Wheels on the Bus Learning Activities

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

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!

Wheels on the Bus Nursery Rhyme

Sing along as you work on our learning activities! Here are the rhymes to help:

The wheels on the bus go round and round
Round and round
Round and round
The wheels on the bus go round and round
All through the town

The wipers on the bus go Swish, swish, swish
Swish, swish, swish
Swish, swish, swish
The wipers on the bus go Swish, swish, swish
All through the town

The horn on the bus goes Beep, beep, beep
Beep, beep, beep
Beep, beep, beep
The horn on the bus goes Beep, beep, beep
All through the town

The doors on the bus go open and shut
Open and shut
Open and shut
The doors on the bus go open and shut
All through the town

The Driver on the bus says “Move on back
Move on back, move on back”
The Driver on the bus says “Move on back”
All through the town

The babies on the bus says “Wah, wah, wah
Wah, wah, wah
Wah, wah, wah”
The babies on the bus says “Wah, wah, wah”
All through the town

The mommies on the bus says “Shush, shush, shush
Shush, shush, shush
Shush, shush, shush”
The mommies on the bus says “Shush, shush, shush”
All through the town

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.

Wheels on the Bus Activity Flash Cards

I have created some flash card so we mix them up and drew them out and play what card shows. You can also ask a child to put them in a sequence as they sing the rhymes.

Wheels on the Bus Shape Matching Activity

Next, we have worked on shape matching activity. After you print our printable (link on the bottom of the page), you will get on one piece of paper an image of a bus. On second paper you will print out a set of matching shapes. They need to be cut out. To play, child needs to place shapes on the right spots on the bus.

As they match shapes to the ones on the bus image, you can ask them to name each of the shape. We have laminated our sheets and shape cut-outs to be able to preserve them and use them multiple times. But you can simply print them out as you need them.

Wheels on the Bus Size Sequencing Activity

The third activity we played is connected to math, once again. In printable (on the bottom of the page), there are 5 busses in different sizes. When you print out a sheet, you need to cut each bus. Child’s task is to set on the table busses from the smallest to the largest. Or you can switch and ask them to set them from the largest to the smallest.

There are so many things to do with this song!

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!

Wheels on the Bus Sound Book

You can pick the Wheels on the Bus sound book for your singing toddler!

It is a fun interactive book designed to encourage children to play, sing, and dance while being exposed to repetition, movement, and learning new words through fun verses from The Wheels on the Bus. This Sound Book comes with six favorite verses from the Wheels on the Bus Song: The Wheels, The Driver, The Wipers, The Horn, The Door, and The Baby featuring eye-catching Montessori-inspired illustrations on each page. Find the book here: United States

Other Activities to Try as You Sing Wheels on the Bus

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!

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

• Bus craft from recyclables from Teach Me Mommy
• Painting with wheels from Messy Little Monster
• Bubble printed bus from Crafty Kids at Home