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Printable Train Activities for Kindergartners

Cars, trains, boats, and planes are always amongst the top favorite toys of small children. With their beautiful colors and moving parts its no wonder that children of both genders enjoy playing with them. Children’s television programs like Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine help to reinforce children’s affinity for vehicles. Trains in particular capture the imaginations of young children. The best way to promote learning is to engage a child’s interest. There are many free printable train activities for Kindergartners available online that can be used to accelerate learning and make it fun and rewarding for children.

Coloring is a staple activity for small children. Free Coloring Pages has a wide selection of free printable train coloring pages and other transportation themed coloring pages. Their images are wonderful for preschool and kindergarten children as they have big bold lines and easily identified shapes with little extraneous shading.

Free Printable Train Activities for Kindergarten Level Coloring: http://www.free-coloring-pages.com/trains.html

First School offers a wonderful collection of printable activities for small children. They even have a few printable train activities. Printable math exercises are available here: http://www.first-school.ws/theme/printables/number-worksheet-train.htm . Printable writing exercises are available here: http://www.first-school.ws/theme/printables/alphabet-train.htm . There are other transportation themed pintables on their site as well.

Kindergarten students will also enjoy creating a special Father’s day card for the daddies in their lives. Mom’s Break offers an excellent download that can easily be printed, cut out with safety scissors, and glued onto card stock. If color ink costs are prohibitive the image can be printed in black and white and copied at 50% light to create a picture that children can color themselves.
Free Printable Train Father’s Day Card for Kindergartens: http://fathersday.momsbreak.com/printable-fathersday-card.html

Another great free printable train craft is located at DLTK. This printable train is wonderful and comes in both color and black and white. The printable is a fun activity as it stands, but for slightly older children the same printable train parts can be used to embellish any square container, such as an empty milk carton, by readjusting the size of the image to coincide with the size of the container. Children feel a sense of involvement and responsibility by collecting rectangular and square containers from home. Free Printable Train Activities For Kindergarten Crafts: http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/transportation/mtrain.html

Printable train activities aren’t just for classrooms. These activities can be used by after school programs, childcare professionals, and parents. They make the perfect rainy day activity to keep little minds and little fingers entertained.

Printable Train Activities for Kindergartners

Cars, trains, boats, and planes are always amongst the top favorite toys of small children. With their beautiful colors and moving parts its no wonder that children of both genders enjoy playing with them. Children’s television programs like Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine help to reinforce children’s affinity for vehicles. Trains in particular capture the imaginations of young children. The best way to promote learning is to engage a child’s interest. There are many free printable train activities for Kindergartners available online that can be used to accelerate learning and make it fun and rewarding for children.

Coloring is a staple activity for small children. Free Coloring Pages has a wide selection of free printable train coloring pages and other transportation themed coloring pages. Their images are wonderful for preschool and kindergarten children as they have big bold lines and easily identified shapes with little extraneous shading.
Free Printable Train Activities for Kindergarten Level Coloring: http://www.free-coloring-pages.com/trains.html

First School offers a wonderful collection of printable activities for small children. They even have a few printable train activities. Printable math exercises are available here: http://www.first-school.ws/theme/printables/number-worksheet-train.htm . Printable writing exercises are available here: http://www.first-school.ws/theme/printables/alphabet-train.htm . There are other transportation themed pintables on their site as well.

Kindergarten students will also enjoy creating a special Father’s day card for the daddies in their lives. Mom’s Break offers an excellent download that can easily be printed, cut out with safety scissors, and glued onto card stock. If color ink costs are prohibitive the image can be printed in black and white and copied at 50% light to create a picture that children can color themselves.
Free Printable Train Father’s Day Card for Kindergartens: http://fathersday.momsbreak.com/printable-fathersday-card.html

Another great free printable train craft is located at DLTK. This printable train is wonderful and comes in both color and black and white. The printable is a fun activity as it stands, but for slightly older children the same printable train parts can be used to embellish any square container, such as an empty milk carton, by readjusting the size of the image to coincide with the size of the container. Children feel a sense of involvement and responsibility by collecting rectangular and square containers from home. Free Printable Train Activities For Kindergarten Crafts: http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/transportation/mtrain.html

Printable train activities aren’t just for classrooms. These activities can be used by after school programs, childcare professionals, and parents. They make the perfect rainy day activity to keep little minds and little fingers entertained.

Easy Train Paper Craft:
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/transportation/mtrain.html

Free Printable Train Activities

So I’ve decided that we need to have a Train Day at our house. Since I’m looking for things for my son and me to do together I might as well share what I find with you. You can consider this a supplement to my post on Printable Train Activities for Kindergartners.

We might color this cute train coloring page from My Activity Maker. Or we might talk about the letter T and practice our handwriting with this printable from About.com. About.com also has adorable train stationery, train vocabulary building worksheets, train puzzle and more. We will write a letter to the grandparents about trains today using the stationery! We might do this printable alphabet train from FirstSchool.

Family Fun has a great paper craft train that we can cut out and build. It is complete with engine, passenger, and freight cars. There are even little road and traffic signs! Or for a vintage feel I could make this French paper craft train that I found on Flickr. That might be a fun toy for me to make for my collection. If you download a copy make sure to thank the person who took the time to scan and post the images. They are wonderfully whimsical!

Here is a nice page with links to train facts and lore. There are some great sites listed here that have lots of interesting train information. MeddyBemps also has some fun learning activities and games involving trains. Not many are printable, but there’s a lot of good stuff for mouse practice.

I’m thinking about making some train cut outs or something similar later down the road. I'll keep you posted.

*Edited to add* Click the picture above to enlarge it. Laminate (clear contact paper is cheap and works well if you print on card stock) and punch holes around the edge. Use a shoe lace or piece of yarn with tape around one end to practice lacing.