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31 Festive July Activities for Preschoolers

july activities for preschoolers

June 23, 2022 //  by Brittney Hallmark

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

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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!

Learn more: KC Edventures

2. Straw Rockets 

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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!

Learn more: Simple Play Ideas

3. American Flag Water Science Craft

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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.

Learn more: From Engineer to Stay at Home Mom

4. Threading and Beading Fine Motor Activity 

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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!

Learn more: Oh Hey Let's Play

5. 4th Of July Snack

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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!

Learn more: Oh Hey Let's Play

6. Q-Tip Watermelon Seed Painting 

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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!

Learn more: Oh Hey Let's Play

7. Magnetic Alphabet Fishing

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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.

Learn more: Busy Toddler

8. Patriotic Math Center 

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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!

Learn more: Pinay Homeschooler

9. Patriotic Beginning Sound Clip Cards

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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.

Learn more: Pinay Homeschooler

10. BBQ Play-Doh Counting Mat

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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.

Learn more: Kindergarten Worksheets and Games

11. American Music Shaker

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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!

Learn more: Stay at Home Educator

12. Camping Rock Letter Centers

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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!

Learn more: Pocket of Preschool

13. Animal Pre-Writing Cards

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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!

Learn more: Pocket of Preschool

14. Marshmallow Patterns 

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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.

Learn more: Pocket of Preschool

15. Button Flag Craft

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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.

Learn more: Glued to My Crafts

16. Summer Shape Sort

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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.

Learn more: In My World

17. American Flag Lacing Activity

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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.

Learn more: Tot School Resources

18. Ice Cream Counting Center

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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!

Learn more: In My World

19. Watermelon Popsicles

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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!

Learn more: Virtual Book Club for Kids

20. Homemade Bubble Wands and Bubbles

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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!

Learn more: Natural Beach Living

21. Jellyfish Craft

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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!

Learn more: Natural Beach Living

22. Graph the Goldfish

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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!

Learn more: The Primary Brain

23. Ocean-Themed Beginning Sound Tracing

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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.

Learn more: The Primary Brain

24. Sea Turtle Snack

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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!

Learn more: Pre-K Pages

25. Seashell Alphabet Activity

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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.

Learn more: Pre-K pages

26. Popsicle Stick Fish Bowl

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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.

Learn more: Pinterest

27. Octopus Bead Counting Activity 

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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.

Learn more; Mrs. Plemon's Kindergarten

28. Tissue Paper Seahorse Craft

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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!

Learn more: Mrs. Plemon's Kindergarten

29. Ocean Process Art 

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Ocean process art is perfect for young learners. Combine finger-painting and gluing small ocean-themed objects to the pictures to create awesome artwork!

Learn more: Play to Learn

30. Sensory Bin Color Sorting

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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.

Learn more: Littles Love Learn

31. Patriotic Size Sorting

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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.

Learn more: Littles Love Learning

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