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Free Construction Crafts, Activities, Rhymes, Printables, and Construction Books

Construction Zone
Make your block area into a construction zone. Put up caution tape and signs saying construction area. Add extra blocks and construction vehicles for your children to pretend to be construction workers. Add hard hats to the area and tape pictures of construction machines on the wall as a backdrop.  

Visit a construction site with your children.

What Can a Dump Truck carry?
Ask your child to think of things that can be hauled in a dump truck. As your child makes suggestions, write them on a sheet of paper. Point to the words as you read them back to your child. Encourage your child to repeat the words and to point to any letters that they recognize.

Dump Truck Coloring Page	Bulldozer Coloring Page	Construction Zone Sign

 

Construction Tool Movement Rhyme (Gross Motor Skills)

Johnny Had One Hammer
(Original Author Unknown)

Sit with children in a circle.

(Make up and down motion with one hand in a fist as if pounding a nail)

Johnny had one hammer, one hammer, one hammer,
Johnny had one hammer then he had 2.

(Make same motion using both fists as if pounding two nails)

Johnny had 2 hammers, 2 hammers, 2 hammers,
Johnny had 2 hammers then he had 3.

(Make same motion using both fists and one leg as if pounding three nails)

Johnny had 3 hammers, 3 hammers, 3 hammers,
Johnny had 3 hammers then he had 4.

(Make same motion using both fists and both legs as if pounding four nails)

Johnny had 4 hammers, 4 hammers, 4 hammers,
Johnny had 4 hammers then he had 5.

(Make same motion using both fist, both legs, and up and down head motion as if pounding five nails)

Johnny had 5 hammers, 5 hammers, 5 hammers,
Johnny had 5 hammers, then he went to sleep.

(Pretend to lay head on a pillow and go to sleep)

 

Construction rhyme:

Did You Ever See A Bulldozer? (adapted from Did You Ever See a Lassie?)

Did you ever see a bulldozer,
a bulldozer, a bulldozer,
Did you ever see a bulldozer,
Go this way and that?

Go this way and that way,
Go this way and that way,

Did you ever see a bulldozer
Go this way and that?

 

B Is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC

Construction Craft

Build with Popsicle Sticks

What you need:

Popsicle sticks
Glue
Small containers
Plastic trays (to protect tabletop)

What you do:
Place several Popsicle sticks and a small container of glue on each tray. Let children build structures by using their fingers to glue Popsicle sticks together in the shapes of skeletal or completed buildings. 

 

Construction Books

A Year at a Construction Site (Time Goes By)	Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site	At a Construction Site (Wheels at Work)	B Is for Bulldozer: A Construction ABC	Building a House (Mulberry Books)
The Construction Alphabet Book	Construction Trucks (Reading Railroad)	Digger Man	How a House Is Built	One Big Building: A Counting Book About Construction (Know Your Numbers)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Car and Transportation Resources:

Cars (The Movie) Coloring Pages