These super simple June activities for toddlers will keep your little ones entertained throughout the month of June! Read on for simple and fun activities to enjoy with 2, 3, and 4-year-olds this summer!
These June Toddler Activities are easy enough for parents to do at home or can be used by a teacher in a classroom or daycare setting.
June Activities for Toddlers
Summer Counting Mats
Toddlers love to practice counting and exploring quantities. These ice cream counting mats can be used with any manipulatives! Colorful pom poms are a fun idea!
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The tens frame provides a great visualization for toddlers too!
Color Matching
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 flower to the colored leaf. You can also add velcro dots to the cards and make it an easy activity to pull out and complete!
Size Sorting
Toddlers, and preschoolers also can sort by size. These simple toucan cards are perfect for sorting by size. Headers cards are labeled: small, medium, and large.
Toddlers will use the headers to sort the 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.
Ice Cream Craft
What’s cuter than a fun ice cream craft? This simple ice cream cone craft is the perfect June activity for toddlers.
Summer 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!
These spring play dough mats are helpful for toddlers learning shapes and how to build with play dough. Encourage students to roll out “snakes” and create each shape.
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!
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June Toddler Line Tracing Activity
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 for Toddlers
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.
Beach Ball Summer Coloring Page
This beach ball summer 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!
Coloring pages can be used for so much more than coloring.
Ice Cube Science
It’s a wonderful time of year to get outside! Toddlers will love getting outdoors and learning with this simple science experiment. All you need is an ice cube!
Toddlers will observe the ice cube before and after taking it outside and putting it on the sidewalk! This is a wonderful way to build science vocabulary.
Ice Cream Dramatic Play
June is a wonderful month for ice cream dramatic play! You can easily turn any play kitchen into an ice cream shop with a few simple items!
Toddlers can also make their own uniform for working at the ice cream shop with this printable ice cream chef hat! Simply print the hat on white cardstock and let toddlers decorate it! Next, cut it out and attach it to a sentence strip!
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More Monthly Toddler Activities:
Planning for a different month? Check out these posts for toddler ideas for the entire year or you can purchase all of the activities in Monthly Toddler Activities.
I hope this post helped you plan some fun June activities to enjoy with 2, 3 and 4-year-olds! You can grab all of these activities inside of June Activities for Toddlers.