Everyone loves Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, right?! This is a classic book that’s loved by a huge variety of little learners. Toddlers love it for all the eye-catching colors, preschoolers love it because of the letters and fun rhythm, and kindergarteners and first graders love it for fun, simple reading and cute story.

Whatever the reason your learners love it, you can extend their learning using this adorable book with some really engaging, fun resources too. Scroll down to check out some of our favorite Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activities and GRAB A FREEBIE at the end too!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten

1. Letter Activities

Learning to identify, match, and sort letters is one of the most foundational literacy skills for little ones. Once they know their letters, they can start learning letter sounds, building words, and reading and writing too!

Activities that involve naming letters, sorting them by their case, matching upper to lowercase, tracing them, and being able to distinguish letters in a group are great ways to reinforce basic letter knowledge and prepare little ones to build more in-depth literacy skills onto these ones.

Inside this resource, there are activities to match lowercase to uppercase letters, match uppercase to uppercase letters, lowercase to lowercase letters, and sort them based on their case. There are also letter tracing worksheets included for preschoolers and kindergarteners to practice forming their letters too!

2. Cut and Paste Activities

Cutting and gluing is a super fun way to practice fine motor skills AND it makes little ones feel so grown up and proud when they can cut and paste things all on their own. My little guys LOVES to cut and paste!

A few of the worksheets included in this resource are cut and paste worksheets that practice another essential skill WHILE practicing these fun fine motor skills! They offer opportunities to match letters and numbers, sort pictures and words, and even start to identify some beginning sounds!

3. Fine Motor Skills

Fine motor skills are any small, controlled movements we make using the muscles in our hands and wrists. Developing these muscles is usually a fairly natural practice, but encouraging little kids to practice those small movements helps strengthen hand muscles and develop more control in their coloring, cutting, and placing of objects.

Some of our favorite ways to practice fine motor skills (besides using scissors, of course!) are to manipulate play dough to represent pictures and letters and use clothespins to clip! Incorporating other academic skills, like identifying and naming letters, WHILE we work on these fine motor skills is a fun way to practice both kinds of skills at the same time. These letter wheels are a fun way to identify letter, practice matching skills, and strengthening those pinching muscles. And smashing play dough is

4. Counting

Learning that one object represents one number is one of the most basic math skills that little ones need to master. The skill of being able to count objects by giving one number, and only one number, to each object as they count is called 1 to 1 correspondence.

And practicing counting is WAY more fun when you tie it to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! Haha! There are activities for counting coconuts as well as coconut trees inside this resource, making it a great way to reinforce simple math skills as well as all the literacy fun.

5. Sequencing

Retelling a story with all the events in the correct order is often called “sequencing”. This is a comprehension skill that is great for increasing memory and ensuring that students are retaining meaning and understanding what they’re reading.

The sequencing activities included here are perfect for ANY students practicing retelling. There are picture cards to sort together and place in a timeline and a cut and paste activity for little ones to show the sequence of events on their own. You can use whichever activity works best for you and your kids and allow as much independence as they’re ready for.

6. Color Sorting

Sorting colors is another great skill for all little ones to master! Being able to name colors is another great skill for littles to be able to do independently and reading color words is a more advanced color skill. So, this color sorting activity includes all of those things and allows you to use whatever you have around to practice sorting.

Kids can sort mini erasers, Fruit Loops, beads, pom poms, play dough balls, magnetic letters, any little colored objects you have around! They’ll sort the objects and place them onto the mat that shows the matching color and color word. Easy, fun, and good for any age!

7. Word Building

Though not every little learner is quite ready for building words, some may be ready to copy letters and arrange them in the correct order. So, these word building activities give learners the opportunity to copy letters on the cards to build the words on the coconut tree!

If your learners aren’t ready for short, common sight words yet, you could focus on spelling the child’s name. Laminate the coconut tree or place it in a sheet protector and write the letters for their name on the coconut tree. Then, kiddos can use the letter pieces or magnetic letters or even Scrabble letters to match the letters on the tree to spell their name again and again!

The great part about this activity is you can use it in whatever way your learners need to. Maybe they need to have all the uppercase letters climbing up the coconut tree? Or maybe all the lowercase? They can spell their name or start to spell the short, simple words on the cards provided. If they’re more advanced, they can even start spelling their spelling words or CVC words that they can sound out. Use it however is best for your kids!

8. Interactive Worksheets

These interactive worksheets are another fun way to incorporate further learning after reading the book together! There are pages to practice cutting and pasting, tracing letters, reading, matching, sequencing, number matching, and coloring.

And, they’re PERFECT for a no-prep way to give kids something meaningful to work on. Whether it’s a last minute assignment, simple one-page center, or homework to send with kids, these printables can be used to practice a bunch of different skills in fun, new ways!

9. Color and Write the Room

You’ve probably heard of a “Write the Room” activity where kids walk around the room or space and either write or trace the word hanging on the card that shows a matching picture. There’s a similar idea called “color the room” where kiddos find the color card and then make their recording sheet match the card.

There are both color the room and write the room activities included here! My son LOVES to find the color card hanging around our living room and then color the matching picture (or in this case, the matching letter) the same color as it is on the card. For the write the room activity, he finds the cards hanging around and then traces the letters next to the matching picture. Easy, fun, and a really active, independent activity for little ones!

10. Sensory Bins

Sensory bins are another fun way to make an activity feel a lot more engaging! Just toss beans, erasers, non-sticky cereal, or rice into a container and then add the activity cards into the bin. Kiddos will search for and pick out a card from the bin to match to the mat and then color the same picture or letter on their recording sheet.

There are 3 different kinds of matching mats for you to toss into a sensory bin for some added fun! A counting matching mat, this matching pictures matching mat, and a bunch of different letter matching mats to choose from.

I hope this peek inside these Chicka Chicka Boom Boom book activity pack was helpful and gives your little ones lots of new ways to play and learn along with this book! It’s such a classic and is great for ANY time of year.

OH! And here’s that freebie I promised too! It’s a simple way for your little learners to practice retelling with a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom theme. Hope y’all have a fun time with it!

Happy learning! Cheering you on!