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Ideas for Toddler and Preschool April Themes

March 13, 2021 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: Planning your toddler and preschool April themes? This collection includes a variety of hands-on ideas that you can add to your monthly planner!

If you are planning your toddler and preschool April themes, I’ve made it easier for you by putting my favorite resources in one spot!

Teachers can use these in the classroom and parents can add them to their children’s home activities.

We’ve added activities for your centers, for circle time, activities that build specific skills, music … and much more.

Happy planning!

preschool April theme ideas

Table of Contents

  • Ideas for Toddler and Preschool April Themes
    • Themes Ideas
    • Classroom Set Ups
    • Circle  Time
    • Centers
    • Skills
    • Favorite Collections
    • Books
    • Montessori
    • More Theme Ideas for April
    • Spring Activity Plans
    • FREE CIRCLE TIME PLANNER!

Ideas for Toddler and Preschool April Themes

What did for April 2021:

These themes overlapped as we explored each of them the entire month.

You can see what we are doing with our Easter theme in 2021 here.

Weeks 1 and 2: Bugs and Butterflies (See details of what we did in 2021 here.)

Weeks 3 and 4: Gardening (See details of what we did in 2021 here.)

Week 5: Dinosaurs (See details of what we did in 2021 here.)

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Themes Ideas

  • Easter
  • Spring
  • Bugs and Butterflies
  • Gardening

Scroll down to find out what others are doing during the month of April! I’ve provided links to even more ideas!

Classroom Set Ups

You can view my previous classroom theme set up posts and videos here:

Bugs and Butterflies

  • Classroom Set Up
  • Classroom Video Tour (Bugs) Year#1
  • Classroom Video Tour (Butterflies) Year #1

Gardening

  • Classroom Set Up
  • Classroom Video Tour Year #1
  • Classroom Video Tour Year #2 (includes Bugs)

Circle  Time

  • Props: Plain and Numbered Flowers
  • Five Little Speckled Frogs– Using Frogs Printable from Song & Rhymes Pack
  • Five Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day – Using Ducks Printable from Song & Rhymes Pack
  • Song: Five Little Caterpillars
  • Song: Butterfly Colors Song
  • Song: The Gardener Plants the Seeds
  • Song: 5 Spring Flowers
  • Movement Song: The Grasshopper Hop
  • Spring Preschool Circle Time Songs and Activities (Growing Book by Book)
  • Spring Circle Time Activities (Play to Learn Preschool)

Centers

Printable Activities

tpt spring dot stamping
Toddler and Preschool Spring Learning Activities Packet

Art

  • Colorful Paper Plate Flowers
  • Garden Suncatchers
  • Marble-Painted Butterflies
  • Colorful Butterflies (Free Printable Template)
  • Big Butterflies
  • Egg Carton Caterpillars
  • Cherry Blossom Art
  • Easy and Fun Spring Crafts

Colors

  • Flower Color Sorting Activity
  • Spring Flower Color Pattern Blocks Activity (Free Printable)
  • 20+ Color Activities

Light Table

  • Spring Flower Light Table

Shapes

  • Flower Shapes Activity (Free Printable)
  • 25+ Shape Activities

Sensory Bin

  • Alphabet Flower Sensory Bin
  • Too Many Carrots Garden Sensory Bin
  • Spring Sensory Bins 
  • Spring Water Table with Rubber Ducks
  • Frog Pond Sensory Play
  • Frog Water Table

Music & Movement

  • 25+ Music and Movement Activities
  • Easter Playlist on Spotify
  • Bugs and Butterflies Playlist on Spotify
  • Spring Playlist on Spotify
preschool Easter songs
preschool bugs and butterflies songs
preschool spring songs

Science

  • How to Make An Easy Butterfly Feeder
  • Sunflower Garden Activity
  • How to Plant Seeds for an Easy Gardening Activity
  • Terrariums in a Jar
  • What Lives in the Pond? (Free Printable)
  • Hands-On Spring Science Activities

Dramatic Play

  • Flower Market Dramatic Play (with Free Printables)
  • 25 Dramatic Play Ideas

Outdoors

  • Nature Scavenger Hunt (Free Printable)

Writing Table

  • Garden Flowers Printable Counting Book
  • Spring Color Pages (Free Printables)

Playdough

  • 15+ Playdough Learning Activities

Cooking

  • Cooking with Kids Recipes

Light Table

  • Ultimate Collection of Light Table Activities

Skills

Fine Motor

  • Activities That Get The Hands Ready For Writing
  • 25+ Easy Toddler Fine Motor Activities

Large Motor

  • Fun Indoor Rainy Day Activities

Math

  • Printable Butterfly Activity
  • Printable Flower Activity
  • Spring Counting 1-10 (Free Printable Mats)
  • Bug Counting Puzzles (Free Printable)
  • Count the  Flowers
  • Spring Math Activity With Flowers
  • Spring 1-10 Counting Cards (Free Printable)
  • How Many Frogs Are On The Lily Pads? (Free Printable Cards)
  • 10 Spring Math Activities for Preschoolers

Favorite Collections

  • 20+ Fun Toddler Spring Activities
  • 15+ Spring Butterfly Activities
  • Spring Flower Activities
  • 12 of the Best Gardening Ideas
  • 44 Outdoor Learning Activities

Books

Here are the books we will be reading in 2021:

  • Caterpillar Spring: Butterfly Summer
  • Ten Wriggly, Wiggly Butterflies
  • Let’s Count Butterflies
  • In My Flower
  • The Little Gardener
  • What Happens Next?
  • My Garden
  • Lola Plants a Garden

Here are is a collection of gardening books:

  • 12 of the Best Gardening Books

Montessori

  • April Themed Activities for Kids (Living Montessori Now)

More Theme Ideas for April

Here are what other teachers from our  Facebook Group are doing in April:

Easter

Frogs

Weather

Bugs

Earth Day

Worms

Birds

Pets

Farm

Around the World

Life Cycles

Looking for more theme ideas? Click here!

preschool April theme ideas

Spring Activity Plans

I’m so excited to be one of the authors of these hands-on activities for toddlers and for preschoolers!

Easy to follow plans include activity modifications and adaptations to meet the needs of all learners.

For more information, click on the graphics below:

toddler lesson plans spring
preschool lesson plans spring

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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