The Best Monster Activities for Preschool Kids
Check out these fun monster activities for preschool kids. These activity ideas are perfect for your preschool monster theme unit at Halloween time or any time of year. Your students in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom will love these monster learning activities, craft ideas, and more.
Don’t worry; there are no scary monsters here!
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Monster Play Dough Activities
When you create a monster-themed play dough tray using a wide variety of items, it’s a fun way to help your little kids build hand strength. Pipe cleaners, bottle caps, toothpicks, craft sticks… I have so much fun searching around for fun materials to use. You can use the ideas below to create individual playdough kits for your kids…which would make perfect book gifts or Halloween themed gifts for friends and families.
Above, I added some eye peeper rings and vampire teeth that I picked up at the Halloween shop at Target. The hinged vampire teeth always wanted to open up, which destroyed our playdough designs. To solve this problem, I cut the teeth in half at the hinge.
The coils in the tray are the binding coils that I use for my binding machine. I just cut the coils into small sections. Here are some additional materials and loose parts that you can add to the tray for your little learners:
- craft sticks
- tooth picks
- pom-poms
- beads
Check out the adorable monster we made. It’s pretty silly, don’t you think?
Monster Themed Shape Activities
The next idea is to make monster creations from shapes. If you like super easy crafts, this one is for you.
I found a great book of eye stickers at my local craft store, and I have also seen similar ones at Oriental Trading or on Amazon. Cut out some shapes from brightly colored construction paper. Then, kids can glue them down, add sticker eyes, and then they can complete their monster creations with crayons.
This Feed the Monster Activities for Preschool set can be used to work on many different concepts…including learning to recognize shapes.
Color Matching Monster Mats
Monsters can be such a fun preschool theme, and this sorting and counting activity is a great way to create seasonal fun in your math center during the Halloween season. In fact, it’s my favorite monster activity that I have designed. Kids love sorting monster eyeballs by color with this cute monster color sorting activity.
The printable set of color monster activities includes monster number cards and is also the perfect way to work on one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, counting, and more.
Monster Fine Motor Activities
Looking for some fun monster craft ideas that will also build fine motor skills? This fine motor activity was inspired by a creature that I saw on Pleasantest Thing. Kids can create a monster by punching holes into a section of a paper towel roll, cardboard tubes, or cut up egg cartons. Then, they add pipe cleaners and binder coils through the holes. The cute little creatures are completed with some silly sticker eyes.
Do you want kids to create some truly innovative monsters? Create a monster-themed tinker tray for them. You can use any age-appropriate crafting materials in your ghoulish tinker tray. Mine includes paper towel tubes, craft noodles, bottle caps, binder coils, googly eyes, pom poms, toothpicks, craft sticks, yarn, washi tape, glue, scissors, and a hole punch.
Here are some additional monster-themed fine motor activities.
- Monster Munch Fine Motor Activity by LalyMom are easy to make and can be used for counting activities
- Monster Munchy Ball from Therapy Fun Zone is a great activity to work on strengthening those little hand muscles.
- Monster Clips from The Craft Train canals be used for fun fine motor activities
Monster Slime Sensory Writing Tray
Here is a great addition to your early literacy centers that will help your young learners with letter recognition and letter formation. Use a plastic creature finger to practice letter tracing in a salt tray.
Kids can also get letter practice with slime with this laminated monster writing activity. They can use the monster finger to trace letters into a blob of slime on the monster’s belly. Work on letter sounds by encouraging kids to make the sound as they tickle the monster. Both lowercase and uppercase monster letter cards are included.
Older kids can practice writing sight words in a similar manner.
Monster Books for Kids
Are you looking for some silly monster theme books to use during circle time or to add to your class library? Click on the image below to find a list of my favorite monster books for kids.
Monster Gross Motor Activities
Are you looking for a fun and easy Halloween movement activity? It’s super simple to make goofy monster puppets with peeper rings.
First, tie pieces of metallic mesh tube ribbon and pipe cleaners to a hair tie. Place the hair tie over a child’s fingers to make crazy hair. Add an eye peeper ring…. and …… tada ….an instant monster puppet.
Use the monster puppets while dancing, singing, and gross motor skills activities. The perfect music is Laurie Berkner’s Monster Boogie.
Here are some additional monster movement activities for your kids:
- Monster Footprint Hop by Raising Dragons
- Monster Walk by the Inspired Treehouse
Monster Literacy Activities
Here is a silly hands-on way to help kids learn to recognize letters. Draw a letter M on a piece of paper or use ABC Dot Letters. Kids can add “monster eyes” to the dots or along the shape of the letter as they practice the “m” sound, work on letter formation, letter recognition, and even fine motor skills.
The Feed the Monster set is a fun small group activity that can also be used for letter sorting, beginning sound matching, and rhyming activities.
Isn’t this such a fun theme?
From fun monster crafts to learning activities and book ideas, I hope that you enjoy trying out some of these monster activities for preschool kids during your monster week.
Purchase Printable Monster Activities for Preschool Today
Are you ready to get started with some monster activities for preschool and kindergarten? Here are the resources from my store that are mentioned in the article above. Click on the images below to check them out.
Purchase The Printable Activities on TPT
Do you prefer to shop at Teachers Pay Teachers? You can also purchase the Monster Activity Bundle and the Alphabet Dot Activity Pages in my TPT Store.
Monster Craft and Activity Materials on Amazon
People are always asking me where to find the materials that I use on my website. Below are some similar items from Amazon. The links are affiliate links. If you decide to make a purchase through my link, Amazon will pay me a small commission for it. This doesn’t cost you anything additional, but these commissions help me maintain my website….so thanks!
