200 + FREE Hands-On Kindergarten Activities
Make Kindergarten fun again! There are no worksheets here! Only exciting, hands-on activities for kindergarten! You’ll find STEM, reading, math, sensory activities and more to make learning fun!
Kindergarten introduces a lot of skills, but it is super important to keep learning fun! I’ve never met anyone who LOVED sitting at a desk doing worksheet after worksheet. Let alone a 5 year old…
Click on the skills below to go directly to the best hands-on learning activities for kindergarten.
Table of Contents: (Please note these links will take you directly to these skills on this page, so that you don’t have to scroll.)
Alphabet Activities for Kindergarten
While for most kids the alphabet is introduced at the preschool level, it takes many times of reviewing it before it becomes a solidified skills. And there are also many children who arrive in kindergarten knowing very few letters.
There are several steps to learning and using the letters of the alphabet to be able to form words.
- Letter recognition
- Uppercase Letters
- Lowercase Letters
- Uppercase and Lowercase Letters Combined
- Beginning Sounds
- Vowel Sounds
- Ending Sounds
All of these skills are needed to build successful readers!
- Alphabet Coloring Pages
- Magnetic Letter Alphabet I Spy
- Alphabet Sensory Bin
- Alphabet Crafts for Kids
- Tissue Paper Letters
- Cloud Dough Letter Smash
- Alphabet Stack Up Game
- Alphabet Ants- Letter Formation Game
- Mitten Letter Matching Activity
- Valentine Spin & Stamp Letter Recognition Game
- Pumpkin Spin & Stamp Activity
- Spring Spin & Stamp
- Snowman Spin & Stamp
- Thanksgiving Spin & Stamp
- Alphabet Uppercase/Lowercase Pumpkin Matching Game
- Fall Leaf Letter Matching
- Acorn Alphabet Matching Game
- Christmas Tree Multi-Font Letter Sorting
- Apple Tree Multi-Font Letter Sorting
- Chicken and Egg Multi-Font Letter Sorting
- 25+ Fun Alphabet Books
More Alphabet Activities for Kindergarten
Reading and Beginning Phonics Kindergarten Activities
Kindergarteners learning to read is one of my favorite things!! I love hearing them form those first words and start on the road to reading!
- CVC Word Building Apple Tree
- CVC Word Building Fall Leaves
- CVCE Word Family Apple Basket
- CVCE Fall Themed Word Building
- CVC Word Family Bump! Games
- Sorting Short Vowels and Long Vowels
More Beginning Reader and Phonics Activities
Sight Word Activities and Printables for Kindergarten
More Hands-On Sight Word Activities
Counting Activities and Printables for Kindergarten
Mini Eraser Counting Grids
- Star Mini Eraser Counting Grids
- Candy Corn Mini Eraser Counting
- Conversation Heart Mini Eraser Counting Grids
- Pizza Counting Grids {English and Spanish}
- Gumball Counting Grids {English and Spanish}
- Dragons and Tacos Counting Grids {English and Spanish}
- Easter Egg Counting Grids
- Unicorn Counting Grids {English and Spanish}
- Snowman Counting Grids
- Apple Counting Grids
More Themed Counting Grids
- Cupcake Counting Grids
- Groovy Buttons Counting Grids for Pete the Cat
- Chocolate Chip Counting Grids
- Pumpkin Counting
- Leaf Counting Grids
- Dinosaur Counting Grids
- Ocean Animal Counting Grids
- Pot of Gold Counting Grids for St. Patrick’s Day
Counting Cards for 1-10
- Ladybug Counting Cards
- Monkey and Banana Counting Cards
- Sock Monkey and Fall Leaf Counting Cards
- Baa, Baa Black Sheep
- Baby Chick Farm Animal Counting Cards
- Dog Bones
- LEGO Counting
- Button Counting
Winter and Valentine’s Day Counting Cards
- Christmas Tree Lights
- Winter Mitten Pom Poms
- Hot Cocoa and Marshmallows
- Peppermint Candy
- Conversation Heart
Fall Theme Counting Cards
Play Dough Number Mats for Counting
Themed Number Mats for Kindergarten Math
- Pirate 1-10 | Pirate 11-20
- Sunflower 1-10 | Sunflower 11-20
- Conversation Hearts 1-10 | Conversation Hearts 11-20
- Valentine Ten-Frames 1-10
- Fall Candy Jar 1-10 | Fall Candy Jar 11-20
- Christmas Trees 1-10
- Cookies 1-10
- Penguins 1-10
Math Dice Games for Counting
More themed Roll and Count Dice Games for Kindergarten
Spring Dice Games for Counting
Summer Dice Games for Kindergarten
Fall Dice Games
Winter Roll and Count Dice Games
More Counting Activities
Ten-Frame Counting Games
- Apple Ten-Frame Hide and Seek Game
- Unicorn Ten-Frame Hide and Seek Game
- Christmas Tree Ten-Frame Hide and Seek Game
Themed Counting Activities
- Fruit Themed Counting Games
- 7 Number Recognition Card Games
- Bakery Pretend Play Printables for Counting
- Silly Monsters Mini Counting Pack
- “How Many Cows on the Farm?” Snack & Math Game
- Construction Theme Counting to 5 Board Game
- Back-to-School Counting Puzzles
- Transportation Theme Counting Pack
- Fall Emergent Reader Counting Book
- Winter Counting Puzzles
- Christmas Counting Sensory Bin Matching Game
- Easter Egg Number Recognition Puzzles
Non-Printable Hands-On Kindergarten Counting Activities
- Apple Tree Fingerprint Art & Math Activity
- Falling Star Counting Game
- DIY Ocean Animal Clip Cards for Counting
- DIY Mitten Counting Game
- Snowball Counting Activity
- DIY Valentine’s Theme Board Game for Counting
Kindergarten Addition Activities: Addition to 10
More Hands-On Addition Activities
Graphing Activities and Printables for Kindergarten
- Winter Color Graphing
- Colored Shoe Graphing (Great for Pete the Cat!)
- Australian Animal Graphing
- Fidget Spinner 2D Shapes
- Bug Graphing
- Car Graphing on a Bubble Road
- Donut Theme
- Superhero Theme Dice Graphing Activity
- Valentine Cupcake Theme
- Rainbow Bear Color Graphing
- Fall Leaf Activity
- Forest Animals
- DIY Flower Graph
- Farm Animal Theme
Kindergarten 2D and 3D Shape Activities and Printables
Kindergarten Shape Activities and Printables
Shape Matching Games
- American Flag Shape Matching
- Cactus Matching Game
- Apple 2D Shape Matching Game
- Shape Matching Games
- Silly Shapes
- Pumpkin Shape Matching Game for Fall
- Penguin Matching Game for 2D Shapes
- 2D Shape Graphing Game for Fidget Spinners
- 3D Shape Mini Pack
- 2D Shape Mini Pack
- 2D Shape Play Dough Mats
- Shape I Spy Counting Mat
- Dog House Shape Spinner Game
Winter Shape Printables and Activities
- Snow Shapes with Penguin Shapes
- Winter 2D BINGO Games
- Christmas 2D Play Dough Mats
- Gingerbread Shape Games and Activities
- Snowman 2D Play Dough Mats
Hands-on Shape Games and Activities
More Shape Activities
Fine Motor Learning Activities for Kindergarten
Fine Motor Art and Craft Activities
- Black Glue Acorn Fine Motor Art
- Turkey Salt Painting for Thanksgiving
- Decorate-a-Pumpkin Fine Motor Craft
- Frog Life Cycle Fine Motor Craft
Snap Cube Fine Motor Mats for Learning
- Valentine Snap Cube Mats
- Earth Day Snap Cube Mats
- Uppercase Letter Snap Cube Mats
- Lowercase Letter Snap Cube Mats
- Numbers 1-10 Snap Cube Mats
LEGO Fine Motor Activities
More Kindergarten Learning with LEGO
- LEGO STEM Challenge Cards for Kids
- LEGO Charades Game
- LEGO Superhero Gross Motor Game
- LEGO Classifying and Sorting Mats
Themed Gross Motor Games and Brain Breaks for Kindergarten
- Pet Theme Brain Break Dice
- Fall Theme Brain Break Dice
- Winter Theme Brain Break Dice
- Moving My Body Brain Break Dice
- Insect Gross Motor Dice
- Weather Gross Motor Dice
- Five Little Ducks Gross Motor Counting Games
- Transportation Theme Gross Motor Game
- “Jack, Be Nimble” Counting Gross Motor Game
- Animal Gross Motor Game
Kindergarten Science Themes and Activities
- Butterfly Life Cycle Board Game
- Forest Biome Sorting Mats
- Rainforest Animal Matching Game
- Rainforest Animal BINGO Game
- Frog Life Cycle Fold-Up Book
- Arctic Animal Matching Games
Kindergarten STEAM Activities and Printables
STEM Investigations for Kindergarten
- Making Music with Bottles
- “Is it Magnetic?”
- Quantity Investigation
- Density Investigation for Kindergarteners
- Spring Flower STEM Investigation
- Ocean Currents Investigation
- Painting with Ooblek