Star Wars Learning Activities for Kids

Whether you celebrate May the Fourth be with You, Revenge of the Fifth, or This is the May, Star Wars activities are super fun all month long (or any other time) and give you a great excuse to talk about space exploration and observation. Pull out your favorite space crafts, print out some space mazes, or start planning a space camp at home, and check out these fun Star Wars learning activities.’

First, dress up your pencils by turning them into light sabers with this idea from Keeping it Simple Crafts. Then you’ll be all set to play these Star Wars-inspired Mad Libs from Get Away Today.

Or check out this Star Wars preschool printable pack from Hazen Home and School. It has a counting activity, three part cards, repeating patterns, letter tracing and more.

Help your toddler make Yoda out of simple shapes with this activity from Toddler Approved. Or you can make Star Wars characters using cardboard tubes with these ideas from Hello Wonderful.

Turn classic baking soda and vinegar play into a rescue mission with mini figures and this tutorial from Fun-a-Day.

Use basic bricks to make Star Wars-themed constructions (Yoda, R2D2 and a Death Star) with these ideas from Little Bins for Little Hands. Or grab the mosaic building cards from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls. She also has a pattern from making Rainbow loom light sabers. So cute!

Color in some baby Yoda bookmarks for storytime from Rock Your Homeschool, and get a ton of printable games and activities from Preschool Printables Free. And don’t miss Printabelle’s Star Wars bingo cards.

And if your kids love to dress up, check out the easy Ewok ears and hoods I made for my daughter’s birthday a few years ago. Other than the fur mess these were easy to mass produce and a big hit with the kids!

Learning numbers actually involves a few different skills, from recognizing the shape of the number and knowing the word that goes with it to understanding one to one correspondence for counting and what order the numbers go in.

A lot of this is learned best through play and activities that get kids counting and tracing and otherwise interacting with numbers. These activities can help.

I specifically mentioned tracing above because of these number formation rhymes cards from Teaching Mama, which can be used in lots of ways to practice making the shapes of the numbers, including tracing, lining up items on the number shapes (and counting them!), using playdough to shape the numbers and so on. Each number has a little rhyme to help you remember how to make it, which is cute.

And speaking of playdough, you can find lots of playdough number mats with different themes for kids to use as they learn about numbers. Preschool Play and Learn, for example, has these cute apple themed ones that also teach one to one correspondence as you learn the numbers and count to 10.

Or use these tree-themed ones from Live Over Cs to form the numbers, count out items on a ten frame and place the correct number of items in the tree to match the number (do this with playdough, little buttons or whatever manipulatives you have on hand). Your little builders will also love these Duplo number mats from Life Over Cs, which allow you to shape the number out of blocks and count out the number of blocks that corresponds to each number.

I also love these mats from The Savvy Sparrow that include the number and the word you can trace with playdough or marker, showing how to count the number on your fingers, a tens frame and a number line.

Finger plays and counting songs are lots of fun for little ones, too, and Childhood 101 has a great collection of songs and rhymes having to do with numbers (as well as printable song cards you can use with them.

This cardboard roll number chain form Hands On As We Grow would be a fun addition to singing number songs or to use in other play and counting games. And we all love something easy to make with stuff we already have.

Older kids who already know the order of numbers can also use these connect the dot number printables from Fun Learning for Kids. Or use the shapes for playdough mats or to practice tracing even for kids who don’t know all the numbers in order yet.

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