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Families Theme

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Families Theme

Pre-K & Preschool theme ideas for learning about families

Families Theme Activities for Preschool & Kindergarten Kids

Find more Family Theme Activities for Pre-K on the category page.

Books


Books about Families for Pre-K

Check here for a complete list of Books about Families!

Family Large Motor Games

Movement Activity

After reading the book, Jonathan and His Mommy, go through the book once more, and have the children walk in the same ways that Jonathan does.

Family Fine Motor Activities

Bear Family Play Dough Cutters

Add bear family cookie cutters (made by Wilton) to the play dough area. Children use these to cut out the different sizes of bears to make the bear family.

Bear Family with Play Dough

Play Dough Family

Children can make people with the play dough. Encourage them to make a family. Add Barbie shoes to the area for the children to add to the feet of their family. Be sure to include shoes for women, men, and children.

Family with Play Dough

Family Art Activities

Baby Blanket (or Family Quilt)

Children glue small squares of fabric to a piece of felt to make a “baby blanket”. Children use it with the classroom baby dolls to role play taking care of a baby. Or, if you prefer, you can call it a family quilt.

Quilt Art Project

People Puppets

Children use multicultural paint to paint a small paper plate, add yarn hair to match the color of their own hair, add wiggle eyes, and draw a nose and mouth. These are taped to a craft stick to make a puppet.

People Puppets

Paper Bag Puppets

Children make a puppet of one of their family members using a paper bag.

Paper Bag Puppet

Family Literacy Activities

Animal Families Class Book

After we read the book, Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too?, by Eric Carle, we made a our own class book. Each page of our book says, “A ____ has a mother, too. Just like me and you.” Children cut a picture of an animal from a magazine and glued it on the page. I found great animal pictures in Your Big Backyard magazine. To make our class books, I use “presentation book covers” from an office supply store or Walmart. It has a sturdy plastic cover with a clear insert, and the pages are also clear inserts. I just slip in a page for the front cover, and slip in the children’s pages inside. These can be reused.

Animal Families Class Book

Story Retelling

This is an activity that goes with any theme. Choose a book that goes with the theme, and have the children retell the story.
Read the blog post here for details: story retelling

Family Math Activities

Classifying Boys/Girls

Children classify photos of classmates and glue them on paper divided into two sections: “boys” and “girls”. To read more about this, see the blog post here: Classification with Photos. An alternate activity would be to classify the pictures as “children” and “parents”. I have done both.

Classifying Boys/Girls

People Object Graph

We use the floor graph and people figures from the block center. We graph how many boys and girls are in the class, each child placing a people figure on the graph to represent themselves. We count and compare most/least/same. We make other graphs: Do you have sisters? Do you have brothers?

People Graph

Baby Grid Game

Read about about print here: Grid Games

Baby Grid Game

Family Social Skills Activities

Family Portrait

Children draw a picture their family members.

Family Portrait: Preschool Drawing

Family Photos

Children bring family photos to school to share with the class. I add these photos to the children’s portfolio notebooks.

More

All I Really Need Song Book

This song book for All I Really Need can be printed or projected as a slideshow. Go to the Song Books page to download.

All I Really Need Song Book

Baby Care Prop Box

Include: Dolls, Doll clothes, Velcro diapers, Bottles, Baby blankets, High chair, Doll crib, Empty baby food jars, Baby spoons, Rattles, Small stuffed toys, Empty powder & wet wipe containers, Bibs

Baby Bath Prop Box

Include: Plastic dolls, Hand towels, Sponges, Dish pans or water table, Water smocks, Water, Liquid soap, Diapers

Block Center

Add people figures that represent different races and ages to the block center.

People for the block center

Find more Family Theme Activities for Pre-K

Rhymes

Nursery rhymes that go well with a Families Theme:

  • There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
  • Every Mouse and Bumblebee

Look for printable posters of these rhymes on the Nursery Rhymes Page.


Families & Homes Theme Pack

This Families & Homes Theme pack contains 17 printable activities will help your students learn important math and literacy skills! Small Group or Centers * Hands-On * Includes 123 pages

Family & Homes Theme printables

Songs

  • We Are a Family, by Jack Hartmann
  • All I Really Need, by Raffi – Download on iTunes or Amazon

Links

  • Pre-K Pages Family Theme

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