Pirate Theme Preschool Activities
Ahoy, me hearties! Children will have fun diving into this pirate theme preschool filled with cute pirate crafts for kids, educational activities, preschool pirate theme printables and pirate activities preschool learning ideas for toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age kids. So pull out the eye patches, throw up the the jolly roger, and have fun learning with this pirate theme.
Pirate theme preschool
Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate’s Life for Me! Pirates seem to have a universal appeal to kids and adults alike. So find a pirate costume or make your own with a tattered white t-shirt, red sash around your waist, black construction paper and string eye patch, and a pirate hat and you are ready for an epic Pirate Theme for Preschoolers.
While we won’t be heading to the high seas, we will be using our imagination and a lot of clever ideas to complete our week-long pirate theme preschool. This pirate theme for preschool is fun for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will enjoy these educational activities for learning math, English, and of course pirate crafts for kids and lots of pirate activities for preschool too.
Pirate theme for preschool
Use one of these two options for using books in your Pirate theme:
- Read a different book each day of the week, Monday through Friday.
- Or read your favorite book each of the week. Don’t worry about boring your kids as they love repetition so don’t worry about boring them!
Pick one or all of these 5 excellent books to read with your preschoolers:
Pirate crafts for kids
You will love adding these pirate craft ideas to your preschool theme. Not only are they fun to make, but crafts are a great way to strengthen fine motor skills and improve coordination as kids learn to cut, paste, and color.
- Make a pirate treasure chest from Red Ted Art
- Create pirate treasure for your chest from The Gingerbread House
- Put together a pirate ship from Red Ted Art
- Craft a pirate from a wooden spoon from I Heart Crafty Things
- Try this easy DIY pirate hook from Jinkxy Kids
- And don’t forget about a pirate hat, beard, and eye patch from The Gingerbread House
- Turn a paper bowl into a pirate from I Heart Crafty Things
- Make a handprint pirate craft from Simple Everday Mum
- Try these easy pirate cork boats from REd TEd Art
- Turn paper bags into pirates from Crafts by Amanda
- Your kids will love pirate finger puppets from Red TEd Art
Pirate Math Activities
Looking for fomr fun counting, adding, sorting, and other pirate math ideas? Try these free resources:
- Play a pirate place value game
- Practice counting with these color-by-number pirate printables from Pink Stripey Socks
- Play a pirate math sorting game from Rainy Day Mum
- Enjoy learning about place value with pirate-themed place value cards from 3 Dinosaurs
- Count coins with this fun pirate easy reader from 3 Dinosaurs
- Play a pirate rounding printable game from Royal Baloo
Pirate Literacy Activities
Work on letter recognition, sight words, and more with these pirate themed alphabet activities and treasure hunts!
- Enjoy tracing with these Free Pirate Printables with your kids
- Color by sight words from A Dab of Glue will Do
- Try an alphabet sight word treasure hunt from School Time Snippets
- Read a pirate-themed easy reader (and work on the SH digraph) from 3 Dinosuars
- Or read this pirate-themed ABC easy reader from 3 Dinosaurs
- Practice cutting with a pirate printable from 3 Boys and a Dog
Pirate Activities for Preschool
These epic preschool pirate activities are sure to be a hit with your students! Use these pirate activities for preschool to learn a variety of material:
- Discover if it sinks or floats pirate style from Science Sparks
- Explore a LEGO pirate challenge from Little BIns for Little Hands
- Try an unplugged treasure hunt coding activity from Our Family
- Your kids will love science fun with exploding treasure chests from Fun a Day
- Make sunken treasure discovery bottles from Fun-a-Day
- Try edible treasure chests fro Crayons and Cravings
Preschool pirate theme printables
Plus, don’t forget to grab these free pirate printables
- Pirate Coloring Sheets
- Pirate Color by Number Worksheets
- Gingerbread Pirate Theme Worksheets
- Pirate Puppet Printables from Daisie and Pie
- Pirate Dot-to-Dot Printable Pack from Homeschool Preschool
- Pirate Sudoku from Royal Baloo
- Pirate Printable Tracing Strips
Pirate Activities
- I Spy Pirate Game with free printable worksheets
- Free Pirate Printables – worksheets for early elementary age kids to work on math and litearcy skills
- Gingerbread Pirates Actvities
- Free printable Pirate Color by Number Printable
- Simple Pirate Coloring Pages
- Cute Pirate Coloring Pages
- Free Pirate Worksheets for Preschool
- FUN Pirate Theme Preschool
- Cute Paper Plate Parrot Craft
- Pirate Handwriting Tracing Strips for working on pre-writing skills
- Simple Pirate Ship Craft
- Pirate Colors Book Printable
- Pirate Family Fun Night
- Free Jake and the Neverland Pirates Worksheets
Pirate Printables
These fun pirate activity ideas help young children work on early litearcy skills like letter sounds, writing their ABCs, reading simple cvc words, and reading sight words too.
- Free Pirate Games workign on Kindergarten sight words
- Pirate Letter Sound Games Printable Activity – includes both mathing letters and soritng by beginning sounds
- Super cute, FREE Printable ABC Pirate Worksheets
- Pirate Short a cvc words short a
- Pirate Parts of Speech Coloring Sheet
- Free Pirate BINGO Parts of Speech Game
Pirate Math
Use these fun pirate themed worksheets and printable activities to help kids work on tracing numbers, couting, shapes, number sense, fractions, and more pirate math skills!
- Argh! Pirate Number Tracing Worksheets
- Free Pirate Shapes Themed Shape Reader
- Number Pirate Flashcards
- Make-a-Reader – Pirate Shapes Printable
- Pluder the Treasure in this Pirate Number Sense Games
- Count and Clip Pirate Counting
- Pirate Numbers 11-20 Worksheets pdf
- Hands-on Pirate Addition Color by Number
- Fun Pirate Reducing Fractions Game
- Pirate Place Value Games for making practicing place value fun
Preschool Theme Ideas
Looking for more preschool themes? You will love our ever growing themes complete with themed crafts, activities, math, literacy, and more ideas!
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- Dinosaur Preschool Theme
- Olympic Preschool Theme
- Robot Preschool Theme
- Animal Preschool Theme
- Watermelon Preschool Theme
- Rainbow Preschool Theme
- Frog Preschool Theme
- Flower Preschool Theme
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