction facts.

Remove and Match the Number

Enjoy the marvel of math-multiverse by exploring how to remove and match the number.

Take Away to Match the Number

Apply your knowledge of subtraction to take away to match the number.

Geometry Skills

Identify Objects Above and Below

Learn to solve problems by identifying objects 'above' and 'below'.

Counting Objects Above and Below

Begin the exciting journey of becoming a math wizard by counting objects 'above' and 'below'.

Sort Flat and Solid Shapes

Learn to solve math problems by sorting flat and solid shapes.

Sort Real-World Shapes

Add more arrows to your child’s math quiver by sorting real-world shapes.

Data Handling Skills

Sort Objects by Color

Dive deep into the world of measurement by sorting objects by color.

Sort Objects by their Name

Have your own math-themed party by learning how to sort objects by their name.

Identify Objects by Color

Sharpen your skills by identifying objects by their colors.

Identify Objects by their Name

Take a deep dive into the world of math by identifying objects by their names.

Measurement Skills

Select the Right Unit

Learn to solve math problems by selecting the right unit.

Identify the Object with Shorter Length

Use your measurement skills to identify the object with the shorter length.

Identify the Object with Shorter Height

Shine bright in the math world by learning how to identify the object with the shorter height.

Compare Weights of Objects

Enjoy the marvel of mathematics by exploring how to compare weights of objects.

Word Problems Skills

Take Away Scenario

Use your subtraction skills to solve 'Take Away' scenarios.

Adding One by Making a Model

Treat yourself to an immersive learning experience with our 'Adding One by Making a Model' game.

Adding Within 5 by Making a Model

Add more arrows to your child’s math quiver by adding within 5 by making a model.

Subtraction Scenario

Take a look at subtraction scenarios with this game.

Reading Skills

Find the Letters A, B, C & D

Put your language skills to the test by finding the letters A, B, C & D.

Can You Find the Lowercase Letter a?

To play this game, find the lowercase letter a.

Can You Find the Uppercase Letter A?

To play this game, find the uppercase letter A.

Match Big and Small A

Put your language skills to the test by learning to match big and small A.

Writing Skills

Tracing Big Letters With Sleeping & Slanting Lines - A, V, W, X, Y & Z

Practice tracing big letters with sleeping & slanting lines - A, V, W, X, Y & Z.

Tracing Small Letters With Standing & Curvy Lines - a, d & q

Practice tracing small letters with standing and curvy lines - a, d and q.

Learn to Trace the Letter A

Introduce your child to writing by learning to trace the letter A.

Tracing Big Letters With Standing & Curvy Lines - B, D, & P

Practice tracing big letters with standing & curvy lines - B, D, & P.

Food Skills

Cookie: Chef Yum Yum

Step into the kitchen and bake mouthwatering cookies.

Banana: Tropical Coloring Adventure

Dive into a fruity adventure and paint vibrant bananas.

Vibrant Bell Pepper Coloring Adventure

Explore the world of fruits and vegetables and paint colorful bell peppers in this interactive coloring game.

Cheese-Themed Coloring Fun

Paint delicious blocks of cheese with vibrant colors.

Animals Skills

Allosaurus: Dinosaur Coloring Adventure

Travel back in time and paint fierce allosaurs with vibrant colors.

Dive into the Turtle Picture

Embrace your artistic side and create a beautiful picture of an adorable turtle in this engaging game.

Iguana: Picture Perfect

Dive into the world of reptiles and paint picture-perfect iguanas in this engaging game.

Dive into Clownfish Coloring

Dive into an underwater adventure and paint vibrant clownfish swimming amidst coral reefs in this game.

Seasonal Skills

Bat Coloring Adventure

Paint enchanting bats with a burst of colors in this coloring adventure game.

Ringing Bells Coloring Adventure

Jingle all the way with colorful bells in this exciting coloring adventure game.

Mysterious Black Cat Coloring Adventure

Bring mischievous black cats to life with vibrant colors.

Christmas Pudding Coloring Magic

Celebrate the holidays with a burst of colors in this coloring adventure game.

Kitchen Skills

Shiny Glass Coloring Adventure

Unleash your creativity and paint intricate glass objects in this immersive coloring adventure game.

Knife Coloring Adventure

Discover the art of illustration and paint detailed depictions of knives in this engaging coloring adventure game.

Kitchenware Coloring: The Fork

Explore the beauty of everyday objects and paint detailed illustrations of forks in this coloring adventure game.

Donut: Chef Yum Yum

Step into the kitchen and create mouthwatering donuts.

Musical Instruments Skills

Maracas Shake Up Your Coloring Skills

Paint vibrant maracas and bring the rhythm to life in this coloring adventure game.

Groovy Guitar Coloring Adventure

Strum your artistic skills and paint rocking guitars in this coloring adventure game.

Drum Beat Coloring Fun

Let your creativity beat to the rhythm and paint vibrant drums.

Musical Flute Coloring Fun

Paint melodious flutes with a burst of colors in this coloring adventure game.

Birds Skills

Eagle: Picture Perfect

Spread your wings and paint majestic eagles in this picture perfect game.

Chicken: Picture Perfect

Paint charming chickens in this picture perfect game.

Dive into Colors with Ducks

Dive into a pond of colors with ducks in this picture perfect game.

Albatross: Picture Perfect

Soar through the skies with vibrant albatrosses in this picture perfect game.

Space Skills

Space Hunt: Peek A Boo

Embark on a space-themed adventure and search for hidden objects in this interactive game.

Balloon Pop - Unknown Flying Object:UFO: Toss Up

Test your tossing skills and pop balloons to reveal unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in this exciting game.

Coloring Skills

Ape: Jungle Coloring Adventure

Embark on a coloring adventure with playful apes.

Cupcake Coloring Fun

Decorate delightful cupcakes with a splash of colors.

Airplane: Sky-high Coloring Adventure

Embark on an artistic journey and paint dynamic airplanes taking flight in this coloring adventure game.

4th of July: Creative Coloring Adventure

Paint a festive scene filled with red, white, and blue to commemorate the 4th of July in this coloring adventure game.

Music Skills

Experience Down They Go Juke Box

Sing along and perform the catchy song "Down They Go" in this interactive game.

Play Baba Black Sheep Band Jam

Join the band and play the popular song "Baba Baba Black Sheep" in this interactive game.

Enjoy the All of Me Juke Box

Show off your singing skills and perform the popular song "All of Me" in this interactive game.

Dive into Mulberry Bush Band Jam

Join the band and play the classic song "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" in this interactive game.

Stories Skills

Dive into Busy Body Sleep Solution Juke Box

Listen to calming tunes and relax your body for a peaceful sleep in this interactive game.

Enjoy Dream Vacation Juke Box

Take a musical journey to your dream vacation destination in this immersive game.

Enjoy Going Batty Juke Box

Sing and groove to the catchy tune of "Going Batty" in this interactive jukebox game.

Explore Little Turtle's Dream Juke Box

Join Little Turtle on a musical adventure and explore his dream world in this interactive game.

Quickly Tell the Number of Things up to 10

Have your own math-themed party by learning how to quickly tell the number of things up to 10.

Identify the Addition Sentence

Enjoy the marvel of math-multiverse by identifying the addition sentence.

Solve Subtraction Sentences

Enjoy the marvel of math-multiverse by exploring how to solve subtraction sentences.

Read the Data

Begin the exciting journey of becoming a math wizard by learning how to read data.

Pizza: Chef Yum Yum

Become a master pizza chef and create delicious pizzas.

Buffalo: Picture Perfect

Explore the world of buffalos in this picture perfect game.

Kettle: Steaming Coloring Fun

Paint charming kettles with a burst of colors in this coloring adventure game.

Alien: Space Coloring Adventure

Let your imagination run wild and paint unique and colorful aliens in this adventure-packed coloring game.

Buzzing Bee Coloring Adventure

Buzz with creativity and paint adorable bees with a palette of colors.

Autumn Fall: Seasonal Coloring Adventure

Paint a picturesque autumn scene and immerse yourself in the beauty of fall in this coloring adventure game.

Astronaut: Space Coloring Adventure

Embark on a cosmic coloring adventure and paint a vibrant astronaut in this game.

Experience Colosseum Coloring

Travel back in time and color the magnificent Colosseum with vibrant hues.

Ball: Bouncy Coloring Adventure

Paint bouncy balls with a burst of colors and bring them to life.

Delightful Daisy Coloring

Paint vibrant daisies and bring the beauty of flowers to life.

Bakery: Delicious Coloring

Step into a sweet world and color delicious treats in this coloring adventure game.

Blue: Sneaky Shapes

Sharpen your observation skills and spot hidden blue shapes in this engaging game.

Balloon Pop: Toss Up

Enjoy popping balloons in this exciting toss up game.

Cooking Adventure

Get ready for a cooking adventure and satisfy hungry customers.

Challenge your accuracy and toss objects to hit various targets.

Magic Canvas Color Your Imagination

Let your imagination soar and create enchanting art on a magical canvas.

Discover The Dancing Jungle

Shake, groove, and dance with the animals in the vibrant jungle.

Dive into The Origami Aquarium

Dive into the world of origami with this aquarium game.

Picture Perfect

Paint, draw, and express your artistic skills in this picture perfect game.

Number Ninja: Fun Math Arcade

Become a number ninja and slice through math challenges.

Peek-a-boo! Have fun and uncover surprises in this engaging game.

Challenge the City Stacker

Build a magnificent city by stacking colorful buildings.

Ball Dunk: Toss Up

Test your skills and dunk balls in this toss up game.

Identify Embedded Numbers

Help your child take flight by learning how to identify embedded numbers.

Identify the Expression

Unearth the wisdom of mathematics by learning how to identify the expression.

Choose the Correct Expression

Have your own math-themed party by learning how to choose the correct expression.

Compare the Data

Take the first step towards building your math castle by practicing how to compare data.

Smoothie: Chef Yum Yum

Mix and match ingredients to create tasty smoothies.

Cat: Picture Perfect

Bring cats to life with colors in this picture perfect game.

Birthday Party Coloring Adventure

Use your artistic skills to paint a vibrant birthday party scene and join the fun in this coloring adventure game.

Explore Coloring Fun in the Toaster

Create a toasty masterpiece by painting colorful toasters.

Online Games for Kindergarten Kids

Effective teaching for kindergarteners involves engaging methods to capture their limited attention spans. Interactive online games make learning enjoyable, covering alphabet adventures and number skills, nurturing essential abilities. SplashLearn's Kindergarten games offer diverse activities fostering math, reading, and critical thinking, fostering an exciting learning journey.

These interactive online games enhance academic growth, not just entertaining but making numbers captivating. As kids progress, they grasp number recognition, counting, and comprehension. The math topics they explore span number sense, addition, subtraction, geometry, and word problems.

Similarly, educational games aid in ELA development. Through activities like tracing, sight words, and rhyming, classroom games introduce letters and sounds. Reading, writing, phonics, and letter tracing games infuse ELA learning with excitement, contributing to a holistic learning experience.

Types of Kindergarten Educational Games

Let’s take an overview of types of games for Kindergarten kids based on the kindergarten curriculum.

Kindergarten Math Games  

Kindergarten ELA Games  

Kindergarten General Knowledge Games  

Kindergarten Art and Creativity Games  

Kindergarten Logic and Thinking Games

Kindergarten Logic and Thinking Games have a variety of fun word puzzles, number challenges, memory games, etc. which will promote critical thinking and problem solving skills. These games not only entertain but also foster their cognitive development.

Kindergarten Motor Skills Games

Discover Kindergarten Motor Skill Games , designed to enhance coordination, balance, and dexterity while ensuring maximum fun. These games help kids develop physical abilities through enjoyable activities, setting the stage for healthy growth and active learning.

Features of Kindergarten Games

• Play on multiple devices : You can play games with kindergarteners online on multiple devices.
• Engaging and rewarding games : Children can purchase assets for their characters and more through the coins they win through practice.
• Easy Connect for Parents : Parents can be instantly notified about their child’s progress in kindergarten games online.
• Offline access : Kindergarten online games can also be played offline through apps for an interruption-free experience.

Benefits of Online Games for Kindergarten Learning

• Enhanced Learning and Skill Development : Online learning games for kindergarten students offer more than conceptual knowledge, fostering fine motor, creative, critical thinking, and emotional skills.
• Decision Making and Problem-Solving : Kindergarten online games encourage decision-making and a problem-solving attitude, refining abilities through repeated practice, resulting in increased speed and clarity.
• Early Computer Literacy : Kindergarten online learning games foster computer literacy from a young age, providing positive digital interaction and fluency in today's digital era. 

What Are the 5 Best Kindergarten Games and Activities?

SplashLearn offers a variety of interactive games for kindergarten. Here are a few fun and interactive online kindergarten games by SplashLearn:

• Identify Objects Above and Below Game
• Subtraction Symbol Game
• Christmas Coloring Extravaganza Game
• Beautiful Butterfly Coloring Adventure Game
• Ice Cream Chef Yum Yum Game

How do you help kids practice Kindergarten learning?

• Offer printable Kindergarten Math worksheets and ELA worksheets to kids for structured and hands-on practice.
• Engage kids in effective online kindergarten games for engaging learning experience.
• Practice math and ELA skills seamlessly through daily tasks like counting toys, reading labels during grocery shopping, and drawing in a journal. Turn routine moments into valuable learning opportunities!

Are there any free trial options to test out these Kindergarten learning games?

SplashLearn online Kindergarten learning games are totally free for teachers. Parents can sign up for a 7-day trial period to try SplashLearn’s Kindergarten learning resources .

How can parents integrate these educational games for kindergarteners into their children’s daily routine?

• Learning Breaks : Use game breaks between daily activities to reinforce concepts without overwhelming the child.
• Storytime Play : Combine ELA games with bedtime stories, making language learning interactive and enjoyable.
• Weekend Enrichment : Dedicate weekend time to longer game sessions, fostering deeper engagement and learning exploration.

Which age group are these Kindergarten games suitable for?

These fun learning games for kindergarteners are designed for children typically around 4 to 6 years old, the age group that typically attends kindergarten.

How do you make teaching Kindergarten fun?

• Interactive Activities : Use online games, worksheets , crafts, stories, and group activities to keep learning lively and interactive.
• Visual Learning : Align lessons with themes, pictures, and visual aids that excite kids, making learning relatable and enjoyable.

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50 Activities for Kindergarten

Hands-on ideas to engage digital learners in meeting standards and learning goals.

Fifty ideas for using a digital approach to help kindergarten students meet standards and learning goals.

1. Go on a shape hunt

Read a book like The Shape of Me and Other Stuff by Dr. Seuss. Then have students walk around school or their home and find shapes, like rectangles, triangles, or even cylinders and spheres.

Than, have students use their devices to capture the shapes they find and label or add narration to identify them.

Seeing Shapes lesson plan with literature connections, samples, and more

2. Create a digital greeting

Have your students create or add original artwork to a digital creativity tool and then record their voices to create a multimedia message. Copy the URL or export the file and send via email or text.

3. Scratch for self-expression

Remember scratch art? Wixie has a collection of digital scratch art pages with a variety of backgrounds students can "scratch" using an eraser tool.

4. Make a Mondrian

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian is best known for his work that used primary colors and shapes. Visit the Tate Museum's page about Mondrian with your child to learn about this artist and his work.

Have students use a paint bucket tool to fill a Mondrian Coloring page with color.

5. Sort and label a nature walk

Walk around outside and collect rocks, flowers, sticks etc. Find a place to sort them into categories any way you like - shape, color, texture, type.

Add the picture to a digital tool, like Wixie , and add text or voice narration to label objects and explain sorting.

6. Color to design a school backpack

Ask students to color a school backpack with a design that shows off their unique personalities.

Encourage students to use their device's microphone or video camera to record an explanation of their design.

7. Write names with letter sound pictures

As students learn their letter sounds, ask them to find images of objects that have the same initial sounds as the letters in their name.

Help students spell their name across the top of a blank page and add clip art images to match the initial sound of each letter in their name.

8. Design a hibernation hotel

As students begin considering what living and nonliving objects need, have them design a hotel for a hibernating animal that contains everything it needs to stay safe, warm, and fed over the winter.

Explore a Hibernation Hotel lesson plan

9. Explore antonyms

Explore antonyms with your students. Read Dr. Seuss's The Foot Book and create a list of antonyms. You can start them off with things like hot/cold or high/low.

Students can use a creativity and productivity tool, like Wixie , to create illustrations of an antonym pair. Students can use the microphone tool to record their explanations.

10. Celebrate a community helper

Community helpers are essential to the health and success of our world. Have students celebrate how a community helper is essential to a community by combining words, pictures, and even narration in a digital sentence strip.

11. Create a collage

Have students use a digital tool to represent themselves with a collage of images. Digital tools like Wixie make it easy to add images and move them around.

Students can use this same process to represent events in a story or things they see during a particular season.

Explore a Me: A Visual Essay lesson plan

12. Survey peers

Survey your friends, family members, and neighbors about a favorite book, sport, food, game, or at-home activity. Project a question or use a tally sheet on your white board to collect student responses.

13. Write a sight word story

Have your emerging readers practice sight words by writing an " I go... I see " sight word story.

Have each student finish the sentences and illustrate the page. Print and combine into a class book students can read in your library.

14. Describe your family

Have students use a paint program to paint a picture of their family and use their device's microphone to name each person and describe them. Have students add text labels with each family member's name or a trait they used for this person in their description.

15. Make a map of your neighborhood

Have students create a map of important places in their neighborhood. Have students start with a plain page or use digital grid paper. Then, ask students to draw locations or capture photos with their devices.

16. Become the masked reader

Take a clue from the Masked Singer television show to make reading fluency practice less stressful and way more fun.

This is especially helpful for ELLs and struggling readers since they can practice, record, delete, and try again to produce their best work. Their work can also remain completely private if the reader is not unmasked.

17. Showcase the seasons

The changing seasons are a scientific phenomenon that students can easily see. Ask students to draw or collect clip art images of objects they see during a specific time of year.

18. Make a coin caterpillar

Coins are a great manipulative to represent value and provide a real world context for counting and addition practice. But since physical coins are a great way to spread germs, take advantage of digital versions.

To make work with coins fun, ask students to create coin caterpillars . Then, ask them to count the number of each coin and calculate the total "value" of the caterpillar.

19. Share a virtual high five

It's never too early to teach gratitude. Ask students to show their appreciation for others with a virtual high-five.

Trace their hand on paper and take a photo or find a digital hand image and add images and voice narration to tell someone their actions are amazing.

20. The 13 Days of Halloween

Practice counting skills with a 13 days of Halloween project that contains pages for the numbers 1-13, indicating how much of each object "my goblin gave to me." Combine pages together to create a class book (or two).

Explore a 13 Days of Halloween lesson plan

21. Fashion a family flag

The symbols for a country represent its history and values. Ask students to apply what they have learned about symbols to fashion a flag to represent their family.

Explore a Fashion a Family Flag lesson plan

22. Go on a letter hunt

Walk around your classroom or school and hunt for objects that begin with a specific letter, such as a clock for the letter c .

Students can use a device to capture images and label what they find or use a creativity tool, like Wixie, to add or draw pictures that begin with each letter sound.

23. Explore emotions with the color monster

Expressing and understanding emotions is hard for a kindergartner. Read The Color Monster by Anna Llenas to your learners and discuss the different emotions of the monster.

Have students choose one emotion, like happy, calm, or angry, and use a digital tool to illustrate what causes that emotion for them. Then, have them record an appropriate action they can take when they feel this way.

24. Share your favorite book

To build foundations for argument writing, primary learners start by stating opinions. Ask your kindergarten students to use paint tools to draw a picture of their favorite book and use their device's microphone to record why.

25. Play with patterns

Learning how to identify and create patterns helps build foundations for future math, even algebra! Digital art tools make it easy to paint patterns or add images to make ABA, ABBA and other repeating patterns.

26. Describe a book character

Have students recall, retell, and share text, images, and voice narration about a character's physical traits, feelings, and actions on a trait cluster .

27. Inform others

Even the youngest learners can inform others about the topics they are learning. Instead of struggling with writing or typing, have students use a digital tool to add an image and record their voice to share information. Perfect for ELLs.

28. Balloons Over Broadway

Read Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet to let students know about Tony Sarg and the balloons he created for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Then, ask them to use a paint program to design their own Thanksgiving Day parade balloon. Have students use their device's microphone to share a story about seeing it in the parade.

29. Showcase a habitat

Celebrate your budding scientists by having them apply their knowledge to showcase the plants and animals in their favorite habitat.

With tools like Wixie , it is easy for students to find a background and add clip art stickers to show what they know.

30. Share a symbol story

Read Norman Pearl's The Great Seal of the United States to have students hear from Ben Franklin about the process used to create the Great Seal. Then, ask them to create a story about another US symbol.

Explore a Symbol Story lesson plan

31. Count to design

While most kindergarten students will do rote counting to please their teacher, there are many ways to make counting fun. Add in an element of creativity and design thinking by asking them to count to design. For example, add food to a garden, animals to a safari park , or creatures to a spooky scene.

32. Record your positive actions

What actions do your students take to improve their community? Have students draw a picture, write a sentence and record their efforts!

33. Write a 5 senses poem

In addition to reinforcing scientific observation, engaging the five senses is a great way to help young learners add descriptions to their writing and practice vocabulary.

If your learners would benefit from a little direction, provide a specific topic for their poem.

Explore a 5 Senses Poetry lesson plan

34. Tell a tangram tale

After students have tried to solve tangram puzzles, read Ann Tompert's Grandfather Tang's Story where the main character rearranges tangram shapes to represent the characters and events as he tells a story.

Ask students to use tangram shapes to create an object using the tangram shapes and tell a story about it. Combine into a class book!

35. What if you could be going places?

Call or video chat with someone who lives far away or read about a new place to learn about the weather and culture in that location. Use a digital tool, like Wixie , to show the weather, what they would pack to wear, and what they would do in that location.

36. Use shapes to create a Mother's Day bouquet

Combine common clip art shapes to create a vase filled with flowers for Mother's Day.

37. Adapt a pattern story

To support your budding authors, ask them to give a twist to a story they know by adding or replacing nouns and verbs.

Explore a list of books perfect for student adaptation

38. Record a favorite memory

Have students reflect and create a favorite memory from the school year.

39. Create your own pet show

Read Pet Show! by Ezra Jack Keats. Have students use paint tools to draw a picture of their pet and add a superlative describing the award their pet won .

40. Plan a class party

Planning the details for a party, including needed space (measurement) and a budget (calculations), requires students to practice and apply math and argument skills to a real-life scenario.

Explore a Plan an Event lesson plan

41. Create a digital word wall

Digital tools make adding thoughts to a personal word wall easy. Ask each student to add words they do not know from the books they are reading. Have students look up the meaning in a dictionary or ask a parent or teacher to help them define and add a picture and even voice recording.

42. Build foundations for scientific thinking

Encourage your student's budding inquiry by using a modified approach to the scientific method .

Have students begin with observation and hypotheses and then progress to thinking about how they can test their ideas and then analyze the results.

43. Publish student writing

Motivate emerging writers by publishing their stories. Use a tool like Wixie to have students write or record a story and create their own illustrations.

Share a URL or export their work to PDF to easily share to family phones and tablets.

44. Tell a cycle story

After learning about the life cycle of a frog or butterfly, have students retell it as a cycle story.

Explore a Cycle Story lesson plan

45. Create a classroom tour

It can be a little scary to come to a new class with new rules. Once your students have learned and settled into your classroom routine, ask them to apply their knowledge of locations and rules to design a classroom tour.

Using a digital tool makes it easy to share the finished tour with new students, as well as students joining the class the following year.

Explore a Classroom Tour lesson plan

46. Write about your favorite relative

Practice opinion writing through a favorite relative project. Give structure to your emerging writers by using an O-R-E-O Opinion template which asks them to state their opinion, share 2-3 reasons why, and finish with a concluding statement.

Share students' work with their favorite relative.

Explore a Favorite Relative lesson plan

47. Watch the weather

Spend time each day during morning meeting identifying the weather . Choose a specific day to ask students to record their observations using pictures and new terminology to create strong foundations for the scientific method.

48. Get creative with five and ten frames

Digital tools make it easy to get creative with five and ten frame counting projects. In October, count pumpkins in a ten frame farm garden. In summer, count beach balls and suns to design a beach towel pattern .

49. Construct with virtual blocks

Play with math is an opportunity to use math vocabulary and concepts while having fun. Find a game, like Wixie's Build with Blocks , for activities that let students build and create with shapes and digital manipulatives. If you have physical blocks at school or home, ask students to try to recreate their design with real blocks.

50. Write word problems

Have students use a paint or image program, like Wixie , to draw models that help the viewer (and themselves) visualize quantities and relationships in word problems.

Once they have experience with digital projects, let students choose the product or way they will demonstrate understanding… simply make them argue their case before they begin. No matter what you or they choose, transfer as much responsibility as possible to students to motivate and empower them to control their own learning.

by Melinda Kolk

Melinda Kolk ( @melindak ) is the Editor of Creative Educator and the author of Teaching with Clay Animation . She has been helping educators implement project-based learning and creative technologies like clay animation into classroom teaching and learning for the past 15 years.

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Top 30 Quick Games to Play in the Classroom

If you need a fast, low-prep game you can play with your whole class, you're in the right place! These 30+ quick games to play in the classroom are fast, easy, and so much fun!

30 Quick Games to Play in the Classroom

The best classroom games require little set-up or equipment and are a great way to test your students' knowledge or help them bond as a community. 

They're great for quick brain breaks when everyone needs to let off some steam!

1. This or That

This is one of the simplest games, but kids absolutely love it! Announce two categories or opinions. Students will go to one side or the other, depending on their preference. Such a good conversation starter!

2. Four Corners

Like This or That, you'll assign each of the four corners in your classroom an answer. After you read off the prompt or question, students must run to a corner to make a choice.

This could be the best season, favourite snacks, the best classes, etc. It's quick and the best way to get some energy out while learning!

3. Copy Cats

The whole class stands in a large circle. As one student waits out of sight, another student silently leads the class to move in a certain way (clapping, stomping, swaying, etc.). 

The student waiting out of sight returns to figure out who the leader is. As the leader changes the movement, the rest of the class must follow along discretely without giving them away.

This is a great, quiet game that really helps younger children become aware of body language and get the wiggles out! 

4. Connect Four

I love using this popular game to practice identifying CVC words, long vowels, and other literacy skills! Students can play alone or with a partner to see who can get four words in a row. 

Get this game here.

5. Simon Says

Kids still love this classic game, and it's quick! Whether you're stuck in a long line or need to kill 5 minutes, pull out this old stand-by.

6. Jeopardy

Although this one may take a little more prep on your part, you can easily create your own Jeopardy game and come back to it again and again! 

It's great for a quick review game before a big test or to rehearse classroom norms and expectations. 

You could play with the students against the teacher instead of dividing the students into teams, especially if you're still working on building positive student relationships.

7. My take on Uno

This classic card game is a great way to teach specific literacy skills, like identifying long vowel sounds and more! 

The goal is to have just one card remaining in your hand and you can't help but get into it!

Bingo is still such a fun classroom activity! You can play endless varieties of Bingo, and I love incorporating math skills whenever possible! 

Depending on the age of your students, you can go for four corners, blackout, and more variations.

You can use Bingo to help your kindergarten students practice their phonological awareness skills in this fun game !

This two-digit number bingo game is great for small groups, too.

9. Charades

Charades is always such a riot, especially in primary grades! Have a bowl of ideas to choose from to keep the game moving quickly. 

The first kid to get the correct answer gets to go next, and you can play just one round or stretch it out during indoor recess days!

10. Tic Tac Toe

All you need is a simple sheet of paper for this simple game! Play it with your whole class by pitting the students against the teacher. This builds camaraderie among your students as they all work together to reach a shared goal

Make this game educational by hunting for CVC or CVCC CCVC words !

11. Heads Up Seven Up

There's a good chance you grew up with this fun game! Seven students will try to secretly choose seven students, who will try to guess who selected them and take their place. 

Heads Up Seven Up is fast enough for a quick brain break but also makes a great game to play once your kids get all their brownie points!

12. Snakes & Ladders

I've adapted this game to practice key phonics skills like identifying digraphs and more! If students land on a square with a snake, they go back one square, and if they land on a ladder, they follow it up the game board. 

Once they reach the finish line, the game ends!

13. Hangman

If you ever have a random 5-10 minute and need something to fill the time, this is a good way to do it! The concept is a little dark, so feel free to adapt it into something else (maybe decorating a gingerbread man or building a teddy bear). 

I usually play this with the teacher as the one running the game to ensure the words are all appropriate and correctly spelled.

14. Duck Duck Goose

Younger students love Duck Duck Goose, and it's a fun way to get some energy out. 

All students sit in a circle, with one student walking around the group, tapping each person on the head and saying, "duck." They'll choose one person to call, "goose," who will get up and chase the picker around the circle, trying to return to their seat. 

The first person to return to the goose's spot stays seated, and the person standing becomes the picker.

This is the best game for the lower grades! The leader says, "I spy something..." and states a colour or texture. The rest of the class tries to guess what they're looking at. The person who gets it right first gets to be the leader.

I've also created printable versions of I Spy you can use to reinforce phonics skills, like this one that requires students to identify CVC, CVCC, and CCVC words! 

16. Higher or Lower

Have a little fun while building number sense! In this game, one student waits outside the classroom while the rest of the class solves a math problem. After you go over the problem to find the answer, you'll bring in the guesser, who will need to figure out which number was the answer.  

As the guesser comes back in to stand in the front of the class, tell them the class has chosen a number between 0 and 100 (adapt as needed), but the only way they can help them find the right answer is to say "higher" or "lower!" 

Once the student reaches the number, the class cheers, and the guesser picks their replacement.

If you're looking for more math games, look at these differentiated elementary math games for K-2!

17. Where the Wind Blows

This is a great option for building positive student relationships! 

The entire class stands in a large circle. The leader says, "The window blows for people who like _____." Any student who likes what they mentioned moves to a different point across the circle. 

Students will naturally erupt in conversation about what they like or don't like, and they'll quickly see which people have the same interests.

Make your own custom IKEA spinner to determine who gets to be the leader first -- or to play some other fun number or phonics warm up games!

18. Human Knot

There are several different ways to play this game , but you tie all your bodies into a big knot! 

This is one of the best team-building games since you must work together to get everyone untangled!

19. Musical Chairs

For this classic game, turn on some fun music and have students walk in a circle around a row of chairs that is one short. 

As the music stops, everyone scrambles to a chair. The last person left standing is out. Take out another chair each round until the group gets smaller and smaller. 

The last one in a chair wins!

20. Silent Ball

This is one of the best classroom games because it's quiet, and everyone likes to play! 

The goal is for students to toss the ball to each other silently. If they talk or drop the ball, they're out. 

20. Two Truths and Lie

This classic ice-breaker can be a fun way to fill a gap in your lesson plans! Invite a few students to share two truths and lie, and try to figure out which is which.

21. Telephone

As students sit in a circle, one person whispers a message to their neighbour, who then whispers it to the next neighbour, and so on, until it travels around the circle. 

At the end, the last student reveals the message they heard.

The message almost always becomes distorted as it travels around the room. To help teach your students to listen more closely to each other, challenge them to pass the message accurately the whole way around!

22. Scavenger Hunt

Hide things around the classroom or school and have students track them down! This is a great way to change up your math routine, too. 

Blow up the problems on your math assignment, print them out, and spread them around the room. Have your students work on their answers on a separate piece of paper. 

They'll love moving around and working with others, which is excellent for a late-afternoon math class.

23. Freeze Dance

You can play this game with or without music, but the goal is to get your students moving and dancing as much as possible until you shout freeze!

There are even YouTube videos that guide your class through this game.

24. Hot Potato

This is a simple game, but it works! As you play music, students toss a ball or toy around the circle like a hot potato. 

When the music stops, whoever has the bean bag is out!

This dice game is a little noisy but so much fun! It's also great for teaching pattern recognition and practicing multi-digit addition! Learn how to play Farkle here. 

You can order a set of 6 cups on Amazon and have six groups playing at once! It's a wonderful treat for Fun Friday or a special occasion!

This is one of the best classroom math games for kids! Basically, you'll ask your kids to count by one. If someone reaches a multiple of 7, they say "buzz!" 

If they don't say buzz or take too long, they're out, and the group keeps going. 

This is perfect for teaching multiples, and you can adapt the number to make it easier or harder.

Want to help your kids learn their math facts? These no-prep digital interactive math warm-up games will get your kids playing right away!

27. Pictionary

Although the actual game has rules and guidelines, keep it simple. Have one student draw a picture, then have the rest of the class guess what it is. 

I prefer to do this within a category like food or animals to make it easier. Whoever gets it right first becomes the new artist. 

This one is great on Zoom if you ever do remote learning!

28. Marco Polo

If it's a nice day outside, divide students into partners, and take your whole class outside. Ask each pair to come up with a unique two-word phrase. 

Once everyone has a phrase, send them all to opposite ends of the space. Have them close their eyes and carefully try to find each other, with one partner saying the first part of the phrase and the other person saying the second part. 

This is a great way to practice social skills and careful listening. Plus, it's active, creative, and just plain fun!

29. Bananagrams

Like Scrabble, kids use tiles to build words but don't need a gameboard! 

The goal is to use all of your tiles to create words, building off of other words as needed. 

You can play as a whole class or have students work with partners or small groups. Students will practice quick thinking and spelling words! 

30. Would You Rather

This is a great game to learn more about your students! Ask silly questions for fun, like "Would you rather lick a slug or eat a raw egg?" 

You can also use it to dip into deeper conversations and ask questions, like "Would you rather be five years younger or ten years older?" 

40+ Free Distance-Learning Online Games and Activities for Kindergarten (and How to Use Them)

Let’s skip the search and go straight for the most helpful free online games for kindergarten.

If you’re in the midst of planning for distance learning or staring down a possible future of eLearning lesson plans , then use these free games and activities online to help you keep your lesson plans engaging for students.

Let’s look at my favorite games and activities online for kindergarten and then talk about how to actually use them for eLearning with more ideas from other teachers about how to stay connected to your class and plan lessons when you can’t be in the classroom .

Online sites for kindergarten

These sites I’m listing require no logins, no passwords and are free to use. And I’ve used them with kindergarten, so they are teacher-approved. Some sites may require minimal help with navigation or directions (if there is no audio-support) but the content is all right-on for kindergarten.

You’re probably familiar with these already, but I’m also going to include some specific games below too.

• Coolkindergarten.com has both language arts and math games for kindergarten plus a small selection of read-alouds and math videos. All items match kindergarten standards.
• Starfall.com is a classic beginning learner website. Use both the alphabet and learn to read page for the maximum benefit and a couple of the kindergarten math activities are good too.
• Turtlediary.com has both reading and math games. You might find it helpful to explore their list of games.
• Brightly storytime is a quality set of read-alouds hosted on youtube.
• Storyline online has recently added some new videos and the quality of these videos is great.
• Freckle.com is a differentiation platform with built-in activities for ELA, math, social studies and science.

Now let’s look at some specific games that are free to use.

Online games specific to kindergarten standards

Some of these specific games come from the websites above, but there are extra ones too.

I hope having them listed out by skill is helpful when you’re making your lesson plans.

Reading games & activities

All of these reading games are my favorites on these reading sub-skills for the second semester.

Blending cvc words

• Short a machine
• Chicken blast
• CVC blitz (expand to fullscreen)
• Bird hop and panda pop (choose CVC)
• CVC word scramble
• Odd and Bob
• Buried treasure
• Dragon’s den
• Viking words

Short vowels

• Short a song / Short a story
• Short e song / Short e story
• Short i song / Short i story
• Short o song / Short o story
• Short u song / Short u story
• Phonics pop (set 1, 2, 3 or 4 have short vowels included)
• Vowels save the day song

Sight words

• Sight word memory
• Spooky spellings (year 1, books 1 and/or 2)
• Submarine spelling (pre-primer)
• Bird hop and panda pop (choose sight words or sight words 2)
• Tricky words
• Guess word shapes
• Snowball fight
• Sight word smash
• Sight word safari
• Chunk that word song
• Th digraph mini-lesson
• Sh digraph mini-lesson
• Ch digraph mini-lesson
• Dinosaur eggs (select sh, th, ch and ee)
• Shark sounds (select ch, sh, th and oo)
• Bird hop and panda pop (choose wh, ch, sh, th)
• Phonics pop

Long vowels

• Silent e video
• Long vowel memory
• Long a word building / long a picture hunt / long a story
• Long i word building / long i story
• Long o word building / long o picture hunt / long o story
• Long u word building / long u story
• Lonely long vowels song
• Magic e mix and match
• Bird hop and panda pop (choose magic e)

Math games & activities

All of these math games are my favorites on these math sub-skills for the second semester.

Making numbers

• Subitizing ten frame race
• Fuzzbugs (choose 5 or 10)

Composing and decomposing 11-19+

• Candy machine
• Base ten bingo (select tens)
• Shark numbers (up to 29, 59 or 99)
• Base ten snakes (choose count and write – either ones or tens)
• Whack a mole (set a goal of 45)

2D and 3D shapes

• Highlight 2D shapes
• Shape invasion line-up
• Superhero solve with shapes
• Shapes shoot

Addition and subtraction

• Subtraction balloon pop
• Monster memory

Science games & activities

• turtle wax (simple machines: slides)
• desert dive teeter-totter (simple machines: lever)

Clever online activities

Here is a list of new or temporary activities that have become available. These can help you round out your lesson plans.

Guided drawing

Keep your guided drawing activities alive with Mo Willems drawing lessons .

These lessons are taught by the author of the Pigeon books and you could ask your students to write a simple sentence to go with their completed picture. Use this “Don’t Let the Pigeon” writing activity as an example.

At-home safari or scavenger hunts

Let your students take a daily home safari . Encourage them to draw a picture of their favorite thing they learned while watching or to draw what the featured animal eats.

Send your students on daily scavenger hunts . Post a picture each day with their list – get kids moving, away from their screens and get them outdoors.

Free curriculum

You can sign your class up for freckle.com , which is free. Ask students to work for 15-20 minutes a day.

You may also want to check out links or activity ideas in this kindergarten online free curriculum .

How to make online lesson plans

Okay, so now that we have these fantastic links, what do we do with them?

Well, it depends on what you have to work with.

For some teachers, this means that you are putting out work for your students using Seesaw, ClassDojo, Google Classroom or something your school already has in place for eLearning.

In general, you can pick the sites or specific games you want by copying the site (or game) URL and pasting it in your favorite method of sharing work.

Here are a few of the current favorite ways teachers are using these tools right now.

Google Classroom

I made a free eLearning template just for you to use in kindergarten! Check out how to make an easy-to-navigate eLearning lesson plan using a Google Slide presentation.

Heidi, a kindergarten teacher, said:

“You can post PDFS, links to websites, video or voice recordings of yourself. Kids can type, draw, write, voice or video record responses. They have many safety settings for keeping things private or public with in your classroom. There is a database of assignments teachers have shared that you can use as well. It was simple to learn and implement for teachers, students and now parents!! Today, since routines have finally settled – I am able to video personal messages to kids about their work.”

Amber has these recommendations for teachers using Seesaw for the first time:

“Use the caption on the bottom of each Seesaw page to record your instructions and put your YouTube videos into Slides and link those instead of just linking a YouTube video. It will be easier for your kids to navigate. Make sure you make your Slides share setting to ‘Anyone with link can view’ or it’ll prompt them to sign in to Google.”

Click here to set yourself up on Seesaw and invite your classroom families to use it.

For an eLearning situation, be sure to have parents download the class app too (in addition to the families app).

Here is an example from a fellow kindergarten teacher Robin on how she is currently using ClassDojo for eLearning.

Robin, a kindergarten teacher, said:

“I am using ClassDojo. I read a story to my students each morning using the video feature. Then I upload videos from youTube, link some worksheets to do and then give them a daily challenge to do or a scavenger hunt. Anything that gets them moving!

Many parents say my students love hearing me read to them. The book I read relates to their challenge or activity.

For example, today I read, “Animal Strike at the Zoo… It’s True.” I challenged my students to find things that have strips, spots or were orange/yellow. I also asked to hear for rhyming words in the story and then in their activity, I then gave them words that they would have come up with the rhyme for. I also encouraged them to go to the Cincinnati Zoo today at 3 pm for a live Facebook field trip on an animal in the cat family (hence the look for strips, spots orange/yellow challenge).

Everything in my room is cross-curricula in someway… Why stop just because we aren’t in school. Welcome to eLearning!”

When asked – how do you share worksheets and do put the videos in class story ?

Robin shared:

“I share worksheets by having them as a PDF and linking them. Videos are from youtube that we have done in class and students are familiar with (no new content). I copy the link and share them on the class story.

Sharing on class story, you can see who has viewed it and such. It is a way to get it out to all your parents at once. Sending messages would allow for more individualized videos or activities for students.”

Kathy also shared:

“Student accounts are needed for Portfolios, where students show their work. There are teacher instructions under Teacher Resources.

You can open a post on either your phone or laptop and a “Record” icon will be in the window. Click and start recording yourself.

You can suspend your phone over a paper for a mini-lesson, like a document camera. It works great. I used a rack from under my sink, but I’ve seen pics where teachers have placed their phone within a stack of full cans of food. “

Click here to set yourself up on ClassDojo and invite your classroom families to use it.

How to connect with students while out of the classroom

Are you looking for more ideas on what to assign to your students or ways to create eLearning lesson plans?

Here are some fantastic ideas from teachers who are actually in the midst of figuring this out themselves.

Use photo and video activities

Have students post photos or videos to share their completed assignments.

Elizabeth said, “I use ClassDojo. It’s fun to see their video and photos. I posted assignments like find 17 objects and share them or count to 75. For photos, I asked them to post drawings about stories.”

Create a routine

Develop a routine to make lesson planning easier. This will also greatly help families know what to expect and be able to execute the plans over the long haul.

Debra, a kindergarten teacher said, “My team and I created lesson plans for a week and release the activities for the day. We post a link to a story and tell them to draw or write what it was about, some math problems, a sight word activity, a CVC word activity, an activity to complete on Mobymax, etc.”

Remember the familiar things

Your classroom experience is unique. Don’t let your kiddos miss out on that with these little things they’ve become so used to.

Record yourself doing your sight word chant, alphabet chart or reading books aloud. Pick some things that are routine and familiar and do them just the way you would in class.

Take a picture of your alphabet chart or your digraphs charts – upload them and ask students to practice them aloud.

In conclusion

It may feel like a scramble to get started with distance learning, but – you’ve got this!

I wanted to thank the teachers featured here who’ve already jumped in head first to eLearning and shared their knowledge with the rest of us.

I hope this list can help you keep your lesson plans engaging for students and makes planning for distance learning easier.

Just like anything new, there is going to be a learning curve, but you can adjust and keep your students learning.

Just remember to be thoughtful about the workload for parents who have a new learning curve too.

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Leslie is the teacher behind KindergartenWorks . She believes in teaching kinders how to be pretty incredible along with teaching them to read, write and think for themselves. She enjoys drinking hot tea, making mud pies with her four kids and sharing what she's learned with teachers.

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I cannot access any of your games and resources because they require adobe flash player. I would love to see them, but I cannot unless you have another way for me to access them?

Yes, unfortunately, Google has done away with so many of my favorite games by making this move! They are currently marked with an asterisk, so you could focus on the games that don’t have one – but I’ll be removing those links from this list soon. – Leslie

Thank you for being selfless in sharing your knowledge and encouraging words to teachers like myself.

Thank you so much for creating all of this for us in a time that is new with so much to take in. I hope that you and your family are well.

You are always a lifeline, but even more so at this time of educational upheaval. Thank you for all the work you’ve done that makes it easier.

Thank you Susan – I appreciate your kind words! – Leslie

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10 Fun Back to School Activities for Kindergarten

The first days of kindergarten are important for helping students become comfortable in the classroom setting.  Many of the children are stepping into a classroom for the very first time! There are many ways to introduce students to the classroom setting, but one of my favorite ways is to use fun back to school activities for kindergarten.  Hands-on and engaging activities can help students learn many important kindergarten skills as they learn the rules and routines of the classroom.  In this post, I’m going to share some of my favorite activities to use at the beginning of the year in kindergarten.

10 Back to School Activities for Kindergarten

Back to school activities for kindergarten are a great way to ease students into the learning routine.  All of the activities below will help students practice important skills that they will use all year.  Plus, the fun back-to-school theme of these activities will get your students excited for kindergarten!

1. First Day of School Emotions Activity

Students experience a wide range of emotions on the first day of kindergarten!  It’s helpful to provide time in the schedule to discuss these emotions. 

This first day of school emotions graph activity is a great way to introduce the idea that everyone has different feelings at school each day.  This activity can help to build classroom community from the very first day of school!

2. Name Graphing Activity

Another important part of building classroom community is to learn each others’ names.  One fun way for students to see and hear the different names in the classroom is through a class name graphing activity.  Each student is given a strip of paper with their name written on it. (An editable PDF makes quick work of this!)

After counting the letters in their names, students can take turns placing their strips of paper on the graph of names.  This activity also comes with a name graph worksheet that you can work together to complete.

3. Class Book

Another fun name activity is to create a class book!  Since learning to identify, spell, and write their name is an important task for students in kindergarten, this is a great activity to help students practice their own names while learning the names of their classmates. 

Students can decorate a page containing the first letter of their name, then practice writing their name at the bottom.  This printable class book also has an option to put each child’s picture on the page. After putting the book together with a binding or book rings, it can be left in the classroom library for students to browse during the first few weeks of school. 

4. Classroom Number Hunt

Another way to build classroom community is to have students work together on a back to school activity.  This classroom number hunt is perfect for the first week of school! 

Students can work together to find the ten numbered circles around the room, then color or circle the school supply shown on that circle.  Students can use clipboards to make it easier to document their number hunt!

5. Glue Practice

Since some students are entering a classroom for the very first time, it’s helpful to practice using school supplies during the first week of school.  One of my favorite ways to teach students how to use liquid glue is with the “One Dot Club.” 

Students can practice adding just one dot of glue at a time, then they can receive glitter on their glue dots to show that they made it into the club! This skill will be important as they complete a variety of kindergarten crafts throughout the year.

6. School Mini Reader

It’s also helpful for students to practice coloring with crayons.  As students complete the pages of this back-to-school mini reader, you can remind them about using a “just right” amount of pressure on the crayons so they don’t break.

This is a fun book to help students get excited about learning to read, especially when they can take their books home to show their families!

7. Back to School Hats

When your class is ready, you can also have students practice using scissors as they create these fun back-to-school hats!  Included in this hat craft are different “highlights” of the first day/week of school that students can color and glue to the hat.

Depending on when you want to use this resource, there are options for the first day of school and the first week of school.  There are also options for grade levels besides kindergarten!

8. Back to School Mystery Puzzles

Another fun way to help students practice cutting and pasting is with these back to school mystery puzzles! Students can practice counting and number identification as they match the numbers on the puzzle pieces to the correct place on the puzzle. If you’d like to grab six mystery puzzles for free, just fill in the form below and they’ll be delivered straight to your inbox!

9. Back to School Pencil Craft

Once students are more familiar with how to use the school supplies, a back-to-school pencil craft can be a fun activity for the first week of school!

This adorable pencil craft can be created with or without eyes. Either way, this fun craft will look great on a back-to-school bulletin board!

10. First Week of School Memory Book

Finally, a memory book for the first week of school is a great activity for students to work on over the course of several days.  There are many different activities that students can complete, including a school bus craft for the cover!  Students can document memories like their new teacher, friends, and even their feelings and goals. 

This memory book will be a great keepsake to send home after the first week of school.  Plus, it will be fun to compare the first week of school memory book with an end-of-the-year memory book !

Printable Back to School Activities for Kindergarten

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25 Best Educational Toys and Games for Kindergarten

Because the best learning happens through play.

Kindergartners are just starting to get excited about academic skills, but they still love to—and need to—learn by doing and playing. Give them materials that allow them to have fun and build with this list of our favorite educational toys for kindergarten learning.

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1. Rainbow Acrylic Blocks

Kindergartners are master block builders, and they’ve got the imagination, patience, and spatial skills to make some pretty awesome creations. Up their block game with some fun additions to a classic set of wooden blocks  like these colorful window blocks. They also invite science exploration of light and color.

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2. Guidecraft Arches and Tunnels

These large pieces beg to be added to next-level block creations. Kids can start to investigate shape and balance too.

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3. PlayTape Black Road Tape

This stuff is amazing! Give kids free rein to create their own peel-and-stick road systems. Use it on the floor or table and inspire racetracks, block towns, map- and sign-making, and more.

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4. LEGO Classic Basic Brick Set

Kindergarten fingers are ready to create with standard-size LEGO. Building sets with directions to follow are fun, but an open-ended, basic set of bricks has exceptional staying power. Add a couple of   baseplates   to keep things structured and organized. LEGO play encourages kids to explore math concepts like measurement and fractions too.

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5. Magna-Tiles

Magna-Tiles are an investment worth making. Kindergarten kiddos naturally explore geometry and engineering concepts as they make more elaborate structures.

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6. MindWare Marble Run

Deceptively challenging but oh-so satisfying, setting up a successful marble run is an ultimate STEM challenge.

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7. Green Toys Sandwich Shop

Kindergartners still love to pretend , especially where food is involved. Whether it is a restaurant, picnic, or grocery store, they’re usually down for it. This little set is fun for all ages, but we love how it encourages kindergartners to write down “orders” and think more carefully about ingredients and sequencing. Would you like extra pickles with that?

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8. Learning Resources Pretend & Play Cash Register

The appealing but not overly annoying beeps and dings make this cash register a perfect pretend-play prop. Plus, help kids work on number recognition and begin thinking about monetary amounts. Cha-ching!

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9. Learning Resources Wooden Pattern Blocks

Beautiful in their simplicity, pattern blocks are a true multipurpose math manipulative. Use these sturdy blocks to investigate shapes, fractions, patterning, and design.

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10. Melissa & Doug My Own Mailbox

Snail mail, both real and pretend, is the ultimate context for authentic early literacy skills practice.

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11. Plugo Count

This game allows students to work with counting and numbers in a new way! It turns your device into a gaming system, and children go through math adventures that are story-based. There are over 250 progressive levels.

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12. Hand2Mind 20-Bead Rekenrek

The name of this awesome Dutch math tool means “counting rack.” It helps kids visualize and subitize (break down) numerical amounts into components of ones, fives, and tens using its rows and bead colors. Have kids use it to practice representing numbers, work on addition and subtraction problems, or even keep score during a game.

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13. Wooden Geoboard

This classic classroom tool is a huge draw for kids. Stretch rubber bands to create shapes and pictures while exploring geometry concepts.

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14. Letter and Number Pop-Its

Merge their love of fidget toys with learning. Use these fidgets toys to work on kindergarten skills. Your students will not realize they are learning. Check out other ways to use Pop-Its in the classroom .

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15. Magnetic Letter and Number Set

Alphabet manipulatives help kindergartners focus on spelling without the added burden of handwriting. Magnetic letters are useful for practicing sight words and working with word families. We like the straightforward colors and storage in this set and that it has numbers for representing math problems also.

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16. Marbotic Deluxe Learning Kit for iPad

Understanding how a calendar works takes plenty of practice. An engaging, magnetic version encourages kids to manipulate a calendar’s components and create a personally relevant representation of each month.

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17. HUE Animation Studio

Stop animation in the classroom? Absolutely! From storytelling to working out math problems, your students can use this animation studio to bring their learning to life.

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18. Smarkids Building Blocks

Incorporating engineering into everyday play is simple with these building blocks. Design, build, and play … all built in one.

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19. Kinetic Sand Playset

Scooping, squeezing, and creating are important for kindergarten hands. Use this beach-themed set for open-ended creation or for plenty of fun learning activities .

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20. Colorations Lowercase Learning Stamp Set

The only thing better than squishing dough or sand is stamping in it! Use one of these educational toys for kindergarten learning for kids to learn letter forms and practice spelling in a multi-sensory way.

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21. QZM Wooden Pegboard Bead Game

Writing is hard work, and kindergartners’ fine motor strength and coordination have to be up to the challenge. This activity set offers so many practice opportunities. (Every kindergartner we know LOVES tongs.) Encourage spatial thinking by following the pattern cards.

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22. Playstix Construction Toy Building Blocks

This construction set uses color-coded pieces for building. It provides a great bridge between learning and play. Put this set in your STEM center and have the kids turn into little engineers.

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23. Tinkertoy

Tinkertoys provide the smallest engineers with the biggest imaginations the tools they need to bring their ideas to life! Add Tinkertoys to your morning tubs or for indoor recess to use as educational toys for kindergarten learning.

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24. Fat Brain Toys Clip Cloppers

Kindergartners are still figuring out how their bodies work, and the gross motor challenge of these rope stilts encourages risk-taking and persistence.

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25. E-Know Giant Bubble Wand

Giant bubbles are tons of fun no matter how you make them, but we love how this set encourages kids to wonder and experiment with changing the shape of the wand. Good clean fun!

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