Preschool Lesson Plan: Crocodiles

Where's Your Smile, Crocodile? by Claire Freedman and Sean Julian

Reading Center for Preschool Lesson Plan: Crocodiles

Fill your preschool reading center not only with books about crocodiles, but also with books about alligators and other reptiles.

Snacks for Preschool Lesson Plan: Crocodiles

Crocodile celery sticks: Let your preschool students play with their food! They can pretend that the celery sticks are crocodiles.

Crocodile sugar cookies: If you can find a crocodile cookies cutter, make your students crocodile sugar cookies for snack time!

Crocodile pancakes: Using the same crocodile cookie cutter, cut pancakes that you tinted green with food coloring into crocodile shapes for your preschool students to eat.

Concepts for Preschool Lesson Plan: Crocodiles

Letter: Cc for crocodile
Number: 5
Shape: half circle
Color: green

Fine Motor Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Crocodiles

Using their crocodile sock puppets (see below), have your preschool students pick up small objects. See how many objects your students can pick up in one handful!

Gross Motor Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Crocodiles

Scooter crocodiles: Have your preschool students lie down on their stomachs on flat four-wheeled scooters. Let them scoot around the slick gymnasium floor, pretending to be crocodiles! For even more fun, let them wear their crocodile sock puppets on their hands!

Art Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Crocodiles

Crocodile sock puppets: Give each student a single white sock. Let them color the socks with green markers. Now give them big googly eyes to glue on the green socks and voila, crocodiles!

Songs/Finger Plays for Preschool Lesson Plan: Crocodiles

Five Little Monkeys (Teasing Mr. Crocodile)

Pre-math Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Crocodiles

Bring in a bucket of small plastic crocodiles, some stuffed crocodiles and a few dye cuts of crocodile. Have your preschool students take turns rolling two dice. Have them count the number rolled on the dice. Now instruct them to count out that number of crocodiles, using whatever combination of crocodile toys and pictures that they choose.

Pre-writing Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Crocodiles

For younger students, provide sheets of paper with the letters C and c lightly printed on them. Have the children trace the letters. Do the same with the number 5.

For older students, provide an example of the letters C and c and the number 5. Have the students practice writing the letters and number freehand.

To emphasize the color green, have your preschool students do this writing practice with a green crayon or a green marker.