July is a hot summer month, perfect for themed activities and fun in the sun! Preschoolers will love learning while practicing motor skills, cool water science experiments, and other awesome activities for this fun preschool theme.
Explore this list of fun activities and crafts for the perfect theme for the month of July!
1. Glow in the Dark Sensory Bottles
Sensory activities for kids are great! Glow-in-the-dark sensory activities are even better! This red, white, and blue water sensory activity is a great way for kids to explore colors and glow in the dark. This craft for kids is sure to inspire creativity!
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2. Straw Rockets
Creating straw rockets is a fun way to get children to be creative and imaginative! Add this one to your activity calendar and you can do a lot with it! As students create their straw rockets, they can do competitions and see how far they can launch them!
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3. American Flag Water Science Craft
Creating this art activity is a fun way to create an American flag. This patriotic activity is a fun way to put together an extension activity to draw a patriotic unit or a unit about America or the holiday of Independence Day.
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4. Threading and Beading Fine Motor Activity
Perfect for fine motor skills, this threading and beading activity is a fun activity that can be used to fill time and provide useful skill practice. Use this building activity as students enter the classroom, during center time, or as seat work. You could also add this activity to a celebration table!
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5. 4th Of July Snack
Add some cooking activities to your day! This patriotic snack is a great addition to your delicious 4th of July theme. This basic 2D shape cookie is a perfect colorful snack! You could make this cookie using different cookie cutter shapes!
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6. Q-Tip Watermelon Seed Painting
Adding a bit of watermelon activities to your July activities will be the perfect time to create fun crafts and snacks. This is a cool project to do without needing much. Use a Q-tip and black paint to add watermelon seeds to this adorable paper craft!
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7. Magnetic Alphabet Fishing
Magnetic fishing is a fun way to add some movement to your learning activities! Include some amazing books about the alphabet and let little ones fish for magnetic letters. Practice letter names and sounds.
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8. Patriotic Math Center
This printable activity is a great way to include math skills in your lessons! Use these patriotic clip cards and students practice counting the bright stars to match the numbers on the sides of the clip cards!
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9. Patriotic Beginning Sound Clip Cards
A twist on patriotic clip cards could also include a set for beginning sounds. Let students match the beginning sound to the picture and clip a clothespin to match the sound. These are American-themed and have pictures to represent patriotic symbols.
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10. BBQ Play-Doh Counting Mat
Another fun math activity is this 4th of July-themed playdough mat activity. Preschool activities like this one allow for students to make the number out of play dough and represent the items on the grill and in the tens frames.
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11. American Music Shaker
This patriotic activity is a fun way to add some music to your lessons! This fun art activity can also be a music activity. Let students create this patriotic shaker and add some pasta inside to make it musical as well!
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12. Camping Rock Letter Centers
Let your camping lesson plans include this rock letters activity! Students can practice forming words with these cute animal cards. They can pick their favorite animal and spell out its name with these small rocks. This is great for centers!
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13. Animal Pre-Writing Cards
When planning animal lesson plans, include these pre-writing cards! Students will love seeing the animals and helping them get from one point to another by tracing the paths. This is great fine motor skills practice!
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14. Marshmallow Patterns
Possibly one of the most fun activities for preschoolers, this marshmallow activity is great for helping students understand and practice patterns! Let them use different colored paint to create patterns on plain paper. You could also give them patterns and let them practice continuing the patterns.
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15. Button Flag Craft
Creating a unit about America is a great way to pull in crafts and snacks that are USA-themed. Write an American lesson plan that includes many of these types of crafts. This one is simple and requires students to practice gluing buttons on craft sticks.
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16. Summer Shape Sort
When crafting your beach lesson plan, use this simple printable to help students practice shapes. Print and laminate to be able to reuse these again and again! Use Velcro for easy matching for students.
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17. American Flag Lacing Activity
This lacing activity is the perfect July craft! This craft idea includes fine motor skills and makes a great addition to a patriotic unit! It is simple to do and only requires paper plates, yarn, a hole punch, and paper.
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18. Ice Cream Counting Center
This ice cream activity is a great way to practice number recognition! It is a good way to practice number counting on fingers, the number, tens frame, and the word form. This perfect summer activity is also a great colorful lesson and an epic summer activity!
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19. Watermelon Popsicles
Use real watermelon to create this yummy snack. This is a great summer day activity. Perfect for a hot day when you need a quick way to cool off. Children will also enjoy making these summer snacks!
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20. Homemade Bubble Wands and Bubbles
This do-it-yourself activity for kids is a great way to play with bubbles. Students will enjoy making different-sized bubble wands and then use them to create a fun show of bubbles. Homemade bubbles are great to add some fun to any summer day!
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21. Jellyfish Craft
These adorable jellyfish are a great July craft! These colorful crafts are so much fun to make! All you need are bowls, paint, paper, ribbon, and wiggly eyes. Kids can be creative and decorate these crafts however they want!
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22. Graph the Goldfish
Preschool activities like these counting activities are great for introducing graphs. You can encourage counting with this activity as well. You could use rainbow-colored goldfish snacks for the graph as well. This is also good color recognition practice!
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23. Ocean-Themed Beginning Sound Tracing
These beach-themed tracing cards are great for first sound recognition and handwriting practice. These adorable beach and ocean-themed letter cards can be laminated and reused in centers.
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24. Sea Turtle Snack
This sea turtle snack is easy to make and delicious to eat! Use kiwi, grapes, tortillas, and peanut butter. You can let the kids decorate this animal and include this lesson in your beach-themed lesson plans!
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25. Seashell Alphabet Activity
Create a small beach-themed sensory bin with these alphabet shells. Let little ones dig in the sand and match the alphabet letters and sounds. You can also even do an uppercase and lowercase match.
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26. Popsicle Stick Fish Bowl
These craft stick aquariums are super cute! Use some blue paper, stickers, and markers to decorate. Add some glitter glue and create some sparkly fish! These are a great addition to a beach theme or an animal theme.
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27. Octopus Bead Counting Activity
This octopus bead counting activity is a great craft activity that also allows counting practice. Use the beads to count out the number for each string. Add them to the strings and tie the ends.
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28. Tissue Paper Seahorse Craft
The tissue paper craft is colorful and fun for little hands to make! Brush on glue and apply small colored tissue paper squares to create a beautiful craft! This would be ideal for a beach-themed unit!
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29. Ocean Process Art
Ocean process art is perfect for young learners. Combine finger-painting and gluing small ocean-themed objects to the pictures to create awesome artwork!
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30. Sensory Bin Color Sorting
This patriotic sensory bin is ideal for July! Use red and blue colored pasta to create a fun sensory bin for play. Students can use this during center time or as needed for sensory play.
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31. Patriotic Size Sorting
These patriotic printables are ideal for laminating and using for ordering size. The objects are American-themed and can be used to order from small to large.
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