Looking for some simple and fun activities to keep toddlers and preschoolers entertained during the month of March? This post has you covered! Read on for 10 fun activities to enjoy with 2, 3, and 4-year-olds this spring!
These March Toddler Activities are easy enough for parents to do at home or can be used by a teacher in a classroom or daycare setting.
Fruit Loop Sorting
Toddlers naturally begin sorting usually before or around the age of 2! Many snacks provide a great opportunity for sorting practice!
Fruit Loops are a great material for sorting and help with learning colors too! Sorting by color is one of the easiest ways for children to sort and that’s what this Fruit Loop Sorting Mat focuses on.
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Simply give toddlers a handful of fruit loops and encourage them to use the mat to sort my color. Actually, this mat is great because it can be used for more than sorting just fruit loops! It can be used to sort any objects by color!
Size Sorting
In addition to sorting by color, toddlers, and preschoolers also can sort by size. These simple shamrock 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.
Rainbow Painting
What’s more than painting a rainbow? This simple March activity can be given as a card to parents or used as just a fun, colorful art project!
You can use finger paints, do-a-dot paints, or even just color to decorate the rainbow. Cotton balls can be glued onto the cloud too!
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St. Patrick’s Day Counting Mats
Older toddlers and preschoolers are usually ready to start counting simple objects with adult help. These St. Patrick’s Day Counting Mats are perfect for the month of March. Large plastic gold coins make a great seasonal manipulative for this activity too!
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Color Match Game
Toddlers will love this rainbow color-matching game. Print the color-matching cards leaving the blank rectangle attached. Next cut the color cards and encourage your toddler to match each color. Velcro dots can also be added.
March 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.
This activity can be printed as many times as you like and used over and over throughout the month of March!
St. Patrick’s Day Gold Coin 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! Playdough mats are great for little ones too! These play dough mats focus on shapes!
Since St. Patrick’s Day falls during the month of March, these gold coin-themed play dough mats will be so much for fun toddlers to use!
Simply, print the mats and play! I always recommend laminating the mats for extra durability and to make them easy to clean and wipe down. You can use store-bought playdough or even make your own!
St. Patrick’s Day Crafts
These St. Patrick’s Day crafts are perfect for toddlers the month of March!
Shamrock Craft
This shamrock craft can be used so many different ways. Little ones can cover it with green paper or tissue paper. It can also be colored or painted!
If your little ones are a little bit older and working on scissor skills, they can even cut out their shamrock craft or the paper to cover it with!
Leprechaun Hat Craft
Your little leprechauns will look adorable in this leprechaun hat! Just print the hat on heavier paper and allow students to decorate it. Next, help students glue the hat in the center of a sentence strip and glue the strip together to create a hat.
This leprechaun hat could also be printed on green cardstock and decorated with stickers or any other green materials.
Pot of Gold Name Craft
Name crafted are a great way to help little ones practice building their names. Just print the pot on green paper and the coins on yellow paper. Write one letter of each child’s name on a gold coin. Then cut and order the letters to spell each child’s name. Then little ones can glue the coins on the pot!
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.
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All of the activities pictured above are available inside of March Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers.
What skills should toddlers be learning?
All of these activities are focused on skills that toddlers and preschoolers are learning such as:
- Sorting
- Color recognition
- Following simple directions
- Making simple crafts
- Fine motor skills
- Gross motor skills
- Counting
- Number recognition
- Tearing, cutting, and gluing
- Play
If you are always looking for activities to enjoy with your toddlers or preschoolers, be sure to check out The Monthy Activities for Toddlers Bundle!
I hope this post helped you plan some fun March toddler activities to enjoy with 2, 3 and 4-year-olds!