A Week of Fun and Engaging Preschool Activities on Transportation

These preschool activities on transportation are sure to be a favorite! My preschoolers are in love with this theme and love finding different vehicles while we drive!

Here was our plan for the week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Wooden Plane Painting	G is for Go	Stoplight Cutting Practice	Hot Air Balloon Craft	Things that Go dot marker
Magnetic Tile Road Play	Shape Tracks		Preschool Parking Lot

Wooden Plane Painting

My preschoolers LOVE anything involving paint! I found these little wooden planes at Walmart for around $1 each and knew they would be well-loved. Definitely check your local Walmart and dollar tree for little wooden crafts to paint!

Image shows a transportation theme for preschool craft where a toddler hand is painting a wooden plane green. — Paint toy planes as part of your transportation theme for preschool!

Magnetic Tile Road Play

This is our go-to activity right now. The kids LOVE making roads and towns out of the magnetic tiles. First, we make the road out of the square tiles, then we add different places for our cars to go. Our favorite is a dump station. We make a box without a top with our large magnetic tiles, add in our sensory base, then let the dump trucks and excavators go to work in our town. We also like to add a garage and a zoo for our animals. The preschoolers have just as much fun creating their town as they do driving their cars on the road!

G is for Go

Our letter of the week is Gg, so we used our transportation stickers to create the letter G. Stickers are a fun way to build prewriting skills and letter recognition!

Image shows transportation preschool worksheets with a small g and a big G and toddler hands putting assorted transportation stickers on the Gs to form the letter. — Pre Writing Transportation Preschool Worksheets. G is for Go.

Shape Tracks

My preschoolers have been loving shapes recently! They love arranging books into different shapes and making shapes with their fingers, so I knew these shape tracks would be a hit! We used our micro Driven Cars to drive around the different shapes.

Shape tracks are part of my Things that Go Bundle found here!

Image shows racetracks in the shapes of a circle, square, and triangle. In this preschool transportation activity, your toddler will use a toy car to race around the shape. — Use racecars to drive different shape tracks in this preschool transportation activity.

Transportation Craft for Preschool: Stoplight Cutting Practice

We cut strips of red, yellow, and green paper into small squares and glued them on a stoplight to outline to create a stoplight. We’ve done this activity as a sensory bin as well, which was also a huge hit! If your toddler is still developing their scissor skills, be sure to check out this blog post. I give lots of good tips to help your toddler improve their scissor skills!

This activity was such a hit! We got to practice our scissor skills, identifying colors, and identifying shapes when my preschoolers cut their papers into squares, rectangles, and triangles!

Image shows a transportation craft for preschool where a toddler has cut strips of red, yellow, and green paper to form a stoplight. — Practice scissor skills in this transportation craft for preschool.

Transportation Preschool Craft: Hot Air Balloon Craft

This craft is an easy one to recreate!

Image shows a transportation preschool craft of a hot air balloon. A paper plate is decorated with washi tape and has a construction paper basket below to resemble a hot air balloon. — Create a hot air balloon in this transportation preschool craft

Here’s what you’ll need:
-Markers
-Stickers
-Glue
-Pom poms
-Other assorted Craft Supplies
-Paper Plate
-Brown construction paper

1.Let your preschooler decorate a paper plate to their liking! I like to set the craft supplies on a divided tray and let my preschooler’s creativity shine.

2. Cut a basket (trapezoid) and rope (2 rectangles) out of the brown construction paper.

3. Help your preschooler glue the ropes to the paper plate and the basket to the ropes.

Preschool Parking Lot

This is such an easy preschool activity on transportation to recreate and you can use it to practice nearly any skill! We chose to make number, color, and letter parking lots. I drew parking spaces on a piece of cardstock and added my desired skill to each spot (dots for my number parking lot, colors to my color parking lot, and letters to my letter parking lot). Then, I added dot stickers to match my parking lot (numbers for my number lot, corresponding colors for my color lot, and letters for my letter lot). My preschoolers drove their cars around the house and parked them in their correct parking spot. This activity was lots of fun, and I love that we were able to rotate parking lots and cars to practice new skills!

Image shows a toddler’s hand putting a car onto a paper. The cars are labeled with numbers. It reads “match the number on the car to the number in the parking space!” These parking lots are perfect to add to your preschool transportation theme activities. — Drive cars to their correct parking spot with this preschool transportation theme activity

Transportation Dot Marker Activities

We LOVE dot maker sheets over here, and I’m pretty sure we do them with every theme! These are in my Things that Go bundle and are such an easy activity to add to your things that go week. Dot markers are a great way to practice precision and control, fine motor skills, and color identification…and I love the way we’re able to build vocabulary while we talk about the different vehicles we’re creating!

Image shows preschool transportation worksheets using dot stickers. A bus and a plane are shown with dots that your preschooler can fill in with dot stickers. — Dot Dot Marker preschool transportation worksheet

If you try any of these preschool activities on transportation PLEASE be sure to comment or tag me on Instagram. I’d love to see your play!

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