It’s time to motor on to letter “M” in our vehicle alphabet series!  “M” Is for monster truck!

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of monster trucks?

They’re BIG!

That’s why I couldn’t resist making an over-sized activity sheet for our monster truck day.

Learning Activities with Trucks

I used a large sheet of brown packing paper we had from one of the packages that came in the mail.

At the top I wrote “Monster Truck.”  Then I added 2 preschool learning activities to it.

My preschooler had fun driving monster trucks on the letters at the top.

For one of the activities I drew some large circles and wrote numbers on each of them.

The preschooler counted out the correct number of monster trucks to get stuck in each of the “mud” circles.

For the second activity on the monster truck learning activities sheet I had written the colors: red, blue, and green.

The preschooler matched his monster trucks up to the correct colors on the paper.  

We practiced writing the letter “M” on our dry-erase board, and then my number-loving preschooler decided to count all of his monster trucks!

He and his big sister had fun lining them up and using our homemade number cards to count them.

It was good practice for them both, having to sort through the number cards and determine what the number 21 looked like verses a 23.  (He has quite a few monster trucks!)

Monster Truck Craft

Then it was time for a monster truck craft.

We hit the recycling bin and the kids had fun creating their own monster truck rally courses.

Cardboard tubes, secured to the kitchen floor with tape, made fun “trees” to roll over.

We had cardboard ramps, tunnels, and even a paper plate hoop with construction paper “flames” for the trucks to encounter. 

It was a fun monster truck STEM activity that would be perfect for kids of all ages.

We’ve been having fun with our preschool learning activities with vehicles.  These monster truck activities have been some of our favorites.

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Originally posted January 6, 2014.  

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Ready for our latest in our vehicle alphabet series?  We’re up to preschool vehicle activities for the letter “P.”

There are so many fun vehicles that start with the letter “P!”  The preschooler didn’t want to narrow it down to just one or two types of vehicles, so we used several different ones for our activities this time around.

We started off with a simple maze activity.  Using the dot marker, he helped the plane through the maze, following the letter “P.”

Then we went on to practicing writing the letter.  I decided to try something different this time around and had him trace the letters with the paper sitting on our step stool.  The bumpy texture made it fun to write on, and it also really made him focus on what he was doing.

(See how bumpy the letters look?  Fun!)

Once we were done with practicing writing, it was time for some vehicles!

I gave him a box of vehicles that all start with the letter “P.”

I asked him to sort them by type.  Then we sorted them by color and finally by size.

We also used the vehicles to work on a patterns.  I would start a pattern, “Pick up truck, police car, pick up truck, police car…” and then he would finish it.    We did this several times, making the patterns a bit harder each time.  (Pick up truck, pick up truck, plane…)

Quite a few of our vehicles in the box were pick up trucks, and you can’t have pick up trucks out without filling up the truck beds with cargo!

I pulled out a pair of kid chopsticks and some pom-poms.  He had fun rolling a game die and then using the chopsticks to put that many pom-poms in the bed of the truck.

He was working on those fine motor skills and having a blast!  And I have to say, that it was definitely the most colorful pick up truck cargo I’ve ever seen!

Then it was time for a simple match the lower case-letter to the upper-case letter activity. 

I wrote our letter “P” vehicles out on paper, using all capital letters.  Then the preschooler used our fun (and cheap) milk lid letters cover the capital letters with their lower-case equivalents.

By then it was time for me to make lunch.  So I left him with a variety of letter “P” vehicles I had printed from the Internet, a glue stick, and a large letter “P.”

I challenged him to arrange the vehicles in a pattern when he covered the letter “P”  — he did a great job!

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