Camping Preschool Theme

Looking for a Camping Preschool Unit? This Preschool Pack is jam packed with fun and engaging camping themed activities! As with all of my preschool units, they are play based and options to differentiate for various abilities.


You can purchase my Camping Preschool Unit in my TPT shop!

Camping Preschool Pack

Food is SO motivating for little learners. We spent a lot of time playing with (and eating)marshmallows this week! Hayden practiced counting to 20 with marshmallows. Then we worked on identifying numbers 11-20, which have been a little trickier for him. I named a number, and if he could find it, he got to eat that marshmallow. All of a sudden, he was identifying numbers with amazing accuracy!!

Hayden has always loved puzzles, and how cute are these s'more numbers? He worked on 1:1 correspondence by counting each amount of objects, and then matching them to the number.

Yep, another marshmallow activity. He traced the number with dry erase marker, and then counted marshmallows onto each ten frame. You could also use play dough for these mats.

Dry erase markers make writing more FUN! He worked hard at tracing capital letters on these camping themed alphabet cards.

We love these letter beads from Learning Resources. Seriously, we use them for everything. Hayden identified the beginning sound of each picture.

Name crafts have been a huge motivator in writing. Hayden made a giant s'more, while writing his name.

We worked on creating and extending patterns with colorful goldfish.

Nature loose parts are one of my favorite tools to use for learning activities. We have a tray of our favorite treasured saved. Hayden picked a shape card, and then built the shape from rocks, stones, and other nature treasures.

Beginning Sounds Tents- For this activity, I folded a notecard in half and added an animal sticker. My son placed the beginning letter for each animal in the tent.

Hayden matched uppercase and lowercase letters, while identifying beginning sounds, to make s'mores.

Sponge Painting Campfire- We used brown construction paper as logs, then dipped a sponge into orange and yellow paint! I love how this cute craft came out.

We built letters by using toothpicks and marshmallows!

It was a fun theme, I wish we would have had time for a few more activities. Here are some other activities included in this pack.


Bear tracks read and stamp. This comes with letters and sight words.

 Camping roll and cover. Again, there are two options for this game. There is an addition roll and cover and just a simple roll and cover pictured.

 Make 10- Build a ten frame by following each recipe card. 

Practice subitizing and recognizing numbers in a ten frame, with this ten frame camping puzzle.

Identify the beginning sound of each picture, OR identify the CVC word.

Practice nonstandard measurement by measuring with a marshmallow ruler!

You can grab this pack in my TPT shop, or it is also included in the year long bundle!! Looking for more preschool fun? Be sure to check out the year long themes bundle. It is a DEAL!

Camping Preschool Pack

 Year Long Preschool Themes Bundle

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