Looking for some simple and fun activities to keep toddlers and preschoolers entertained during the month of April? This post has you covered! Read on for 10 fun activities to enjoy with 2, 3, and 4-year-olds this spring!
These April Toddler Activities are easy enough for parents to do at home or can be used by a teacher in a classroom or daycare setting.
Spring Counting Mats
Toddlers love to practice counting and exploring quantities. These basket counting mats can be used with any spring manipulatives!
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A few ideas are small plastic eggs but mini erasers, flowers, candy, and cereal! The tens frame provides a great visualization for toddlers too!
Color Matching for Toddlers
Did you know that children can begin learning and recognizing colors around 18 months?This is a fun and easy matching activity for practicing recognizing colors and using color word vocabulary.
Just print out the cards and let your little one match the colored carrot to the colored rabbit. You can also add velcro dots to the cards and make it an easy activity to pull out and complete!
Chocolate Bunny Size Sorting
Toddlers, and preschoolers also can sort by size. These simple chocolate bunny cards are perfect for sorting by size. Headers cards are labeled: small, medium, and large.
Toddlers will use the headers to sort the shamrock picture cards by size. This activity can be completed using a pocket chart or just using the cards on a flat surface like a table or the floor. You can learn more about sorting in this post, Sorting Activities for Preschool.
Bunny Craft
What’s cuter than a fun bunny craft? This simple bunny craft is perfect for toddlers.
For extra fun, toddlers can paint a piece of paper and glue the bunny craft on top. Scrapbook paper can also be used for the inside of the bunny craft ears!
Colorful Easter Egg Play Dough Mats
I could go on and on about the benefits of play dough! It’s such a fun sensory experience for toddlers and it really strengthens those fine motor skills!
Since Easter often falls during the month of April, these Easter egg-themed play dough mats will be so much for fun toddlers to use!
Play dough mats are great for little ones too! These play dough mats focus on shapes! You can use store-bought play dough or even make your own!
Easter Egg Graphing
Looking for something to do with all of those leftover plastic Easter eggs? An Easter Egg graph is the perfect educational activity for little ones!
This simple graphing activity only requires a few materials and can be enjoyed by little ones of all ages. It is also a great way to make a classroom egg hunt educational too! You can read more in this post, The Perfect, Printable Easter Egg Graph.
Line Tracing
Did you know that line tracing is a pre-writing skill? This simple worksheet will let little ones practice tracing lines by matching seasonal pictures.
Q Tip Painting
Did you know Q-Tip painting is great fine motor practice for little ones? Print the Q-Tip painting page and help toddlers dip a Q-tip into the paint and make a dot inside each circle.
Butterfly Coloring Page
This butterfly coloring page can be used so many different ways. Little ones can cover it with different colored paper or tissue paper squares. It can also be simply colored with crayosn, colored pencils or markers or even painted!
Movement Cards
These cute spring themed movement cards can be used during the month of April and really all of spring! Little ones with strengthen their gross motor skills with this movement cards. They are fun to use with preschoolers for a brain break or to make lining up fun!
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I hope this post helped you plan some fun April toddler activities to enjoy with 2, 3 and 4-year-olds!