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Train Activities for The Little Red Caboose

April 26, 2013 by OneMommy

 

My son loves vehicles.  Trains, trucks, cars…anything with wheels.  With his love of vehicles has come a large collection of preschooler vehicle books.

This week we focused on some of the train books.  One of our favorites?  The classic Golden book, The Little Red Caboose (affiliate link).

After reading the book, we got out the wood trains to try to retell the story.  My son loved pushing the cars up the hill, having them slip down the hill until the caboose helped.

Then we drove our train through an alphabet maze.preschooler train activities

I had made the maze up earlier, using upper and lower-case letters.  The goal was to follow the alphabet and see where the train wound up.

 

At lunchtime I made a p.b.&j. train for us to share.

fun kid lunch ideas
Chugga, chugga, chew, chew!!

Banana chunks made up the wheels and funnel; strawberries made up our puffs of smoke, and carrots were the track.

And you know, we just couldn’t resist being trains ourselves, singing “The Little Red Caboose!”  (Wish I had a picture of that, but it’s hard to snap a pic when you’re playing a train engine!)

 

Looking for more ways to play with trains?  Check out what we did during our Train Day last summer!
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Filed Under: Kid Books & Activities Tagged With: alphabet activity, books, fun lunch ideas, reading with kids

Comments

  1. Michael @ adaddyblog.com says

    April 26, 2013 at 2:00 pm

    Hi. Just stopped by from your Google+ page (and also visited Ginny Marie’s blog). Then I discovered I wasn’t following you on Facebook. So I’ve been all over the place in the past 30 minutes. Hope all is well with you and yours? Have a super weekend!

    • OneMommy says

      April 29, 2013 at 10:02 pm

      Thank you so much for stopping in to Ginny Marie’s! She has done so much getting the Live, Laugh, Blog community going, she really deserved a special day! 🙂

      I hope you had a wonderful weekend as well!

  2. Christina Morley says

    April 26, 2013 at 3:13 pm

    I love your snack idea! What a fabulous way to eat healthy and have fun doing it! Thanks for visiting Amanda’s Books and More.

  3. misssrobin says

    April 27, 2013 at 3:15 pm

    So much fun! What a great way to share the learning process with your child. You’re such a great mom.

    Happy Sharefest. I hope you have a lovely weekend.

    • OneMommy says

      April 29, 2013 at 2:08 pm

      Thank you, and thank you for stopping by!
      Hope you had a great weekend! Off to check out your latest post!

  4. Rosey says

    April 27, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    This is great! I know my kids would get a kick out of this too. I’m visiting today from the Saturday hop. 🙂

    • OneMommy says

      April 29, 2013 at 2:07 pm

      Thanks so much for stopping by! Looking forward to reading that post about surprising things about blogging…

  5. Rach says

    April 28, 2013 at 10:09 am

    The alphabet train idea is brilliant! I’m going to try that!

  6. Chris Carter says

    April 28, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    Oh you are so creative and such a great mom and teacher with your little ones!!! SO adorable this is…

    • OneMommy says

      April 29, 2013 at 2:06 pm

      I have my good days… and, trust me, I have my not so creative days, too! 🙂

  7. Alexandra says

    April 28, 2013 at 6:20 pm

    You are the cutest mommy! What a great idea. I’ll have to try making a PB&J train sometime 🙂

    • OneMommy says

      April 29, 2013 at 2:25 pm

      How sweet! Thank you!

  8. Mayor says

    April 28, 2013 at 9:04 pm

    What is it with boys and trains? My little guy not even 2 LOVES all things train. Good thing we live near a train line. Great post!

    • OneMommy says

      April 29, 2013 at 2:05 pm

      For me, it is anything with wheels for our little guy! He actually said “car” before momma — sad, but true.

  9. JDaniel4's Mom says

    April 29, 2013 at 8:02 am

    I love your lunch! The strawberry puffs of smoke at brilliant. I will be sharing this post on Facebook and Pinterest.

    • OneMommy says

      April 29, 2013 at 2:03 pm

      Thanks! The tricky part is my daughter says sometimes lunch is too cute to eat… 🙂
      I love your painted sandwich!

  10. OneMommy says

    April 29, 2013 at 2:08 pm

    I hope your little Dinosaur loves it as much as my little Monkey did!

  11. Diana Rambles says

    April 29, 2013 at 10:33 pm

    Very cute!

  12. Jennifer says

    April 30, 2013 at 1:56 pm

    What terrific ideas! Please share it (and any others) on my family-focused Kid Corner @ http://wp.me/p280y0-SQ. You may just get highlighted next week 🙂 Jennifer

    • OneMommy says

      May 4, 2013 at 3:35 pm

      Thank you for the invitation… Can’t wait to check it out!

  13. Vanessa @ See Vanessa Craft says

    April 30, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    Great ideas!! Thanks so much for linking up to Tot School Tuesday!

  14. Jen @ de Jong Dream House says

    May 1, 2013 at 3:05 pm

    My little engineer will LOVE this! Thank you!

    • OneMommy says

      May 2, 2013 at 11:16 am

      Every little engineer deserves a yummy train lunch!

  15. Deb @ Living Montessori Now says

    May 1, 2013 at 11:18 pm

    I love food art! My son was obsessed with vehicles, too. He would have loved this! 🙂 Thanks so much for linking up with Montessori Monday. I pinned your post to my Transportation Unit Study Board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/transportation-unit-study/

    • OneMommy says

      May 4, 2013 at 3:34 pm

      Isn’t it funny how boys can get so obsessed with vehicles?
      Thanks for pinning it! 🙂

  16. Jennifer says

    May 12, 2013 at 10:17 pm

    Visiting from Montessori Monday. I’d love for you to share your family-friendly crafts and ideas at Monday Kid Corner at thejennyevolution.com. See you at the party!

    Jennifer

    • OneMommy says

      May 13, 2013 at 10:47 am

      Thank you for stopping by! Off to your site now! 🙂

  17. Tina says

    September 2, 2013 at 9:06 am

    What fun ideas! Thanks so much for sharing at Booknificent Thursday!
    Tina

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