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Learning Activities with Cars

September 14, 2013 by OneMommy

 

Little boys love vehicles.  And when it comes to vehicles, cars are my son’s absolute favorite.

So far in our vehicle alphabet activities, we’ve done “A” for Ambulance and “B” for Boat and Bus.

But for my son, letter “C” was something he just couldn’t wait for because we were planning plenty of learning activities with cars.

car learning activities -- preschool learning activities using toy cars

Learning Activities with Cars

There are so many fun kids activities using toy cars.   We started by using toy cars to create the letter “C.”

This is an activity you could do for all the letters of the alphabet if you wanted.   If your child is unsure how to position the cars to form a letter, try writing it on a large piece of paper and having them place the cars on the lines you drew.

learning activities with cars

Once you’ve worked up an appetite, you can create a healthy snack that will make your car enthusiast smile.

Simply cut an apple into 6 pieces, using a knife to hollow out the inside of each piece.  This will form the body of your fruit car snack.

Cut several grapes in half and use toothpicks to attach these as the car’s wheels.

To make a driver, lean a whole grape back in the indention of the apple and cut a raisin in half, placing them on the grape as eyes.   Use a raspberry or blackberry to make a crazy hairdo.
learning activities with cars

Matching Colors Car Learning Activity

 

Toy cars are perfect for working on colors.

Look through your car collection and choose 3-5 colors that you have.  Find the corresponding colors in construction paper, or use large paint samples like we did.

Then gather up your toy cars and have your child sort them by color, placing each car on the correct color paper.
learning activities with cars

 

learning activities with cars

 

You can take this further and have your child graph the results.

learning activities with cars
He was proud of his graph!

I helped him to write the number of cars for each color at the top of the graph.  Then we talked about which color he had the most of and which he had the least of.

Alphabet Activity with Cars

I had seen this cute alphabet parking lot idea from I Can Teach My Child,  and I decided to use some more paint samples to give it a colorful twist.

Use a permanent marker to write capital letters on your paint samples.  Then add the corresponding lower case letters to your toy cars using masking tape.
learning activities with cars

Set up your colorful parking lot spaces in a semi-circle and have your child drive the cars to the correct spaces.
learning activities with cars

 

Did you know cars can draw?  They can!

You just have to help them a bit with a marker taped to their bumper.   Your child will love zooming their car around the paper in this open-ended art activity.

learning activities with cars

(Thanks to Childhood 101 for this fun idea!)

If your child loves vehicles, they will love these learning activities with cars.

Looking for more vehicle learning activities?

  • “D” Is for Dump Truck and Digger!
  • “M” Is for Monster Truck 

You may also like:  Subtraction Squish, a hands-on math activity to teach subtraction.

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Comments

  1. Shana Norris says

    September 15, 2013 at 10:11 am

    I love how many kids crafts and activities you can do with paint chips!!

    • OneMommy says

      September 26, 2013 at 11:29 am

      I know! I just love paint chips! (I’ve had my obsession with them since I was little…)

  2. Donna DM Yates says

    September 15, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    Way too much fun at your house. I love the fruit cars. Sadly, I’d be eating them before they were done. The paint samples matching cars was brilliant.

  3. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    September 15, 2013 at 10:25 pm

    Great learning activities! Your car snack is darling.

    • OneMommy says

      September 26, 2013 at 11:28 am

      Thank you — he loved it!

  4. Eva @ The Multitasking Mummy says

    September 16, 2013 at 6:02 am

    We have plenty of cars at our place so a color matching game like this will be great!

    • OneMommy says

      September 26, 2013 at 11:27 am

      Lots of fun and they are learning, too. Can’t miss!

  5. Debbie says

    September 16, 2013 at 7:46 am

    These are great ideas! Seems like a fun way to learn! Thanks for sharing at HSAS!

  6. Lanaya | Raising Reagan says

    September 16, 2013 at 7:30 pm

    Those fruit cars are SO cute!

    Thank you for linking to Raising Imperfection.
    Please come back Friday to see if you were featured. 🙂

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    • OneMommy says

      September 18, 2013 at 9:16 pm

      He has actually requested them twice since then. 🙂

  7. Ashley says

    September 18, 2013 at 9:07 pm

    Great ideas! Thanks for sharing at Mom’s Library!

  8. Clarissa Hooper says

    September 20, 2013 at 6:12 pm

    What a fun idea! My littles are too young for this now, but I love collecting ideas because I will need them sooner than I think! 🙂

    • OneMommy says

      September 20, 2013 at 10:00 pm

      Yes, you can be surprised how quickly they seem to be ready for things! They grow up way too fast! 🙂

  9. Missy says

    September 20, 2013 at 8:57 pm

    Thanks for sharing! I have a little boy who loves anything to do with vehicles too 🙂 I’ve pinned this and followed your vehicles board on Pinterest. My son will be very happy when I try some of these with him!

    I found your post through the Family Fun Friday.

    • OneMommy says

      September 21, 2013 at 10:21 pm

      Love the way boys go crazy for cars! 🙂

      Thanks for pinning and following the board! I hope you find some great ideas to try with him!

  10. OneMommy says

    September 30, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    Thank you so much for featuring it! 🙂

  11. Jessica says

    November 13, 2013 at 4:14 pm

    What awesome activities! Perfect for my car obsessed toddler 🙂 Thank you!

    • OneMommy says

      November 13, 2013 at 10:22 pm

      🙂 Us Mommas with car obsessed toddlers have to help each other out! Hope you get to enjoy some of our other vehicle learning activities, as well!

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