Fun Beach Center Ideas & Activities

I love a good theme that matches the current season. I've always wanted to create centers using the beach summer theme that are engaging and appropriate for early learners. Well, I did just that! I created some fun, easy-to-set-up, and use centers for the little ones to engage with.

Altogether this bundle pack has 16 different activities! Just print, laminate, and ready to go! For the fun of it I will highlight some of my favorite centers from this bundle.

The Ultimate Writing Center

I love an easy-to-use writing center for young beginning writers. This is a perfect center for the little ones to practice their early writing skills. With this center, you print, laminate, and cut the vocabulary cards. Students find the cards around the classroom and "make a list". This is a great activity to build their beach vocabulary while also practicing letter and word formation.

Beach Day Counting

Counting is a must-have center - always! Students LOVE to count and show off all their strategies while counting. I find that preschoolers and kindergarteners LOVE counting puzzles and matching the correct number to the correct quantity. I created a 2-piece beach number puzzle center for students to practice their early counting skills! From 1-20, students can independently count and match to build those early counting skills.

Fine Motor Creativity

Another print-and-go center with little preparation is the tear-and-glue center. Students pick from easy-to-print pages that they can tear and glue. Students grab construction paper, tear it into small pieces, and glue it to the printed paper. They make beautiful tear-and-glue art pieces that can be displayed in the classroom or taken home to the family. Besides being a fun creative project, this is also a fun activity to build early fine motor muscles! Check out this beautiful tear-and-glue watermelon!

Count and Build an Ice Cream Cone

Another favorite (I think all the centers are my favorite) is the count and build an ice cream cone center. Easy to print, laminate, and cut - this is a creative way for students to practice their early counting skills as well!

And much more!

I could write a book detailing each of the 16 centers. I will highlights some of my other favorites that I got a chance to put to good use recently.

Don't forget to check this one out!

This fun activity bundle is available on TPT, this website, and Etsy. Check it out! I hope it meets all your summer needs for fun centers and activities.