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Wheels on the Bus Learning Activities

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Nursery rhyme The Wheels on The Bus is one of my daughter’s favorite rhymes. She sings it all the time and even makes up her own rhymes to that melody!

There are many nursery rhymes available, online, on CDs, DVDs and books. Common to the most of the nursery rhymes: babies, toddlers, preschoolers and children of an older age LOVE THEM!

I’ll share some of the resources and ideas for playtime which can help toddler’s emotional and physical development and all of them are connected to this fun nursery rhyme.

Using Wheels on the Bus nursery rhyme to learn early math concepts with toddlers

How We Play on Wheels on the Bus Nursery Rhyme?

So far we have sang along and danced on the Wheels on the Bus. We have imitated movements that are mentioned in the song (like those you can see on the video clip above). Also, I have created some flash card so we mix them up and drew them out and play what card shows. You can see the cards on the right and find the link bellow for download.
Next, I have done couple printables you can see bellow to practice matching skills and math – size sequencing. We have placed shapes on the right spots on the bus and placed busses by size in the line. (Playing with those printables is shown on the pictures bellow and after them you can find link for free download if you like them).
Click to download free printable bus shape matching activity:

There are so many things to do with this song!

One of the ideas I have is to work on transportation theme with her (and I will make some more printables for those!).

Help my toddler to learn:

  • names of the transportation devices
  • where each belongs (air, ground, water)
  • the difference between public and private transportation
  • some basic traffic signs and importance of obeying traffic lights

Also, since she never went anywhere with a bus, I want to take her on the ride!

Well, since we have listened to this song for over 100 times in last 2 days, somehow I think we’ll have more than enough time to do all of these things on the list!

We teamed up with several kid-friendly bloggers to bring you activities related to nursery rhymes every second Wednesday! Make sure to stop by and see what we’ll cover next!

Rhyme Time

This time we bring you these activities to use as you sing along Wheels on the bus nursery rhyme:

Comments

  1. I love it! We sing Wheels on the Bus everyday and I think this would make a good activity to introduce some more learning to my 1 year old. Thanks for sharing at the Pin it party

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  5. Some great ideas!! My daughter’s class sang a song about the fall leaves falling to the tune of Wheels On the Bus this year. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!

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  7. hello
    thanks for the free download. what do you do with the pic of diff things on the bus like vipers and horn. also what to do with the single bus pic. what is the child doing? please clarify.
    thanks

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