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Best Activity Books for Kindergarten

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These top activity books for kindergartners provide hours of fun activities that teach children important reading, math, and writing skills. These kindergarten workbooks are perfect for long car rides, travelling, summer learning, and school breaks.

Help your kindergartner develop a strong foundation of academic skills with colorful workbooks that also spark a love of learning. These activity books are ideal for both transitional kindergarten and kindergarten.

Beginning Reading Books

Smart Start Read and Write activity books provide beginning reading and writing activities to help your kindergartner learn to read. The activities review important alphabet letters and sounds. The audio read-aloud stories and activities introduce short sentences and provide fun practice activities to help your child learn their letters and numbers. Each book includes fun stickers to motivate children to complete practice activities.

 

Math Basics for Kindergarten

Smart Start Math Stories and Activities workbooks help your kindergartner learn and practice counting and writing numbers. Colorful activities help your child progress through practicing patterns, measurement, shapes, addition and subtraction, and more. The audio read-aloud stories included in every unit demonstrate how math is used with real-life examples. Each book includes fun stickers to motivate children to complete the activities.

 

Writing and Language

Skill Sharpeners Spell and Write workbooks build your child’s confidence in writing. The colorful activities provide plenty of practice in spelling word families and high-frequency words and support beginning reading by improving reading fluency and sight-word recognition. Each workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional activities and tips.

 

Skill Sharpeners Grammar and Punctuation activity books help kindergartners practice and learn essential grammar and punctuation rules. Complete with reading selections, word games, and game-like practice activities, kindergartners will enjoy building their writing and language skills. Each workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional activities and tips.

Download free sample units for Skill Sharpeners Grammar and Punctuation here.

 

Jumbo Activity Book

Top Student jumbo workbooks provide more than 350 pages of activities to keep your kindergartner challenged and excited and strengthen his or her skills in every subject area. Activities include alphabet letters and sounds, beginning reading foundations, numbers and counting, shapes and colors, matching, sorting, science, STEM, SEL, and more! Each book includes fun stickers that motivate children to complete the activities.

Top Student activity books won the 2020 Parents’ Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids.

 

Fun Science, STEM and STEAM

Smart Start STEM Stories and Activities workbooks include hands-on STEM projects that develop your child’s problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. The STEM challenges inspire little learners to get comfortable exploring different ideas to solve problems.

 

Skill Sharpeners STEAM activity books integrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math to create meaningful learning opportunities for kinders! The real-world topics in these STEAM workbooks relate learning to the environment, earth, people, and cultures, and help your child learn to solve real problems such as screen time, germs, plastic bags, and more! Each workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional activities and tips.

Skill Sharpeners STEAM activity books won the 2021 Parents’ Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids.

Download free sample activities for Skill Sharpeners STEAM here.

 

Skill Sharpeners Science workbooks help early learners discover and explore the important concepts of physical, life, and earth sciences. Songs, rhymes, and hands-on projects motivate children to learn science concepts that are based on the most current science standards. Colorful activities include experiments, and each book includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional activities and tips.

 

Screen-Free Coding

Smart Start Beginning Coding Stories and Activities workbooks will provide your kindergartner with a strong foundation in computer science. This fun workbook includes real-world audio stories that help children relate coding concepts to real life. Each book includes fun stickers to motivate your child to complete the activities. These kindergarten activity books are a great place to start in beginning your child’s computer-coding journey.

 

Beginning Geography

Skill Sharpeners Geography activity books engage little learners in exploring the world while learning important map skills and geography concepts. The cross-curricular activities include stories, reading comprehension activities, writing practice, and more. Each workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional activities and tips.

Download free sample activities for Skill Sharpeners Geography here.

 

Life Skills

Heart and Mind Activities for Today’s Kids includes 100 fun activities that support your child’s well-being. The activities create positive learning experiences for preschoolers and help them learn to manage emotions, reduce anxiety, and navigate social situations. Activities include art, puzzles, games, coloring, and more!

 

Summer Learning

Daily Summer Activities is a great summer learning solution to help your child transition from kindergarten to first grade. The short, daily activities make it easy for children to review important numbers and alphabet letters and sounds. The fun stickers and weekly reading logs support your child’s learning so they can keep their academic skills fresh for first grade.

Daily Summer Activities activity books won the 2020 Parents’ Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids.

Download a free sample printables for Daily Summer Activities here.

 

For more learning ideas check out:

10 Best Activity Books for Preschool Kids

 

Kindergarten Readiness Checklist: What Does My Child Need to Know for Kindergarten? 

 

Life Skills Kids Should Know Before Kindergarten 

 

Heather Foudy is a certified elementary teacher with over 7 years’ experience as an educator and volunteer in the classroom. She enjoys creating lessons that are meaningful and creative for students. She is currently working for Evan-Moor’s marketing and communications team and enjoys building learning opportunities that are both meaningful and creative for students and teachers alike.

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