Back-to-School Preschool Activities - School Bus

It’s Back-to-School time! Before we start our Alphabet Preschool program, we started this year with a some back-to-school activities. Here are our School Bus projects.

• School Bus counting

1. I was inspired by a similar activity at Kidssoup.com. I upgraded to a homemade wooden puzzle version of their activity (see my School Bus DIY on Preschool Alphabet’s Instagramstory highlight).
2. Go to Kidssoup.com to get their project, or find a clipart of a school bus and children. Add a spot where you can change the number.
3. For your preschooler, change the number on the bus and have them count out that many kids that go on the school bus. *My bus only goes up to 5, you can make yours to have more or less, depending.
   **My 2 year old loved putting together my wooden puzzle as well!

• If you want to make the DIY School Bus I made, you need:
• High Density MDF 1/4” (at Home Depot or  Lowes)
• A School Bus design (or draw your own like I did)
• A scroll saw and drill press (to make the holes to cut out the windows)
• paint – yellow, grey, black and white and paint brushes
• A little square of sticker vinyl
• Perler beads - for the puzzle piece handles

• School Bus Shapes
• Cut out the following shapes out of construction paper:

• 1 Big yellow rectangle
• 1 Small yellow rectangle
• White squares
• 1 Medium White rectangle
• 2 Black circles
• 1 Long skinny black rectangle

1. Tell your preschooler to find a certain shape and glue it on their paper. [ie: find the big yellow rectangle]
2. OR – they can put together the bus however they want, but have them tell you what shape and color they are gluing down.

• Sing “Wheels on the Bus” with the actions!

1. The wheels on the bus go Round and round
2. The babies on the bus say Waaah waah waah
3. The doors on the bus go Open and close
4. The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish
5. The driver on the bus says Move on back
6. The people on the bus go Up and down
7. The mommies on the bus say Shhh shhh shhh
8. The horn on the bus goes Beep beep beep
9. ETC!

• Draw a School Bus with Art For Kids Hub! (My kids love Art For Kids!)

-Kiley