Activity ideas

Simon & Schuster's downloadable Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activities (.pdf)

Simon and Schuster’s activity pages for Chicka Chicka Boom Boom with reproducible kids’ worksheets, letter tracing and games.

Activity Ideas (color .pdf / black & white version)

A two-sided activity sheet for use by teachers, parents, librarians, or anybody who interacts with preschoolers. If being distributed to teachers or families, either one or both sides can be printed, and in either color or black and white. One side features eight activities- one for each of the Kansas Early Learning Standards' eight developmental content areas. The other side includes one activity focusing on each of the six early literacy skills.

Game Ideas (.pdf)

Games to reinforce concepts in Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, with Kansas Early Learning Standards indicators.

Snack Ideas (.pdf)

Fun things to do with food to tie in with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, with Kansas Early Learning Standards indicators.

Healthy Eats from A to Z (.pdf)

Provides a whole alphabet of delicious, healthy recipes that are easy to prepare and require few ingredients. (from Child Care Aware of Kansas, one of our partner organizations)

Healthy Moves from A to Z (.pdf)

Shows you how you can use simple prompts to inspire daily physical activity in young children.  (from Child Care Aware of Kansas, one of our partner organizations)

The Virtual Vine

This site really has it all! Tons of activities that relate directly to the book, alphabet games, and crafts. It even has coconut facts. A list of resources and links at the end will lead to more good ideas, but beware – many of the links no longer work.

Making Learning Fun

Lots of fun ideas divided into categories such as art, math and literacy tie-ins. Includes many printable pages with simple directions.

Little Giraffe’s Teaching Ideas

See examples of a water bottle craft, a “celery” palm tree, bulletin board idea and letter hunt game.

Hubbard’s Cupboard

Five days of activities one teacher used with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom as the focus story and an emphasis on letters, sounds and rhyming. Includes a booklist of related alphabet and nursery rhyme books.

Mrs. Nelson’s Class

Good ideas for things to do or say prior to reading the book, during reading and re-reading, as well as game and craft ideas and a very nice printable “overhead” activity page. More links at the end.

A to Z Teacher Stuff

A few ideas a teacher used to introduce the book, encourage letter recognition and reinforce reading comprehension. Includes photos of a bulletin board.

Mrs. Kilburn’s Kiddos blog

A compilation of useful links related to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activities, including a number of printable pages and pdf files. For old links, she uses “Wayback Machine” to help users get to the old pages.