Free Transportation Printables and Montessori-Inspired Transportation Math Activities

I’m a real fan of vehicle activities after watching my now-adult son’s love of them when he was little. For all the current preschool through first grade vehicle lovers, I’ve created some transportation activities using free printables.!

I won’t be using printables specifically for planes, trains, or boats here, although they might be included in a printable pack with other transportation printables.

At PreK + K Sharing, I have lots and lots of themed activities and presentation ideas.

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Montessori-Inspired Transportation Math Activities Using Free Printables

Street Number Activity

For this activity, I used the free Street Numbers for Block Center from Young & Lively Kindergarten. My son loved his Micro Machines so much that he saved all of them even though he only saved a few Hot Wheels. The vehicles in this post are all Micro Machines, although you could use any small vehicles. I added a green color coding label where the child should start driving on each numeral.

Five Little Garbage Trucks Activity

This activity was super easy to put together. I just had to print and cut out the 5 garbage trucks and  poem from the Garbage Truck Game Pack by Living Worldsapart. A reader could read the poem while another child acts it out with the garbage trucks, or the children could say the poem by memory while acting it out if it’s been used at circle time.

Transportation Number Puzzles

For the transportation puzzles, I used the free counting by 10s to 100 transportation puzzles from Selma Dawani. I cut off 1″ of the page so that I could fit the puzzles into a pencil box. If you want to have 1-10 transportation puzzles rather than 1-100, you’ll find that Royal Baloo’s free 1-10 Transportation Puzzles from Zoomin Moving Alphabet Packs work especially well. They’re already the right size to fit into the pencil boxes.

Racing Racecars

This activity uses the Free Racing Racecars from Mama Jenn. I had to check this out after reading that this was the favorite activity of Renae’s children (from Every Star is Different) in their racing vehicles week. I used glass gems for the markers. There would be a die on the tray as well. I added the 1st through 6th place ribbons by doing a Google search of sports ribbons and printing out ribbons from one of the pages. I thought that would be a fun way to emphasize the ordinal numbers for 1st through 6th place.

I love activities like this to teach sportsmanship and cooperation. See my post at Living Montessori Now called “How to Use Cooperative Games to Teach Sportsmanship.” This is a perfect activity to use as a cooperative game where children take turns rolling the die and moving the appropriate numbered vehicle. The vehicles are the ones racing, so the children are working together to see which vehicle wins, which comes in second, and so on.

How Many Trucks in the Mud? Monster Truck Addition

This uses a fun monster truck printable from 1+1+1=1. There’s a version for counting the number of trucks in the mud, but I used the addition printable for this activity.

Transportation Sudoku

Transportation Sudoku from DLTK’s Crafts for Kids has an easy version and a more difficult version. The more difficult version, which is pictured, would work well for kindergarteners or first graders.

Free Transportation Printables (of all kinds) for Preschoolers-First Graders

• • Zoomin Moving Alphabet Packs from Royal Baloo
  • Vehicle Nomenclature Cards from Welcome to Mommyhood
  • Dump Truck Counting Mats from The Measured Mom
  • Printable Pattern Cards for Preschool and Kindergarten: Trucks from The Measured Mom
  • Matching Memory Game for Kids: Transportation from The Measured Mom
  • Transportation Printable: Count and Clip Cards #1-20 from The Measured Mom
  • Transportation Preschool Printables from Preschool Mom
  • Transportation Theme Printables from 1+1+1=1
  • Transportation Theme from Making Learning Fun
  • Driving Numbers from ABC and 123
  • Trucks Size Sorting and Sequencing from Tired, Need Sleep
  • Transportation Printable Activities from DLTK’s Crafts for Kids
  • Transportation Printables from Pre-K Pages
  • On the Road Shadow Match from Busy Little Bugs
  • Transportation Pattern Block Mats from PreKinders
  • Car Lacing Cards from Busy Little Bugs
  • Transportation {Expanded} from 2 Teaching Mommies
  • Transportation Theme Activities from The Preschool Toolbox
  • Transportation Preschool Pack from Homeschool Creations
  • Transportation Theme Preschool Activities from File Folder Heaven
  • Transportation Printables from The Schoolhouse
  • Service Vehicle Tot Pack from Memorizing the Moments
  • Road Transport Alphabet Cards from Early Learning HQ
  • -and Word Family Construction Puzzles from Preschool Powol Packets
  • Construction Board Game from Preschool Powol Packets
  • Construction Preschool Packet from Preschool Powol Packets
  • Construction Movement Cards from Royal Baloo
  • Construction Site Vehicle Match Up Printable from Every Star Is Different
  • The Parking Lot Matching Sets Activity from Heidi Songs
  • Transportation Printables from Preschool Mom
  • The Road Home Maze from Mr Printables
  • Transportation Cards Game from Measured in Moments
  • Transportation Printables from Teachers Notebook
  • Transportation Printables from Teachers Pay Teachers

Here’s a fun song and YouTube video about transportation by Nancy Kopman!

All My Transportation Posts:

You’ll find my transportation unit with many blog posts and resources here.

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