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    Home » Theme Based Learning Activities

    Published: Jun 12, 2018 · Modified: Oct 11, 2023 by Fynn · All activities should be supervised by an adult. This post may contain affiliate links.

    Castle and Dragons Theme Learning Activities and Learning Shelf

    This theme is chosen by my son who is obsessed with all things dragons now. Do you have a little dragon lover at home too? He/she is going to love this shelf!

    Here's a summary post of all the Castle and Dragons theme learning activities we did for this month.

    Castle and dragons theme learning shelf with activities for toddlers and preschoolers

    To read more about how we do learning at home with our learning shelf, I encourage you to read about how Happy Tot Shelf works, and find out why we love theme based learning.

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    • Castle and Dragons Theme Learning Shelf
    • Castle and Dragons Theme Learning Activities for Toddlers (1.5 to 3 Years Old)
    • Castle and Dragons Theme Learning Activities for Preschoolers (3 to 6 Years Old)

    Castle and Dragons Theme Learning Shelf

    Castle & Dragon Learning Shelf
    • Pinterest Idea Board: [theme] CASTLE & DRAGONS
    • Unique Hashtag on Instagram: #castledragonshts
    • Focus Book: The Knight and the Dragon by Tomie dePaola, How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head by Bill Peet and The Worst Princess by Anna Kemp
    Siblings learning together

    This learning shelf and the activities are created for both toddlers (1.5yo to 3yo) and preschoolers (3 to 6 years old). When I made this learning shelf, my daughter was 2 years 10 month old and my son was 5 years 2 months old.

    All the activities have been categorized into the six main learning areas (language, numeracy, motor skills, discovery of the world, arts & creative expression, social & emotional development) that I am focusing on for my children.

    Castle and Dragons Theme Learning Activities for Toddlers (1.5 to 3 Years Old)

    • Play this simple castle theme graphing game. Grab my free printable and get started right away! (numeracy, language)
    castle and dragon theme graphing game with free printable
    • Count the flags and put in the corresponding number of flags in the TP roll castles. (numeracy)
    Castle theme learning activity for children to count the flags in each DIY castle
    • Play this fun Dragon Feeding and Color Sorting Game. Throw the dragon die and feed the dragon a pom pom that shows up on the die. (numeracy)
    Dragon feeding and color sorting activity for children

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    • Match fairy tale characters puzzle pieces to the outlines. These beautiful wooden puzzles are from The Freckled Frog. (motor skills)
    Fairytale characters puzzle matching for castle theme learning
    • Sort felt cut outs according to their shapes on the felt board shield. (numeracy)
    Castle theme shape sorting on DIY shield learning activity
    • Write some letter Ds and other letters with dry erase marker on the laminated dragon footprints printable. Invite your child to find all the D and erase them. (language, motor skills)
    Letter D search and find castle and dragon theme learning activities for kids

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    • Color matching dot to dot activity with a dragon theme twist. I told my 2yo that she was connecting the different colored fireballs of the dragons to their target boards. I attached the activity sheet to a wardrobe door so that my girl would work on a vertical surface for this activity. There are many developmental benefits for kids when they work on a vertical surface.  (motor skill, numeracy)
    Use colored dot markers to create this DIY dragon fireball dot to dot activity for children
    Dragon theme color dot to dot activity for toddlers

    Castle and Dragons Theme Learning Activities for Preschoolers (3 to 6 Years Old)

    • Symmetry shield. Put felt shapes on one side of the shield and invite your child to complete the other side by making the design symmetrical. (numeracy)
    Make a DIY shield in this castle and dragons theme learning activity for children, and learn about symmetry and math
    • Make some swords using cardboard. Invite your child to make guesses about the length of each sword and then use a ruler to measure actual length. (numeracy)
    Make your own DIY swords with this castle and Dragon theme learning activity
    Measuring swords castle theme activities for kids
    • Play this fun Dragon Feeding and Color Sorting Game. Throw the dragon die and feed the dragon a pom pom that shows up on the die. For preschoolers, increase the challenge by 1) including a second number die. They will feed the dragon the number of pompoms that show up on the number die and 2) using chopsticks or tweezers to pick up the pompoms. (numeracy, motor skills)
    Feed the dragons and sort colours with this castle and dragon theme learning activity for children

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    • Chinese sight words matching dot to dot activity with a dragon theme twist. My son is learning the Chinese names of six colors (红,蓝,黄,紫,橙,绿) here. His task is to find and dot the Chinese names of each color with the correct dot paint color. Where's the dragon twist? I told my son that different color dragons breath out different color fireballs and his task is to locate the target board for each dragon. Again, I have this activity pasted on my wardrobe door so that my son gets to work on a vertical surface. (language, motor skills)
    Castle and Dragons Theme Learning Activities for chinese sight words
    Dragon theme Chinese words matching game
    • Learn and play with our Castle Theme Chinese Learning Pack Printable. Read more about this activity and grab the free printable. (language)
    Castle and Dragons Theme Learning Activities Chinese sight words Printable
    • Count the pompom fireballs for each dragon based on the number on the token picked. Then compare which dragon has more 'fireballs' and use the 'greater than/less than' symbol to represent the relationship. (numeracy)
    early math more or less activity using dragons and fireballs
    Dragon fireball pom pom counting activity
    • Arrange the castles from the oldest to the newest according to the years that they are built. (numeracy, discovery of the world)
    Learning years with kids

    CRAFT PROJECTS, EXPERIMENTS & SENSORY PLAY

    • Paint your sword invitation
    Painting DIY swords invitation to create castle theme activities for kids
    • Build catapults with chopsticks/popsicle sticks and rubber bands. Check out the tutorials from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls on how to make different types of catapults. We made a catapult using chopsticks and another catapult using popsicle sticks.
    Making catapult with chopsticks for a castle theme
    Build a catapult with chopsticks
    • Build a castle in the cloud with ice-cream cones and shaving cream. We had some expired ice cream cones at home, alternatively you can use TP rolls too.
    Castle in the cloud sensory play learning activity for children
    Castle in the cloud sensory play
    • Make a paper plate dragon twirler. Dragon printable and tutorial can be found on Red Ted Art blog.
    paper plate dragon twirler learning activity

    Love this theme learning shelf? Be sure to check out our other theme learning shelves too!

    Castle and Dragon Learning Activities

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