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Wind and kites theme for 3 and 4 year olds: a week of activities

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A wind and kites theme lesson plan for 3 and 4 year olds: what a day looks like, then the week's circle time (ten to fifteen minutes, with a child holding the book), books, craft, song, snack, letter and outside time, each with what changes at this age.

Plan this week for 3 and 4 year oldsThe whole wind and kites week

A day of the wind and kites theme with 3 and 4 year olds

  1. Arrival, sign-in, and a job from the helper chart.
  2. Circle (ten to fifteen minutes): calendar, “What can the wind push?”, sing “rock-a-bye baby”, then The Hat Cat.
  3. Centers, with the craft at one table: streamer wand.
  4. Letter K: trace it once, then hunt for K around the room.
  5. Snack: Fruit Kabobs, with children pouring and counting.
  6. Outside: which way is the wind?.
  7. Rest, then a longer read-aloud: Fay and the Kite.

Wind and kites circle time

  1. Good morning song, then say each name together.
  2. Calendar: the day, the date and the weather.
  3. Ask: “What can the wind push?”
  4. Sing: Rock-a-Bye Baby.
  5. Read: Fay and the Kite (read aloud).

Threes and fours: ten to fifteen minutes; let a child hold the book.

Wind and kites theme books

  • Fay and the Kite (read aloud, level 4): A girl, a kite and a windy day, in short words.
  • Mia and the Kite (read aloud, level 6): Another kite story, to compare with Fay's.
  • The Stuck Kite (read aloud, level 5): A kite in a tree, and how the friends get it down.
  • The North Wind and the Sun (read aloud, level 8): A read-aloud fable: the wind and the sun try to take a coat off a traveler.
  • The Hat Cat (level 3, free on peabody.kids): Short words to follow: the wind takes the hat up, up, up, and down it comes.

Wind and kites craft: Streamer wand

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You need (4): a paper towel tube, crepe paper strips, tape, crayons.

  1. Color the tube.
  2. Tape crepe strips to one end.
  3. Take it outside and let the wind pull it.

With a grown-up. No heat, nothing hot.

Wind and kites song: Rock-a-Bye Baby

The words

Rock-a-bye, baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all.

Traditional; public domain. From Top 52 nursery rhymes with lyrics.

Wind and kites snack

Fruit Kabobs from the Peabody Kitchen: picture steps, allergy swaps and safety lines on the recipe.

Letter K activities

KkK is for kite. Print the two pages (a trace page and a color page).

Threes and fours: trace K and k once, then find K in the room and in the book.

Outside activity: Which way is the wind?

Hold up the streamer wands and look where they point. Walk that way, then turn and walk into the wind.

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Checked 2026-10-30