We are back and planning preschool themes and activities to enrich your homeschool or classroom! One of my kids’ favorite things to study is animals. They enjoy studying animals even more when we can observe some of them either in our own backyard, a nature center, or the zoo. Today I want to share with you some fun forest theme for preschool (and kindergarten) that make for a super fun preschool theme!

Forest Theme for Preschool

If you’ve been around the blog for a while, then you know I follow a system when I design my preschool lesson plans. I teach others how to make preschool lesson plans, and we always start with circle time. Then we move on to all of the rest of the fun activities!

Forest Animal Songs and Poems for Preschoolers

Let’s get started with some fun forest animal songs to include during your circle time!

Walking in the Forest by Super Simple Songs

Forest Dance by Animal Song for Kids

Forest Animals by Science Songs for Kids

Forest Animal Printables

I love using these Forest Animal Printables in our homeschool preschool. The activities are great for fine motor and gross motor skills, plus literacy and math! There are 24 pages of forest animal themed activities to help entertain your child while you explore various woodland animals such as the bear, fox, hedgehog, and owl! These are really good when you need some forest animals activities for preschoolers quickly!

Forest Animal Math Activities

Our forest animals printable pack includes sequencing puzzles that are great for practicing skip counting and exercising those fine motor skills!

We also use the count and clip cards to practice counting and the I Spy Page to practice sorting and counting objects.

These Forest Friends Skip Counting Puzzles look like a great way to practice math, too!

We also love using pattern blocks. I’m a big fan of these Forest Animal Pattern Block printables!

Forest Animal Literacy Activities

I’m a big fan of teaching kids the beginning sounds of words. Our Forest Animals preschool pack includes three pages to help children identify the beginning sounds of some popular forest animals.

For those kids ready to practice their handwriting, we also have some forest animal letter tracing pages! These are great forest animal worksheets for preschoolers.

For a more hands-on approach, this Forest Animal Letter Sounds Activity from Stir the Wonder looks like a lot of fun!

Forest Animals Fine Motor Activities for Preschoolers

We really enjoy putting together fun fine motor activities! In our Woodland Animal Printable Pack, we have a cutting/tracing page, and another cut and paste page that will help kids learn about shapes.

These Forest Animal Playdough Mats look like a lot of fun, too!

You may also want to check out these Moving Left to Right Forest Animal printable cards.

Forest Animal Gross Motor Activities

Gross motor skills are always fun to practice. Try out this Animal Themed Gross Motor Dice.

Here are some more fun woodland animal movement cards to try!

Forest Animal Sensory Activities for Preschoolers

You can always create a Forest Animal Sensory bin for the week of your forest animal theme.

Ever thought about doing some cave sensory play? This Cave Sensory bin looks like fun!

Forest Animal Art for Preschoolers

There are lots of adorable forest animal crafts to try out over at Arty Crafty Kids!

I just love this Paper Bag Fox!

This hedgehog craft is just perfect for a fall woodland animal theme!

Forest Animal Snack Ideas for Preschoolers

This Forest Animal snack with toast and bananas is a great snack idea!

Forest Animal Unit Study

If you’re pulling together a forest animal unit study, you’ll definitely want to check out our Forest Animal Unit Study pack which includes animal fact cards, animal track cards, layers of the forest poster, and more!

forest animals activities for preschoolers

forest animals activities for preschoolers

Forest Animal Books

If you’re looking for some forest books for preschool, you have to get some of these children’s books about woodland animals. They are so much fun!